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Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-25
WORKING ON HIS
ANNUAL MESSAGE
DOCUMENT OCCUPYING TIME OF
THE PRESIDENT
Life Insurance, Venezuela and Santo
Domingo Are Three Important
Topics Which Mr.. Roose-
Welt viii Consider
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
OYSTER BAY, Sept. 24.-President
Roosevelt will complete his summer
sojourn at Sycamore Hill and return
to Washington next Saturday. The
president, Mrs. Roosevelt and members
of their family, Secretary and Mrs.
Loeb and the members of the execu>
tive force will leave here about IL
o'clock Saturday morning on a special
Long Island train. They will go by
boat from Long Island City to Jersey
City and thence via the Pennsylvania
road to Washington, reaching the capi-
tai shortly after o'clock.
The president is devoting considera-
BILE time each day now to work on
his annual message to congress. For
some time he has been assembling data
for the message, but since the adjourn
ment of the peace conference he has
been writing the data into definite form.
The message will not be completed
until some time in November, because
each member of the cabinet will have
to supply material for discussion of the
work of his department. This informa-
tion will be contained in the annual
reports of the cabinet officers. which
have not been completed.
Three topics highly important at this
time to the American people will be
discussed by the president in his mes
sage. They are the federal regulation
and supervision of life insurance, the
relations between this country and
Venezuela and Americas interest in
the financial affairs of the government
of Santo Domingo. Other important
subjects naturally will be considered,
among them the scandals disclosed in
the departments of agriculture and the
interior, the work of the department OF
Justice in the beef trust cases, the regu-
lation of railroad freight rates, the
progress made in the construction OF
the Panama canal and the conclusion
of peace between Russia and Japan
Much of the material for the discussion
of these subjects President Roosevelt
has now in hand, and the last days o!
his stay at Sycamore Hill are devoted
to the preparation of that part of his
message which will deal with them.
Few visitors have been received since
the adjournment of the peace confer
ence. the president desiring to be as
free as possible from interference while
working on his message. His last week
here is practically devoid of engage
4.
ters except those of immediate import
ance is being postponed until the presi'
dent shall have reached Washington.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-25
GIVES A Different VERSION
Colorado Man Has Dictionary Pub
lished in 1925 Telling of the
Discovery of America
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
LITTLETON, Colo, Sept. 24.-W. H.
Ficklin of Littleton has in his possess
sion copy of Stones dictionary, pub
lished in 1925, which gives the follow
ing account of the discovery of
America:
"A Portuguese vessel, going to the
East Indies, was, by stress of weather,
drove upon the coast of Ponant, and
she found herself near this country. All
the crew perished through hunger and
want, except one pilot and four sailors,
who, being returned to the port in the
island of Madeira, full of fatigue and
misery, died a little time after at the
house of one Christopher Columbus, a
Genoese by birth, who was sailor in
that island, and to whom they gave
an account Of their voyage and the
country they had discovered. Colum-
bus applied for assistance to discover
this country to Alphonsus ", king of
Portugal, and Henry the VII, king of
England, who rejected his proposal,
thinking 1t a mere dream. In 1886 he
communicated his design to several
persons of the Spanish court. They,
too. thought his request vain and ex-
travagant; till at last Alphonsus de
Quintaville, great treasurer of Spain,
promised to assist him as soon as the
war, which the Spaniards had with
the Moors, was ended. Accordingly
he began his voyage the third day of
August in the year 1892. and on the
11th of October he discovered the island
of Jamaica. one of the sugar islands
afterward called Cuba, and landed in
the island called Spanish island
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-25
STREET RAILWAY MEN MEET
Convention Of Railroad Organizations
Opens In Philadelphia This
Week
Bv Associated Press.


PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 24.-More
than 1000 men interested in the oper-
alton of street car lines, including man
ufacturers of street cars and appliances
will be here this week for the annual
convention of associations interested
in street railways.
The organizations to meet are the
American Street Railway association,
the American Mechanical and Electrical
association, Street Railway Account
ants association Of America, the Amer
lean Association of Street Railway
claim agents and Street Railway Manu-
facturers association. fhe convention
will cover six days. A new feature of
the convention will be the presence
of a large number of street railway
officials, about 500 invitations being sent
to railroad officers.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-25
FRANCE ASKS VENEZUELA
TO RECONSIDER NOTE
LATTER REFUSED TO TREAT
WITH M. TAIGNEY
Declares Protest Can Be Considered
Only an Act of Personal Hostility.
Judge Calhoun Is Studying the
Situation

BY Associated Press.
CARACAS, Venezuela, Sept. 24.-The
French government has asked the
Venezuelan government to reconsider
its last note.
The note referred to in the above
dispatch was issuel September 20 by
the Venezuelan government and was in
reply to protest lodged September
10 by M. Taigney, the French charge
d'affaires, against the closing of the
land stations Of the French cable COM
pany and the expulsion of the manager
of the company, M. Brun. 1t said:
"The government holds documents
proving that the French Cable COM
pany has accepted the result of the
judicial proceedings brought against
it. The government is only waiting to
establish new relations between it and
the company. NJ. Taigney knows this
and therefore the protest can be con-
sidered only an act of personal hos
tility. For this reason the government
will abstain from treating with the
French government through M. Taig-
ney."
Former Judge w. J. Calhoun, who
is charged with special mission to
Venezuela on behalf of the United
States, is studying the situation
brought about by the closing of the
land stations of the French Cable COM
pany, the expulsion of the manager of
the company, M. Brun, and the refusal
OF Venezuela to deal with the French
government through its charge daft
faires, M. Taigney. Judge Calhoun con-
ferred today for two hours with M.
TaiEney.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-25

praying, as she was wont to do by the
hour. But this ghostly visitation
gradually was forgotten until the ex-
perience of the Collomsvllle man, who
one night last week was startled by
seeing the apparition of the old woman
moving restlessly in and out among the
trees. The superstitious of the valley
declare that the spirit of the old woman
will never rest until the bones of her
body are buried at the foot of the old
stump, as she decreed.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-25
WILL NOT SEE SUFFERING
Prince Of Wales to Witness Only the
Gllded Side of Life In
India

Special to The Herald.
LONDON, Sept. 24-Owing to famine
and plague prevalent in many districts
of India, the visit of the prince and
princess of Wales to India will have
many of its splendors eclipsed, al
though Lord Curzon has made great
preparations to have the prince i'm
pressed with the immense love and ad-
miration of the natives for the British
throne.
Because of the distress in Madras, the
royal couple will not be permitted to
visit there, as 1t is not the intention of
the India authorities to permit them
to get glimpse of the suffering that
seems inseparable from British rule
in India. Tens of thousands of natives
are dying of famine and the govern
ment does little to prevent or cure the
cause of the evil declining even to
reduce the exorbitant tax on the chief
necessity of the native-salt. The eyes
OF the royal tourists. however, will
not witness any of his distress, for
Lord Curzon has arranged that the
prince and princess will see only the
gilded side of life In India and nothing
Of the famine and plague conditions
that have become permanent.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-25
OBJECTS TO SICKLEs' DOG
Relative of General Wants Animals
Remains Removed From
Family Lot
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
NEW YORK, Sept. 24.-The burial of
Gen. Daniel E. Sickle's pet spaniel "Bo-
Bo" in Beechwood cemetery, is resented
in New Rochelle by residents who have
buried relatives and friends there,
where for years most of the prominent
families have laid their dead.
Yesterday George D. Sawyer, a rel
ative of Gen. Sickles, demanded of
President Henry NJ. Lester, of the
board of cemetery trustees that the
body of the dog be removed. He said
that the plot in which the dog was
buried contains the bodies of his step
mother, Mrs. Mary s. Sickles, sister of
the general, and her daughter, and
that unless the trustees removed the
dogs body he would take legal action.
Mr.. Lester promised to bring the mat
ter before the trustees. Sawyer said
to Mr.. Lester:
Gen. Sickles has no more right to
the plot than the other members of the
family. 1t was originally purchased
by his father and at his death went
to the heirs, among them my step
mother, Mary S. Sickles.
All this talk about Gen. Sickles wish
ing to be buried beside his faithful
dog is nonsense. / don't believe that
he expects to be buried in New Ro-
chells. He owns a plot in Brooklyn
cemetery, where his first wife and
daughter are buried and in all prob
ability he will have his grave beside
them"
1t is said that the body of Bo-Bo
was brought from New York in a suit
case and that superintendent John
Ross under the instructions of Gen.
Sickles buried it in a pine box. Saw
yer says the cemetery authorities did
not even compel the general to get a
burial permit from the board of health.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-25
YOUNG ACTRESS
SAILS A|RSH|P
MISS DE VAUGHN UNDAUNTED
BY ACCIDENTS
Seven Attempts Made to Reach Earth
Before Landing Is Accomplished.
Frame Of Alrshlp Badly
Broken

