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Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-03
Both phones 1872. Los Angeles, Cal
YOU OUGHT TO STOP

You ought to stop and think what 1t
means to injure your eyes by neglect.
Take care OF them now and they will
take care of you later on. Get pair
of our best AL crystal reading lenses
in 1O-year gold-flled frames for $1.5O.
Others ask from SO to So. Eyes tested
by graduated state registered opti-
clans. Satisfaction guaranteed. Clarks,
351 S. Spring.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-03
Rntea to Sacramento

On account of the California State fair
at Sacramento September to 8, and the
Zebra ton Native Sons of the Golden
West September S, the Southern Pacific
will sell tickets a. one and one-third fare
for round trip from all points in Cali
fornia to Sacramento Tickets will be
on sale August 81 to September 9 inclus-
i've, and will be good for return until
September H. Continuous passage is re-
Southern Pacific ticket office, 261 South
Spring street.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-03

day, September 9, being legal holidays,
all departments of this Office and sta
tions thereof will be open until IL
noon. Carriers will make their usual
morning deliveries and collections.
Business collectors will make collec-
tions as per holiday schedule. Holiday
dispatches to and from stations. Gen
eral delivery open until p. M"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-03
Sudden Attack of Dysentery Cured

A prominent lady Of Brooklyn, N. Y,
writes to inquire where she can obtain
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and Diar-
rhoea Remedy. She says: while stop
ping at ranch in South Dakota 1 was
taken ill of what seemed to be cholera.
They gave me some of this medicine
and 1t cured me. I brought bottle
home and have just used the last of it
today. Mother was taken suddenly III
of dysentery and it helped her i'm
mediately." For sale by all leading
druggists.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-03
REMARKABLE INCREASE
IN POSTAL RECEIPTS
August Totals Exceed Those of Any
Previous Two Months in History
of Local Department

The report of postal receipts at the
Los Angeles postoffice for the month
of August was made yesterday by
Postmaster Flint and shows remark
able increase over the receipts of Aug
ust, 1904, and greater than has been
recorded for any two months of any
year in the history of the local de-
partment. Following is the report
August, 1905 ....................... $55, 731 81
August, 1901 .......,.".......... A,40O "a
Per cent. of increase 25.51
The following statement regarding
the closing of the postotfice for the
two holidays of next week was sent
out by the postmaster yesterday:
Monday, September 4, and Satur-
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-03
In a Puritan Village

I'm afraid your children don't have
much pleasure"
''Well I don't know. They are al
lowed to walk in the graveyard every
Sunday."-Life.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-03
Bexond the Smoke Line.

where you can reVel. Your only compan-
ions being nature and a sketch book. If
you haven't all of the tools" visit the
artists material department-just over
flowing with good things. We give you
the best. Catalogue for the asking San
born, Vail & Co., S57 South Broadwey.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-03
BAND CONCERTS
EastIake Park
Moore's Fidelia Band
Church Anniversary Today

The seventeenth anniversary of the
organization of the Emmanuel Presby-
terian church will be observed today.
DIR. Hugh K. Walker, who has returned
from his summer vacation, will preach
at the morning service on "The Cen
ius that Makes Manhood" In the
evening his subject will be 1.-TWO Men
Arm in Arm with Christ"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-03
AROUND THE TOWN

The Herald will pay $40 in cash to any
cne furnishing evidence that will lead TO
the arrest and conviction of any person
caught stealing copies of Tho Herald from
tho premises Of our patrons
THE HERALD.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-03

Strangers are invited to visit the exhibit
of California products at the Chamber Of
Commerce building. on Broadway, between
First and Second streets. where free tnfor-
nation will be given on all subjects per-
tanning to this section
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-03

DIR. LOGAN, 453 S. BROADWAY,
Is one of the recent appointees of the
inc children's eyes free. Bring them in
before school begins.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-03

so. CALIFORNIA TRANSFER CO.
Trunks, 25c up; pianos furniture and
merchandise moved. We store and ship
at low rates. Tells. Main 34S6, Home
21S4. 317 Yves. Second street.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-03

