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Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24

later say; but It Is active, persistent
unscrupulous and It forces itself will
vengeance to the front. 1t has graspet
the helm of power and It steers tn,
ship Of state into the darkest depth;
of unbelief and irreligion. Yesterday
It was Combes the most brutal of all
today Il is Clemenceau, somewhat NOR,
subdued I'm his hatred, but a leader II
the fight
with such men and with others di.
viding with them particular power
even less violent adopts of irreligion
there reigns another idea-the omnipo-
tence of the state. This was ever the
plague of France, even when her rulers
were devout Catholics.
"The state must control all agencies
of power; It must brook no rival. Even
the church must be i'm the hands of the
government. SO it was with Louis XIV
and with Napoleon, and so It is with
the republic.
THE republic is a name i'm France.
1t has been well said of It that Il sleeps
on the bed of Louis XIV. France has
never understood the meaning of the
republic.
How, then, explain the political sit
uation2 There are several causes to be
noted. The masses are not used to
political life. For ages they were gov
erned; they do not comprehend the art
Of governing. 1t will require long years
to decentralize power in France, to
give each citizen consciousness of per-
sonal independence, to obtain through
universal suffrage a true expression of
the national will.
"There is no other country where a
well organized and strong faction of
the population can sway so easily the
masses and impose upon them its will.
"The clergy who are now the chief
sufferers are much to blame. They too
have retained, even at the altar and in
the pulpit, the spirit of passive obedi-
ence inherited from old regimes. Saints
before the altar, they are towards be-
fore the electoral urn.
Then French Catholics have been
unfortunate in many of their leaders
and spokesmen. These remain parti-
sans of buried political regimes.
Here is the weakness of the Catho-
lies of France-the infidel, the Socialist
who solicits votes cried out, The re-
public Is in peril; no republican must
cast his vote for monarchist even If
that monarchist be otherwise the best
and purest of mem; and the masses
vote for the infidel or the Socialist in
trusting to the republic to do in the
long run what is most serviceable for
France, and even for religious princi-
pies themselves.
What happens? The moderate re-
publican candidate is defeated the in
fidel or Socialist is elected. This is
what is witnessed in numerous cases
on every election day.
mo one understood France better
than Leo XIII. He bade all Catholics
seek the welfare of country and of
church within the ranks of the loyal
adherents of the republic.
Had Leo been listened to, France in
all probability would have escaped the
religious persecution of the present
day. Monarchical ideas and plottings
have done dreadful injury to the
church in France"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
RUN DOWN BY STREET CAR

With blood streaming from his face
and head as result of,injuries received
by being, struck by car No. 4O6 of the
Maple avenue line, on Main street
near Arcadia yesterday afternoon
George Rogers. a well digger, aged As
years, was taken to the receiving hos
pital yesterday afternoon.
Rogers is said to have been crossing
the street and to have stepped directly
in front of the car Witnesses state
the car was going at high rate of
speed at the time and that the motor
man did not sound his gong until the
car was upon Rogers. When examined
at the receiving hospital it was found
that Rogers upper lip and right eye
were cut and he had numerous other
small injuries and cuts about his head.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
GIVE HAPPY HEARTS
TO LITTLE CHILDREN
NEGLECTED BY SANTA
CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS READY
At All Places Where Needy Little Ones Find Shell
ter Christmas Trees Will Be the Feature
of Entertainment and Presents
Will Be Given to All