Standing on a slender rod 1000 feet
In the air, with one shapely hand
lightly holding rod, while with the
other she waved to the thousands OF
spectators In Chutes baseball park,
pretty Nellie DeVaughn made her first
trip in an airship yesterday. The
fight ended disastrously for the air
ship but Miss Devaughn was uninjured
and she is impatiently awaiting repairs
to the atmosphere vessel in order to
make smother flight
Miss DeVaughn and Prof. Trombly
made the ascension in The Bullet from
Chutes park about o'clock yesterday
afternoon and from the beginning met
with a. series of accidents. Before the
airship was loosed from it's moorings
a boy ran against the rudder and
threw it out of gear. This proved a
serious handicap when Prof. Trombly
attempted to control the tailpiece up
in the air.
Drops Crank to Ground
The aeronaut had decided to wait
until he reached a sufficient height be-
fore using his engines. as he attributes
some of his former failures to turning
on the power too soon. When the
proper height was reached and he at
tempted to set the engines going the
crank slipped from his hands and left
him absolutely helpless as far as any
control over the power was concerned
with all these accidents Miss De-
Vaughn maintained perfect composure
and asserts that at no time was she
frightened. When the crank dropped
from the hands of Aeronaut Trombly
she waved again at the crowds in
Chutes park.
At this point the airship came to
dead standstill in the air. BY hard
work Mr.. Trombly succeeded in turn
ing it around but the wind caught it
and carried it rapidly east, beyond the
vision of the spectators in the park.
Airship Frame Broken
East of Eastlake park a strong wind
was encountered and the aeronaut at
tempted to make g. landing but was
caught in some trees. He again as
cended and a little farther on dipped
for the ground but was caught on
fence. He made seven efforts to reach
the ground and not until the airship
had nearly reached Ell Molino could he
make a landing. When The Bullet
finally rested safely on land the frame
was so badly broken that no attempt
was made to bring it back to the city
The bag was unscathed and this was
brought back to Chutes park, where
make new and improved frame.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-25
H.tty Green Advises Investors

oh, yes And in what do you in
vest?"
Railroads and real estate. I believe
in getting In either at the top or at
the bottom. l like to buy railroad
stock or mortgage bonds. When I see
a good thing going cheap because no.
body wants 1t 1 buy a lot Of 1t and
tuck it away Then when the time
comes they have to hunt me up and
pay me good price for my holdings.
1 own lot OF city mortgages In
crowded sections. They seem to me
as good as anything"
How about stocks and bonds?"
1T don't much believe in stocks. Wall
street is no place for woman; try
to steer clear of it and never buy
industrials, Railroads and real estate
are the things 1 like. You see 1 be-
lieve in using common sense in busl-
ness. Before deciding on an invest
ment 1 therefore seek out every kind
of information about 1t. There is no
great secret in fortune making. All
YOU have to do is to buy cheap and
sell dear, act with thrift and shrewd-
ness and then be persistent. Carol
Ford in National Magazine.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-25
To Keep Watches Clean

Open the front case of the watch and
with soft match, cut chisel-shape at
the end, rub a little vaseline all round
seat of the case where the lid fits. Close
the front, open the back and treat in
the same way. Only a very small
quantity is required, just enough to
grease it thoroughly all round. This
will make your case dust and water
proof at those points. At the end Of
two or three months open the case and
If much dirt has collected take match
cut in the same way and scrape it all
off clean and give it another coating of
the vaseline. This is the only known
plan to keep a watch clean where the
cases do not fit perfectly close.-Na-
tional Magazine for September.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-25
SACRAMENTO BOY KILLED
BY Associated Press.

