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Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-05
CHESTERFIELDS MEET
IN A STREET COMBAT
After New Hat Is Crushed Both Men Repair to
Police Station, Where POliteness Contest
Is Conducted-WOunds Healed

other and to hurry and tell their
troubles.
Your honor" began Champion, doff-
ing his cap and politely saluting the
attorney this man, whom I regret
that / have called friend, saw ft to
infringe upon my good humor while
we were strolling I'm the vicinity of Los
Angeles and East First streets this af-
ternoon and rather roughly brought his
elbows into contact with my ribs,
causing me to gasp for breath"
May 1t please the court" COM
menced Wadsworth by way of an in
troductory clause to his defense bow
ing much lower than did Champion,
the man speaketh falsely. could take
the oath on my death bed that I did
not disturb the peace of my opponent.
On the other hand, without the slight
est provocation. he pierced my new So
Dunlap with his bamboo stick with
such sudden force that 1 was deprived
of my equilibrium and compelled to
seek refuge in the street. / offer my
ruined hat as evidence to be marked
Exhibit A."
Case Is Compromised
"Tis not true, your honor" inter-
rupted Champion. bowing almost to the
floor, the man was drunk with wine
and jostled me in a manner most un-
beftting to one who styles himself q
gentleman. l admit that in an effort
to regain my breath I might have
clutched In the air when was struck
and perhaps touched his hat with my
cane, but not with malicious intent"
II beg the indulgence of his honor"
said Wadsworth. For more than
twenty years l have been a staunch
member of the church and never in
my life did l so lightly regard my dig
nifty or honor as to permit my brain
to become in1amed with wine Be-
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-05
$3.50 Tailored Suit Hats at $3.50
$3.50 Untrimmed Hats Reduced to CSC

The very shapes including Coonals sailors
turbans Of soft French felt others of
Mohair felt with black velvet facngs all oolors also
white every of them regular $3.50 values
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-05
Help Wanted

$50 Experienced Saleswomen for Jewelry,
Leather Goods, Handkerchiefs Neckwear,
Gloves, Chinaware, Fancy Goods, Dolls and
Toys.
10 Experienced FloOrwalkers and Ushers.
Apply to Superintendent today.
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CAMPING IN THE ROCKIES.
Delights of the Evening Around the
Fire Described by an
Enthusiast,

About dusk you straggle in with trout
or game. The campkeeper lays aside
his mending or his repairing or his note
book and stirs up the cooking fire. The
smell of broiling and frying and boiling
arises in the air. By the dancing flames
of the campfire you eat your third dinner
for the day-in the mountains all meals
are dinners, and formidable ones at that
writes S. E. White, in "The Mountains"
The curtain of blackness draws down
close. Through it shine stars, loom
mountains cold and mistlike in the
moon. You tell stories. You smoke
pipes. After a time the pleasant chill
creeps down from the eternal SHOWS.
Some one throws another handful of
pine cones on the fire. Sleepily you pre-
pare for bed. The pine cones f1ere I'D.
throwing their light in your eyes. You
turn over and wrap the soft wooden
blanket close about your chin. You
winka drowsily and at once you are
asleep.
Late in the night you awaken to find
your nose as cold as dogs. You open
one eye. A few Goals mark where the
fire has been. The mist mountains have
drawn nearer, they seem to bend over
you in silent contemplation. The moon
is sailing high in the heavens. With a
sigh you draw the canvas trapaulin over
your head. Instantly it is morning.
Barbour County index., 1905-09-06