I party that gathered round the flaming
tree, ablaze with cleaning candles.
Bright blue and green and yellow
and red candles lighted up the pine
branches over which liberal sprink-
lings of silver and gold tinsel formed
cobwebs, while diamond dust gave 1t
sheen like the eastern COUSINS snow.
And the Santa Claus Who do you
think was old Santa? Why, great big,
jolly, handsome George w. Barnum,
stage manager of the Belasco theater,
the man who has without trying won
scores of little children's hearts. The
way those little tots crowded around
him and hugged his manly form in its
red and white Santa Claus uniform
would have made matinee girl turn
green with envy. 1t is very probable
that the happy expressions of gratifica-
ton from the little ones was more
pleasant to his ears than the adulation
of theater goers who saw him play
another part in "Old Heidelberg"
At present there are only thirteen pa
tients at the hospital, but many who
had been discharged from the institu-
tion during the past few months came
back to celebrate Christmas day with
them. In ALL thirty children received
presents from their jolly patron saint.
All Receive Presents
Around Christmas time it is not at
>all difficult to get youngster to say
what he wants for Christmas and the
little patients at the hospital are like
other children. For these the manag-
ers of the affair knew what would
please most, but for the sheep who had
left the fold the selection was more
difficult. Books, toys, games, dollies-
the usual run of gifts that have de-
lighted the childish heart for years and
years-made the day happy one for
the little ones.
The night before Christmas thirteen
pairs of little stockings will be hung in
generous profusion, and in spite of the
festivities of yesterday Santa Claus
will again make flying visit to the
home Nand will "come through with
candy, apples and cakes, sufficient to
fill the stockings.
No small share Of the success of yes
terday's celebration was due to little
Miss Bessie Buskirk Possessed of
more resources than the little ones at
the home, this generous young lady of
Is years furnished the Christmas tree,
and, aided by q willing group of little
friends, decorated it Saturday after
noon.
All over the city the same generous
surrender to the Christmas spirit is
characterizing the season, manifesting
itself in large contributions to the va
rious Christmas funds, in gifts to the
newsies on the street, and in special
exercises which are being arranged for
poor children by private individuals.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
Goes Wild with Joy

almost wild with joy I answered the
first signal they made by striking the
side of the pipe. Then came the first
of the code through the pipe. l tore at
the end Of it, and picked the gravel
out OF the slot. l laughed like a loon
and cried like a baby. I shook hands
with Lindsey Hicks and said, "Now,
old sport, If you are game you'll come
out of this all right
1.-THE first food that came down fitted
me exactly. 1t seemed like baby food,
but it was good. Then 1 could talk to
the boys above. DR.. Stinchfield is the
noblest man God ever put breath into,
and Sheppert-how am l ever going to
repay them and those boys who have
labored night and day. hour after hour
to save my unworthy life?
'Is IL unworthy? 1t may have been
only to give Hicks a chance. l was not
put into that mountain or given that
experience for nothing. There must be
purpose in all this.
when i lit my matches and saw the
boulder over my head that match
probably saved my life though it kept
them from rescuing me for several
weeks-I mean days. 1t seemed years.
Pathetic Scene in Hospital
From what saw by the aid of that
match l was able to tell the boys how
to direct the shaft so 1t wouldn't fall
| down and crush me.
Look at that sunlight on those trees.
Look at that valley" said Hicks in an
ecstacy.
The men around the rescued mans
cot saw the glad expression In his eye
and each one turned away TO take
long look across the valley. Every eye
was blinded with tears. and the men
choked back their sobs. Hicks held out
his hands-white and thin for a MIN
er's hands.
The ends of the fingers showed cruel
wounds, the nails were worn on they
tell an awful story, one OF pathos al
most beyond expression.
Those white, bruised, battered hands
| tell more than words, more than the
expression of his face illuminated with
an almost unearthly JOY.
| The miner held out his hands again
and murmured, "Oh, this blessed sun
shlnel God sent this here for me to-
day"
Again the doctors. with years Of ex'
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
MEXICAN CONFESSES ASSAULT
Denies That He Robbed Fellow coun-
tryman, but Says Fight
Occurred

A Mexican, giving his name as Cal
istro Chacon, was arrested last night
by Detectives Talamantes and Rico,
accused of assaulting Atenujenes Avila
at Ord and Main streets about o'clock
Sunday morning. 1t was thought that
Ayila was the victim of a hoidup, as
his head appeared to have been struck
with a blackjack, and he was found
lying on the street unconscious.
Chaeon confesses to assaulting ,Avila,
so the police say, but denied that he
attempted to rob his victim. Accord
ing to his story, he and Avila had be-
come engaged in fight, and during
the trouble he struck Avila on the
head with a rock.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
FAMOUS PRELATE
ADDRESSES PEOPLE
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND TELLS
OF FRENCH SITUATION
Says War ls Not for Separation Of
Church and State, tut for
subIeetion Of Church
by State
Rw Associated press

