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Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-12
GOOD NIGHT" HORSE is
COMING WITH RINGLINGS
One of the Best Trained Equines in
World Takes off Its Clothes
and Goes to Bed Like
Man

The good night" horse, one of the
members of Riccobonos company of
marvelously trained equines, created
such a sensation in Europe last winter
by its wonderful display of intelligence
that the entire act, together with Ric-
cobono, the greatest of all the worlds
animal trainers, was engaged as one of
the trained animal features with Ring
ling Brothers circus this season.
This wonderful horse, as the act is
presented. comes home to it's family
wearing boots, hat, coat and pants.
After supper eaten at a table it reads
the sporting page of the evening paper.
When the clock strikes ten, it lights
candle, goes to it's bed, pulls the covers
down, takes off its boots and coat, blows
the candle out, climbs into bed draws
the covers over and closes it's eyes. Then
with the true instinct of the sex, the
wife deftly goes through it's pockets.
Never in any country has an animal act
displayed such wonderful skill in the
training of the brute mind as does this
one. No other act to approach 1t has
ever been seen in this country or any
other.
Kerslake's pigs which climb ladders
shoot the chutes and play leap-frog are
other examples of fine animal training
to be seen with this show. Kerslake
also has a company of trained ponies
and mules that do many astonishing
things. Others of interest along this
line are the three herds of Ringing
Brothers elephants directed by Pearl
Souder in an entirely new act and a
troupe of comical trick horses trained
and managed by Nola Satterfield
The same measure of excellence noted
in these trained animal acts is found in
all the other individual specialties that
go to make the greatest circus perform
ance ever witnessed. European talent
predominates throughout, and the result
is an entertainment of great novelty and
variety. All of the sixty acrobats, the
forty riders, the thirty aerialists, the
fifty clowns and the various other kinds
of performers have been selected from
the amusement arenas of the world with
view to giving the people new things
to look at
Not content with being the biggest and
best circus In the world the Ringing
Brothers great organization is even still
larger than last year, and though 1t has
always taken the lead in the acquiring Of
novelties, 1t never before had SO many
as this season. The engagement is to be
for three days, commencing Monday, Sep
TENDER 70, and two performances will be
given each day. AS in the past a down
town branch office will be opened in the
store of the Bartlett Music comnanv.
where reserved seats and admissions NAV
be bought all show day at the same
prices charged at the ticket wagon.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-12
HORRORS! PAINT ON
BENCH IS FRESH
AND YOUNG WoMAN's NEW SILK
DRESS Is RUINED
Fair Victim Thinks City Ought to Sup
ply New Gown, Spoiled Ee-
cause Bad WestIake Boys
Switched Signs

Mischievous boys ruined a young
woman's dress by means of a painted
park bench and switched signs and the
victim has asked the city to refund the
cost II the dress is ruined in the clean
ing process.
The park commissioners yesterday
referred the complaint of Miss Heller
Guenther, the victim, to the city attor.
ney and also sent instructions to al
park foremen to hide freshly painted
benches until they are thoroughly dry
In this case it is claimed that paint
signs had been literally distributed
but some Katzenjammer kids saw an
opportunity to play joke.
Here is Miss Guenther's plant:
"a week ago last Sunday (Sep-
TENDER u I was walking In West
lake park and noticed some
benches with paint" signs on
them, so when I desired to sit and
rest I went to a bench without a
sign on 1t, felt the seat to see If it
was dry and sat down.
when arose there was great
streak of green paint across the
back of my skirt from one of the
bars which form the back of the
bench.
II have consulted with clean
ing works manager here, and he
states that the dress will have to
be cleaned at my risk and will
probably be returned with holes
in 1t.
Before taking the risk I would
like to know If the city will pay
for the dress If 1t is ruined, as 1t is
new silk and 1 have to earn my
own living and can't afford to have
such a nice dress ruined after
three or four wearings.
please see what you can do"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-12
CARRYING GUNS BRINGS
CHAIN GANG SENTENCE
Young Men Suspected of Being High
way Robbers VIII Be Forced
to Repair the City's
Roads

e. M. Reid and George Vermont, the
young men who were arrested several
days ago on suspicion that they were
highway robbers, were fined 500 each
on a charge of carrying concealed
weapons by Police Judge Austin yester-
day.
The young men did not have the money
and will be forced to work on the chain
gang for ninety days.
1--WE could not find sufficient evidence
against the men to connect them with
any robbery" said Capt Paul Flammer
but we are confident they have beer
interested in several which have oc-
Cured here. 1t is probable we will BIT
able to place some charge against them
when they are released.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-12
THE SANTA ROSA
GOES AGROUND
THREE HUNDRED PASSENGERS
ARE ABOARD
When Danger Is Seen to Be Small
They All Return to Breakfast.
Vessel Continues on
Northern Trip