BY HON. GEORGE w. PECK.
Ex-Governor of Wisconsin. Former Edi-
tor of "Peck's Sum- Author of "Peck's
Bad Boy" Etc0
Copyright, 1906. by Joseph B. Bowles)
Cairo, Egypt-My Dear Old Geezer:
broke off my last letter in sight of the
pyramids, when 1 was left alone on the
desert, my jackass having stampeded
with the camelS, on account OF my fire
works, and l presume you think l was
all in, but 1 got to the pyramids before
the stampeded caravan did. l saw car
coming along, and l just got aboard and
in ten minutes I was at the base OF
the big pyramid, and the camel with dad
on between the humps, was humping
himself half mile away, trying to get
there, and the other camels, with the
Arabs, were stretched out like horses
in race, behind, and my jackass was
right next to dads camel, braying and
occasionally kicking dads camel in the
Stats.
There were about hundred tourists
around the base of the big pyramid, all
looking towards the stampede of the
camels, and told them my dad, the
great American millionaire, was on the
runaway camel in advance, and asked
them to form line across the trail and
save dad, but when the camel came near
er l was ashamed of dad. He had his
arms around the the front hump of the
camel, and he was yelling for help to
stop his menagerie, and his legs were
flying in the air, and every time they
came down they kicked hole in the side
of the camel.
Well, sir, thought dad was brave
man, but he blatted like calf, and when
the camel stopped and went to eating a
clump of grass dad opened his eyes, and
when he saw that the procession had
stopped he rolled off his camel like a
bag of wheat, and stuck in the sand and
began to say prayer, but when he saw
me standing there, laughing, he stopped
praying, and said to me: 81 thought you
were blown up when that jackass kicked
the can of dynamite. You have more
lives than cat. Now, get hustle on
you and we will climb that pyramid, and
then quit this blasted country" and dad
sat down on hummock and began to
pull himself together, after the most
fearful ride he ever had. He said the
camel loped, trotted, galloped, single
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CLEMENTINA GONZALES,
OF CENTRAL AMERICA,
RESTORED TO HEALTH.
PE-RU-NA THE REMEDY.

Miss Clementina Gonzales, Hotel Pro-
vincia, Guatemala, C. A., in a recent
letter from 247 Cleveland Ave-, Chicago,
ILL.,, writes:
tI took Peruna for q w0rn-0uf CON.
difi0n. was SO run down that could
not sleep at night, had no appetite and
felt tired in the morning..
"I tried many f0nics, but Pernna
was the only thing which helped me In
the least. After had taken but q half
bottle / felt much better IcOnfinued
its use for three weekSandI Twas com.
pIefeiy restored to health, and was
able to fake up my studies which Ihad
been forced to drop. There Is nothing
better than Peruna to build up the
system. m."...CIemenfina Gonzales.
Address The Peruna Medicine Co. j,
of Columbus Ohio, for instructive free
literature on catarrh.
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Elevate the Drama.

There are so many things suggest
ed for the multimillionaires to do that
it is not strange that they halt and
hesitate. But nowhere among all the
objects in the vast range of American
giving, from marble medical colleges
to orchestra music, is the great cause
Of the American theater to be found.
1t must be pretty low down to have
earned so singular an isolation. In
all the giving has anybody been known
to set aside anything for raising the
common level of American cultivation
through the drama: And is not this
specially puzzling, asks the Boston
Transcript, considering how immense
ly fond Of the theater the American
people are, and how much money they
spend in going to the play? Perhaps
Mr.. Carnegie would say that people
must learn to read before they can
get the highest good out of the drama
which embraces literature and the fine
arts; while, of course, so moral a
millionaire as Mr.. Rockefeller, who
has probably never entered theater
would not wish to promote or even
countenance anything so manifestly
tending to immortality.
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ENGLISH OF FOREIGNERS.
Their Efforts ct Mastering the Ian.
guage Are Oftentimes Very
Ludricous.

The struggle of foreigners who
have put their faith in dictionaries to
account for English as she is spoke
in New York are sometimes fsnay.
says the Times. An educated young
Italian asked an American who spoke
his language why the dictionaries were
so badly made.
There are two expressions which l
hear constantly" he said, "and neither
of them is in any dictionary 1 have
looked into. They are 'ahbetchu' and
idono.'"
His American friend pondered for a
season, and then, with cheerful smile,
told him that "ahbetchu'' stood for 81
bet you," and "idono" was short for
81 don't know
But why" said the Italian, when a
person is leaving, do you call saloon
after him? I can't understand it. /
thought at first it was joke, to insin-
uate that was going to saloon. But
they call it after women, too'.'
your saloon, my boy" replied the
American, sis simply so long, that is
New York dialect for addio, adieu
adios, auf Wiedersehen, farewell, o,
goOd-by''
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The Deadly Cigarette.

