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admired until Edwin Booths displaced it. Imagine the melancholy Dane singing Three cheers for the Red, White and Blue"
 Patriots Not Always Native.
 David T. Shaw, who probably wrote and composed ''Columbia, the Gem of the ocean," though Thomas A. Beckett laid claim to 1t, was an Englishman. like incongruity is that Daniel D. Emmett, the author of "Dixie," was born at Mt. Vernon. Ohio, and never lived in the South.
 The civil war itself. without the incsnt- i've of a prise, produced plentiful crop of patriotic songs and tunes, among which "Dixie' is by far the most popular, north and south alike. It is popular de- spite the fact that it is ragtime-''just a jig." somebody said-and that its words are somewhat below the level of the aver age patriotic song. It was, in fact, writ ten by Daniel D. Emmett, who died only
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are placed on thin layers of purified grease which is spread on glass in frames. The flowers are renewed at intervals of about forty-eight hours. When perfumed oils are wanted by this process, coarse cotton cloths soaked in olive oil and wire gauge netting take the place of the glass frames. But these processes are only the beginning of making the perfumes which women all over the world seek so eagerly. It is the mixtures of various perfumes Into the Bouquet" by special apparatus which brings enormous prices This Is car ried out according to formulas which are deep trade secrets belonging to the various perfume factories. Some of the most choice perfumes are worth hundreds of dollars to the ounce and can only be en- Joyed by multimillionaires. However, many of the sweeter perfumes are simply made and can be obtained by the poorest of Americans
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In the Gardens of Sleep in the poetic fables of the Orient the fated air was heavy with the perfume of flowers always in bloom. There the lucky inhabitants were lulled to rest by the sweet perfumes of the choicest floral productions of na- ture. It was a delicious idea of the east ern poets. The rose diffuses its fragrance for a few days and then dies. To con serve this perfume has been the study of mankind for centuries This was first used in making incense which was only used to burn before the highest of an cient gods in the heather temples. Thus perfumes, like music and dancing, have come to modern humanity from the old temples of the false gods of the ancient nations of the Far East.
 Today the center of tho worlds perfume industry lies in the extreme south east of France between the Maritime Alps and the
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who was to have n benefit performance asked Hopkinson to write him song that would turn the political unrest into drawing card. Hall Columbia" was the result. It is not very exalted poetry few patriotic hymns are-but 1t is the oldest of our national airs in good stand ing, having been sung for the first time in 1798.
 Of course, there is Yankee Doodle also, hut that is undignined ragtime and even worse doggerel than America. |" And there are older poems, among them
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fine one by Thomas Paine, the author hero of the Revolution, beginning
Hail, great republic of the world. The rising empire of the west.