What might have been very serious
shipwreck was narrowly averted yes
terday morning when the Pacific Coast
Steamship companys large steamer
Santa Rosa ran aground off Portuguese
bay in heavy fog.
The steamer had been plodding through
dense fog ever since o'clock in the
morning. About o'clock Captain E.
Alexander in command of the vessel,
thinking that he was passing Point Vim
cente and that he heard the fog whistle
at the point, gave orders to turn the
steamers nose in the direction of Re-
dondo.
The ship was moved in that direction,
when after it had sailed several knots
it ran ashore amid the rocks of Portu-
guese bay Then the mistake was learned
and Captain Alexander discovered that
instead of sailing for Redondo he had
made for just the opposite direction,
having turned a point or so too soon.
When the danger was understood, the
crew quietly informed the passengers of
what had occurred, but stated that there
was little or no danger to be feared as
there was but little sea running. Captain
Alexander offered the boats and life
preservers at his disposal for those who
feared that the situation might be SER
ious, but everybody seemed to have
placed implicit confidence in the crew.
Three Hundred Passengers Aboard
There were about 300 passengers aboard
at the tine of the accident. Most of
them were at the breakfast table. When
they knew what had happened, but that
they were perfectly safe, they went back
to their breakfasts, in nonchalant man
ner, fully confident that though there
VIC would
come out all right.
An old salt, Captain Treaty., who was
aboard, offered his assistance to the crew
and walked ten miles to the nearest
telephone to inform San Pedro harbor and
the Bannings of what had occurred.
Ships were sent to the relief of the
stricken steamer, and before long the
Santa Rosa had pulled herself from the
rocks with but a few scratches, and
later on in the day continued her sail
for San Francisco, whittier she is bound.
According to several of the passengers
had the wind been few degrees stronger
or the sea in the slightest running con-
dition, steamer would certainly have
sunk. AS it was there was little water
that managed to get into the vessel at all.
This was easily pumped out.
The crew do not blame the captain.
They say he did what he knew as best.
Captain Alexander is sea captain of
long experience and has been in the
service of the Pacific Steamship company
for over II years. When questioned con-
corning the accident he said:
ut was a matter that could hardly
be avoided, except by mere chance. The
fog we pulled through was the heaviest
in my many years of seattle experience.
am thankful that we did not meet with
worse fate"
Before the vessel sailed for San Fran
cisco it was thoroughly inspected by var
ious inspectors of the steamship com
pany and pronounced as safe.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-12
CHEAP THEATERS LEAD
TO GIRLS DOWNFALL
Mother Requests Police to Detain Hell
Daughter, Whose Ambition to
Be Actress Prompts Her
to Leave Home :.

Nellie Enright, 16 years of age; living
at Watts, was arrested by Detectives
Hosick and Zeigler yesterday noon at
the request of the girls mother She
was booked at the central station on a
charge of being an incorrigible. Later
she was taken to the detention home.
According to Mrs. Enright the girl
wishes to go on the stage and has been
expenolng all her spare money attending
cheap shows.
A week ago the girl left home and
Mrs Enright waited until yesterday for
her return. The woman then decided to
notify the police, and few hours later
the detectives found her daughter stand
ing in front of cheap variety theater
on Main street.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-12
DEPUTY CONSTABLE ARRESTED
FOR DISTURBING THE PEACE

Deputy Constable f. B. Jones was ar
rested in a Spring street barber. shop
yesterday by Patrolman Whaling and
booked at the central station on a charge
of disturbing the peace.
Jones got into a row with the porter
over the price of shoe shine and flashed
his star and announced that he was a
plain clothes officer.
A telephone message was sent to police
headquarters for an officer to arrest a
drunken policeman. The deputy was
held at the jail in. default of s25 bond
and when the matter was reported to
Constable Cleveland the appointment of
Jones was revoked. He will be prose-
cuted in police court this morning on
several charges.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-12
Held for PassIna Bad Checks

