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Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17
Why Acknowledged Society Leaders Enan

without much hesitation or ado, broke
off his engagement and rapidly de-
camped from the states back to his own
country, where, as all the world knows,
he did very well for himself Strange
to say, however, the CIR. whom he had
thus brutally forsaken for no fault of
her own, had loved him with all the
romantic and trusting tenderness Of
first love, and the heartless blow in
ficted upon her by his noble and hon
orable lordship was one from which
she never recovered.
Marriage, however Is by no means
the only or even the chief resource In
life of the American woman. She evil
IDENTIFY looks with a certain favor on the
holy estate of matrlmony and Is quite
willing to become an excellent wife and
mother If the lines of her destiny run
that way, but IL they should branch out
in another direction she wastes no time
In useless pining. She Is too vital, too
capable, too intelligent and enegeric al
together to play the role of an interest
ing martyr to male neglect. She will
teach or she will lecture, she will sing
or she will act, she will take her degrees
in medicine and surgery she will prac-
tice for the bar, she will write books!
and the days are fast approaching when
she will become a high priestess Of the
church and will preach to the lost sheep
of Israel a we'll as to the equally lost
ones of New York or Chicago; she will
be q beauty doctor" physical cul-
ture" woman, medium" a stock
broker and palmist florist, a house
decorator, a dealer in lace and old curl
osities; aye, she will even become a
street car conductor IL necessity COM
pels and the situation is open to her,
and she will manage a cattle ranch as
easily as household should opportun-
ity arise. Marriage is but one link In
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17
Castro's Visit to Jamestown
BY Charles Frederick stansbury

BY Charles Frederick Stansbury
MOT the least picturesque character
N that will visit the jamestown ex-
position, near Norfolk. Va, next
year is President Cipriano Castro of
Venezuela, who has signified to a per-
sonal friend his intention of paying a
visit to the Hampton Roads celebration
in 1907.
President Castro will arrive in his
famous yacht the Restaurador, which
has cost up to date about $3,000,0OO and
is surpassed in beauty and luxuriance
only by the royal yacht of Great Brit
ain, the Victoria and Albert, which is
known to have cost $6.000,000 and is the
finest yacht ever built. The history of
the Restaurador is as follows: As the
Atalanta 1t was built by the late Jay
Gould. being the most costly yacht on
record. with the exception Of the one
above mentioned On the death of Mr..
Gould it passed to his son George BY
him 1t was sold to the United States
government for use in the Spanish war.
After the war was over 1t was said
to have been rebought by Mr.. Gould,
who again sold It, this time to Vene-
zuela, whereupon II was rechristened
the Restaurador, equipped with arma-
ment and fittings and used during the
rebellion of 190l1902. Nearly Sl,000,000
was recently spent on refurnishing the
yacht at the Cramps yard at Phila-
delphia, and the Resta urador is today
a perfect dream of luxury and beauty.
AS such she will be i'm good company
at Hampton Roads. where many of the
famous yachts OF the world will con-
gregate next year.
President Castro feels that he has
earned a vacation for rest and recrea-
tion after years of arduous toll ana
struggle. Few public men have lived in
such a state Of turmoil as ne. He be-
lieyes that he has been much misrep-
resented, and Is anxious 10 get better
acquainted with the American people
and show them that he is something
more than a mere disturber of the
peace of nations Having succeeded I'm
holding his own on all propositions con-
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17
John and a Ride ON the Cars

