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Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27
CHICAGO CHILDREN ARE
REMEMBERED BY SANTA
CHARITABLE SOCIETIES PRESENT
MANY GIFTS
Nearly 1000 Letters Addressed to
Saint Nicholas Pass Through
Hands of Clerks in
Post Office

CHICAGO, Dec. 26.-Nearly 1000 let
ters addressed to Santa Claus were
confided to the Chicago postoffice
facilities this year by trustful or hope
full children whose sentiments were ex-
pressed by one, thus:
My Papa says 'twon't be no use
For me to go ahead
And hang my stocking up this year,
For SAINT Claus is dead.
I'm just sorry as can be and
Papas sorry some;
'Twont be like Christmas time at all
If Santa does not come.
accordance with the postoffice de-
partment's ruling, officially recogniz-
ing Santa Claus, the letters were
tu ..ed over to charity organizations
churches and individuals The ad-
dresses used to reach the merry old
chap were various including Care OF
Jack Frost, Toyland," North Pole, Ice
land, care Chimney Department" An
other addressed him Downtown, Chi
cago," which was excusable, for Chi
ca-o spent almost $S,000,000 merely in
the biz stores and as much more else
where to buy Christmas cheer; one
store prepared for a quarter of a mil
lion people daily and then was
swamped.
The letters, written to Santa Claus
gifts might somehow come on Christ
mas eve to relieve the bleakness OF
childish lives, were not in vain. One
little girl wanted "a little broom so ]
can help mamma sweep" and another
wrote: Il understand that every Christ
r. you have a lot of things left over
If so, please send me a book and some
nuts and candy and l will be much
obliged"
The Salvation Army remembered
$4,000 people, the Volunteers of Amer.
lea gave banquet to 5000. Some OF
the big banks and coal companies gave
their employees Christmas gifts of golc
pieces, and every employe of the mail
order house, the gas company an6
many other companies was given a
Christmas turkey
A striking change in the attitude Of
the American public toward music as
serious profession is shown by the
warm support that Chicago is giving
TO a plan to pension aged members OF
I'll famous Theodore Thomas orches.
ira Unknown to most people this
unique band of musical enthusiasts has
preserved, amidst practical Chicago
traitions of mediaeval Germany, where
members of the same trade guild
were bound together with ties OF
mutual interest and affection almost as
strong as those of blood.
When one member of the orchestre
has a birthday the other members give
him dinner and play for him i'm
promptu and when one of them is II
trouble the rest get together and hell
him out. A pension fund is now being
started to provide for aged members
whose eyesight or hearing is beginning
10 fail. The announcement caused 9
hutter Of interest and excitement
among music lovers throughout the
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27
WAITRESS NEAR DEATH
FROM ESCAPING GAS
Young Woman Found Unconscious
in Bathroom in Lodging House
Is Hurried to Receiving Hos
pltaI and Revived

Molly Moore, a waitress employed at
the Applegate cafe, 6191z West Sixth
street, was overcome by gas In a batA
room in the lodging house above the res
taurant last night and had narrow es-
cape from death.
Miss Moore closed all the ventilators in
the bath room and turned on an In
stantaneous heater. After the oxygen
in the room was exhausted the gas flame
went out. but the fluid continued escap-
ing in the noon.
Mrs. E. Dwyer, the landlady, heard the
girl groaning in the room and broke open
the door. The police ambulance was
sent for and the girl was hurried to the
receiving hospital. She will recover.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27
COMPLAINING WITNESS
ABSENT; CASE DISMISSED
Man Charged with Shooting Enemy
in Fight at Hotel Given His
Liberty by Judge
Smith

