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Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-30
Handicapped

The Doctor-The medicine / left for
you doesn't seem to have had the de-
sired effect. Have you taken it regu-
larly?
The Patient Ga poet)-As regularly as
I could. doctor You said I should
take it after each meal.-Chicaso News.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-30
London Women's New Walk

London women have a new walk.
The chin is held high and the head
is turned over the left or right shoulder.
one hand grasping the skirt. 1t is ad-
visable to give the new walk a wide
berth, as the walker moves sideways.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-30
Old Mating

Mating, such as is used for screens.
becomes both useful and ornamental
when tackled on the wall behind the
kitchen stove. 1t can be washed and
keeps the grease from soiling the walls.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-30
Twilight MusicaIes

Twilight musicales" are a Chicago
fad, the entertainments occurring from
to I, and very inconvenient are such
hours unless the dinner hour is very
late. Morning musicales are very much
more popular in st. Louis.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-30
Garden Party


The scene was q Shriners garden
party The chorus marched upon the
stage in uniform and announced Il
Want to Be a Military Man" Walter
Goldsmith was there in the parsonage
of Willie Lookout, he who is Johnny
on the spot, and assisting him were
Dick Spinach, a wiseacre, in the person
of w. ]. Chick, Robert Doolittle, and
he who knows as Mr.. Walker knows.
National Airs
Among those who were hailed were
Minty Mix, a regular Gross of Gold"
who in everyday life is none other than
Louis Schwaebe; Don a Paloma FIRE.
joles, Mexican ranchero of dashing ap-
pearance, sometimes allied with Frank
Bryson Mons. Absinthe Frappe, a
French noaccount, otherwise Mr..
Spruance; Herr Lieutenant Muncher
Hof Brau, one of the kaiser's finest,
alias Robert Wankowski; John Bull,
esq.,, looking up his allies, commonly
called Francis B. Parker; Colonel viii
B. Darned, a Carolina planter, in the
shape of Oscar Lawler, and last but not
least, the real and original Columbia,
the Gem of the Ocean. w. S. Kingsbury
was accorded the honor of representing
this fair lady of the land and he was
really a presentable miss, adorned as
he was with a blonde wig and the other
necessaries.
AS each distinguished guest was
greeted there was an exchange of jokes
and the chorus contributed the national
air of the country from whence the Wis
itor came. Mr.. Lawler announced that
sometimes he is so funny he makes
himself laugh and also that he was not
in humorous mood. He then pro-
ceeded to demonstrate the truth of his
statements with a series of jokes.
Whiskers are really quite an addition
to the youthful lawyer and one might al
most be tempted to suggest that he
wear them all the time, if one could
only be sure they would be like those
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-30
Charcoal for the Breath

Charcoal taken after smoking or eat
ing odorous vegetables will sweeten the
breath.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-30
Newest Idea in Pocketbooks

Some of the new pocketbooks are
really too pretty to be carried, except
upon state occasions. A Broadway store
shows a handsome handbag of pale
green "undressed alligator skin," which
is lined with pompadour satin and has
the daintiest gold pencil, gilt-edged
notebook and a pretty gilt-edged
mirror Its price is quite in keeping
with its dainty appointments.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-30
"Shame on You"

Mr.. Bryson and the other men in red
were not on the best OF terms and the
former explained his feeling in a song
Shame on You" The gentlemen of
the French court all Joined in with
the shame on You" until the girls in
the audience could not help feeling
sorry for the poor disgraced boy
There were other darkies, bones and
tambos, John H. Nightingale, VIII
liam z. Oliver. David Martin and Dr.
W. Albert Smith, but they were only
a very few of the funmakers.
There was F. B. McComas, who eX-
pounded the Wonders of the Deep
in voice that was pleasantly sugges-
tive; J. D. Walker who sang The
Island of Dreams;" w. j. Chick with
his offering of Gypsy John" and the
Shrine quartet. The Shrine quartet is
something of which the Shrine may
we'll be proud. Jackson Gregg, j. D.
Walker, F. B. McComas and William
Chick all use their voice for the ben
eft of the Arab patrol.
The specialties came neXt-Sheads
and Wunderlich in mandolin and
guitar. either banjo cello and banjor-
inc selections; Walter Goldsmith in
humorous songs Brothers Espe, the
champion tumblers. acrobats and
equilibrists, and the Incompatible Foss
in novelty and artistic club swinging.
This is the way the bill announced
them and they were not slow to live
up to their regulations. Mr.. Goldsmith
has established himself forever in the
eyes of Angelenos.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-30

paper pattern of this garment can
and directing it to The Herald's pat
tern department. 1t will be sent post
paid, within three days, on receipt of
nrice
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-30
Women Sing, Too