For Exchange-Fine folding bed.
What have you. Call after Sunday.
1400 Fedora street.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-03
Receives No Stated Salary

Rev. Joseph Smale, pastor of the
First Baptist church, states that the
S10O called for each week for current
expenses as printed in the church bull
letin, Is largely used towards the
church deficit, which was incurred dur
ing his absence in Europe. He says
that when he returned a short time
ago he found the church much in debt.
He receives no stated salary for his
pastoral work, accepting what is vol
UNFAIRLY offered.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-03
Baba Bharati Lecture

Tonight, at Symphony hail In the
Blanchard building, 232 Hill street,
Baba Bharati the noted Hindoo
philosopher will lecture, his theme be-
ing, Life: It's Source and it's Pur-
pose" An invitation is extended to all
who seek enlightenment upon the mys-
tic religion Of India. and its message
20 the western world. Baba Bharati
is said by eastern critics to be one of
the most profound, as he is one of the
most lucid exponents of the Hindoo
philosophy.
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Extension Tables.

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12-ft. Golden Oak Exten-
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SIT. Golden Oak Exten-
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and pedestaD. $500 s47.50
Eft. Golden Oak Exten-
sion Table (round top,
carved pedestal base $500 s67. 80
SIT. Weathered Oak Elk
tension Table. 5000 $500
6 #. Mahogany Finish
Extension SI3JO SlI25
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Extension Table......... $500 SOS. 80
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insists that most of the responsibility for
the degeneracy and crime of the southern
negro lies at the door of the national gov
erIment. 1t has handled the blacks just
about as intellgently and honestly as it
has the Indian" In regard to immigration
he Is equally outspoken:
THE immigration question is in this coun-
try one of the most vital issues of the day
There is something suggestive in the
fact that, although our foretgn-born citizens
constitute but one-eighth of the total popu-
lation of the country, they furnish one-third
OF our criminals, one-third of our pauperS
and one-third of our insane. In short, the
character of our immigrants is so polluted
by the wholesale expectation by the old
world of the insane criminal and pauper
20 per cent more of the inmates of our jails,
asylums and almshouses than the same
number of American-born. .
our lmmigratiC laws have improved of
late years, but they are not yet strict
enough. America for Americans would not
be a bad principle to follow for ten years
or \ special tax on immigrants would
which presents the anomaly of letting in
immigration 'riff-raff' free, and laying a
heavy tax on art productions. A degenerate
may enter duty free, but a RaphaeFs Ma
donna was taxed 100000.
The suggestion has been made that our
government require a passport for record
of every immigrant, containing a perfect
description OF the individual, making iden-
tification easy. Foreign-born criminals
could thus be identified as such. punished
and after punishment their citizenship an
nulled and they deported TO their native
countries, their return to America being
peIalized by Hfe-imprisonment-
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wcmen-all these factors combine TO cause
what Beard termed a distinctively Amer
lean disease The body social Is growing
more and more homeopathic. In the ralh
of this widespread homeopathy comes degen-
eracy with all it's evil brood of social dis
orders
THE general homeopathic state to which
have alluded is behind much of the vio-
lence of the American mob, and also some
tines undcrlies that many-sided, often illog-
tCal entity called public opinion, In its atu-
tuGc toward certain social conditions and
criminal acts. Special environment condi-
lions operative in the cauSation of crime in
this country are the varying phases of the
struggle between capital and labor. Here
at first sight seem clear, but degen-
eracy is quite as potent here as elsewhere
in the etiology of crime. Another equally
important special factor of environment in
America is our political conditions. All po-
litical and governmental systems offer IA
cilities for and temptations TO crime, but
the political office-holding thief trust is
an institution peculiarly American.
yellow journalism is not to be forgotten
in the discussion of etiologic factors of
crimes that are diStinctiyely our own. :
I'm time America viii have its own more
or less fixed criminal type, and a larger pro-
portion of criminals than Europe. The
hurry and fret of American life is turning
out degenerates al rate that will one day
stagger the world
The presence of the negro and the heavy
influx of immigrants from Europe are also
cited as important factors in the production
of social disease in the United States. The
negro DR.. Lydston insists, will almost in
eVitably be "one of the determining factors
in the evolution of the distinctive American
CT minal type of the future but he also
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MUSICAL CLAIRVOYANCE.
Persons Without Previous Training
Play Piano in Hypnotic State.