his rights and privileges that we just
drop every blessed thing and hustle
around to do what he says. Yes, we
know that John is a fierce, selfish
tyrant and that he ought TO be in dog
heaven and all that. but maybe when
you hear me tell about John holding
up the whole Salt Lake railroad you
will do as other folks-think heap and
say nothing
Maybe John was homesick. or he
might have thought that a beach town
was no place for a self respecting dog;
anyway, one day when we were out
in the shipyard, John at our heels, we
suddenly missed him. That was the
last of John for twenty-four hours.
Then we got telephone message
from Los Angeles:
John is here. What Is the mat ter?"
Well of course we went right up TO
see about it. Ard as 1t happened we
went with the very conductor that
John did and he told us all about it.
He said when the train was ready 10
start he saw a little black dog reared
upon the red plush seat looking out Of
the window. He told him to come out
OF that but the dog looked so wise and
he thought somebody on the train
would claim him, so he passed him by
plush seat all the way to Los Angeles
and never cracked a smile.
Maybe he took a trolley car when he
got to the city-nobody knows. But II
is a matter Of forty good blocks out TO
daughter Polly's. and John got there
in first rate order and with a spanking
good appetite for his dinner.
But of all the funny things to see
that dog when we walked in. Landsl
That was the funniest sight 1 ever
saw. He wanted to tell us all about
1t. and he made a curious kind of a
bowling whimper and hammered the
floor with his tail and took on so that
we all nearly had the Mysteries.
John is a famous dog now, but he
was glad to get home again and he has
not repeated the trip, so we think he
had enough. And II Is a smart dog
that knows when 1t is time to quit.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17
An Edict Against an American Novel

solid gold. if you had only the manners
to wait until my speech finished had.
but now it is for you three and twenty"
II from Missouri ann was the reply
of the brave lad, 'and to me must be
an exhibition made"
II no trouble seek" answered our
hero, but presently 1 shall hand you
a citron of Sicily, which you shall have
for keeping"
Stella, the Queen of the Lariat, had
meanwhile not in idleness been. Her
maiden aunt, who had three miles to
the rear in a chuck wagon been, rode
up with great fastness and with pair
of scissors the ropes which Stella bound
had cut had.
Soak him, my dear niece" said the
aged aunt of the brave Stella, Il will to
this little truncated human pyramid
we'll attend"
She then small Ten Ich quickly
seized and with rapidness stepped on
him. Stella was entirely to the good.
Six times around the waist of One
Eyed Bill her moose she netted and then
roped him up as though he a steer re-
sembled, for when it came to cattle
Stella certainly in her element was.
Hardly had she this wonderful feat
performed when on the great plain one
saw assuredly a speck with swiftness
altogether moving.
1t was a solitary horseman quite by
himself yet Soon he to Stella ap-
preached and looked hard into the
face of her captive.
jumping sand hills" exclaimed One
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17
n. Lepine, the Champion Riot KILLER

mob was pushing up against the police
lines, and had begun to look nasty. The
police, who had been fairly rough all
day, were losing their tempers alto
gether. Then an electric landaulet
whizzed up, and before it had stopped
M. Lepine, in his black frock coat and
top hat, was out of it and In among the
crowd.
He did not say much. He just
glanced round him with those quick
seeing brown eyes of his, and smiled.
"Calm is what should recommend" he
said. there must be a few Of you
whose consciences are not quite clear,
and If my men arrest any of these,
well"-
And the crowd yelled, "vive Lepine!"
Trained as a Lawyer
Louis Lepine was born in Lyons,
where the best police in the whole of
France are to be found. He was born
there in 1886, and educated for the legal
profession. He passed his examina-
tions, and was called to the bar, but he
never practiced, preferring to enter the
republican administration.
After five years as secretary to the
prefecture, M. Lepine became police
prefect in 1893, and has practically re-
mained in the position ever since, for
the small interregnum while he was
governor Of Algeria is hardly worth
more than passing mention.
M. Lepine was far too strict COVER
nor to prove popular in Algeria. AL
geria was disorderly province, and
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Eyed Bill, where have seen you be-
fore?"
II am Nick Carter, the detective"
was the rply of that person. "Sir Will
liam Cavendish Singlelamp, at last
you l discovered have. This brave girl
shall also the great reward offered by
the Scotch Garden possess"
Just then from the bottom of the
precipice there came faint cry.
Excuse me, gentlemen" said Stella.
TITS been my busy day for roping and
tying and l plum forgot
Curse him." said One Eyed Bill, II
hope he breaks his neck, base eater of
prunes."
Stella then the greatest rope hurler
of all made. Over the precipice in the
grass plain she leaned, threw the moose
about the projecting crag and brought
it quickly up TO the level. Hanging to
it, unconscious, was none other than
Ted, the King of the Wild West.
Truly a near summons" said Nick
Carter, "but well done, my boy, well
done"
'I amt for trouble looking" replied
Ted in his stage dialect, but when it
comes it gets the best in me battery"
With a groan like an OK in the sham
bles One Eyed Bill sank to the ground.
"Galloping gazelles," cried Bud. this
here's as easy yet is as fish in barrel
shooting
Come, men, back to the herd" cried
Ted, the Wild West King. Mick Car
ter, who never fails, has again his man
found. Let us go hence, where some
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17