Time after time he was recalled to
give encores to his humorous songs.
Everybody join in the chorus;
everybody, now come on" he said
when he had told of My Merry Olds-
mobile many times more than once.
and everybody did. From all over the
house the men began to whistle the
refrain. Mr., Goldsmith was not salts
fed.
You, too, mothers, you sing" and
sure enough, mother was prevailed
upon and a faint humming chorus of
women's voices joined the song.
Then and then only did the women
have chance to prove their presence,
but they We're there all right and in
their most becoming gowns.
after ALL" one woman said, and
she voiced the sentiments of her sis
ters. I'VE might as well be generous
and allow them everything for one
night"
The closing feature Of the show was
an original musical absurdity Hail
ing the Nations"
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-05-18

given my infant son to my younger
brother James, who will bring up
my son as his own.
Thus it may come to pass that the
descendants of Nigel, my son, may be
passed over in the right of succession
by the descendants of Richard, the
eldest son of my younger brother
James, who stands well in the eye of
Cromwell the regicide and renegade.
And that this be true, and that
Nigel, supposed younger son of James
kingscote, of kingscote Manor, be
really the eldest son of Nigel Kings
cote, eldest son of A1aric Kingscote,
father of Nigel and James and there
fore heir to the Manor of Kingscote.
its hereditaments, messuages, and all
that do thereto appertain, and his
seed hereafter him, if so be there
should be any, do most solemnly
swear and protest in the presence of
witnesses. To which | do set my
hand and seal this sixteenth day of
March, one thousand six hundred AMI
forty-seven.
Signed: Nigel Kingscote, in the
presence of Rupert Mainwaring.
knight Banneret of Mainwaring Hall,
in the County of Berkshire, and
Anselm Wolf, Priest"
The parchment fiutteTed crisply
from the girls nerveless hands.
"Damaris." cried Alaric hoarsely-
'Damaris!" Coherent speech he could
not find.
The girl raised her head.
ut is true-It is true!" she said
brokenly I'VE. father and I. are the
usurpers! Kingscote Manor is yours,
and we are-paupers,"
mot paupers, dearest, but partners,
answered Alaric, and in his eyes there
was that which told her how Kingscote
love stood wind and weather as
steadily as Kingscote Oak.
Squire Kingscote now sleeps with
his fathers in the little Berkshire
churchyard But ere he died his de-
clining years were frightened by the
generous forgiveness of 'fthe undesir-
able poor relation"
A young and sturdy sapling oak now
fourishes on the spot where stood
the ancient tree true symbol of the
lasting power of Kingscote luck and
Kingscote love-Answers.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-05-18