 The rising empire of the west
 To balance the irrelgious Paine, there were William Billings. who turned the Psalms Into battle songs, and Timothy Dwight, who as chaplain in the Conti- mental Army, during TIT. wrote "Colum- bia, Columbia, to glory arise!' But none of these songs ever became truly popular, as Hall Columbia" did.
 It is one of the curiosities of history that a national song of such fame was written to help out an actor who needed the money" Similarly 1t is one of the curiostles of the stage that "Columbin, the Gem of the Ocean," produced under the same circumstances by David T. Shaw, singer in the Chinese Museum at Philadelphia. was sung from the stage nightly during his London engagement by K. l.. Davenport, the great American tragedian, whose Hamlet was the most
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of defiance to tyranny and oppression, and were written in the hour of the nations peril. "The tar-spangled Banner" was composed during the war of 1872, and that war would have been worth while had It gained for us nothing but this sonorous poem.
 When the British invaders had burned the capitol at Washington, they turned their eyes toward Baltimore. General Ross boasted that he would make that rich city his winter quarters, and he didn't care if 1t rained militia" A mus ket ball from one of the despised militia put an end to the vainglorious generals life few days later. Meantime the Brit fish fleet under Admiral Cochrane had blocked the Patapsco, an arm of the Chesapeake, but could not get past Fort McHenry to shell the city. So 1t was de- cided to reduce the fort, and lombard ment began which lasted all day and far into the night of September 12, 1S14
 Conceived in the Hour of Battle.
 Francis Scott Key, young lawyer of Georgetown, had rowed out to the British fleet, before the bombardment began, to secure the parole of friend who was prisoner of war. The British kept Key on board one of their ships all night while the bombardment was going on. Anxious ly he watched the banner of the fort, lit by "the rockets red glare. and bombs bursting in air. and when with the dawn he saw that "the flag was still there,'' he wrote his triumphal poem on the back of an old letter as the discom- ited Brltons set sail for home.
 The poem was first printed in The Maryland Journal now the Baltimore American, on September IS, under tho title, "Defense of Fort McHenry." It was sung for the first time by Ferdi- nand Durang, standing on a cane-bottomed chair in a tavern near the Holiday Street Theater, in Baltimore. Though 1t is tho only poem of the collection published in 1857, fourteen years after his death which is remembered today, it will make Keys name endure even longer than the monu- ment in Golden Gate Park, for which James Lick gave s6o,ooo, and which VII liam wetmore Story hewed out of the same material used for the Colosseum and St. Peters at Rome.
 Rlchard Grant Whlte, that capuous critic who was the Harry Thurston Peck of a generation ago, found fault with ''The Star-Spangled Banner because 1t is n descriptive poem. MT. White was hard to please, like that National Hymn Commit tee which, at the beginning of the civil war, offered prize of $500 for a suitable patriotic song, but failed to find one in 1900 that were submitted. The committee had i've wash baskets full of rejected manuscripts.
 HOpkinsOn's "HaiI COIumbia."
 There have been fully Ave wash -baskers full of patriotic songs written since our nation was born. The oldest of those which still enjoy favor is Hail Colum-
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year ago at % years of age. for a min strel walk-around, and was first sung in New York city in 1859. There is strong reason to believe, furthermore. that by Dixie was originally meant New York itself, the Southern slaves idea of a para disc without labor
 However undignined the tune and empty the words, both have become en- deared to American hearts and stir up such emotion as only '1'hs star-Spangied Banner can parallel That the words arc empty need not surprise any one who re- members that of all the patriotic songs produced during the War of Secession, only two deserve to be called poetry. These are Mrs. Julia Ward Howes Bat tie Hymn of the Republic" and James Ryder Randall's Maryland"
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Two Real Poems.

''The Battle Hymn of the Republic sung to the tune of "John Browns Body" one of the doggerel marching
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Hopkinson's "HaiI CoIumbia,o

There have been fully Ave wash-baskers full of patriotic songs written since our nation was born. The oldest of those which still enjoy favor is Hail Colum- bia," written by Joseph Hopkinson, a young Philadelphia lawyer, to tune known as the Presidents March," first played when Washington was on his way to New York to be inaugurated. War was in the air, and business in the the aters was poor. A young actor and singer
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-08
NOTES OF INTEREST
FROM LONG BEACH
special to The Herald.

LONG BEACH, April 1.-THE funeral
of Mrs. Esther Wadlow, we'll known in
Pasadena and Los Angeles, will be held
from the First Baptist church at 1:3O
tomorrow afternoon. Burial will be in
Rosedale cemetery, Los Angeles, at
about o'clock.
All the property owners along Fourth
street between Alamitos and Temple
avenues are interesting themselves in
the improvement of that thoroughfare.
They will hold a melting tomorrow
night at the Alamitos school building
to discuss oiling and grading the
street.
The affairs of the Royal italian band
are nearing crisis" yet again. Man
ager Vessella is said to have lost con-
siderable money lately in keeping up
the organization of nearly two score
musicians, and is considering an offer
to take charge of the band at Venice.
AS a forerunner of the general state
Sunday school convention to be held in
Los Angeles this week all the Long
Beach churches united in a service to-
night at the First Baptist church
Among the speakers were C. D. Meigs
of Dallas, Tex, and Mrs. j. Woodbridge
Barnes of Newark N. J., both promi-
nent workers who will take part in the
convention. John Brewer, who will
have charge of the convention music,
directed the orchestra.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-08
AMATEUR BASEBALL
OPENS WITH RUSH
Los Angeles Newsboys Defeated BY
San Bernardino Team-Other
Games Played in Sur
rounding Cities