the long chain Of herSgeneral efficiency,
and, like Cleopatra, "age cannot wlther
her nor custom stale her infinite
variety"
A curious fact and one worth noting
Is that we seldom or never hear Amer
leans use the ll-bred expression "old
maid" when aludlng to such Of their
feminine relatives or friends who may
happen to remain unma rried. They
know too well that these confirmed and
settled spinsters are as capable and as
well to the front in the rush of life as
the welded wives If not more so. They
know that among these unmarried
feminine forces they have to reckon
with some of the cleverest heads Of the
day to whom no opprobrious term Of
contempt dare be applied, women who
are editors and proprietors Of great
newspapers, women who manage fam
Gus schools and colleges; women who,
being left with large fortunes, dispense
the same I'm magniflcently organized
but una dvertised charities: women who
do so command by their unassisted in
huence certain social movements and
events that If, indeed, they were to
marry something like confusion and
catastrophe might ensue among the
circles they control by the introduction
of new and possibly undesirable ele-
ment. "Old maid" may apply to the
unfortunate female who has passed all
the days of her youth in talking about
men and in failing to catch so much as
one of the wandering tribe, and who,
on arriving at forty years. meekly re-
tires to the chimney corner with a shawl
over her shoulders and some useful
knitting, but 1t carries neither meaning
nor application to the brisk, brilliant
American spinster who at fifty keeps
her trim svelte figure, dresses WELL goes
here, there and everywhere and sheds
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17

less that Mother Britannia is perforce
compelled to smile indulgently and to
open all her social picture books for the
pleasure Of the spoiled child of eternal
Mayhower pedigree.
II has to be said, and frankly adj
mitted. too. that much Of the popular
ity attending an American girl when
she first comes over to London for a
season" is due to an idea which the
stolid Brittisher gets into his head
namely, that she has, and must have,
money The American girl and money
are twins, according to the stolid Brit
isher's belief.
She may have thousands, she may
have millions, he can never be quite
sure. And he does all he can to ingra-
tiate himself with her and give her a
good time "on spec" to begin with
while he makes cautious and diplo-
matte inquiries. If his hopes rest on
firm basis, his attentions are re-
doubled; If, on the contrary, they are
built on shifting sand he gradually
diminishes his ardor, and like a
whiting flower" fades and "fizzles"
away.
am here reminded Of a certain earl,
renowned in the political and social
world, who, when young man, went
over on visit to America and there
fell or feigned to fall deeply in love
with very sweet. very beautiful, very
gentle and lovable American girl. In
a brief while he became engaged to her.
The engagement was made public; the
wedding day was almost fixed. The
girls father was extremely wealthy,
and she was his only child and sole
heiress. But an unfortunate failure,
a gigantic collapse in the money mar
ket, made havoc of the fathers for
tunes, and as soon as his ruin was de-
cleared beyond a doubt the noble earl,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17

The old lady was quite serious, quite
in earnest; 1t was a question she had
wished answered ever since she was a
little girl, and now-well, perhaps she
could get her answer at last. Her rea-
son? Yes, she would tell the reason,
which she did in the following words:
when / was a little maid the rector
of - was a terrible fine preacher,
for sure. When he did come to preach
at our church, glad enough we was, 1
reckon. Now the pulpit was girt
high place as big as you ever did so,
and passn used to go up the steps
wearing his spurs. just as he had ridden
over, and a girt gowned. One day,
when 1 was in the front seat just by
the foot of the pulpit stairs, Pass'n -
was to praich. UP the steps a went, as
fine figure of man as ever did see;
but when raiched the top step the
spur did catch in his gownd and down
a fell topsy-turvy like. Well, sir, l
du assure you twas a proper mux up.
You couldn't see pass'n for the gownd
that had rolled round and round 'un.
by and by his spur did tear a hole,
where he did kick and scrummage, and
don't know for sure, but 1 thought as
out of thiccy hole there come word a
pass'n shouldn't say."-London Mail.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17