Elbert Hubbard has the cigarette
marked as the foe of mankind. He says
of it: Cigarette smoking is not Pc
riodic-it is continuous-a slow, insid-
ious, sure poison. Its results can
be foretold as accurately as the ex-
pert alienist can foresee the end of in
cipient locomotor ataxia. Fortunate
ly, most young men who begin the
habit quit it before it gets a vital
hold upon them. Were this not So
how could the student body at Har-
ward, Yale and Dartmouth ever out
strip their professors? These young
men smoke cigarettes just as they
dabble in strange vice when away from
the immediate restraint Of family and
home. Later most of them square
away and become pillars Of society
But for the young man who has grown
30 calloused that he smokes cigarettes
in the presence Of his mother, sister
or sweetheart there is little hope
Hope is only for the youth who i:
ashamed of his vileness. The poisor
has already tainted his moral nature
and for him the work of dissolution
disintegration and degeneration ha.
begun. He is defective-a physical
mental and moral defective"
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work as laborers on neighboring es-
tates, and many are fishermen.
Their fishing boats are particularly
interesting, inasmuch as they have ap-
parently been patterned from the ow-
er spath of the palm tree In fact, the
boys use the natural spathes for toy
canoes. The real canoes are formed
from the trunk Of the gommier tree,
followed out inside and spread open by
means of heated stones and hot water.
To aaS greater freeboard to the shell a
plank is fastened to either gunwale and
the whole is strengthened by hand
newed ribs and thwarts. These boats
are used throughout the islands, not
only by the fishermen but as passenger
craft as well, and when larger and
more stoutly built are even used as
lighters in loading and discharging the
steamship cargoes.
For speed, seaworthiness and rough
usage these primitive craft have few, if
any, equals. 1t is no uncommon sight
70 see fleet of these dugouts bobbing
about far out to sea laden to the gun
wales with huge albicore and dolphin.
and under press of canvas far out OF
proportion to the tiny vessels. AS row.
boats they are very fast, a good native
oarsman easily pulling five or six miles
an hour in a 20 foot canoe, while their
torpedo boat" bow and stern give
them an appearance of even greater
speed.
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any pants, because what pants the Arabs
didn't tear were worn off on the stones,
so when he showed up in front of the
spinks he was sight, and he bought a
turban of guide and unwound it and
wound it around him in place of pants.
was ashamed of dad myself, and it is
pretty hard to make me ashamed.
We went back to Cairo on the cars, and
what do you think, that dead camel that
the Arabs made dad pay for was with
the caravan going back to town, cause
we saw him out of the car window with
the hair wore off where dad kicked him
in the side. The tourists say the Arabs
have that camel trained to die every day
when they get to the pyramids, and they
make some tenderfoot pay for him at the
end of each journey. Dad is going to try
to get his money back from the Egyp-
tian government, but guess he will
never realize on his claim.
Well. sir, after dad had doctored all
night to get the camel rheumatism and
spinal meningitis out of his system, we
the banks where the people grow crops
by irrigation, and where an English
syndicate has built big dam, so the
whole valley can be irrigated, and tell
you it will not be long before Egypt will
raise everything used in the world on
that desert, and every other country
that raises food to sell will be busted up
in business, but it is disgusting to take
trip on the Nile, cause all the natives
are dirty and sick with contagious dis
eases, and they are lazy and crippled,
and beg for living, and if you don't give
them something they steal all you got.
You are in luck if you get away without
having leprosy, or the plague, or chol-
era, or f1eas.
So we went back to Cairo, and there
was the worst commotion you ever saw,
about my fireworks in the tomb The
papers said that an American dynamiter
had attempted to blow up the great pyr-
amid, and take possession of the country
and place it under the American flag,
and that the conspirators were spotted
and would be arrested and put in irons
as soon as they got back from trip on
the Nile.
Well, sir, dad found his career would
close right here, and that he would prob.
ably spend the balance of his life in an
Egyptian prison if we didn't get out, Sc
we made sneak and got into our hotel
and bought disguises and are going to
| get out Of here tonight, and try to gel
to Gibraltar, or somewhere in sight OF
nome. Dad is disguised as shiek, with
whiskers and white robe. like bath
robe, and l am going to travel with him
as an Egyptian girl till we get through
the Suez canal.
Gee, but l wouldn't be niger girl
only to save dad. Your innocent.
! HENNERY.
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Wise Sanitary Precaution.
KANSAS

