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Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-29
WHICH CAME FIRST

The old problem of which came first,
the hen or the egg, found rival in
a discussion at the Players club the
/ other day as to which came first,
writer's or readers.
'If there were no readers there GER
tainly would be no writer's" said Mr..
John Malone. Therefore the existence
of readers; and, of course, as the cause
must be antecedent to the effect, read
I ers existed before writer's. Yet on the
other hand if there were no writers
there could be no readers, so it should
appear that writer's must be anteca-
dent to readers"
Another member of the club assert
ed that this reasoning was much on a
par with the discovery of Lucretius,
that eyes were not made to see with
but by a fortuitous concurrence CT
atoms sight followed as an unforeseen
circumstance.
HE argued that If eyes were made
to see with then seeing must have ex-
listed before eyes, and If seeing existed
before eyes what could be the use OF
eyes? If seeing did not exist before
eyes how could eyes be made for that
which Is not-that is, for nothing?
Therefore eyes were not made to see
WITH
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-29
AGE NOT REvERENcEp

Americans are getting so that they
reverence age quite as much as do the
people of European countries" said
Clyde Fitch recently in an informal
talk during private dinner party. IF
architects attempt anything original
they are ridiculed for their pains. If
artists follow the bent of their own
genius they are stauntingly referred
by their new masters to the old mast
ers. Authors are schooled and cate
chised in the same way, but when any
of the three conform to the instruc-
tions of their critics they are instantly
and numerically assailed as servile
imitators without single grain Of
originality.
with similar jealousy we give
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-29
AGREED WITH BOTH

Horace Greeley was the author OF Il
style in editorial writing which had
been often initiated, but probably
never equaled, During his editorship
two newspapers. neither Of which was
friendly to Greeley, became engaged in
violent alteration. The argument
grew warmer until each paper openly
called the other a liar. 1t was the OPP
portunity Greeley had been waiting for
He announced in his paper that "he
had the honor to agree with both OF
his distinguished contemporaries.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-29
ANGER. Wit AND POVERTY

Archer Huntington is one of the
few Americans who know their Spain
perfectly. For number of years pre-
vious to our war with Spain he spent
every winter in zigzag trips across the
peninsula, making his headquarters al
ways in Madrid. Quite as a matter of
course he became well known in the
Spanish court circles and gathered &
fund of anecdotes of royalty. The
Queen Regent was then on the throne.
and, while she was generally loved,
there were always a few disgruntled
office seekers about the palace.
What does man think of when he
thinks of nothing?" Her Majesty
asked one day in a spirit of banter in
the presence of a choleric grandee to
whom she had not been able to make
good promise of promotion.
He thinks, madam, of woman's )
promise" was the tart reply of the
grandee. a
well, / must not confute him." re-
piled the Queen, walking away. AN
ger makes men witty, but it keeps
them poor"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-29

rested her and forbidden her to journey
to Port Arthur. Notwithstanding the
great fear in which Russians and Rus
sian women especially, hold the police
of their country, Haratina disguised
herself in masculine attire and secured
position as brakeman on a train
bound for Port Arthur.
Shortly after her arrival at Talienwan
she fell in with two companies of her
husbands regiment, in which were
friends of hers. In compliance with
their suggestion she assumed her proper
garb and arrangements were made, not
of an official sort however for her to
accompany them to Port Arthur.
However, on the night before the day
set for the company's departure Hara-
tina was arrested and barely escaped
being sent back to Harbin. The guards
led her before the captain who had
ordered the arrest, and there the girl
told her story so unreservedly and 80
pathetically that the Russian officer
was much impressed by ii. Forgetting
for the time his official character, he
complimented her ON the daring man
ner in which she had outwitted the
police at Hardin. He even suggested
that she enlist and become a soldier
inasmueh as there existed a general
order forbidding women unattached to
the army to enter Port Arthur
Haratina at once fell in with the idea,
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-29
A SAFE POSITION

Former Speaker Henderson of the
house of representatives has a sense
of humor of his own, 1t was during
a long debate on the floor when mem
ber of little prominence and who had
really nothing to say persisted in de-
manding the floor. His persistence
annoyed every one. During one of his
spread eagle speeches he addressed
Mr.. Henderson directly.
"Mr. Speaker" said he. with -four
ish II would rather be right than be
president"
my dear sir" was the rejoinder,
there is not the least danger in the
world of you ever being either"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-29
HARATZNA, WOMAN SOLDIER OF PORT ARTHUR

