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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-05-31
WOMEN WHO LIKE TO STAND
Street Car Conductor Says They Do
1t to Keep Their Clothes
Unwrinkled.

By the time the car reached For
tieth street there were no fewer than
dozen vacant seats, but the girl in
the new tailor-made gown refused to
avail herself of their hospitality, re-
lates the New York Press. The mes
senger boy pointed them out to her
So did the woman in blue and the man
with the red beard, but to all invita-
tons to make herself comfortable the
tailored girl said: mo, l thank you.
| get off SOon," and continued to lurch
backward and forward in the middle
Of the car
The conductor watched her grimly.
Il could have told those folks it was
no use to try to make that girl sit
down." he said to a passenger on the
platform. "She never does. | used to
try to get her to rest herself for a
minute or two. just for change, but
| never could do it, She has been rid
ing In my car pretty regularly for
about year. and no matter. whether
the passengers are many or. few sell
dom have | seen her sit down. I used
to wonder why she chose to stand up
and flop around that way. but l have
come to the conclusion that she does
1t because her clothes fit so well.
IL have seen lots of other people
with the same trick. When l find a
woman who insists upon standing in
car where there are vacant seats,
look at her clothes. and 1t turns out,
nine times In ten that she has a good
figure and n dress that wouldn'f show
wrinkle under q microscope"
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-05-31
TURKS CRUELTY TO HORSES
Prefecture of the Ottoman Capital
Will Take Steps to Re
strain 1t.

A laudable decision has been arrived
at by the prefecture of the Ottoman
capital. with the view of protecting
horses from misuse and ill-treatment,
says the Constantinople correspondent
of the London Lancet. The Turks are,
on the whole, very kind to animals.
and shield them from injury by every
possible means. At almost every Turk
ish house in Stamboul there is to- be
found a small receptacle where wRtop
is poured in every day for the use of
the innumerable street dogs. A Mus
suman. building his dwelling place.
rarely forgets to attach some contriv-
ance for sheltering birds, pigeons, spar
ro- ;. etc.
/ am assured that a cabmap who
overruns a dog. heedlessly enjoying
its dolce far niente in the middle of
the street, has to pay a fine of several
piastres, while the sultan is believed
to spend a large sum on the feeding
of the numerous canine Scavengers
around his kiosks and palaces. There
are, however, a good many employers
of horse labor who use their animals
in n cruel or thoughtless manner.
To prevent this the employment OF
senile, debilitated or diseased horses
has been forbidden. Municipal agents
will have difficulty in Constantinopie
in insuring that the measure is strict
ly adhered to-that the load never ex~
ceeds the amount proportiOnate to the
horses strength. and-sO On-but, any
how. the spirit which has Influenced
the new enactment is laudable, =,
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-05-31
Brother Kills Brother.

Richmond, Va, (SpcciaD - Samuel
Shenault became suddenly frcnzied with
anger liz game of cards with his brother
Jesse Shcnault, at Ivanhoe, Wythe Coun-
ty, and cut him fatally with knife.
He sprang on his brother and nine times
buried the knife in his body until he
was covered with blood and expired on
the floor. The murdered man was IS
and leaves widow and three children.
The murderer is under arrest and being
held for trial
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-05-31
One Killed and Five Irisred.

Oil City, Pa. (SpeciaD One man was
Killed and five injured in 4 hcad-on col
lsion between ligh; engine and a
freight train on the Buffalo and Ale
gheny Valley Division of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, near West Monterey. The
dead man is w. A. Scaton. llagman, 2S
years old, of Pittsburg. The injured, who
are trainmen, will recover. All live in
Pittsburp
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-05-31
Frenchmnn,s Queer Sized

1t is reported from Paris that an in
genious inhabitant of Monthucon. in.
Ffance, has taTed a wild boar. which
n c'ug young in the fores ana
now drives It in small gig or boar
chaise," with intensa qualification at,;
en- oymen'. The animal hetw> en- shafIs
Is said TO appear more eccentfic tt1G
stylish.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-05-31
IORFIGN