SAN DIEGO, Sept. u.-G. e. Slater, who
was wanted by the police of several cities
for passing checks without funds to meet
the same, was arraigned and held for
trial. Slater was arrested by the police of
Portland and was brought to San Diego
for passing spurious checks upon Victor
Wankowslxi of this city.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-12
Lost and Found

Lost, between $3.50 p. m. yesterday and
noon today. a bilious attack, with nausea
and sick headache. This loss was oc-
casioned by finding at DEANS DRUG
CO.. box of DR.. Kings New Life Pills
guaranteed for biliousness. malaria and
taundice, Csc
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-12

c. R. Strombach. night clerk of the
Westminster has taken a vacation to
extend for several weeks. He will
spend most of his time at San Fran
cisco, but will make stopovers at the
principal cities along the coast line,
principally Santa Barbara and Sacra-
mento.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-12

In the future The Herald will issue to sub
scribers holding six months contracts Tho
Housekeeper, instead OF the Woman's Home
Companion The Housekeepcr is preferred by
many OF our patrons. It is bright. full of az
cellent articles Of especial interest to women.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-12

w. w. Hunt, a merchant of New
York city, has taken his headquarters
at the Angelus hotel of this city for
some time during an indefinite vaca-
ton period.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-12

H. w. Gilmour notable capitalist
of San Jose, is stopping at the West
minister He is here on short bust
ness trip.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-12

Wallace Munro, manager of the
Louis James theatrical company, is at
the Van Mugs pending the arrival of
the noted actor.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-12

Governor Cutler of Utah Is still at
the Hotel Westminster, but is rarely
Gin" these days, most of his time be-
ing engaged in social entertainments
and business. He was at Pasadena all
day yesterday. He is expected in a
day or so.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-12

L. Achaud, a well known represen-
tative of New York city firm, is at
the Angelus. He is canvassing the
entire state in behalf of his concern.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-12

I. Cohn, a prominent New Yorker, is
at the Alexandria hotel. He will spend
some time in Los Angeles previous to
his return to the east Just at present
he is taking a much needed rest from
his business worries.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-12
AT THE HOTELS

George C. Power, a prominent attor-
ney of Ventura county, is at the An
gelus for a few days to attend to a
little business which necessitates his
presence in this city.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-12
$l.30 White HabutaI Sl.l5

500 yards of this splendid white washable silk heavy
quality full SO inches wide regular selling price SLY
today aisle II, Sis
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-05
GIRLS BODY FOUND IN LAKE
Death of a Pretty Schoolteacher a
Mystery.

Dover, N. ]. Especially In the
clear waters Of Lake Hopatcong the
body of Miss Agnes Mcguire, pref
tX young school teacher of No. 26
Second Place. Brooklyn, was found
after search lasting from Saturday
night, when she mysteriously disap-
peared from buggy, while her cous-
in. Charles Mcguire, had left her
only few minutes to go into a cot
tage at Nolans Point, on the shore
of the lake
The death of the young woman is
attended with peculiar circumstances,
and the Morris County authorities
are bewildered in their effort to solve
the case. OF the many theories pre-
scented, the supposition that the
young woman may have been muir
dered. has led to the surveillance by
detectives of a man, who, 1t is said
would be arrested should he attempt
to leave the point.
On the other hand, there is a
theory that the young woman COM
mitted suicide, although this is
secuted by her relatives. She had
been in i'll health recently. it is said,
but never showed any signs of mel
ancholia.
A circumstance which led to this
belief on the part of the coroner and
others who view the body is the alb
sence of the silk shirt which the
girl wore. The indication are that
she removed this before going into
the lake. A careful examination
made by the coroner convinced him
that the girl must have removed this
outside skirt herself. The rest of
the clothing was in perfect order,
disproving entirely the theory that
she had been waylaid by anyone.
Some credence is attached to the
presumption that the young woman's
death was due to an accident. Her
friends say lightning always terri
fed her greatly, and that she prob
ably became nervous and alarmed on
account of a fierce storm that was
raging at the time, so that, leaving
the buggy in unreasoning fear, she
ran toward the lake and fell in.
The drowning theory is discredit-
ed by several, however. 1t was
pointed out by one expert swimmer
that the water along the banks was
scarcely deep enough for a person to
drown in accidentally.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-05
Poor American Women,