There is no doubt, then, that very
practical element in modern SANTA
ton is the enforcement of regulations
against public splitting. Owing to bad
habits formed in previous generations,
It is not going to be easy to break
up the splitting nuisance, but even Sc
we're measures are justifiable, since so
much good can be accomplished, and
movement In New York city, says
American Medicine, the death rate
from tuberculosis among the sweepers
in the street cleaning department Is
so muck in excess OF that of the rest
OF the population as to make it very
clear that the splitting habit is an un-
fortunate source of serious evil and
an important element in spreading
one of the worst of modern diseases
English sanitary statisticians show
that correspondingly high death rate
exists among the scrub women of tie
English metropolis, and, especially
among those who are employed in
cleaning large Office buildings. A dis
tinct lowering of this death rate has
been brought about in recent years by
the distribution of cuspidors through
out the corridors Of suck buildings.
AS can readily be realized, this Gus
tom is only of comparatively recent
origin, but it's effect serves to show
how much of suffering even a trivial
amelioration in sanitary matters may
prevent. In New York city the ar
rest of number of violators of the
city ordinances against splitting on the
streets has led to many protests in
the newspapers, and the assertion by
not few intelligent people of tie
necessity for expectoration. The an
swer for this would seem to be that
only one sex finds it necessary to spit
upon the street, and that this is due
years than to any special liability of
the male sex to catarrhal conditions,
requiring the election of oral dis
charges. Perhaps, however, for a time
at least, or until there has been an
education Of the next generation in this
matter, the provision by city authori-
ties Of receptacles for expectoration
on each block may be desirable addi-
tion to the sanitary precautions neces-
sary for city life.
Barbour County index., 1905-09-06
WEST INDIAN CAR|BS
BUT FEW REMAIN OF THIS ONCE
WARLIKE PEOPLE.
Waged Incessant Warfare on Span
ish, French and English in Turn
Survivors Living in Is
land of Dominica.