In prehistoric days Vesuvius was
probably twice as high, the top having
been blown OFF centuries before the
eruption that destroyed Pompeii. Since
the year 1881 Vesuvius has never been
wholly at rest. In that year $4,000 lives
were lost. The clouds of steam that
came from the rush of water into the
hot mass below the surface condensed
and fell in boiling rain that scorched
everything with which it came in con-
tact. The very sea drew back the skirts
of its dark blue robe and then swept
forward again far beyond its old limits,
The last of the great conyulsiOns be-
fore the recent one occurred in 1872
Then, like this one, there was great
lava flow, together with throwing up Of
burning rock and the fall of ashes upon
the surrounding country.
Vesuvius is one of a group of similar
mountains in the Mediterranean Sea,
its comrades being -Etna, Stromboli
and Vultano, which last gave the name
to all mountains of this kind. That, in
turn, was called after Vulcan, the god
who made the armor for the fighting
deities of the ancient world and forged
the very thunderbolts of Joye himself
His workshop was under Mount tEtna
There the inhabitants Of the hillsideA
heard him shaping great masses Oh
iron with his terrible hammer stroke
while the nameless slaves of the forge,
dimly imagined creatures of that old
day, blew the gigantic bellows and held
great bars in place, while the master
worked. The Greeks with even their
learning did not inquire into the scieu-
tific reasons for the mighty utteriuss
OF the mountain; they knew what the
awful roar of those volcanic mountains
meant. And our wise men, with their
figures and books, know little OF what
is going on in the fiery caverns under
the earth's thin crust
Nature soon heals her scars. Al
ready, we are told in dispatches, spots
Of green have appeared on the black
ened sides of Mount Pelee, and 1t will
not be very long before the olive and
the vine and the clustering villages
will find their way back again to the
slopes of Vesuyius.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-05-18
TO RENEW OLD MISSION.
San Juan Capistrano VIII Live Again
After Long Years of Silence.

All who have heard of the picturesque
old Franciscan Missions of California
will be interested TO learn that San
Juan Capistrano, the most poetic of all
these ruined structures, which contrib
ute so much to the foreign look OF ''our
Italy" is soon again to be made the
centre of religious activity, and that
after nearly a century of neglect its
buildings are to be restored to their
original estate.
This mission is on the railway line
between Los Angeles and san Diego
and by reason of being visible from
the railroad is TO Eastern travellers per
haps the best known of all California
missions. except Santa Barbara and
San Gabriel. which are among the
regulation sights for visitors to South
ern California. With the restoration
of san Juan Capistrano and the re
sumption of residence there by the
Franciscan Brotherhood, it, too. will
no doubt soon become a tourist resort
The first year of the American In
dependence saw work begun upon this
ancient cdifice in what was then vast
wilderness. inhabited only by Indians.
The site is in lovely, sequestered val
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-05-18
Smoke Two-Miles High.

IAN enormous volume of black smoke
rises to a height OF two miles above
the crater" he wrote. ''lncandescent
masses of stone are thrown up 5000
feet. A continuous southeasterly wind
carries the ashes over Naples. which
is so completely enveloped in darkness
that for three days our communications
by sea have been cut of.
"Fissures have opened far below the
cone, emitting many streams OF lava,
one of which has completely destroyed
the town of BoscotreCase. which mad
10 600 inhabitants. Another has reached
the outskirts OF Tore del Greco. others
have destroyed thousands of acres OF
fertile cultivated land with farmhouses
and stock.
The great cone of Vesuvius col
lapsed with awful laundering and
flames, and the cable railway, the OBJ
servatory and the large hotel near 1t
were ali totally destroyed. The lava
carried vast masses of burnt stone and
sulphur on its surface like dross on
melted lead. and nothing was visible
toward Boscotrecase but endless acres
of dark scoriae. broken here and there
by the greenish curling smoke OF SUI
phur.
AT one point We found great pine
tree. torn up by its roots and turned
to black charcoal; the air was almost
unbreathable; the heat intense. Inc
faces of the people who crowded upon
the edge of the arrested stream eN-
pressed terror OF exhaustion from re-
cent panic.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-05-18
THE LOVE OF ALARIC.