He gave out his text boldly, as 1t was
printed, Proverbs xvii, 90" A look of
interest came over the faces of the
young ladies of the congregation.
The preacher repeated the reference
in sonorous tones and then looked at bis
Rible to read it out. The interest was
explained; the words confronting him
were "Whoso findeth a wife, findeth a
good thing''--a bold subject to choose
for a first sermon! Now that book is
still in print, the error still remains
and if young clergymen would avoid
raising false hopes they had better
verify their texts.
The disconcerting incidents of clerical
life. however. are not confined to SER
vices in church. A few years ago a
clergyman of very solemn aspect and
most serious intentions was ministering
to one whom we will call Jones, who lay
upon sickbed seriously i'll.
Now. Jones had not been model
character, and the parson knew it. 1t
was clearly necessary to bring Jones to
a repentant frame of mind, but it was
equally clear that the sick man did not
intend to give himself away" At last
he replied to his spiritual adviser:
Nov, look ere, sir; l tell e straight
amt got sin on my mind"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17
BY Mrs. X.

BY Mrs. 4.
Vt happened a month ago, but we
haven't got done laughing about it
yet. 1 guess John would laugh, too.
if he could.
You see. John is a dog-a very fat,
ugly. black, little, cross, old dog. And
Johns neck would have been wrung
long ago but he is a sort of a keepsake
in the family-mother's old dog he
was, and when she died why we just
couldn't bear to give him a cross word
nor deny him a thing, and, man or
dog, that soon spoils the best of EN-
So John hasn't a thing to do but to
curl up on the red plush sofa and growl
at callers when he is not outside getting
up fights with peaceable dogs passing
along or chasing the hens across the
flower beds.
We have always lived in Los Angeles
and my daughter lived across the
street, so John had two homes, and
whenever ! went from home John
always went over to Polly's house and
made as much trouble as he could, but
a 1t was John nobody could do thing!
But we took a notion to move to San
Pedro, and that is the first time John
ever saw the Pacific ocean. But good
landl from his oVerbearing demeanor
you might have thought he had seen
the whole world
We took him to San Pedro in buggy,
and If ever a dog knew more than his
master or anybody else about every
thing along the road that dog was
John. / reckon he must have got out
OF that buggy a half million times.
and every time he got out he made such
big circuits prospecting around and
trailing up clouds of dust you would
have thought new railroad was being
surveyed and staked off
John don't need 10 say words like
Poll parrot. He just looks 'em. I've
seen that dog when every separate hair
on his body seemed like II had word
on the end of ~
Sometimes John looks SO wise and
knowing and gets SO excited explaining
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17

she let's people know that she knows
things. She cannot sit with her hands
before her In stodgy silence, letting
other folks talk. That is an English
habit. No doubt the English girl or
woman knows quite as much as her
American sister, but she has an un-
happy knack of assuming to be a fool.
She says little, and that little not to
much purpose-she looks less. It is
dimly understood that she plays hook
ey tennis and golf and has large feet.
She is an athletic enigma. I write this,
of course, solely concerning those Brit
ish women-young, midle-aged and
elderly-who make sport" and outdoor
exercise the chief aim and end Of ex
istence, but | yield to none In my love
and admiration for the real, genuine.
unmodernlzed English maiden at her
gentlest and best-she is the rosebud
of the world. And l tender devout rev.
erence and affection to the unfashon-
able. simple hearted dear, loving and
overbeloved English wife and mother
she is the rose in all its full blown
glory.
Unfortunately, however, these Eng
lish rosebuds and roses are seldom seen
in the sweltering, scrambling crowd
called society" They dwell in quiet
country places where the lovely in
fluences Of their modest and retiring
lives are felt, but never seen. Society
likes to be seen rather than felt. There
is all the difference. And in that par
ticular section of 1t whose aim is see
ing to be seen, and seen to be seeing,
the American woman is as an oasis in
the desert. She also wants to be seen,
but she expresses that desire so naively
and often so bewitchingly that 1t Is a
satisfaction to every one to grant her
request. She also would see, and her
eyes are so bright and rowing and rest
Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-17