Rv Associated Press
ST. PAUL Dec 23.-Archbishop Ire.
land in his sermon at the cathedral
this morning spoke on the topic
"Church and State in France" He
spoke in part as follows:
Let not Americans be misled by
words which have q totally different
significance in their land from what
is allowed them in France.
Separation of the church from the
state in America means liberty and
Justice; there it means servitude and
oppression"
Speaking on Friday last to the car
dinals present in the Vatican Plus X
said of the French situation:
I'VE are ready to submit to separa-
tion of the state, but it must be a
fair separation-such as obtains in the
United States, in Brazil, in Great
Britain, in Holand-and not a sub
lection.
mo Catholic in the United States
makes objection to separation, for
there separation means exactly what
1t purports to mean.
Under advice from the head of the
church the bishops of France refused
the associations offered by the law of
separation. They acted from prin-
ciple.
I'm the interest Of religion they
could not approve such associations;
they cannot by tolerating them appear
to approve them. They are not rebels
against the laws of the country.
1.-THE associations, as the minister of
education, M. BRAND himself has de-
clared, were not statutes binding upon
citizens; they were privileges rendered
to the church, which was free to ac-
cept or reject She has rejected them.
hiChnnG lKnnU
consequences that were to follow; the
spirit of the government was not hid
den from their eyes; it was an era of
persecution; but, if no other escape
from persecution were possible than
the acceptance of the law of associa-
tions they were ready to welcome per-
Secution.
"It is a lamentable fact that there
is in France a party bent on the de-
struction of religion. The war is made
on the Catholic church because she
in France represents religion.
"In reality, in intent and in fact,
the war is against Christianity under
any form, against religion of any
kind, against the idea itself of God
reigning over men.
"The old spirit, of Voltaire and the
encyclopedias of the eighteenth CEN
tury never died out in France. 1t had
an outburst of triumph in the revoiu-
tion when God was declared non
existent and infamy itself denoted the
Goddess of Reason, was uplifted to
alteration upon the pillar of the Ca
thedral of Paris.
"It slumbered a while under succeed
ing imperial and royal regimes; it has
reawakened to new vigor in the FREQ
dom allowed to thought and speech by
the present republic.
This party of infidels and atheists
is far from being France as I shall
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
THREE AUTOMOBILES
FOUND BY POLICE

Three automobiles were found by
policemen Saturday and Sunday stand
ing apparently deserted on the street
in the neighborhood of the University
police station. One of them, a Wayne
car, No. 3714 was found at Fifty-flfth
and South Park avenue; touring car
No. 3006 was found on the sidewalk at
gorty-ninth and Moneta avenue; car
No. 6l5S was found at Pico and New
Hampshire. The machines have been
left where they were found and an
effort is being made to locate the own
ers. The police are uncertain whether
the automobiles were stolen and cast
off. or deserted by drunken drivers.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
HICKS PRAYED
FOR RELEASE
MINER RELATES TALE OF
AWFUL ADVENTURE
Bats Ran Over His Face at Night
After Feastine on the Bodies
of His Dead Conn
rades
Continued from Page ohel

I Just had that feeling, To everybody
connected with the work I owe some-
thing more substantial than thanks,
and the best L can do is to say that l
appreciate the efforts that were made
in my behalf. The first fear l had
when - found that 1 was closed in
was that 1 might suffer from the lack
of air When the timbers crashed in a
cloud of dust filled the space and nearly
suffocated me. This dust in my mind,
ccused The death of the two men above
me. 1 heard them struggling franti-
cally for about three hours and / know
their death was caused by strangula-
tion.
"The tobacco was my staff of life I
don't know what l would have done
without it. Every piece of it 1 chewed
made last as long as could, and
when no more could be got out of it
swallowed it. ..
Only Lost Half Pound
1.-The milk was great and it certainly
worked wonders with me. When l
went in the tunnel 1 weighed $50
pounds. Last night 1 tipped the scales
at 1491a l really believe my stomach
is larger than ever before. 1 drank so
llluCl llllhs II ItdCllGu lllt IlS III SpOls
lone disagreeable thing was the
stencil that filled the shaft. The rats
also came close to me and hit some OF
them a number of times in trying to
get them away. I am glad that 1 am
out and am feeling fine"
Hicks is being flooded with offers
from theatrical managers, but as yet
he has not considered them. He will
wait until after Christmas before at Z.
tending to this matter and in all prob
ability will select the best offer.
At Edison camp today work of clear
ing out the caved in drift began and it
will take from four to six weeks before
this is completed. The bodies of the
dead miners will be taken from the
drift as they are reached in the prog
ress made.
The camp presented a very bad ap-
pearance today, but little work aside
from the beginning of the clearing of
the shaft was begun. All workmen
who possibly could be found will be
engaged.
A large number of townspeople drove
to the camp, expecting to view the
scene of the remarkable adventure, but
the miner had vanished and orders pre-
vented outsiders from going to the top
of the hill,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
UNIONS DEFEND
STATES RIGHTS
Resent Presidents Threats
CONTINUED from Page One0
duct of our educational and other state
or municipal affairs and