From Public Opinion.
Paris is very much concerned at present
over a new phenomenon, which is called,
for lack of better name, musical medium
ship In the same way that a few years
ago the attention of the French scientists
was largely occupied with thought trans
ference, now many investigators in the
French capital are carefully following the
experiments which are being conducted
with the musical mediums.
In the last number of the Journal des
Debats NJ. Henri de Parvlle carefully goes
over the whole ground, and the facts pre-
scented are well worth considering. NJ. de
Parville first takes up the case of a subject
by the name of ALBERT. This man, al
though he had but a rudimentary knowl-
edge of music, performs on the piano, in
semi-hypnotic state, compositions which re-
call the musical style of Mozart, Chopin,
Beethoven, Schubert and others. \ second
and far more remarkable case, however, is
that of Mile. Nydia. This woman, in
hypnotic state and with her eyes carefully
bandaged, is able to play on the plano any
piece of music which may be given her.
Thus at a sitting recently hold at the Thea
ter de la Monnaie, in Brussels, Mile. Nydia
was led to NJ. Silvayn Dupuy. chief of the
orchestra OF the theater, who gave her
piece of music composed by himself, which
had never been published. NJ. Dupuy saw
that the bandage had been tightly placed
over the girls eyes. Mile, Nydia then sat
down, held the paper in her hands for
few moments, and then. to the great as
constituent of every one played tho piece
without hesitation. :
Two physicians examined the young wo-
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DEGENERACY IN AMERICA.
Conditions in United States Favor
Moral Decline of People,

People who nave the idea that America
is to reform the world, beginning with
Santo Domingo and the Latin American re-
publics. with an occasional diplomatic rep
rimand to Russia on Kishinef massacres
and the like. may be surprised 10 learn that
America lis turning out degenerates at a
rate that will one day stagger the world. -
and will, in time have "a larger proportion
OF criminals than Europe" This serious
view Of our situation is taken by DR. G.
Frank Lydston OF Chicago, who has made
a study Of criminology for some twenty
Ave years DR.. Lydston tells us that vice
and crime are steadily increasing in this
country, and he thinks the statistics sug-
Gest that America may pass through a
period OF decadence. during which the rap
idly increasing vice and crime of the pres
enr epoch will arrive at Its maximum. In
a new book on Diseases of Society and De-
generacy," he says:
America has for many years furnished
conditions peculiarly favorable TO degen-
eracy. The strenuous life of the average
American, certainly of every ambitious cit
ten. has many aspects bearing upon de-
generacy in general, and vice and crime in
cial supremacy, ambition for fame, love of
display. late hours, lack of rest. excitement,
the consumption of alcohol. especially by
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backs. and are recognized as legal tender
| in exchange at the village store or through
| the country generally These are IN turn
| bought from the local dealers by buyers
| from Albany and elsewhere.
| A land Of beautiful wild flowers and still
| more beautiful ferns and moses; of grand
| old forests and of ideal trout brooks: in
short, land Of rest and peace-and sleep,
| for sleep hangs over this land and over
everything in it. even to the silent, cloud
covered mountain tops; a sweet, dreamy,
half-conscious sleep that affects the visitor
as 1t must have affected Washington Irv-
ing when he wove his beautiful legends of
the Catskills, and of which poor old Rip
Van Wrinkle took too large dose.
Holidays are observed. each in It's own
perculiar way, the Fourth of July being
perhaps the most important. On that day
weddings are celebrated and the SWEETEST"
balls take place. This Is the only holiday,
except circus and county fair day, that is
observed by everybody. New Year is
passed by in silence, for 1t is a day of
counting and is apt to bring to mind
recollection of outstanding notes. long con-
continued. Christmas is rather frowned
upon as being of unknown origin, and Is
given up by the few who observe it to
whisky and carousing.
Election day Is a grand day exclusively
for men, one in which woman has no part
or parcel-a day in which the supreme male
| asserts itself without protest. let or him
drance.
Early that day, rain or shine, the voter"
dressed In his best, will walk long miles to
the polling place, to sit on fences, white
sticks, swap" horses and talk politics,
being fed and watered gratis at the rival
headquarters of each candidate. At the last
possible moment he will deposit his vote
and proceed to settle all disputes or dis
agreements of personal nature that have
been brewing or left over as unfinished
business from the last election. All fights
that IS. all respectable, well-ordered fights
take place at or near the polls at this time
or on the way home, and, failing of settle
ment, go over to the next election. On an
average, 1t takes a good citizen two days
to vote and get home. and then he must
have one or two days to rest and repair
damages.
This land of legends Is not confined to any
specially defined section are it's limits
bounded by any established geographical
lines of county township. 1t can, how
ever, be found at its best in the higher al
titudes of Ulster county and In that Wild,
untamed section of the Catskils whose in
teresting population of many rocks and few
people make the region one of unique
charm and human interest.
Little excitement enters into this rugged
Garden of Eden except the matters men
toned, unless 1t occurs in the course of
regular debate at the grocery. The favor
lite subjects at these gatherings are ro-
lgion, the latest and best patent medicine
and the law. The people use very little of
either. and that little goes long way. The
nearest church Is twenty or more miles dis
tant; the doctor is the same, but the patent
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Pointed paragraphs.