"The man in America may correct
his wife when he can, just as the
mother may correct her daughter
when she dares," walls Mr.. Henry
James in Harper's Bazaar; "but no
more man may correct a mere women
in any contingency whatever, since
this undermines the whole theory of
queenship at which we have already
glanced. He has abdicated his right
to take his stand on what pleases
him, and can accordingly but shift it
all ruefully, in the service of his
mate, to those perilous lodges which
represent all the admonitory margin
now left him. In societies other
than ours the male privilege of cor
rection springs, and quite logically,
from the social fact that the male is
the member of society primarily act
ing and administering and primarily
listened to-whereby his education,
his speech, his tone, his standards
and connections, his general 'compe-
tence, as l. have called it, color the
whole air, react upon his companion,
and establish for her the principal
relation she recognizes. The ques-
ton of her speech-as the simplest
Observation-Disclosures, for instance, my
whole contention with light; just as
the question of her talk follows it
very close. Supreme thus in any
atmosphere of the liberal education
the law that the man claiming to be
accepted as civilized shall speak as
gentleman, and vital therefore the
testimony he so renders.
at is from his maintenance of ii
that the woman, as a social creature,
gets her lead and her cue and her
best sanction for her maintenance of
hers; since she is never at all thor
oughly well-bred person unless he
has begun by having a sense for it
and by showing her the way"
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-05
Gloves in Summer.

We learn that the feminine fashion
In Newport this Summer is to go
about ungloved. The same fashion
has long prevailed at Cottage City
and other favorite resorts. The OBJ
ject OF wearing gloves is threefold:
First, to keep the hands warm; sec
ondly, to keep them clean (hence the
commuters summer hand covering) !;
thirdly, to hide the hands.
The feminine hands of Newport are
shapely and clean, and there is no
reason for hiding them. The same
is true of the feminine hands of Cot
tage City. The climate of both places
in summer is sufficiently salubrious
to render gloves unnecessary for the
purpose of warmth. Wherefore we
applaud the women of Newport for
adopting the fashion of Cottage City.
But if the girls are going to dis
card gloves, let them discard them
altogether. The habit of going about
with the arm part of a long glove in
place, and the hand thrust out of it,
lending to the wrist distressingly
pachydermatous appearance, is I'M
lovely and lorable.-Editoria in
the New York Times.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-05
A Point of Vinr.

Miss Marie Corelli has been repri-
manding her erring sisters with a
good deal Of severity in the pages OF
Harper's Bazaar. She has had so much
fault to find with them that her
seedlings have lasted for weeks. She
has stood them in corners, with their
faces to the wall, and lectured them
on the foolishness and the naughti-
ness of their ways. With a rod In
one hand and a dunce-cap in the
other, she has meted out discipline
to all.
Especially has Miss Corelli chidden
and slapped those perverse women
who want to play an open game in
politics. who seek that forbidden
fruit, the franchise. She says they
scream, and yell, and brandish UNI
brellas-which is certainly very
wrong; and that they are "libelous
caricatures of effeminate men, ="
which is certainly much to be re-
GREETED. She points out to them that
vote apiece is no great thing after
all; for that, as matters now stand,
she has forty or fifty male voters at
her beck and call, ready to do pre-
cisely as she bids them.
This statement throws lurid light
on English local politics. What are
our American bosses compared to
this leading lady? What are our
shackles compared to this unques-
tioning submission? What are
our stupidities compared to the en-
feebled intellects of those forty or
fifty obedient Saxon voters? Miss
Corelli's whole view OF the situation
is unusual; but then one must admit
that her experience is unusual, too.
"The clever woman" she says, "sits
at home, and, like meadow spider,
spreads pretty web of rose and gold.
spangledwith diamond dew. Flies
or men-tumble in by scores. and
she holds them all prisoners at her
pleasure with a silken strand as fine
as hair. Nature gave her at birth
! the right to do this; and, If she does
1t well, she will always have her web
full"
1t is very interesting; especially
when one remembers that the mea-
dow spider eats her flies, and, later
on, eats her spider husband, too. 1t
sounds like the kind of thing that
Madame de Pompadour might have
thought, but would have been far
too clever to say. 1t is the novelist's
outlook upon our simple workaday
world. Does it ever occur to Miss
Corelli that an unpretending woman
might feel herself entitled to her own
vote, without having the faintest am
bition to control fifty male voters; or
that a woman of ordinary parts
might find captive flies the least in
spiriting OF companions.-Agn
Rspplier. in Life.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-05
Teaching the Baby to walk.

Unless the child shows some incli-
nation to stand on his feet by pulling
himself up on your lap, or by some
piece of furniture, it is not wise to
urge him, says Mariana Wheeler,
the leading American authority on
babies, writing in Harper's Bazaar;
but IL he takes the initiative then a
moderate amount of assistance can
be given, such as by placing the
hands around the child's chest to
assist in steadying him, or by lifting
him so that the feet touch a table,
chair or any fat surface. Then allow
him to give light springs or jumps
from the resisting body, supporting
him so that only about one-half his
weight rests on his feet. This is
good exercise, and enables the child
to gain confidence without forcing
him in any way. A little later, when
he has learned to stand firmly on
his feet and shows a desire to take
steps by stretching his hands toward
you, take them in yours and let him
take two or three steps, no more.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-05
FIFTEEN ARE DEAD
AND fifty INJURED
Electric Tra,Is Collide at High Speed
In Him.
THE ORDERS ARE misunderstood.
Motorcar and Trailer Collide With a
Traction Car Head-on, and So Great
Was the Speed That Few Passengers
Had Time 10 Jump Before the Crash
Came

Mattoon, Ill. (Special). - Fifteen
persons were killed and about so
injured I'm a head-on collision be-
tween an interurban express train,
consistiSg of a motor car and a
trailer. and a traction car on the
Mattoon and Charleston Electric Line
at sharp curve one mile west of
Charleston, Ill. A confusion OF or
ders received over the telephone is
said to have been the cause of the
accident.
The cars approached each other at
high speed, and the impact was so
terrific that the motor car and the
trailer were telescopcd by the trac-
ton car. Few passengers had time
to escape by jumping. Most of the
passengers were going to the Coles
County Fair, at Charleston.
Nation sent special cars to the
wreck, and the dead and injured
were brought to the morgue and the
hospital. Several OF the injured
may die
Doctors end citizens hurried from
Charleston to the disaster. dragged
dead and injured from the broken
mass of timbers and seats, and gave
first aid to the manned. The dead
were laid along side the track The
victims could not be taken to Char
lesion because the track was block
ed in that direction and the relief
car MattOon was awaited
The line on which the disaster
happened is II miles long, running
between Mattoon and Charleston, ILL.,,
and has but a single track Tele-
phones are placed every two miles
for orders to be transmitted to the
cars passing over the road
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-05
Numbering The Stars.

The 100 million stars usually sup
posed to be shown by telescopes and
photographs may be taken as a max
imum estimate. From the counts on
photographs. Mr.. Gore gets an aver
age Of 4.137 stars per square de-
gree in the Milky Way, 1882 near
the Milky Way. and 40S in the
nongalactic regions. Combining
these results with Professor Picker
ings. the grand total of stars is
found to be 64,1S4,757. Stars too
faint to photograph would increase
the number. as would also clusters.
one of which has $4,000 stars per
degree.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-05

A Washington educator is telling
g story about young medical stu
dent of his who is interested in insan-
ity symptoms and is a sort of anna
,teur alienist. The other day the
student got a chance to visit one of
the wards in the asylum for the in
sane. and having heard that there
was a man confined there who la
bored under the hallucination that he
was God the student asked that he
be allowed TO see that patient first,
as he appeared the most promising
Cor his Investigation. He was taken
to the ward where the lunatic was
confined and the following conversa-
ton ensued:
Student-Are you the Deity?
Lunatic-From everlasting unto
everlasting. 1 am he.
Student-WeIl; I've been looking
for you for long time 1 have a
question to ask you. How do you
reconcile the doctrines OF predestina-
ton and free will?
The lunatic drew himself up to his
full height and giving the medico
a scornful glance replied: MY dear
sir, 1 never talk shop. "-Washingt
Star.