Resent Presidents Threats
Resolved, That we resent the presi-
dents threats of compulsion by armed
force in a matter clearly within the
purview of municipal and state author
ity as insulting to the state and as an
irtolerable reflection upon it's rights as
sovereign constituent of the United
States; further
Resolved, That we are opposed to
the presidents recommendations that
an act be passed specifically providing
for the naturalization of Japanese and
that the powers of the federal govern
ment be enlarged for the purpose of
subverting the proper authority of this
and other states further
Resolved, That the powers vested in
the federal government by the respec-
tive states are designed for use in pro-
tecting the latter in the exercise of theiI
reserved rights and functions; conse-
quently, any attempt or threat to use
these powers to prevent or obstruct the
freest possible exercise of these rights
and functions must be regarded as an
act of usurpation, menacing the free
dom of the American people, endanger-
ing the stability of American institu-
tions and demanding the strongest pos
sible protest on the part of every
patriotic citizen"
The resolutions declared that Secre.
tary Metcalf's allegation that the Jap
anese and Korean Exclusion league par.
| ticipated in a boycott on the japanese
restaurants lis contrary to fact anC
based chiefly upon a misinterpretatior
of the press reports on the leagues pro-
ceedings."
Continuing the resolution reads:
Denounce MetcaIf's Report
Resolved, That we deny and protes
! against these and other features of Sec
retary Metcalf's report to President
Roosevelt as unjust, untrue and mis-
leading, and be it further
Resolved, That the report of Secre-
! tary Metcalf is utterly unworthy OF
| credence i'm any particular, the sam,
! being an obviously one-sided anC
grossly exaggerated presentation of in
cidents which, so far as they exist a
all, bear no significance to the question
ar issue between the governments o
the United States and of Japan. or be
! tween the state OF California and Presi
dent Roosevelt; further
Resolved, That we hereby express
our lack of confidence i'm Secretary Met
calf as one who having been honoret
and trusted by our citizens has sough
to betray our interests In a matte
vitally affecting the welfare of the pres
ent and future generations with the oh
ject of bolstering up an assault upol
our right as a self-goVerning common
wealth and with intention to justify
blow at the most fundamental principle
of national unity"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24

perience with suffering and death,
turned away. The miners left his side
unable longer to control their feelings.
II have not much more to tell. You
know the story Of the heroism Of the
boys. 1 have thanked every one l could
see, but what are words? The boys
know 1 am grateful. Wouldn't 1 dig
for them! 1 would die for any of them
this minute, but / am not going to;
they don't need that.
81 am going to live for someone and
for some purpose. Give old Hicks a
chance"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
At chIIdrenls hospItal

The little ones at the Children's hos
pital got theirs yesterday. Now nothing
remains but the shouting; and in a
hospital not much of that is permitted.
All the exercises were held yesterday
afternoon. and it was a happy little
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
Plans of Volunteers