Anarchists attacked the Industrial Say
ingS Bank at Warsaw, Poland. The
clerks drew revolverS. and in the fight
that followed, two customers were killed
and two other customers, FIVE clerks and
one OF the anarchists were wounded.
The head Office OF the Mutual Reserve
Life InSuracc Company, in London and
all the agencies i'll England were closed.
The company will discontinue all efforts
to secure new business i'll England.
King Alfonso met his future bride,
Princess Ena, of Battenberg, at the from
tier of Spain and escorted her to Mad
rid, where she was received with i'm
posing ceremony.
Governor JeIns<i, of Kielec, Poland,
is suspected of the murder OF woman
who was found dead in his room. He
says she committed suicide.
Many lives were lost and immense
damage done to property by earthquakes
in Mongolia.
The Russian government has given out
an official stptement justifying its re-
fusal to grant plenary amnesty.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-05-31
Homemade Beef To-

DR. W:lloughby, lecturing in Lon.
don on Popular Food" said Tho,
rome emade beef tea was only found
!" contain per cent of albumen an,,
t1ls was often strained off. Ieavim,'
only discolored water, more ,IeIoota
llc to tho nose than nourishinr 90 ,ha
" '"e
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-05-31
sneezine in PsA

A craze for snufftaking has become
general in exclusive society in Paris,
where fashionable salons resound with
the sneezes of the beau monde.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1906-05-31
Fish Salad

NIX with chopped fish an eoua,
Quantity OF cut ce,ery. chopped cab
hage or shredded lettuce. Three salt
onchoyies chop,ei with a dozen
sapers may be adeel before mixing N
the dressing. -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-07

ness? Night after night you used to walk the floor. Then, when you just got root hold and things seemed to be coming your way, do you not remember those years of panic and hard times? Would you like to live those years over again? Your business partner broke down at that time with nervous prostratiop. He died in an insane asylum. Your own brain was almost crazed Your hair is white today from those trials Would you like to live them over again? How do you know you would come through them next time as successfully as you have done? You know that it seemed a mere chance that your fathers old friend came to your rescue at that time or that oil was dis covered upon your farm land, which land you could never give away before and which land you were almost tempted to let go to liquidate the taxes. Would you like to be caught again in that railroad accident? Perhaps you were on train that was wrecked, in which many pas sengers were crushed or mutilated. You do not know how it happened. You were sitting in the car reading. Suddenly the engine gave a shrlek; the brakes were damned hard down. Then you awoke In a dazed condition. You heard groanings and prayers being offered all about you. You escaped like Job, by the skin of your teeth. The man who sat within
 
 worse physically mangled for life. If you had to go through that accident again, would you be physically we'll and whole as you are today? Oh. mol Most of us do not wish to run again the risks we ran during our past lives. Financial risks domestic risks, physical risks! They nearly destroyed us. We could not be sure that we should have the same chances for success over again if We had to meet the same dangers. Most of our friends who have been destroyed were wrecked by a chance trivial as a hair. Most of us, if not all of us, on the other hand, have been saved by that turning of a hair. Almost were we destroyed, but al- most was not quite enough to annihi- late us.
 We fear to meet our past financial and physical and domestic dangers again. We should also tremble when we look back upon our past spiritual temptations. 1t is absurd for some of us to say if we had our lives to live over again we would do any different spiritually from what we did in days that are gone. In all proba- bility we would do just the same as we did in the past if not worse. Why? Be- cause today. with all our experiences and shortcomings, we are going ahead shining all the time. Edward Young. the author of the famous Might Thoughts" well ex- presses the idea when he wrote:
 At thirty man suspects himself fool;
 Knows 1t at forty; then resolves
 Ind re-resolves and dies the same.
 Does knowledge about the dietary and gastronomic laws make the physician careful about what he eats and how he eats? Oh, no. Doctors can prescribe all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-07

DIR. TALMACE'S SERMON
BY THE REV. FRANK DE WITT TALMAeE, D. D.