She was in the fights of May 16 and
26, also at Yupilatez and Green Hill, as
member of the Seventh company,
Fifteenth regiment. During this latter
, fight Russian soldiers love to tell how
she laughed merrily when the bullets
were humming over the trenches.
On one occasion Jakoff was appointed
orderly to the Inflated Captain Geten-
koff, who fell at Quinsan. Despite her
fearful protest. Haratina was obliged
to remain with her spouse, assisting
him in his duties as orderly. This
service was very obnoxious to her, and
one night she surreptitiously took her
self back to the front and the company
she loved so WELL For this breach of
discipline, however, she was arrested
the next day and threatened with court
martial After remaining in the guard
house for a week she was released no
reason being given for the action.
On August 19, at Corner Hill, Jakoff
received a sharpnel wound in the leg
which laid him up in the hospital.
Haratina, now answering to duty's call,
nursed him into the convalescent stage.
During this time she wore clothes be-
longing to one of the hospital nurses.
However, when Jakoff was out of all
danger she began to yearn for the ex-
citement of duty in the trenches and
cleaning her rifle and brushing up her
uniform. she set out. to join her
company. Subsequently she was in the
fierce fighting about the water work 9
redoubt, conducting herself with rare
gallantry. 1t was here that some of
the soldiers of her regiment charged
the Japanese, shouting her first name
in answer to the weird "banzais."
On October 1S the soldier woman was
to have celebrated her twenty-hrst
birthday but sad TO relate, while visit
ing the Sixth company of her regiment,
an eleven inch shell exploded over its
trench, killing the brave woman and
eight others instantly.
The news of the heroine's death cast
gloom over the entire garrison; Off
GERS and men mourned for her alike,
and many a rough, war hardened fell
low shed tears of gentle sympathy
They buried her with the eight others
under the brow of the Rocky Hill, and
on her grave now stands a rude wooden
cross Inscribed with the following epi-
taph; Private Haratina Karotkie-
WITCH the brayest of Russian women.
who fell hghting for her ezar and her
country" d. LOUNGE.
Chefoo, November 10. 1906.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-29
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

TT HAT the "simple life" is not of
necessity restricted to the capac-
ity of the slender purse, and that
the living of IL may under certain cir
cumstances entail an inhntude of
complexities quite undreamed OF by
Pastor Wagner. Is being strikingly Ill
lustrated In the culture and rearing of
two of New York's richest children.
The story of the little Hamersley or
phans and the almost Spartan training
which they are receiving is unique in
the annals of millionaire life in this
country. Moreover 1t is story re-
plete with the romantic and the
picturesdue--a story for the parallel of
which one must turn to the Old World
to the chateaux of mobiles and the
palaces of kings.
These children, Master Louis Gordon
Hamersley, aged twelve and his sister
Miss Katherine Livingstone Hamersley
aged ten, are the hero and heroine res
pectively of several of the most roman
tic not to say quixotic wills that have
ever been offered for probate in the
court of New York county. And in this
particular instance it is quite proper to
characterize those several legal docu-
ments as romantic, and it is equally
proper to characterize their beneficiar-
les as hero and heroine.
The simple life," according to the
tenets of which these children have
been brought up since babyhood. was
all planned out for them years and
years before they were born, years and
years before Pastor Wagner had made
such life somewhat fashionable in this
country of luxurious living. These
plans were laid by men and women
wise in knowledge of the world and OF
the people in 1t; by lawyers, shrewd
old lawyers, and by stately old dow
ayers. These plans, woven about the
lives OF babies yet unborn, had for
their object the keeping of their in
nocent hearts untainted from any of the
corroding influences of the great wealth
which in the natual course of events
would be theirs, and to this end the
the injunction was laid upon guardians
and executors to bring up any and all
of the hypothetical heirs in utter ignor-
ance of the fact that they were ever
to inherit a penny of money from any
source whatsoever
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-29

and the next morning before the de-
parture of the companies she took the
oath of fidelity, donned her uniform
shouldered her rifle and became as a
man among men, all for Jakoff's sake.
She was assigned to one of the COM
panies, and left that afternoon, march
ing in a second set of fours.
Haratina in Camp
In camp and in the trenches the
young woman became great favorite'
the soldiers regarding her as a modern
Joan of Arc Her wish is said to have
been law with them, and when in her
presence they carefully refrained from
profanity. In fact, she seemed to WELD
a good influence over the entire garri-
son. In her first action she established
a reputation that general might we'll
envy. Soldiers followed her blindly,
and sometimes her company officers
had the greatest difficulty in preventing
her from leading the men into zones
of great danger, In one bayonet charge
she is said to have killed a Japanese
soldier with her bayonet and wound
ed another with bullet. On another
OCCASION japanese falling wounded
near her, she dropped her rifle and
cared for him until the stretcher men
came to take him to the hospital The
wounded japanese recognized her as a
woman and kissed her hand as she
walked beside his stretcher.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-29
TX THEN I was a youngster,"

wv said Philadelphia lilac painter,
who is today one of the
bright stars in the American art firma-
ment, and whose fame also reaches
across the Atlantic, 81 kept the pot
boiling by painting portraits of enter
prising storekeepers at bargain prices.
Once tailor who was anxious to
transmit his features to posterity
asked me what my price was for half
length I told him $100.
"The picture was painted and ap-
proved. Then the knight of the thimble
took out his pocketbook and wanted to
know how much he should pay.
at told you before we started J
replied, that my charge for a head
was $780,
".Oh, 1 know that said he. but how
much for the coat-its the best part
of the picture.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-29