The children under the care of the
Volunteers of America will fare equally
well. At the Maud Ballington Booth
home fine big tree has been secured,
"the finest tree in the city," they
proudly declare. Christmas morning
the thirty-two little residents of the
home will gather round the wonderful
tree with it's blazing candles and shiny
gold and silver tinsel, singing their
happiness at the coming of another
Christmas, and exhibiting the little
toys and candy and other gifts the
strange Santa Claus will have depos-
tied in their waiting stockings, hung up
the night before. Dolls and books,
wicked looking Jacks-in- -the-boX, horns
to blow and drums to beat, skates that
will blacken little elbows when the
owners take their first tumbles-with-
out which not even "grown ups" can
learn to roll.
But undoubtedly the biggest feature
of the day will be the Christmas tree.
Not even an engine or q locomotive can
engender i'm the childish heart the en-
thusiasm that tho burning candles and
fresh piney odor Of the tree produce.
Many of the children will attend
other celebrations later in the day. and
for this reason Matron Grassle will
have the exercises in the forenoon.
Tree for Orphans
The festivities at the Los Angeles
orphan asylum will not be held till
Wednesday, At that time the 300 little
ones in the home will have genuine
jollification, which OF course includes a
Christmas tree and Christmas exer-
cises.
Partly by the aid of outsiders pres
ents have been secured for all the little
ones. and the sisters and mother SUI
perior are striving hard to make the
day a merry Christmas" in reality as
well as in name.
The charges range in age from year
and a half to IA, and every one, from
the, littlest babe scarcely out of its
crib TO the biggest boy of the flock, has
been remembered by the jolly saint
who knows so we'll each slight derelic-
ton of lad and lass.
OF course, as at every other chill
dren's home, the "piece de resistance
will be the Christmas tree. Within
sight of its cleaning candles the
younger children will give a Santa
Claus cantata.
At children's Hospital
The little ones at the Children's hos
pital got theirs yesterday. Now nothing
remains but the shouting; and in {
hos pital not much OF that is permitted
All the exercises were held yesterday
| afternoon and IL WAS a haDDy nttl,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24

~ music house IN the southwest that
~ safe The Musical Quality, Everything In
music. Pianos, Pianolas Organs.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
BARNARD PHILOSOPHY

Solemn Goose-What is your opinion
about the race of life?
SorrOwful Turkey-With us 1t is a
neck -and-neck affair.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
The Chase of style

"That uthor writes such running
hand"
"That is probably the reason he has
such flowing style
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24

Then I stopped to listen, too. The
silence was frightful.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-10-01
Cats.


A man Of cats declares 1t is the worst
Of luck for a pet black cat to forsake
your home. A woman Of cats asserts
1t Is the best Of luck. In the middle
ages Satan's favorite form was a black
cat. Witches always have cat as
their familiar-a stray black pussy in
preference. If a white cat races across
your yard a child is going to die. If a
stray cat of any color takes up with
you, making your house it's home, you
will have good buck. Napoleon Bona
parte showed morbid horror of cats.
The night before the battle Of Water
loo black cat passed near him, and
at the sight the great warrior was COM
pletely unnerved. He saw an omen
of defeat. Henry III. of France swoon-
ed whenever he saw a cat, and one of
the Fe"d.nands Of Germany would
tremble in his boots if harmless tabby
got in the line of his vision. Among
the Romans cat was symbol of lib
erty. The . yptians held the animal
In veneration under the name of Aelu-
rus, deity with Il human body and a
cats head. Whoever killed cat, even
by accident. was put to death. Diana
assumed the form Of cat and excited
the fury of the giants.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-10-01
SchIegeI's Praise.

OF the play "Romeo and
Juliet" Seclegel, the German
critic, eloquently remarks:
"Whatever is more intoxicating
in the ordour of a southern
spring, languishing in the song
of the nightingale, or voluptuous
in the first opening of the rose,
is to be found in this poem. The
sweetest and bitterest love and
hatred, festivity and dark fore.
bodings, tender EN- braces and
sepulchres, the fullness of life
and standardization, are all here
brought close to each other; and
all these contrasts are so blended
in the harmonious and wonder.
full work into unity of express.
sion, that the echo which the
whole leaves behind in the mind,
resembles a single but endless
sigh" Bemidji opera house Oct
Is. Flaming of the Schrew Oct
End.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1906-10-01
YellQWtail Eiahin1

There are no "between rounds" no
breathing spells, with the yellowtail
He is fighting for his life desperately,
no quar- ter given nor asked, with an
amazing staying power akin to that
marvellous faculty Of the leaplng tuna.
The angler is far more likely to be
the first one exhausted; the inches of
line gradually granted to the pump
Ing" rod are earned by the sweat of his
brow and the semiparalysis of the BIZ
ceps. s
'Have l got fish, or a devil?" ex-
claimed a weary Englishman after a
half hours work, with Sir Yellovtail
still gamboling at the end of 200 feet
of line. And many have shared his
establishment while catching these
animated galvanic batteries. +. F.. -
That man has lived and lived in
tensely to whose bending rod half
dozen lusty yellowtail have capitulated
in a bright afternoon. May his re
naming history be ever so humdrum
or prosaic, that crisp encounter win
illuminate the dullest moments.-F. L.
Harding in Field and Stream.