Beneath the outflung branches of a
mighty oak tree, a giant who had
stood sentinel in that lonely dip on
the wOlds for twice three hundred
years, two men were standing, their
figures made more or less distinct by
the rays of a big. Couical lantern Of
antique pattern that the elder OF the
TWO carried in his gHarlcd and blood
less fingers, n figure strangely akin
to the giant tree beneath which he
stood.
An aged man was Zachary Doy, his
back bent by years of hard labor such
as few of the modern generation OF la
borers know; u man who had been an
experienced farmland while the man
beside him, his master, was still d
pulling infant.
The old fellow set down his lantern
on the iron-bound earth. His quaver-
ing voice stabbed the silence. Nov.
do zee harken unto me, Master Alaric. 20
he said slowly I've served zee faith
full, you and your feyther afore 'ee,
for nigh on fifty year, and | tell zee
master, that what zee do purpose for
to do is again all right and reason
This yere oak tree-the kngscote
Oak, as all the countryside do know
her for to be-ha' bin here as a land
mark and a pride for longer than us
poor souls can reckon. To cut her
down do mean, as | be right well as
sured, that Kingscote luck will fail
wi un. If so be"
Alaric Kingscote broke in upon his
garrulity with forced laugh.
IF Kingscote luck could fall lower
than it has, Zachary" he said bitterly,
you need have little fear that I
would touch bark with axe. Now, hear
me, old friend This tree represents
the last thing upon the farm that can
bring in the money | must have to
tide over the bad times in store. The
merchants have offered me two hun
dred pounds for the tree. There's only
one rotten limb upon it. They II
come tomorrow with their carts and
| take It away" He laid his hand upon
| the old mans shoulder, Get you
home to bed, Zachary" he added gent.
| ~. you can do nothing here. rs
o'clock now. By midnight, with
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-05-18
TO RENOVATE WICKER
CHAIRS.

To renovate n shabby wicker chair
first cleanse the wicker thoroughly, us
ing a scrubbing brush and plenty of
soap and water. When dry, the chair
can be vanished, or it can be greatly
improved with coating or two of
green stain.
For the seat make a cushion of green
linen or a pretty greenish cretonne.
Another cushion for the back may be
liked, and is easily made. Make it of
the same material as the seat cushion
and of bag shape. longer than wide
It may be fastened to the chair by
means OF tapes sewed at the top and
bottom.
If a loose cushion be preferred, a
pretty yellow linen would look nice
and contrast well with the green.
Make the case slip fashion, so that it
can be easily washed An unbleached
calico bag will be good enough for the
down with which the cushions are
filled.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-05-18
THB YRSUVIAN TERROR.
Vivid Description of Great Erup-
ton Which Rivals Pom
peii's Destruction.
The Famous Italian Novelist, Marion
Crawford, Tells of the Terrors of
the Big Volcano-tiistory of For
mer EruptionS.

The whole world looked on, awe
struck, at the recent fierce outbreak OF
stupendous and devastating force in
the Bay of Naples. The eruption OF
Mount Vesuyius is believed to be the
most destructive since the days of Pom
peii. A D., 20.
The whole story OF the eruption OF
1906 is a sorrowful tale OF stricken vic
tins. devastated vineyards, ruined
homes and terror-stricken, flying peo-
pie. and il is hard to realize that the
same scenes have been enacted there 30
many times before.
Pliny, the noted ancient historian
described the eruption of Nesuyius in
the year 49, in series of letters to
Tacitus This letter described dark
cloud rising in a single pillar from the
crater of the mountain and from this
column spread and upon it rested
a great roof, built by invisible carpen-
ters. Resting ever on its single pillar
like a great mushroom, this roof shut
out the sky from all those wide acres
extending sixteen miles away The
light ashes Of the fire from Nesuvius
descended like snow upon Pompeii
buryinE 1t to great depths. Hercu-
laneum was drowned in u sea Of vol
canic mud.
Those who have read the letters Of
Pliny find similarity in the. description
written by the noted novelist, Marion
Crawford. There is probably no other
American living who is so well ac-
quaintcd with conditions as they exist
in Italy. He has taken up his per
manent abode in the Italian hills. The
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-05-18

so many years. He never once looked
back. For few seconds Alaric King.
scote stood looking after him, then.
with a strangely fierce gesture, the
Young fellow flung off his rough tweed
coat, removed the Cardigan waistcoat
that covered the breadth of his chest,
and turned up the sleeves of his
coarse flannel shirt.
At the foot of the oak lay the wood.
mans huge axe that was to be the in
strument of death. that was to cut
short the growth of centuries.
Alaric Kingscote swung the great
weapon aloft, and the cold starlight
ran along the shining steel. Like
some Viking warrior of old-like the
embodiment of one of his Saxon
fOrebears, Alaric brought down the
tool of destruction with a blow that
gashed deep into the corrugated skin
Of the oak. The doom of the Kingscote
Oak had been proclaimed.
AS he stood braced up for the second
stroke, the bulging sinews of his fore
arm responding to the generous rise
If chest and thigh muscles, curious
sound from behind him caused him
TO swing round with faint cry. Then
be lowered the axe with amazing gen.
ueness.
Another figure had appeared upon
the scene-the figure of woman, clad
in cloak of fur that hid the contour
of her form.
"Damaris." The word fell from the
young mans lips like a caress.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-05-18