I0y ASSOCldteu F'IeSS'
SACRAMENTO, Sept. 24.-Leland
McDermott, the 15-year-old son Of
John McDermott of Mills Station, died
at a local hospital this morning of a
bullet wound accidentally inflicted the
previous afternoon by companion OF
[his own age. The boys were climb
Ing fence when a pistol in the hand
|of McDermott's playmate was acci-
dentaly discharged.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-25

A family living in the city of Tihis,
in the Caucasus, consists of five MEM
bers whose combined age is 395 years.
The father is 105 years, the mother is
Ga. and three sons are all over 60.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-25
DEATHS OF THE DAY
Col. c. T: westbrook, New York

BY Associated Press.
KINGSTON. N. Y, Sept. 24.-Col.
Cornelius T. Westbrook, one of the best
known Grand Army veterans in the
state, died today, aged so years, at the
Middletown state hospital, where he
was taken several years ago as the
result of injuries received during the
Civil War.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-25
BEGGARs' SCHOOL
FOR MEND|CAN is
TEACHES ART OF SWlNDLlNG
THE PUBLIC
Elocution, Costunning, Makeup, Feisn-
ina of Ills, ETC., In Curriculum
of institution Discovered
In Chicago

Special to The Herald.
CHICAGO, Sept. 24.-A school of
beggars," where elocution, dramatic
art, costuming and makeup are taught
by professors of mendicancy, has been
discovered by the police in Chicago.
Children and adults are taught how
to feign blindness, to make terrible
scars on their arms or faces, and to
pose as cripples in half-starved con-
dition. Even the refinements of the
Italian begging colleges have been in
troduced and physical malformations
are brought about calculated to excite
pity and extort money from the chari-
table.
The lessons are being given nightly
in south side saloon, according to in
formation received by Chief of Police
Collins today. From seventy-five to
eighty professional besgars are said
to report at the headquarters" each
night and receive their instructions
from the professor of the institution,
who receives a percentage of their
gains as his recompense.
Gives Literary" Course
He not only gives a thorough liter
airy course in the composition of new
and appealing hard luck stories, and
tales of misery and suffering families
that will bring monetary response
from the most hard-hearted pedestrian,
but he shows his pupils how to deliver
these masterpieces of pathos.
Methods of assuming deformities that
will appeal to the public are taught in
the college of beggars," as the police
term it, and the pupils are told how To-
appear as blind, lame or armless.
The beggars are supplied with
crutches, smoked glasses, and otheF
apparatus used in their trade" and
they are sent to different sections of
the city in order that their routes may
not conflict.
Ressars to Be Arrested
Chief Collins has detailed several
detectives to find the saloon, and the
beggars will be arrested as vagrants
and the saloon license will probably pc
revoked by the mayor.
UT bava .AoaIx,ad oil the oncessaIrV
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-25
The Henrietta

popular comedian Mr. Henry Bie See
Old
English
Agnes, Rose King
Mary Manion Flint etc:
GET YOUR SEATS ANY PERFORMANCE DON'T WAIT,
OPPORTUNITY. WE HAVE GOT THE SHOW
DON'T IT OUT TOO LATE.
10c Csc. Evenings 10c, 25c S5c and Soc
of AROUND
DAYS. which will introduced beautiful Amazon March of
addition
strength of the STOCK COMPANY.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-25