Er5 HIS is the story of Haratina, alias
Haraton, Karotkievitch, the Rus
sian woman who was killed in the
trenches while serving as a private OF
infantry. Stories of Russian amazons
have been written and denied so often
that one hesitates to tell another. This
story, however, deserves full credence.
Some day it will be made public from
the war office at st. Petersburg, as in
recent report General Stoessel told
the czar of the young womans death,
and expressed himself as highly pleased
with her conduct as a soldier under
his command.
AT the time of the outbreak of hostili-
ties the ill fated girl was the month-old
bride of Jakoff Karotkievitch, bar
tender in a small town on the Chinese
Eastern railroad. Jakoff was and is a
member of the reserves, and his call
to the ranks came shortly after the first
Japanese attack on Port Arthur. He
was attached to the garrison of the
latter place. and left his young wife at
home to look after his interests
Haratina, anxious to hold her hus-
bands position for him, became bar
maid. However, she found the work
so uncongenial that she eventually gave
it up, and an intense longing coming
over her to see Jakoff, she decided to
pay him a visit at Port Arthur. In
times of peace she had journeyed to
the great port, which is the Mecca of
the Russian inhabitants of Manchuria,
and now she felt perfectly confident
that all would go well with her. She
did not mention her intention to the
neighbors, and disappeared, so far as
they We're concerned, quite myster-
iously from the town.
Haratina's Arrival at Port Arthur
He was a very much surprised and
delighted Jakoff Karotkievitch who
saw his pretty wife come marching
into the trenches, attired in soldier
clothes and carrying a rife, For a
time he could scarcely believe his eyes.
The soldiers tell how at first sight Of
him she forgot military discipline and
all that did not have to do with Jakoff;
how she threw her rifle upon the
ground and fairly jumped into his out
stretched arms. Soldiers In the pits
looked up from their smoking rifles,
eyes wide open with astonishment, not
knowing what to make of such a start
ling display of affection between men,
and soldiers too II took them some
time TO become reconciled to Haratina's
presence in their midst, but General
Stoessel tells how after a time they
grew accustomed to it, and were con-
sequently better men.
With her cap off and her bright hair
that had been so carefully ooiled that
the, cap might conceal 1t tumbling over
her soldier blouse Can accident entirely
due to Jakoff's bearish caresses), Hara-
tina told him, and incidentally a
hundred others. how she had become
a soldier OF the czar.
She told them how. after her arrival
at Harbin. the military police had ar
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oE HISTORIC INTEREST

The story is vouched for by an archi-
tect high in authority at West Point,
whose name is not unknown in the
world of literature. All West Pointers
will readily identify him.
A cadet was showing party through
the historic building.
1T was in this room,' said the future
officer that General Grant received
his first commission"
"FIls first commission?" queried a
visitor Of frankly commercial appear
ance, rs 1t possible? Vot percent
age Of commission did he get?"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-29
Nor a RIG AunlENcE

One day last fall Peter f. Daley. the
big and joyial actor attended a matt.
nee performance of one OF the dramatic
productions that did not "score hit"
as the critics say. On coming out OF
the theater he was accosted by friend.
Been to the show Peterg How
was it?"
"Oh, fair"
big audience?'
mo, they weren't blsi / could lick
the three OF EN-"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-29
HuMeLE ORIGIN oF EleuREs

Probably no man was ever more de
voted to or more wrapped up in figures
than the late General Alonzo b. Jack
man, who devised the only satisfactory
method of squaring the circle" said
Professor Elijah Howe, "And yet
General Jackman admitted that the
science of figures cuts but very poor
figure in its origin. the term calculation
being derived from the calculus or
pebbles used by the Romans as count
ers. whose numerals. stolen from the
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preference to old wine, old books and
old friends. In fact the older anything
is the more value it has in our eyes,
with one exception.
IAN OLD joke is the only instance
where age is not revered and acclaimed.
Those poor old jokes. They are
Stunned outcasts of humor.'
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have thus far been carried out to the
letter. Neither the boy nor the girl
has any idea that the splendid house,
with all it's treasures in the way OF
pictures, engravings, bric-a-brac silver
and rare furniture, belongs to them. 1t
is supposedly the property of Mrs
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-29