The case against Charles King was dis
missed by Judge Smith yesterday because
of the absence of the complaining wit
ness, Charles Gray. who has left Los An
geles.
King and Gray worked on ranch at
San Fernando parting company after a
quarrel September 2s.
King came to Los Angeles. Gray fol-
lowing few weeks later. and both en-
gagged rooms at the same hotel.
AS they met at the head of the stairs
one morning King is said to have fired
three shots at Gray, grazing the flesh in
three places.
Gray was not severely injured His
whereabouts are unknown to the district
attorneys office.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27
SOLDIERS HOME WILL
HAVE CHRISTMAS TODAY

The w. Il T. U. will hold Christmas
exercises att the Soldiers home today.
The program will lbe in charge of Mrs.
Hester T. Griffith, who will tell of her
recent trip to Tennessee, where she at
tended the national convention.
Mrs. haggard Payne has arranged
musical program and homemade cake
will be distributed to the soldiers.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27
FIRE LIMITS REMAIN
UNCHANGED ON HILLS

No change will be made in the fire
limits between First. Hill and Bunker
Hill, the fire board reaching a conclusion
yesterday.
This is the district where exposure
makes a conhagration in the business
section likely If any of the frame struc-
lures on the hills take fire.
The commissioners agreed with Fire
Chief Waiter Lips that granting the
change asked for was a risky PROPOSE
ton.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27
Here's Good Advice

D. s. Woolever. one Of the best known
merchants of LIE Raysville. N. T., says:
"If you are ever troubled With piles APP
PLY Bucklen's Arnica Salve. 1t cured me
of them for good twenty years ago.
Guaranteed for sores, wounds. burns or
abrasions; Csc at Dean Drug Co.'s drug
store.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27
Musical Advertisements
L. E. Behymer

Manager of musical attractions ana the
great Philharmonic course. Singers
and instrumentalists furnished on ap-
plication for church choirs. recitals. re-
ceptions, clubs. societies and at homes.
Offices-Blanchard hall building. 344
and s45. Phones: Main 1888. Home
1880. Ex. &c.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27
sunday Excursions

TIL, Southern Pacific sells tickets at half
rates to all points east as far as Beaumont
and return. good only on Sunday. also on Santa
Ana branch. Fare to Riverside and Redlands
and return. Through the Orange Groves,
SOS. Beaumont. $2.45. and others. Informa-
tion at city ticket office 800 South snring
street. corner Sixth. or Arcade station
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27
DOOR OF HOPE HAS
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION

The inmates OF the Door of Hope were
the grateful recipients of presents from
a beautiful Christmas tree Wednesday.
Generous supporters of the home re-
membered the girls in true Christmas
spirit.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27
Pictures at Half Price

Choice OF any picture In our
stock at just half the marked
price. Some of these nre slightly
damaged from handling. They
are big bargains, every one of
them. Half OF Broadway regular
prices means more than half ex-
elusive store prices.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27

a HoLLENBEcK LODGE. NO. $40, F,
~ and A. NJ, will confer the third de-
AA gree Saturday. Dec. 2s, 1880 p m.
J. WILL DICK. Sec.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27
VIM. Edison Strebridgc
Pianist and organist Studio. room ass.
Blanchard bldg.
Nine. Genevra Johnstone- Bishop

TRINA donna, soprano. teacher of voics-
srite 342-343 Blanchard building.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27
7lLLPosTINe DEPARTMENT
PROVES ITS EFFICIENCY

Varney &c GREEN'S statement, just filed
adds $2373 to the city treasury for the
past nine months on the billboard tax
The billboard inspection department
checked up the company's statement and
found that the billposters had neglected
to schedule 1880 square feet.
This discovery is due to the rigid sys.
tenn maintained by the city since it in
troduced inspection, and many dollars oi
back taxes will flow into the city's Golfers
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27

Enrico Tramonti the great Italian
harpist is the soloist with the Thomas
orchestra this coming week in Chicago.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Lott sail on the
Majestic February A for home, reaching g
Los Angeles Some time in March.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27

From Brussels comes the news that Van
Dyke, the great tenor. has been promoted
to the rank of officer In the Order of
Leopold, and that Mr.. