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The Washington herald., 1907-01-18
Special Remnant Day.

UNUSUAL all over the SOc-takng is
Saturday evening Broken aSsormen odd and small lots
cleared up And there many SUCH the result of
January Special Sale and preparations for stocking
goods and garments for immediate for personal and home
adornmen soid otherwise imperfect Some just
short lengths broken incomplete lines
good they While they good stock for
hundreds Of folks who would be glad such excellent
things the special reductions we have made them
Some Are Marked Half Some Much Less Than Half.
All Are Marked for the Quickest Possible Clearance.
Many small adverte-and usually
the best barganbu every department the house represented
this specal clearance sale
The Washington herald., 1907-01-18

Friday Bargain in
Women Trimmed Hats.
We offer for final clearance sew
eral trimmed hats that are suitable
for shopping, market, business, and
general wear. Some Of them show
signs OF handling, but they are in
very fair condition and we'll worth
your consideration.
$500 for choice.
Were $500 and $500.
$500 for choice.
Were 5000 and $500.
$500 for choice.
Were $1,000 and SI2.OO.
Second f0or-I0th street,
The Washington herald., 1907-01-18
Friday Bargain in
Lace and Spaneled Robes.

GoSN anu - pan SASO NOO~o'
A lot OF rich Black Spangled
Robes, in several handsome designs,
reduced as follows:
$500 and $500 each.
Were SIS, $35, S45, and $50.
Also a number of beautiful
Lace Robes
in cream and white, some hand made
very rich and elegant one-of-a-
kind effects.
$1,000 to $1,000 each.
Were $500 to $500.
Also several rare bargains in Lace
BOlerOs and Lace Goats.
Main fOor-G St.
The Washington herald., 1907-01-18

The Count and Countess Albert de
Chambrun. the latter formerly Miss Clara
Longworth, with their two children, who
have been visiting Mrs. Longworth. in
Cincinnati, sailed yesterday for home on
the SavOie from New York.
The Washington herald., 1907-01-18

Mrs. Henry May is visiting in New York.
where she was the guest of Col and Mrs.
Franklin Bartlett at an opera party
Wednesday evening.
The Washington herald., 1907-01-18

Word has been received at the Spanish
Legation that Senior Ramon Pima. the
newly appointed Minister from Spain.
will sail from Gibralter on February Is.
and will arrive in New York on Febru-
arv 26
The Washington herald., 1907-01-18

The engagement is announced from
Rome of Mr. Casper Crowninshield, of
this city. to Miss Grace Smelling. daugh-
The Washington herald., 1907-01-18
SI2.5O for CHI

Were SIS, $40, and SI8.
Main foor-Teuth ST.
The Washington herald., 1907-01-18

Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore Douglas Robin
son are the guests OF Rear Admiral and
Mrs. COWles
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03
P1 LINES AND PICK UPS

1T DEPENDS
Twas Friday when I asked her for
Her heart and hand
"Ah, how unlucSy," said his friend
well, she refused me In the end
Unfortunate? Perhaps twill mend
You understand"
That sunspot must do something
awful pretty soon or be rated as a
great big bluff.
Funny that in the effort to prove
Thaw insane no one cites his marriage.
one can hardly call Lent the FAST
season, though one fasts during it.
JUDGMENT
Palm-You can't Judge a man by his
clothes.
Pepper-No, nor a dog by his pants.
The man who demands that his ad-
vertisement be placed next pure read
ing matter" is up against it in these
days of Thaw trial reports.
Gold has distinct odor, tits said.
or the mint?
WHY THE MAILS WE'RE DELAYED
Paul Beechy, the punctual mail car
rier between this place and Grants
Vile, was confined to his home last
week with a eadache.-Bittinger
(Md) Item.
A Chicago woman was divorced by
her husband because she didn't like the
town. If he did she should have had
the decree.
Omaha is to pay its school children
IL it would ray people to live there
it would be a much more populous
town.
A Savannah preacher says: "Take a
book with you on a Journey" The
most useful to carry is a pocketbook.
SEEING is BELIEVING
Orange-Why do you say he wed for
money?
Lemon-Tve seen mis- wife.
Who's the next millionaire to get en-
largement of the heart?
Congress has passed bill for the
relief of DIR. Boozer of South Calolina.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03
WHERE JUSTICE is BLINDED

The Thaw trial, now trailing it's
Shiny length through the New York
courts and besmirching the pages of
every newspaper in the land, may yet
serve one good purpose if 1t but en-
phasize again the awful complexity
into which criminal law has been
snarled by the attorneys, the courts
and the legislatures. Whatever its out
come per Sc, and however it's moral eff
feet on the country at large, 1t does
most emphatically call attention to the
legal quips and quirks which hamper
swift and speedy justice and clog the
machinery of the laws.
Harry Thaw shot Stanford White
last June, openly, before hundreds
without giving White a seconds warn
ing. The fact is admitted on both
sides, it is beyond doubt, no question
of the act is possible. The statutes
provide certain penalties for murder
varying according to its degree, up tc
death. AS Thaw admits the murder
and no one denies It, obviously all that
should remain is to fix the degree OF
penalty, provided he be not justified in
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03
MAKING MAGNETIC SURVEYS

An important work on which the car
negie institution has been engaged for
more than a year is making of mag
netiC surveys of those portions of the
seas that are traversed by the import
Galilee has been doing the work and
has just completed two cruises. embrace
ing the north half of the Pacific. These
cruises have supplied the data neces-
sary to revise the present magnetic
charts of the North Pacific. The Cali
lee is now undertaking a voyage of
the world, going from San Diego to
Valparaiso, Rio de Janeiro, Washing
ton, across the Atlantic to the Cape of
Good Hope, into the Indian ocean and
across the Pacific by way of the Philip
pines. The result of this voyage will
be the collection of data that will ad-
NIT of the preparation of new charts
of magnetic declinatiOn embracing it's
whole course of circumnavigation of the
globe.
The work thus done will greatly IA
cilitate navigation. 1t is also prom
ised that it is the beginning of sur
veys and observation destined at some
time in the distant future to solve the
mystery of terrestrial magnetism and
work out the laws that govern it's vari-
ations. These results will have two
values, in that the revised charts will
add to the safety of navigation by
showing the detection of the needle
from the true north in all the seas that
are the highways of commerce.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03

the killing, or out Of his mind when
he did 1t. Simple enough, It would
| seem, in fact.
But what is the result7 Nearly nine
months elapse ere the murderer is
brought to trial. Meanwhile, an awful
| cesspool of immortality is opened and
minds are filled with undreamed Of
nastiness. Lives are besmirched; repu-
tations ruined; honor is traduced and
happiness is slain forever to hundreds.
Finally the murderer is brought into
court, and what ensues? Is he put on
the stand to tell his story? Are wit
nesses called to substantiate or deny
It? Does the jury pass upon his guilt
or innocence? No. A woman, the
murderer's wife, is set forth and COM
PEELED to cruelty her own soul and pub
lish her infamy to a gaping world.
while the real culprit is never called
to the witness stand. Experts contra
dict experts; lawyers battle and plot
and scheme, legal hairs are split and
legal phrases are argued; the real is
sue is befuddled and obscured, dis
torted and destroyed. In the end the
jury will go forth obsessed by conflict
ing expert" testimony, wrought upon
by woman's published shame, harried
by tears and woes and counsels argu-
ments, and yet never having heard one
reason backed by common sense, or the
slayer's own story from his own lips.
Is this Justice? Is this the way to
uphold the right and punish the wrong
doer? Rather isn't it playing with the
blindfolded goddess with loaded dice,
and a foreordained purpose to win?
why continue such a farce? Why en-
eavor to punish murderers at all when
their trials are but spectacles for the
prurient minded and material for a
yellow press holiday?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03

Superior judges of Los Angeles have
determined that. in so far as the law
win permit them to act, they will make
divorce more and more difficult. They
are particularly ambitious to discourage
those eastern men and women who have
come across the mountains for the ex-
press purpose of procuring one of "those
easy Los Angeles divorces" And to
that end they viii search the testimony
for every indication of connivance, or
agreement, or a special residence in this
city for divorce reasons only. In this
determination the judges win have the
hearty support of all Californians. This
state and city must not be made the
Mecca for infelicitous tourists. or put
in the Dakota category.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03
OUR FIREPLACE

A big fireplace is mighty queer
An must be treated right.
Or else it's morn like as not
You'll sit an freeze all night
The fire you'll coax, an give it pokes
But If it's mad, it only smokes.
When grandpa's home, we're always
He piles wood high an higher.
We can't sit near the fire.
Then grandpa pokes, an father jokes
About his fire that flames and smokes.
The way a fire to build.
An brings a backlog in so big
The whole fireplace is filled.
o course 1t smokes, then grandpa jokes
An laughs, while father pokes an
pokes.
But when they both are gone away
Our old fireplace is great!
We sit up close. an mother. sews,
An tells me stories that she knows,
An let's me stay up late.
When no one pokes. 1t never smokes;
So me an mother have our jokes
All to ourselves, about some folks!
May Kelly in Woman's Home Com
panion.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03
FAMOUS "GIRL-PIE" DINNER
FROM the New york world.

w Nnfk MOElOs
sary. Mrs. Cowdn was in Europe. Mr.
Breese had offered his studio. There
were thirty-two guests, and the dinner
cost SS50O or nearly s1t0 a person.
There were seventeen courses, and
champagne was served with every
course, nothing ut champagne from
CLANS to coffee well known man
served the dinner. and famous decorat-
ors and florists provided the interior
decorations of the studio. Two well
known artists models were present and
four banjo players and four jubilee
singers had been engaged to Keep the
music lively If there were signs OF lag
glng at any time.
The guests came. the cook did his
duty and the musicians worked hard,
but there seemed to be a feeling Of dis
appointment. The guests had come eX-
pedting something unique and had been
seated at a dinner, he duplicate OF
many others in Bohemia.
The men were beginning to light their
cigars when there came knock at the
door. and in response to an invitation
to enter. the door swung open and six
walters walked in, carrying on their
shoulders an immense pie. With much
ceremony it was deposited on the table.
Bird Perched in Air
The guests were given a brief inter-
val to view the plea round pastry,
huge, and covered with delcctable
appearing crust. The head waiter cut
the crust with a silver knife, and then
suddenly
From the center Of the pie popped
the head of Susie Johnson! The crust
fell back and twenty-four canaries flew
twittering about the room, while the
little model stood up covered only by
the accentuating simmer of black
gauze. Perched in her hair was black
bird.
AS the orchestra struck up the strains
Of -Four and Twenty Blackbirds Baked
in a Pie" Susie was lifted from the
pastry amid thunders of applause.
1t was the original touch that gave
color to the evening, and the cheers
were as much for the pretty little
blackbird as, for he man who con-
cocted the novelty. Evelyn Thaw says
Stanford White was the man.
The girls reputation was made from
that night. The day was no longer long
enough. She told her mother she had
been asked to pose by electric light
for an artist, who had written her to
come on the night of September 5, 1895
The girl returned early the next morn
luS. Slle Sdlu sllt udu SldStu dl d ulll-
ner with two other girls. She did not
say they were not models
Two days later she disappeared and
her parents heard no more of her They
went to the police and press, saying
that their daughter was held some
where in some studio building. One
man they seemed to have in mind, but
the name was not revealed
The case dropped out of sight and
was forgotten until Susie Johnson's s
marriage again made the pie girls story
gossip. The man who had
married her heard it and cast her off
and she died mserably and was buried
in potter's field But she had made one
night pleasant" for Stanford Whites
de
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03
THE SIN OF THE coPPENrERMA

Wtp ne teopPenter 1 man said a wicked word,
r., w HGn IN ne hltted his thumb one day,
En- 1 Know what it was. because I heard
En- it's somethin dassent say. ~
He girtowed us a house with rooms inside
- En- the rooms is full of floors;
my papas house, en- when he buyed
1t was nothin' but just outdoors
En- they they planted stones in a hole for
p En- that's how the house began. s.s-
But 1 bet the stones would have iusfT
growed weeds, 's
Except for the coppenter man.
En- the ,coppenter man took a board en-
said N'
He'd skin it en- make some curls.
En- hung EN- onto my ears en- head.
En- they made me look like girls
En- he squinted along one side. he did.
En- then he told me. You souint ii. kid"
Cause the coppenter mans reel nice.
But the coppenter man said wicked
When he hitted his thumb that day;
He said 1t out loud, too, cause l heard,
En- it's something 1 dassent say.
En- the coppenter man said it wasn't bad.
When you hitted your thumb kerspatl
End there'd be no coppenter men to be
If it wasn't for words like that.
En- if there wasn't no coppenter men,
Wed all have to live in the barn,
Cause there wouldn't be any houses. en-
then,
Then what would we do-by darn!
En- the coppenter man said a wicked
word,
When he hitted his thumb one day,
En- l know what it was, because I heard
n fV,S T
Edmund Vance Cook in Woman's Home
Companion.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03
KANSAS AND ADVERTISING

From the fertile prairies of Kansas
no longer poor and populistic, but pros
porous and inclined to be plutocratic,
there comes a surprising statement.
Perhaps 1t would be more accurate to
say it would be surprising if anything
which happened in Kansas had any
longer the power to astonish the nation
At all events, it is asserted that Gov
ernor Hoch wants authority from the
legislature of that commonwealth to
engage a press agent who shall be eX-
pected to set before the people of the
effete east the abounding opportunities
which it offers to persons who wish to
improve their condition in life. For
some states such a policy might seem
worth while. But not for Kansas. For
that community has managed to keep
pretty consistently to the fore in news
chronicles ever since the early days
when strife was hot over the issue
whether It's territory should be slave or
free. To go back only few short
years, who can forget the fame con-
ferred on Kansas by Simpson the SOCK
less, Peffer the bearded, and Mary Ell
len Lease, of the strident voice and the
unmeasured vocabulary? How shall
the rise of populism, or the plaques of
locusts and the succession of drouths
which had so much to do with creating
that form of political belief, be erased
from the public mind? And there was
Carrie Nation, also, with her little
hatchet and her antics which attracted
the attention of the whole country.
Likewise do not the rest of us, residing
in less favored climes, regularly hear,
at the appropriate times and seasons,
of the despair of the Kansas farmers,
because their lands grow such huge
crops that they cannot get men enough
to harvest them? And is not the pros
porous condition of the aforesaid
farmers continually reflected in the
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03
POETRY OF THE FUTURE

When Peary has found the north pole
And the Panama canal Is finished
And the negro question is satisfactor-
lily answered.
And English spelling is reformed.
And we have universal peace.
And politicians are all honest
And there really are no trusts
And coal costs only fifty cents a ton
And life insurance is absolutely square.
And fee is delivered free.
And the city pays taXes'to the citizen
And all men promptly pay all their
debts.
And the steam trains and electric cars
will walt for you.
And the Cape Cod canal project is for
gotten.
And men get home before ten O'clock
at night, invariably sober.
And school children really love their
teachers.
And the churches are regularly
crowded.
Then life will be so sweetly poetic
That all poetry can be written
Like this
Right off the bat.
Without thought.
Without meter.
-Somerville Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03

Any boozer in the dlspensary state
needs relief.
SPLENDID TRIBUTE TO WOMAN
HOOD
Some Of the guests had not the
pleasure Of seeing their hostess in
twenty years, and the unanimous op,n-
ion was she had attained the highest
development, full of the lovable ana
ennobling traits that are concomitant
OF a true homemaker.-Piqua (ohio)
Call.
only a good listener makes a good
husband.
Maine reports the Holsters scarce.
Cheer up the summer resort season
isn't far off.
THE REAL BLAME
IL things are running badly and vour 1,,ot.
is very punk,
Blame it on the sunspoti
If all the air is indigo. and Vol, oro IL
funk. ''' III
Blame It on the sunspoti
Old Sol is on an awful bat. and b,ozir.
furlously;
If you will get a telescope you easily
can see
What's wrong, so never worry; down
hearted do not be-
Blame it on the sunspot!
If you can't pay your little bills, and
fnd that you are broke.
Blame it on the sunspoti
If, every time you get ahead, YOU'RE
beaten by some blole,
Blame 1t on the sunspot!
There's an excuse for every woe that
everyone can see;
1t doesn't happen often, SO grasp its ex-
pediency;
Some fellows may think it's pretty lame.
but 1t has well served me
Blame it on the sunspot!
You see the suns so far away that he
can't really kick
Blame 1t on the sunspotl
So lay it on as heavily, and plaster n
real thick
Blame it on the sunspot!
1t can't hurt Sol a little bit; he doesn't
care a d.:
Go right on with your punishment; he'll
take it like clam;
Be wise and worl't for all its worth: Won
bet your life 1 am!
Blame it on the sunspotl
w. II. C.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03

published accounts which veracious,,,
relate how their bank balances are
swelling and how they are beginning
to discard the "horse and buggy" Of
tlme-honored memory for gasoline whiz
cars costing many sheckels. A press
agent for Kansas, indeed! The idea is
preposterous.-Phil Bulletin
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03

Acceptance of plans for the new $780,
coo Arcade depot marks an important
era in the railway development of Los
Angeles. The depot will be a splendid
structure, an honor to the city and to
the Southern Pacific railroad.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03

Get ready for the Shriners. They are
coming literally across the hot sands of
the desert. to the number of nearly 100, =
900, and their sojourn with us must be
redolent of sunshine and flowers and the
perfume of the orange blossoms.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03
WHERE ROOSEVELT FAILS


Is the American effort to dig the
Panama canal end in as big scan
dal and failure as marked that of
France?
No one believes that it will Yet it is
plain, even to the most optimistic, that
decided changes must be made in the
methods of work. and an emphatic ad-
justment of the personnel is required
or a tremendous "fuke" will ensue, de-
spite all of Americas skill, persistency
and money.
The canal project so far has been one
gigantic series of errors 1t took many
years to adjust the preliminaries, in
Guiding about as disgraceful an episode
of international chicanery as ever be-
smirched the American scutcheon. But
in the course of affairs, by fair means
or foul, the time arrived when all that
remained was to dig the ditch, and the
people willingly, even gladly, overlooked
all the questionable preliminaries and
merely voiced one demand: Let the
dirt fy!"
4DuN 10 IllC I'll l AiS III 4NOl " a llOllCt-
able extent. Instead every move or sug-
gestion of a move is met with wrang-
ling, uncertainty, indecision. First it
is to be a waterway on the ocean level.
Plans and estimates are based on this
scheme, and a commission of experts
approves it. But no sooner does this be-
come the policy than an entire change
| is made, and the questionable expedient
of a lock channel is the rule. A gor-
geously numerous commission is ap
pointed it hardly organizes before it
is dismissed and a small one is named.
A press agent is hired before he de-
livers a blast of hot air he is fired"
The chief engineer resigns amid scorn-
full Safeguarding. A correspondent re-
ports his views of the situation from
personal observation and his veracity
is impeached. The president. makes a
long heralded tour of the canal zone
and exploits glowingly the dress parade
features. The head of the commission
quits for better job and the chief
engineer is boosted to his job. Chinese
are selected as laborers and the unions
raise such a howl that the decision is
reversed. Contract bids are asked, ac-
cepted, refgured and turned down. The
chief engineer resigns and the entire
enterprise drops into headless chaos.
And there it stands today, with the
ditch still undug; with no one in
charge; with no settled plan for it's
done; no nothing.
1t is announced now that army en-
gineers will undertake the task. They
should have had it in charge from the
first This is the initial step made
along sane and reasonable lines. 1t, is
not announced how the work is to be
done-whether by contract, day labor,
or under army control. Nothing; no
body knows. The whole situation is in
an awful muss, and the dirt doesn't
fly any faster than it did under De
Lesseps.
Isn't it time that we pulled ourselves
together and dug that ditch? Surely,
here isn't a job to daunt the great
United States. Cut the red tape and
get busy on it. Decide on plan and
stick to it. Tell the army engineers
to get busy; give them the money and
tell them to dig That's all there is to
it. Nearly one-half the expected time
of completion has elapsed and the task
isn't fairly begun. This won't do;
Americans are not accustomed to any
such methods. Get busy!
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03

Ninety of Ben. Wards deputy asses
sors will be turned loose tomorrow
upon the community. Treat them
kindly. They mean well. And try and
tell them the whole truth.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03

But if Hartman built the canal
wouldn't it be his? And isn't one of
it's very purposes to defeat his owner
ship of every means of transit in the
United states?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03

The digging of the Panama canal is a
job just about Harriman's size, How
can he bear to fiddle with little things
like railroads while that big ditch re-
mains undug?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03

Inyo county has no occasion to fight
Los Angeles and the aqueduct measure.
Inyo has no better friend than this
city and in the near future that friend
ship will become apparent to all.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03

The County Good Roads association is
at last on a permanent basis, but the
city good paving aggregation is still
very much up in the air.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03

About all of Butte is in the unions
and about all the unions are on strike
The puzzle is, whom do the strikes hurt
save the unions who are striking?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03

The courts have decided that school,
masters have a right to whip bad
scholars, in loco PARENTS. One more
reason why boys won't love their school
teachers
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03

Now that Brothers Wyatt and Earl
have made up, possibly the Way Freight
will mention the fact that the Mason
has an occasional good show within it's
walls.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03

The Y. w. c. A. has raised more than
the $15O,OOO required. Then let the
hustling young women give themselves
a banquet with the surplus. They de-
serve it.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03

With the reopening of traffic on the
Salt Lake railroad many tourists who
have waited for a certain way to get
into Los Angeles will be accommodated.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03
Population of Los Angeles, Isl 1854

Talked to death" would be a fitting
epitaph for the ship subsidy bill.