The municipality of Berlin will spend
81 1904, 900 for harbor improvements. in
cluding construction OF an elevator and
railroad tracks.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-25

informa3 lon regarding the place and 1
will seA that it is broken up at once
and th' the school is closed" Chief
Collins declared today. IT understand
that ~ clearing house for beggars,
and thk q the general of the brigade
gives Hem all the necessary instruc-
tions ami advice in mendicancy. They
are toll the best stories that are touch
ing to Rne heart of the charitably dis
posed. am looking for the place and
will Sc l&tPat it is wiped out"
The dHkief intends to push the crusade
to driVNSAhe beggars from the down.
town NtSHrict Numerous complaints
have bNreceived regarding those who
approaE]zp pedestrians at night within
the loo nd ask for or 10 cents for a
meal r lodging
Invade the City Hall
The nuisance has become so fiagrant
that the city hall has even been in
vaded and the beggars have ap-
preached various heads of the city de-
partments. Commissioner of Health
Whalen was sitting in his office when
an old man assuming decrepit ap-
pearsJnce came into the health Office
and stepped up to the commissioner.
He saw the closed desk of Secretary
Pritqhard and advanced toward it with
a lo9 pix of ecstasy.
"C'h, piano." he said in foreign
acce int that could hardly be distin-
guished, and grasped the cover in an
attempt to open it. Then he turned to
DIR. Whalen in a whining, pitiful voice.
begged for assistance, mumbling what
wa 5 apparently well-rehearsed hard
ludk story.
The commissioner turned him over TO
the central station to have his needs
Investigated, and if he was in need of
help to be given assistance. The beg
g4r, however, did not seem to relish
the inquisition in his affairs and hastily
left the city hall with youthful and
sprightly step. ~~
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-25
ADJUSTMENTS
NToRoSCO'S BURBANK THE.4TER

~vA THE BEST PLAYS AND THE BEST COMPANY IN AMERICA
MONEY"
$500 seat and
prices still preva10c @ S6c and 5oc
bohpe
this
city defy to say 1t Is not
in production
yesterday and will continue this week.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-25
Reaaars to Be Arrested

Chief Collins has detailed severS
detectives to find the saloon, and th
beggars will be arrested as vagrant
and the saloon license will probably p
revoked by the mayor.
II have received all the necessary
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-25
Every

NHUTEJ Every
~ LAST WEEK OF DoNATELLIS ITALIA
Company in Theater present THE MASCOT
HIS BAND. 5O-Great Artists-5O. Direct from a I
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-25
Afternoon and Evening

BAND. Metropolitan Opera
,ry evening. General admission
: list. CHIAFFARELLI AND
tour of the east.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-25
he Tyranny OITearS

hating comedy, brilliantly writ
Stock Company. PRICES
svery night, 25c, 35c, 50c and 75c.
sntic play, PRINCE KARL" ="
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-10-03
The birds and Fruit.

The birds are frequently great nun.
sance to the man that grows a little
fruit with the man that grows
great deal of fruit there is nothing 10
complain Of The towns and cities in
some OF our states have encouraged
the birds TIL 1t is impossible for the
man who has two or three raspberry,
currsnt or blackberry bushes to get
any fruit at alls The writer had
small plantation Of raspberries, but
nnally dug II OFT. as the birds every
year took all the fruit lie had olber
small fruit in lsrger quantities. ana
keeps this because he has enough so
that the birds can take some aud
toere will still be a good margin left
for the cultivator We haze heare
men rage against the birds one man
says that if there is auy one bird that
should be shot it is the robin. and he
practices shooting robins on his farm
because they attack his fruit Now.
~ ~N'tN.fN ~ tAhN NNANas " AAMnfN.
expect TO have something for nothing.
and the benefits the birds bring have
to be paid for by a salary Of fruit Tae
way for a man to escape their ravagss
largely Is TO grow enough Of one kind
of fruit to haze enough LEFT for him.
self after having lost some by The raw.
oGes OF the birds. Taking alI In All.
the fruit grower has toa best OF II.
He Is mistaken in thinning that he is
the loser. He sees the fruit the birds
have taken. bit he is not able TO aud
out the number Of the predatory in.
sects that have been consumed by the
birds. II man has small lot of
frWit the only way to save Il will be
TO cover ia and in that case The work
viii not be laborious II his plaata.
ton is large he VIII n~ver discover
the loss.