boat. But, strange to say all those cranky boats reached California in safety. Not one was wrecked that year. Many an iron boat with a screw propeller has since been destroyed upon the dangerous rocks of South America. But during the first year of the California gold fever not one boat was lost on the voyage. So with us in the journey of life. We know not how we have weathered the financial and the domestic storms, but we have. We know only too well how fierce the cy- clones have blown off our Cape Horns. But, having weathered them once and realized what the dangers were, we have grave doubts whether we should ever be able to weather them again.
 And this fact is especially emphasized by the awful failures that some of our friends have made in life who were a great deal smarter than we and who were in every way better equipped for the struggle. It is such little thing that will turn the scales of success up or down. That little thing always seemed to be on the wrong side of the scales for some of our friends. Did you ever known how Hannibal Hamlin was first defeated for the United States Senate? Mr. Ham, lin was a great joke lover. Away back in the early forties MT. Hamlin was speaker of the lower house of the MSine legislature. There was at that time a member of the house whose ndlf Was very thin. This member was very sensitive about his bald head. In a joke MT. Ham, lin leaned over his desk one day and said; MT So-and-so, you have made mis- take in parting your hair. You have got two more hairs on one side than you have on the other" That was harmless joke. was it not? Yet that man through that joke became MT Hamlin's bitter enemy. He said, MT Hamlln has insulted me-" few years later Hannibal Hamlin was the candidate for his party for the Uni ted States Senate. All members of the Maine legislature who were of his party voted for him, with the exception of this one member who had a scarcity of hair, about which Hamlin once made a harm | less joke. But the casting of that one vote was the means of keeping Hannibal Hafnlin out of the Senate for six years. 1 That one vote was necessary for his cleo ton. Thus we find that scores and scores | of our friends have failed in life as 1t were, by the turning of a hair Further more as we look back we can see our successes have seemed to come to us by the turning of a hair. Almost were we | flung, not once or twice or thrice, but many times were we almost ruined for 1 ever.
 1 Do you not remember that awful strug- | gle you had to get established in busi-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-07

with the sacred years of 1890 and 1880 and 1870 by its side. All these years shall live again If thou wilt put thy faith in Christ and have him live in thee and thou in him." My friends, on the last Sunday in the year. wilt thou have the midnight bell toll for thee dirge or ring out for thee gospel triumph? You can and now de- eide if you shall live over again your happy past.
 Thou blessed past with our hallowed dear ones! Art thou alive? Shall it como forth to greet us at the day of Judgment and, purified of evil, live with us through all the coming eternity. It will. Thou year of 1905, go forth and assemble for us the dear years that are gone. Assemble them to greet us when, like Christ, we shall rise from our ascension mount, and time for us shall be no longer except as we spend that time with Christ.
 Copyright. 1905, by Louis Klopsch.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-07
os ANGELES, Cal. December a.-ln

= oS ANGELES, Cal, December 3l-ln
 this sermon at the close of the old l< year the preacher deals with the dis oontent in the human heart, which often inspires the wish that we might live lire over again. The text is Job il, A. All that a man hath will he give for his life.
 This question naturally arises on this last Sunday of the year; ''Would we hKe to live our lives over again? Would we like to have the year of 1895 agaAn greet us in the swaddhng clothes of a new born babe? would we like to make the plea of the old poet when in rhyme ne sang these now familiar lines:
 Backward, turn backward, oh, time in
 your flight!
 Make me a child again just for tonight
 Some of us frankly admit that we would like to live our past years over again. Others just as frankly state that they do not so desire Benjamin Franklin pe- longed to the first group In one of ms letters to his son he wrote thus; should have no objection to a repetition of my life from Its beginning, only ask ing the advantages authors nave Ill second edition to correct some faults or the first. So I might. besides correcting tho faults change some sinister accidents and events of it for others more favor- able But, though this were denied l should still accept the offer" But perhaps Beniaanin Franklin would not have writ ten thus if he had taken all the possinil- ttias into account l would like to show won an this sermon that Gods way of eiving only one earthly life to one man IS inc best way. May God help us today as we on this last Sunday of the year, take A retrospect of the years that are gone.
 No man. in the first place, could take the journey of life over again unless he took with it the dangers that he escaped in his first experience, which might be fatal to him in his second; nor could he be sure again of achieving the successes that he had before have been told that when gold was discovered in California every boat in New York harbor that could be bought or rented was drafted into the service to carry to the western shores those who were possessed by the gold fever. So anxious were men to dig in California hills that they were ready to risk their lives in any old hulk some three or four hundred crazy crafts In the year 1850 rounded Cape Horns Some of these tubs were not fit to sail across Lake Michigan on summer day. One, 1 nave been told, was nothing but ferry
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-07
A Most Stupendous Sale
800 Tailored Suits at about One-HaIf Price