VIII destined 70 shape the careers OF
these unknowine children. They were
the heirs Of the millions Of the late
Louis G.. Hamersley. who was their
fathers cousin. BY the provision OF
the latters viii the great fortune left
by him became entaiied to the Ham
ersley family so long as there remained
scion Of It on the face Of the earth,
and at such time as there might be
no legitimate heir to be given over to
charity Mr. Louis G. Hemersley died
childless and his widow, who had been
Miss Lillian Price. married the Duke OF
Marlborough, and at the latter's death
became Lady Beresford. The entire in
come Of the first husbands fortune
Lady Beresford enjoys. and will con-
tinue to enjoy during her lifetime, ana
at her death Il will revert to the little
boy and girl who are now living ~
what they think is Mrs. Lowres
house.
Complexities Of Simple Life
Under such peculiar circumstances IT
is not to be wondered at II the sayings
and doings of these democratic young
sters cause endless amusement to their
doting relatives and the idolatrous
servants.
The lives of the children are ordered
IN the utmost simplicity, albeit their
days are passed amid palatial sur
roundings. They are kept busy learn
ing useful things I'm connection with
the careful education they receive at
the hands of corps of teachers and
tutors all Of whom are thoroughly
initiated into the secrets Of their bring
ing up.
The children are never allowed TO
talk with any ore vino might inadvert-
antly betray to them the real state of
their finances, though II is said that re-
Gently various rumors have crept into
their ears from their little friends
And certainly it would be great temp
tation to any boy of twelve years to be
the first to make the startling an
nouncement to a little girl playmate.
For this very reason the children have
enjoyed the companionshp of few
children of their own age. They have
been brought up as much as possible
to depend upon grown people for com
panionshp.
Every Hour Its Task
In the busy lives of these democratic
young millionaires there is not much
time for dawdling They are reared on
a system which insures every hour
being occupied. At Z o'clock every
morning they are awakened and
dressed by their maid, Theresa. At
they have gymnasium exercise
in a handsomely equipped gym that
would delight any athletic boy or girl
heart. Then comes bath, and from
till IL lessons with the tutor and
governess.
At 1 o'clock they lunch in the great
dining room, which is modelled after the
style of an old English banqueting hall.
After luncheon there is rest or play,
with dancing or riding school until
o'clock. From o'clock till six there is
driving in the park At they dine and
at are tucked into their little beds.
there to sleep and dream the innocent
dreams of dawning youth and girlhood,
utterly oblivious of the vast respons-
Utilities which a few years will bring
them.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-29

Sarah Lowrie Mrs. Lowrie has been
their nurse since babyhood, something
more than a nurSe-indeedt almost
mother-and it seems to the innocent
orphans the. most natural thing in the
world that she should be the fhatelaine
of the great house and that She should
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-29
Simple Life in Palace

In a palatial brown stone house at
Fifth avenue and Eighty-fourth street
the small orphan boy and girl who were
born to inherit the vast fortunes of
these wise men and women live under
the conditions imposed by their an
cestors and relatives, conditions which
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-29

do when they grew up if they had "a
thousand dollars"
The children are the son and daugh-
ter of the late ]. Hooker Hamersley'
and the gendses of the great fortunes to
which they are unwilling heirs are as
interesting as they are complicated.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-29
THE GIRL AND THE NUDGE

"The story that Judge Duffy was
wont to tell about the girl who, when
he asked if she was born in wedlock
replied, No, sir; in Hoboken reminds
me of reply a young woman made
who was up before me for theft" said
Judge Davenport
when she was about to be sworn /
asked her why she held the Bible upside
down.
I'm obliged to, Your Honor she
replied because 1 am left handed
when a wretchedly misspelled letter
she had written was brought forth in
evidence and shown to her she said she
hoped l would overlook the mistakes
as she was not used to writing with
a stub PEN"
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ancient Etruscans, seem to have been
suggested in the first instance by the
five fingers Indeed the term digit
or finger applied to any single number
sufficiently indicates the primitive
mode of counting.
"The Roman V is only a rude outline
of the five fingers, or of the outspread
hand narrowing to the wrist; while
the X is a symbol of the two fves or
the two hands crossed
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-29

love and care for them and share her
fine home with them. So carefully, in
deed, have servants, relatives and
friends kept all knowledge of their
great wealth from them that the
orphans chatter ing@nuously, as all
children will, as to what they would
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Waited For Himself.

One Of the latest and best stories
of observation-disclosures concerns a
Pennsylvania professor. Being call
ed out on some urgent matter re-
Gently and expecting to be engaged
for some hours, he affixed notice
to the door Of his private sanctum
stating that he would not be back
till o'clock in the afternoon. As
it happened, he was able to get away
earlier and arrived back at his cham
bers q little before 2 o'clock. See
ing his own notice, which he had
quite forgotten, on the door, he read
it carefully. When he had thor
cughly digested its contents, he took
4 seat on the stairs and waited ps
tiently until 8 o'clock.
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