From the Chicago News.
woman who isn't curious is a curiosity
Many a man has wealth untold-to the
tax collector
Some foolish people consider inebriety a
mark of genius.
A young man always takes a girls hand
before asking for it.
Even a baby draws the line at being
kissed by an old bachelor.
It's cowardly to hit man when he is
down-but it's usually safer.
Many an otherwise sensible man is
troubled with the quck-lunch habit.
Be sure of a mans ability as a scrap
PEI before asking him to apologize.
A wise shopper goes little earlier 20
avoid the rush of those who are early.
When love flies out of a boarding house
window ii usually takes its trunk along
how to live the undertaken takes him for a
ride. z
Most men are willing to pay the piper
even if they have to stand off all thAk
other creditors.
Some people may not believe It, but It IS,
a fact. nevertheless, that there are 10 mill
lionaire poets.
During the honeymoon a man smiles IN
wardly If his wife confesses that she mar
ried him to reform him.
A lot of misguided individuals are trying
to close up the race tracks by winning all
the bookmakers' money.
Lots of married men arc club members
becs1 they dislike the idea OF spending
their evenings at home alone.
A man does some things well because he
likes TO do them, and a woman likes to do
some things because she does them well.
About the tine married woman gets tho
idea into her head that she has mission
her husband begins to worry along on pick
I'M
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PEOPLE OF CATSKILLS
A REGION OF WILD BEAUTY AND
PRIMITIVE INHABITANTS.