Amateur baseball started in yester-
day with rush and games were played
in nearly every town in Southern Cali
fcrnia.
One of the most exciting games was
lat San Bernarnino, where the Los An
.geles Newsies went down to defeat be-
fore the prowess of the San Bernardino
team.
The Newsies complained of the raw
decisions of the umpire, which they
claimed added to their defeat. Score
6 to 3.
For San Bernardino, Eddy and Nc
Clellan made home runs.
Batteries-San Bernardino, Rowland
and Finley; Los Angeles Newsies, Ly-
ons and Mockler.
At Pasadena the Linda Vistas de-
feated the Athletics to A.
The Home Telephone nine played a
close game against Dolgeville at the
latter's grounds, winning by score of
to O.
! Florence sent up husky aggregation
of ball players to Seal Gardens, defeat
ing the Seals 8 to /.
| At Santa Monica the Stars won by a
score Of to in game with the Hay
wood Colts.
For glory and side bet Of $50 the
Morans and Melczers played a hotly
contested game at the Santa Fe avenue
grounds, the Morans finally winning
I3 to 2.
The Western Hardware and Arms
company's nine went TO Norwalk and
defeated the local nine to 5.
! In a slugging one-sided game the
Nofzigers defeated the Western Door
and Shutter ball tossers IA to 0.
AT Santa Monica Hogee Juniors won
over the Santa Monica Merchants to 2.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-08
CYCLONE THOMPSON
GIVES BARBECUE
NEWSPAPER MEN ARE GUESTS
OF FIGHTER
Mayor Harper and Other Interested
Spectators Watch the Whlrlwind
Go Through Some Traln-
ing Stunts

The barbecue given by cyclone
Thompson to the newspaper men and
their friends yesterday at the Heidel-
berg hotel in Cahuenga pass, where
the Cyclone Is training, was a very en-
joyable affair
Early in the day automobiles, tally
hos and carriages carried scores of
people to the quarters.
While the visitors were waiting for
the feast they had ample time to roam
over the hills which are adjacent to
the hotel on either side of the pass
and enjoy the grand scenery and pick
poppies and wild flowers.
Others visited the water falls at the
head of the small canyon in the rear
of the hotel and partook of the spark
ling cold water. This waterfall was
named Harper falls last week by Jim
my Walsh in honor of Mayor Harper.
During the barbecue jokes of all sorts
were hurled back and forth by the
merry party.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-08
CROWDED HIGH SCHOOL
MAY REQUIRE NEW RULE
Special to The Herald.

PASADENA, April 7.-School opens
tomorrow (Monday) morning after the
Easter, or Spring, vacation and the
scholars of the city will find number
of changes have been made during the
week they have been recreating At
the high school everything will be ac-
tivity, for there are but ten more
weeks of school, and the graduating
class of 1907 must be Strengthened out
for the commencement.
The graduating class this year will
probably be the largest in the history
of the city. This cannot yet be told
definitely as the school authorities do
not give out the list of graduates until
after the summer examinations for
fear that some shall be disappointed.
Next fall it will be a serious problem
to care for those who will enter the
high school. Every grammar school
in the city will graduate this spring a
larger number of pupils than ever be-
fore and there are besides several new
school buildings to be counted on. 1t
looks now as though there will have to
be an addition to the present high
school building by next fall or else
the plan of instruction will have to be
changed and one or more school periods
added.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-08
OLD TRUSTEES MEET
TO RATIFY ELECTION
Special to The Herald.

SANTA MONICA, April 1.-THE re-
firing board of city trustees will meet
in official session for the last time
tomorrow evening when as a canvass
ing board it will ratify the returns of
last Mondays special election.
Councilman-elect ALI Morris has been
appointed chairman of the council and
will present the following slate of COM
mittees to take effect on the incoming
of new political regime, one week from
tomorrow: Streets, Coffman, Dow,
Morris; lighting, Armstrong, Miles,
Reel; finance and supplies. Miles, Arm
strong, Dow; railroads, harbors, wharfs,
Reel, Snyder, Coffman; judiciary and
ordinance, Snyder, Reel, Morris; build
ings, Dow, Armstrong, Coffman.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-08
.OJIBWAY INDIAN
PLEADS FOR RACE
RED MAN SPEAKS IN FASHION,
ABLE PASADENA CHURCH
FuN-5looded Native Tells How the
Tribes May Be Reached and Evan.
eeIized by Proper Work In
Missionary Fields
Pasadena Agency
~ North Raymond Avenue.
Phones! Sunset 1907, Home 212l.