XA7E TOLD YOU LAST WEEK of the vast mprC
 w remodel it, so to put in Millinery, Ladies partments Our business has grown to such prop building. To get this ready will take every IT
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
LISSNER HEIRS PROFIT
BY STREET WIDENING
WILL MOVE FLAT FIVE FEET AND
GAIN $4,000
Now Property Owners Who Paid the
Extra Cost ompIaln-controve
Grows Out of Improvement Of
Grand Avenue

The heirs of the Lissner estate are
making preparations to profit by the
proposed widening of Grand avenue.
The estate has already been granted
$4,000 by the referees in the case for the
damage the widening of the street
would do to the Lissner property on
the corner of Grand avenue and Tenth
street, and this money has evidently
been used to purchase a lot directly
back of the Lissner property. facing
Tenth street.
When the proposition for the widen
ing of Grand avenue came up before
the councils board of public works the
Lissner heirs made Streuous objections
to the Improvement on the ground that
their flats, corner of Grand and Tenth,
were directly on the line of the pro-
posed widening and that five feet would
be taken from the face of the building
If the Improvement went through.
They represented it was impossible to
move the building back, as it occupied
the entire lot on which it stood.
The improvement was ordered, how
ever, by board of referees appointed
by the court, which gave the Lissner
estate $4,000 for the damage it would
do their property.
This amount was added to the cost of
the improvement and must be paid by
the other property owners on the street
A few days ago the Lissner estate
purchased the lot Immediately back of
the Grand avenue property and now is
making preparations to move the fiat
buildings five feet back from the street
line. so the damage will be merely
nominal.
A large number of the property,
owners who have been compelled to
pay their share of the $4,000 have made
complaint
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
CLARK RUSSELL WILL RETIRE
Famous Writer of Sea Stories viii
Lay Down His Pen for
Good and All
Special cable to- The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
LONDON, April 14.-Clark Russell
is going to retire. Having celebrated
his sixty-fifth birthday, the veteran
author of "The Wreck of the Gros-
venor" and "The Frozen Pirate" says
that he is going to write no more, but
to end his days quietly at Bath, which
has been his home for several years
The novelist declares, however, that
the temptation to write just one more
book is uncommonly strong, because of
late his reputation has suffered in a
way that has been wholly undeserved.
His grievance is that book recently
published under his name as a new
work. and vigorously roasted by the
critics, Is not new work at all, but
set of serial stories written several
years ago and completely forgotten
by him until their unauthorized ap-
pearance under the misleading title.
So Clark Russell feels like showing
that his hand has not lost it's cunning
If he Is sixty-five Probably, however,
he will content himself with explain
ing the matter to his admirers, for bad
health has made composition difficult
to him for some time.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
LITIGATION OVER SKIN
Girl Claims That Physician Removed
Piece Eight Inches Square
When He Shouldn't