The Indians are not the only Amerf-
can aborigines that are rapidly disap-
pearing The West Indian Carib, the
first people seen by Columbus when he
landed in the new world, have practi-
cally disappeared, only small number
of them, scarcely 100, still remain in
the island of Dominica. There they are
under government protection and live
their primitive life on a government
reservation.
The Caribs were at one time one OF
the most warlike races in the western
hemisphere. They were more blood
thirsty, if possible, than any of the
North American Indian tribes, and in
turn waged incessant warfare upon
Spanish, French and English, as one
after another laid claim to and at
tempted to govern the islands.
Previous to the eruptions of Morne
Pelee and the Souffriere of St. Vincent
there was another small band of Caribs
in the latter island; all of these, how
ever, were destroyed by the eruptions.
Of the Dominican Caribs only about
one-half are of pure blood, or so nearly
pure that no trace of negro blood is
discernible. The others are greatly
mixed, and it is difficult to determine
where negro leaves off and Carib be-
gins.
In appearance the Caribs are rather
short and thickset, with yellowish OF
| coppery olive skin, stiff, straight, blue.
| black hair and oval faces with distinct
| ly Mongolian features. They are quiet
| almost to taciturnity, Industrious anG
| peaceable, but, like Poor Lo," every
where have an inveterate fondness fol
| strong drink, and also possess another
unfortunate Indian failing, being in
corrigible thieves. They profess the
| Catholic religion, dress in civilized
! clothes, and dwell in neatly made bu
primitive houses of mud, daubed cane
Or waffle, thatched with pandanus OF
palm leaves.
Few, If any, of their members now
speak the Carib tongue but many pos
sess a limited knowledge of Caril
words. Strangely enough, the Carii
language had two distinct forms, one
| OF which was confined to the use OF
the women, the other to the men, This
state OF affairs was doubtless due tt
the fact already mentioned that theil
wives were captured from other tribes
Their numeral system was also rathe,
remarkable; they were unable to coun
numerically above five. The word fo
five was the same as for hand Tel
| was "two hands, or half a man." i
q foot and two hands, and 20 "tw,
hands and two feet" or "a man." ant
| SO on.
The Dominican Caribs are for tn
most part agriculturists in a small
way, and cultivate little patches O
cacao, cane, yams, plartains, ETC. Som
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footed and SHE'D all at the same time,
and when one hump was not jamming
him in the back the other hump was
kicking him in the stomach, and if he
had gun he would shoot the camel, and
the Arabs, and bust up the show.
By the time dad got so he could stand
up without leaning against a pyramid
the Arabs came up and they all talked
at once, and drew knives, and it seemed
as though they were blaming dad for
something. We found an Interpreter
among the tourists, and he talked with
the Arabs, and pointing to the camel dad
had ridden, which was stretched out on
the sand like he was dead. he told dad
the Arabs wanted him to pay for the
camel he had ridden to death, and foun-
dered by letting it drink a wagon load of
water, and then entered in race across
the desert, and the interpreter said dad
better pay, or they would kill him.
Dad settled for the camel for hun
dred dollars, and promise of The skin
| OF the camel, which he was going to take
home and have stuffed. Then a man
who pretended to be justice of the
peace had dad arrested for driving off
OF walk, and he was fined $40 and costs
for that, and then all the Arabs struck
him for money for one thing and an
other, and when he had settled all
around and paid extra for not riding
back to Cairo on the camel. we got
ready to climb up the pyramid. Dad
said he wouldn't ride that camel back
to Cairo for million dollars. for he was
split I'D so his legs began where his arms
lefss and he was lame from Genesis
to Revelations.
But never saw such q lot of people ia
pray as these pirates are. Just before
they rob man they get down on their
knees on rug, and humble sometime
to some god. and after they have got you
robbed good and plenty, they get down
and pray, while they are concealing the
money they took from you. Gee. but
when l get home am going to steer
the train robbers and burglars onto the
idea Of always being on prayins
grounds
/ Well, told dad he hadn't better try te
climb up the pyramid, that would gt
up, cause could climb like goat, ans
when. got up to the top would fire {
salute, so everybody would know that
star spangled American was on deck, bu
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dies that the guides carried, and up and
down stairs, until finally we got into a
big room that smelled like morgue,
with bats and evil looking things all
around, and felt creepy.
The guides got down on their knees to
pray, and 1 thought it was time to be
robbed again. do not know what made
me think of making sensation right
there in the bowels of that pyramid,
where there were corpses thousands of
years old, of Egypt's rulers. l never
felt that way at home, when 1 visited
cemetery, but 1 thought would shoot
my last roman candle and fire my last
giant firecracker right there in that mos
eleum, and take the chances that we
would get out alive. So when the tour
lists were lined up beside tomb of some
Rameses or other, and the guides were
praying for strength and endurance,
probably, to get away with all the mon
ey we had, picked out place up toward
the roof that seemed full of bats and
birds of i'll omen, and 1 sneaked my
roman candle out from under my shirt
and touched the fuse to candle on the
turban of a guide who was on his knees,
and just as the first fire ball was ready
to come out yelled: "Whoop-la-much-
a wano, pluribus unum," and the fire
balls lighted up the gloom and knocked
the bats gally west.
Holy jumping cats, but you ought to
have seen the guides, yelling Allah!
Allah! and groveling on the floor, and
the bats were flying around in the faces
of the tourists, and everybody was sim
ply scared out of their boots thought
l might as well wind the thing up glo-
rious, so 1 touched the tail of my last
giant firecracker to the sparks that were
oozing out of my empty roman candle.
and threw it into the middle of the great
room, and when it went Off you would
think cannon had exploded, and every
body rushed for the door. and we fell
over each other getting out through the
passage towards the door.
l was the first to get out on to the side
of the pyramid, and 1 watched for the
crowd to come out The tourists got out
first, and then dad came out, putting and
wheeling, and the last to come out were
the Arabs, and they came on their hands
and knees, calling to Mr.. Allah and every
one of them actually pale, and l think
| they were conscience-stricken for they
began to give back the money they had
robbed dad of, and an Arab must be pref
! ty scared to give up any of his
hard-earned robberies. think dad was
about the maddest man there was, until
he got some of his money back, when he
felt better, but he gave me talking te
that will never forget.
He said: Don't you know bet
ter than to go around with explo
sives, like train robber, and fire
them off in hole in the ground, where
there is no ventilation, and make peo
pies ears ring? Maybe you have woke
up those kings and queens in there, anG
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dad said he would go up or quit the tour

dad said he would go up or quitsthe tour
ist business. He said he had come thou
sands of miles to climb the pyramids,
and sit in the shadow of the spinks, and
by ginger he was going to do it, and SO
we started.
Well, say, each stone is about four feet
high, and dad couldn't get up without
help, SO an Arab would go up a stone
ahead, and take hold of dad S hands, and
two more Arabs would get their shoul-
ders under dads pants, and shove, and
he would get up gradually. We got
about half way up when dad weakened,
and said he didn't care so much about
pyramids as he thought he did, and he
was ready to quit, but the guide and
some of the tourists said we were right
near the entrance to the great tomb of
the kings, and that we better go in and
at least make formal call on the
crowned heads, and so we went in,
through dark passages. with little can