PASADENA, April 7.-Somethine Of
a novelty was the sermon or address ne
the Rev. e. A. Brigham at fashionable
All Saints Episcopal church this even
ing. The event was novel inasmuch
as the speaker himself is a full blooded
Ojibway Indian, born and reared
among the Canadian tribes, and his
address was of his own people.
The Rev. MIR. Brigham had for his
subject "The North American Indian"
and right ably did he expound the
| characteristics of the noble red man.
The handsome church was well filled.
even crowded, by those eager to see
what sort of preacher an Indian
would be.
Mr.. Brigham has been secured by the
Episcopal diocese of Los Angeles as a
missionary among the Indians of La
Jolla. He Is speaking in several cities
of Southern California prior to taking
up his evangelistic work with the
was one of hope for the evangelizing
of a race often thought unreachable
by the white man.
Really the Rev. Mr.. Brigham's adj
dress this evening was an exposition of
the characteristics of the Indian, It
was an appeal for proper Christian
work among the red men by red man.
and so effective was the talk that the
audience bordered several times on
open applause.
Mr.. Brighton was educated In London
and, save for slight pronunciation,
his talk would indicate as much the
cultured white as the educated red.
His language this evening was particu-
larly impressive and will doubtless re-
suit in an extra large list of subscrip-
tions from Pasadena to aid the work
among the Indians of the southwest.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-08

the base of the bluff with a flight of
steps running up the hillside. Con-
tractor James Dovey will soon begin
the construction of the concrete retain
ing wall along the bluff in this locality.
This wall is to be continued as far as
Chestnut avenue on the west side of the
pier.
The park lands between this wall and
Ocean avenue will be brought to a
grade and beautified with flowers, trees.
promenades and fountains. The retain
ing wall itself is to become the basis of
a number Of new store and apartment
buildings.
The walk leading from the Pacific
Electric depot south to the Pike is soon
to be widened four feet and changed to
cement.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-08


LONG BEACH, April 1.-THE Strang
company, owning a tract of beach prop
erty west of the bath house, will build a
broad cement walk through it's property
which will parallel and be similar to the
present pike. The Strand company S
walk, however, will be just at the
waters edge. 1t will be 400 feet long
and will be brilliantly illuminated with
boulevard lights.
Between this walk and the Pike, and
connecting the two, there will be built
q row of one-Story buildings. The
Strand company directorate will meet
tomorrow to make plans for these
buildings.
One of the most important beach i'm
provements now contemplated is the
erection of a building on the West
minister company's property, just west
of the pier. Beach visitors today saW
mass of bricks, weighing two and a
quarter tons, piled upon platform
built over a long column driven deep
in the ground in the Westminster block.
By this it is being determined whether
great building should be built there.
If there is no appreciable detection
in the great mass of bricks in certain
length of time plans will be completed
for the construction of an imposing
& Williams are partially completed
plans for the building which may be
put up. They show a seven-story build
ing, five stories being above the level
OF the pier. ]. B. Heartwall, president
of the First National bank, is at the
head of the Westminster company.
A tunnel six feet deep and four feet
wide, ceiled and floored with thick con-
crete, is being excavated fiften feet be-
low Pine avenue, between the First Ma
tional Bank building at First street and
Pine avenue, and the Westminster site.
Through this tunnel the bank building
will be supplied with power for light
and heat The row of booths and small
stores on the Westminster site and fac
ing on the Pike, have been demolished
to make way for the Improvements to
come.
FSast of the pier the bluff parking
scheme is being worked out. Pier drive
which formerly ran crookedly down the
bluff at the foot Of Locust avenue, will
soon be but a memory, as it is now be-
ing converted into a straight street at
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-08
ANGELS AGAIN
SUSTAIN DEFEAT
OAKLAND WINS BY THE SCORE
OF 2 To1
Great Crowd Witnesses the Game and
Genuine Baseball Enthusiasm
Features Exhibition-Dillon
Out of the Game