monster-like, the holocaust Of an
American virgin provided bags of bull
lion are flung with her into his capa-
cious NAV, though certainly one
should look upon the frequent mar
riages of American heiresses with ef-
fete British mobiles as the carrying out
of a wise and timely dispensation Of
providence. New blood, fresh sap Is
sorely needed to invlgorate the grand
old tree of the British aristocracy,
which has Of late been looking sadly
as though dry rot were setting In, as
though the wood lice were at work in
its hearts and the rats burrowing holes
at its root; but, thanks to the impor-
tation of a few clean minded sweet
souled American women, some of the
most decayed places I'm the venerable
stem have been purged and purified,
the sap has risen and new boughs and
buds of promise are sprouting. And
IL is full time that this should be. For
we have had to look with shame and
regret upon many of our English lords
caught in the gambling dens and shown
UP in dishonorable bankruptcies; some
of them have disported themselves
upon the variety" stage, clad in wo-
mems petticoats and singing comic
songs for a fee; others have "hired
themselves OUT as dummy figures of
attraction at evening parties, accept
ing five guineas for each appearance,
and they have become painfully famil-
lar objects in the divorce court.
But, reVenons a nos moutons-the So
cial popularity of the American woman
in English society. That this Is popu-
lar is an admitted and incontestable
fact. She competes with the native
British female product at every turn
in her dress, in her ways, in her ir-
resistible vivacity, and, above all, in her
intelligence. When she knows things
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The clergyman looked at Jones
searchingly. II wish l could say that,
but l am afarid l can't he observed
solemnly. Jones viewed him with new
interest. "Ah! shouldn't wonder" he
remarked after pause, ''you be out
and about, but here be 1; what can
l do?"
One more sickbed reminiscence to il
lustrate a parsons perplexity. A GER
tain ancient dame in a country village
had listened, during a long period of
illness, to the exhortations of her vicar
She was devout and attentive but
hinted more than once that she had
something on her mind.
There was a question she wished to
ask. She hoped to have 1t answered
before she died, but she wasn't quite
sure whether the vicar could do so.
1t was quite clear from the clergy
mans encouraging manner that
whether he could or not he meant to
try, but when the question came 1t was
a little sconcerting-"Ought pass'ns
to swear?'
Anxious to gain fuller knowledge of
the reasons behind this extraordinary
question the vicar inquired why she
asked it.
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say that not one of the many portraits
published of his grace gives the
slightest approximation of the ex-
preston his face wore.
There is the possibility of going to
the other extreme and not being pre-
pared when the moment comes. In a
church not many miles from the one
last mentioned a very nervous curate
stepped out to read a lesson.
The place was not found; the lesson
was from the Lamentations" so short
a book that it is very easy for a nerv-
Gus man turning the pages rapidly to
miss it altogether. He did miss it
badly-and every fresh miss added to
his CONSERVATION and to the panied in
tensity of the silence.
The vicar came to the rescue by find
ing the place in a small Bible and
handing it to the curate but by that
time the poor man was reduced to such
a state that he could not utter a word.
OF course parsons suffer from night
mare. Who wouldn't under the circum-
stances?
There is a certain much advertised
volume of excellent outline sermons
which a certain young clergyman. dis
trustful of his own resources, deter
mined to use.
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A PARSONS nightmare (when he
II is unfortunate enough to suffer
from one) generally takes the
same form-a crowded church, an ex
pectant congregation and the unhappy
dreamer striving, in a perfect frenzy,
to make sense of a hopeless rigmarole
which ought to be his sermon. but is
not.
Every clergyman has experienced
such episodes. Even the archbishop of
Canterbury himself has not escaped.
Probably, amid all the many incidents
of his grace's life, he remembers one
Sunday, some years ago, when he was
preaching at Twickenham.
In. addition to the sermon, the dean
of Windsor (as he then was) had the
first lesson assigned to him. He stepped
to the lectern to read it. A panied ex
preston of suspense was visible
throughout the congregation; some
thing was wrong.
The psalm ended, the deans mouth
was in the very act of forming the
oIening sentence. Here beginneth."
when-another psalm was commenced
by the organist.
The future archbishop had been
little premature, and it is quite safe to