luck. the Kingscote Oak will be down.
The old fellow looked wistfully in
to the handsome face of his young
master.
Master Alaric," he said hoarsely
I've fifty-five pun, three shillin' and
fi'pence 'apenny laid away in hole
in the floor omy cottage. If so be as
thatn save the Kingscote Oak,
why
GO home with you Zachary" Broke
in the young man roughly, though his
roughness hid an emotion almost too
deep for any words-"Go home, and
God bless you, old friend
Zachary thrust his roughened hand
across his eyes. Without another
word, strangely pathetic, bowed old
figure, he turned and shambled off
across the field toward the stile into
the lane that led to the little matched
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-05-18
THE OLD WELL IN THE COURTYARD.

for twenty-five years longer, no at
tempt seems TO have been made by the
padres TO restore the church edifice,
and it and its adjoining buildings and
cloisters have remained 10 this day an
imposing and beautiful ruin. Touched
gently by Times hand dignified in out
line and rich in color, it is replete with
subjects for the artist and is the ad
miration of every traveller. With the
restoration OF the buildings the in
tentiun is to create here college for
the priesthood as at Santa Barbara.
and TO make of san Juan Capistrano
an important factor in the work of the
Roman Catholic Church in Southern
California.
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-05-18

ley which. beginning back in the can
yons of the coast range, winds among
grassy knobs and great treeless hills
out to the Pacific upon which it opens,
three miles west of the mission. With
the aid of the Indians, over whom the
padres exerted both temporal and spir-
itual dominion, the Franciscans estab-
lished here the most pretentious of all
the California mission churches. In
stead of being constructed of the GUS
tomary adobe brick of the country, it
was built of stone. laid out in the form
of Latin cross, with a great, cloistered
quadrangle adjoining. Here, besides
administering to the spiritual welfare
of the Indians and gathering them into
the fold of the church, the fathers set
them to the care and the cultivation
of the land which yielded great wealth
OF cattle, sheep, grain, grapes and
olives
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-05-18
Feeble Attempts OF Man Useless.

when the stream of fire threatened
Boscotrecase soldiers dug a wide dltch
across its patch in the hope of divert
ing its course. but the molten stream
advanced like colossal serpent OF hre
turning its head to the right and lett
as a snake does, but keeping its general
direction toward the fated town. II
was not till IL reached the first house,
sending up great showers of sparks.
that the people finally fed for their
lives.
"I saw men, women and children, and
infants whose mothers carried them al
the breast or in their aprons. Dogs,
too. and cats were on the carts, ana
sometimes even chickens. tied togeth-
er by the legs. and piles OF mattresses
and pillows, all white with dust under
the lurid glare. We ourselves could
hardly breathe"
This dispatch corresponds exactly in
detail to Pliny's letters. The same
flaming mountain and shaking earth
the same sitting smoke and ashes, the
same terrifying darkness and the same
helpless. distracted crowd stretching
vain hands TO their gods for succor.
Originally Nesuvius was in the form
of n single cone. Later eruptions have
broken down the southern side of the
original crater. leaving the northern
semi-circle. which is called Monte
Somma. A smaller central cone had
crown I'D within the ancient ruin. II
ie this inner cone that had its top
blown off. Before the recent eruption
the height of the mountain was about
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-05-18
Destroyed by an Earthquake

On the morning of December s. 1912,
all without warning, came great catas-
trophe. While the church was crowded
with kneeling worshipers shock of
earthquake visited the valley and top
pied the great stone tower over upon
the roof. crashing through which it
buried the congregation beneath the
wreckage OF beams, tiles and stones.
and upward of forty human beings
lost their lives in the twinkling of an
eve. This earthquake ranks in sever
ity with that of Charleston, in 1886.
SO great was the disaster that, although
the mission continued to be conducted
The La Jara chronicle., 1906-05-18

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