Special Cable to The Herald
VIENNA, April 14.-An unusual
action for damages was brought in the
law courts at Graz by a servant girl
against surgeon and his patient, a
chemist. During an operation which
the girl underwent at a hospital, the
surgeon, with her previous consent
and when she was still under the in
fluence Of an anaesthetic, removed a
portion of skin, measuring eight inches,
which he needed to cure a wound for
which the chemist was, under treat
ment. The girl afterwards denied CIV
ing her consent, and on the ground that
the resulting scar constituted a disflg-
urement, demanded compensation from
the chemist. The latter offered SO in
full settlement, but this she rejected
and brought action for $4,000 against
both parties. The court, after hearing
the evidence, decided that consent had
been given and that no ground existed
for awarding damages.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
NEW DIRIGIBLE SUBMARINE

which, is directed from the shore or
from battleship by means of cleo
trical waves, has finished it's trials at
Antilles and is said to have fulfilled the
expectation of its inventor M. Lelande.
? The. instrument is formed of two
cone-shaped cylinders, placed horizon
tally one on top of the other. The
upper one is the smaller, and is fitted
at either end with a short mast for re-
ceiving the waves. This part of the
vessel is never quite submerged. The
lower part is Joined to the upper by
strong transoms and contains the tor
pedo tubes, the motor, the steering
gear and the screw. The operator con-
trolls the weapon from a transmitting
station and can send it along in any
direction he chooses without danger to
himself.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15

country where liberal ideas flourish.
the ironbound court rules will be modi-
fled and that women will be allowed
more freedom than they are now ac-
corded.
The haberdashers are laying in large
stocks of scarfs, ribbons and handker-
chiefs in the red, white and blue of old
England. A great number of jewellers
also appeared in the recent carnival
attired in costumes supposed to re-
semble the get-up of English tourists.
New forms of pastries and cakes Of
fered in the confectioners' stores are
labeled 1.-THE Princess Ena."
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
LIBRARY NOW
IS F|REPROOF
CUSTODIAN OF BOOKS RESTS
EASIER AS A RESULT
Last of the Immense Collection Re-
moved From Third Floor Of
City Hall to Laugh
lin Annex

The library is now resting comfort
ably in it's new quarters.
Not a book in general circulation is
left at the old stand on the third
of the city hall. The last of the fiction
and juvenile departments, which were
the last to be moved, were yesterday
taken to the new rooms in the Homer
Laughlin annex on Hill street, between
Third and Fourth streets, and the
library is now open at that place for
the transaction Of business.
In the attic and basement of the city
hall a few musty old tones are still
stored, but these books are not in cir
cuIation, They are books awaiting re-
binding and some old files of papers
and magazines. Those will be taken
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
PRETTY ARMS A NECESSITY
Paquin Declares That Sleeves of Sum-
n1er Gowns Must Stop at
the Elbows
Special Cable to The Herald.


LONDON, April 14.-Feminine fash
ions being largely matter of sleeves,
authentic information as to their
shapes and dimensions is important to
the modish woman.
From the famous house of Paquin
the decree has gone forth that the
sleeve for the summer of 1906 shall
stop short above the elbow, like that
OF the charming grisette in Leah
Kleschna.' The most filmy sort of ma
terials will be used for these abbre-
Waited sleeves, which will be made in
one or two puffs of moderate size. A
pretty feature is that where lace drap-
cries are added they will be caught up
at the back of the elbow into long
fan-shaped goffered ends.
The "milkmaid' sleeve, with the op-
portunities it offers for the display of
rounded arms and dimpled elbows, will
be the feature of the mode during the
coming London season. 1t is further
step in the return to the fashion of the
empire, when it was customary to ap-
pear decollette and almost sleeveless
out of doors.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-15
j. w. EccIeston, Formerly in Charge
of the Broadway Department
Store Advertising, Secures
Position in Frisco

Another of the big San Francisco
department stores has come to Los An
geles to secure the services of an ad-
vertising manager, and as a result j.
w. Eccleston, for the past five and
half years advertising manager of the
Broadway Department store, departed
last evening for the Fog City, where
he will take charge of the advertising
department of the Emporium.
II am not going because I want to
leave Los Angeles" said Mr. Eccleston
yesterday in conversation with a rep.
resentative of The Herald, "for 1 feel
that it is here that l have made my
greatest success and here L expected
to live the balance of my days, but
am going because the offer was one
that felt 1 could not in justice to
myself refuse"
To be exact, lve years and four
months ago Mr.. Eccleston entered the