Away up in the clouds, among the
dreamy blue peaks in which Henry Hud-
son and his merry men rest in the inter-
missions of their eternal game of ninepins
hide during the warmer months from
the encroaching summer boarders. lives a
hardy simple race of people, peculiar,
so different in every way from our common
fellow-men, that we fail to classify them,
and think of them merely curious prod
uts of the mountains-such as only the
mountains can produce.
Small settlements OF dozen houses or
so are located here and there in Queer
land" each with a post office and general
store, but, as rule, you will find the in
habitants and their little log huts or humble
dwellings, at some crossroads or perched
high on the mountain by themselves, sur
rounded by a half-cleared piece Of ground
on which are raised a few potatoes and the
winter supply of buckwheat. AS some of
these little farms are located on the steep
hiilsides, the crops are hard 10 gather, and
often it has to be done with a jack knife
on hands and knees.
Hospitality In its broadest sense is the
inViolable law of the land. l have known
a whole family-father, mother and chill
dren-to sleep on the floor of a barn. and a
cow barn at that, so that guest might
occupy the only room ana bed or which
the house could boast. If you have money,
and wish to pay, whatever you give will
be gladly received, but they will set no
price on their hospitality, and you are well
come to anything they may give if you
have no money.
1t is a queer country, this wild, noun
famous, out-of-the-way and yet accessible
Catskill region; lazy, dreamy, beautiful
country in which nobody is ever in hurry
or In a worry about anything, and in which
everything
and cattle, have an endless amount of time;
a country of no newspapers, telephones or
telegraphs and not a photograph or steam
whistle within twenty miles; a country in
which, according to Henry Hudson's log
there are many exceedingly old people, a
country In which the coming and going OF
the daily stage is the one important event.
year in and year out, and country In
which money is seldom seen and almost
never used or handled.
The wooden barrel hoops which the peo-
pie manufacture through the long winter
months take the place of specie and green
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-21

medicine pamphlets and books can be sent
for and read free of cost, and a world of
knowledge is thus absorbed, to be used as
an extnguisher at the next debate.
The law can only be INDUCED In when
nothing else is doing. In the fall and win
ter, when the price of barrel hoops runs
low, and nothing can be "swapped," one
neighbor will have the law on another
The justice is brought from his shaving
bench or farm, jury is selected and the
court convenes at some popular tavern
where the people of "Queerland" will meet,
walking or driving with their OK teams,
serious and full of Importance, but all bent
on having a good time.
The verdict makes very little difference.
for everybody knows that it cannot be en-
forced and also that damages are abso-
lutely uncollectable. But it serves as
grand vacation, a general holiday, for
which both plaintiff and defendant have
the best thanks of the community.
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man, and found her to be I'm a real hyp-
motto state and absolutely insensible 10 the
exterior world. There We're then placed
over her eyes succession Of bandages. al
telnating white and black, and she was led
TO the piano. One of the spectators offered
q new opera which was placed on the piano
The hypnotizer looked al his subject, ana
Immediately the girl played the piece with
the greatest cleverness. Another spectator.
who had just arrived from New Zealand
offered a piece which had never been per
formed in Europe. Mile. Nydia. however,
executed 1t at once and she played with
the same skill a piece which had just been
composed by NJ. q. German. At public re-
quest she played a piece OF Paderewski
which was unknown to her, and, finally, a
lady wrote the title of a piece of music on
slip of paper. put it into an envelope
which was afterward sealed. and gave it to
the girl She placed ii on her forehead for
moment. and the next instant was play
ing Beethoyens Clair du LUne' sonata"
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THE SHEPHERD STATUE.

The statue of the late Gov. Alexander r.
| Shepherd, for which the money was con-
| tributed by the citizens of Washington, will,
| when completed. be placed in front of the
new municipal building and will be an orna-
ment to the city and a fitting memorial to
| the man who did much for the rebuilding
| and Identification of the national capital.
The citizens executive committee of
| which Mr.. Crosby S. Noyes was chairman,
| selected this design from the number that
| was submitted and awarded the contract
| for the statue to U. S. ]. Dunbar, local
| sculptor, who has finished his part Of the
| work and has sent it to the foundry to be
| cast in bronze. Mr.. Dunbar had the ad-
| vantage of personal acquaintance with
| the late governor, who had given him sew
| eral sittings while he was in Washington,
and he was therefore fully competent to
| make a statue which should be not only a
| faithful likeness, but in characteristic
pose.
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$500. s. $500. :s.t,3t
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SALE PRICES GOVERN.

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The stock cean goods ordered i'm for this
being forced bring
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We don't believe there made ON us Furnf
Coverings, Draperes Uphosee5 that haven't been ab
and price has been the strong