Fighting like demons, Henry Berry
Angel bali tossers went under Tor a
second time yesterday afternoon when
they lost to the Greeks by a score Oh
2-1. -.
once again did the Los Angeles base,
ball public demonstrate that SECOND
successful era of diamond life has been
reached. stand and bleachers were
well nigh taxed to capacity, several
vacant tiers on the far bleachers belns
the only available resting place.
Not because he was once an Anger
twirler, but for reasons that only a
dyed in the wool fan can appreciate let
hats go off to young Randolph the
Oakland slab man, who presided III
mastery fashion for Rip Van Haltren.
A cooler parsonage would be difficult
to find than this red haired youngster
who demonstrated last year that ne
possesses many Of the faculties whlch
20 to make up the big Lacquer.
Bergeman did valiant duty for Berry
and his fielding proved feature OF
the day. In that many young boXmen
are prone to become excited at critical
moments and If they do not fall on the
ball cast 1t to some out of the way
spot. Bergeman's performance may be
considered ace high.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-08
NEW PASTOR breaches
HIS INITIAL SERMON
speoInI to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
PASADENA, April REV. Robert
#. Maclaren preached his first sermon
at the West Side Congregational church
this morning and followed 1t up by an
able address this evening. The sermon
of Rev. John Andrew Holmes last Sun
day was practically his farewll address,
though his resignation does not go into
formal effect until July 81 next, and
Rev. Mr.. Maclaren is supplying the
pulpit until a regular pastor is chosen
to take hold when Mr.. Holmes reslg-
nation Is in force.
1t Is reported that there is some prob
ability that Mr.. Maelaren may accept
a call to become permanent pastor OF
the West Side congregational church,
but this rumor has not been substan-
tiated.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-08
Oakland outplays Stockton

By Associated Press.
STOCKTON, April 7,-Oakland and
Stockton opened the California State
league baseball season today, the for
mer winning by a score Of to l.
Stockton's defeat was attributed to
Henderson's erratic pitching in the sec
ond which forced i'm a run, and Brady
tumble in the eighth, letting in two
runs. Score:
y Oakland 3, hits 5, errors 0.
Stockton /, hits A, errors 1.
Batteries-Pierce and Ellis; Hender-
son and Donahue.
Umpire-Arlett.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-08
GLANCE ON STREET
LEADS HIM TO JAIL
snecial to The Herald.

PASADENA, April IA good catch
was made this morning by Chief of Po-
lice Pinkham when he was walking
north on Worcester avenue toward
Park. street Pinkham met a Mexican
whose face struck him as singularly
familiar. lie paused for a second to
think and it flashed upon him that the
mans face looked familiar because 1t
was like that OF a written description
he had at police headquarters Of a
fellow wanted in San Diego.
Pinkham approached the stranger
and asked his name. The man said he
was Lucio Paralta, and as that was the
name of the wanted man the chief at
once arrested him.
Paralta is accused of having embez-
zled SIS in San Diego and Policeman
arrived this evening from the bay city
TO take him back for trial.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-08
Have Shooting Match

Before doing his training stunts Cy-
clone and Mrs. Thompson held a shoot
ing match, the stakes being a suit of
clothes or a new dress, according to
who was the winner.
On the second round Cyclone man
aged to outshoot his wife by about
nine points, thereby winning but to
appease his wife's disappointment
promised her the new dress, notwith-
standing the outcome of the match.
During the training stunts Mayor
Harper and party arrived in an auto
mobile and watched with much inter-
est the several rounds of sparring be-
tween Thompson, Kid Solomon and
Rawhide Kelly, the two latter boxing
four rounds each with Thompson, who
is rounding into first class shape.
Thompson will continue his road work
and light boxing up to Thursday when
he will rest until the LATHE. He is
confident that he will put up the fight
of his life and will leave nothing un-
done in his training for the outcome
of Friday nights contest means every
thing to him.
Before leaving Frisco Thompson was
promised by the Frisco promoters that
If he defeats Memsic decisively they
will secure match for him with Cans
at catch weights Thompson is conf
dent that he will be the next opponent
of Cans.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-08
LOS ANGELES TEAM TAKES
PASADENA MINES SCALP
Special 20 The Herald.

ARCADIA, April 1.-THE Myers Jun
ior baseball team of Pasadena and the
Meeks team of Los Angeles crossed
bats here today, the Meeks giving the
Myers a good trouncing The Myers
were clearly outclassed, for they are
only a second team and the Meeks is
ht to trot in leadindg amateur league
company. The final score was % to 12,
and at that the younger men are
thought to have done as well as could
be expected.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-04-08
san Francisco Team Loses
Associated Press.

IlN Ia07VNIdINW = INaHs
SACRAMENTO, April 7-The San
Francisco state league team lost an in
different game to CordoVa today, TO 8.
The locals hammered De Fardo until
they were tied. He was succeeded by
Bollander, who pitched four innings of
gilt-edged ball. Brown, for the Cordo-
vas, was too much for the refugees,
but he gave way in the seventh to Mo-
bley, who did not fare so we'll Score:
Cordova-6 hits, z; errors, O.
San FranclscO-3; hits, 81; errors, 3.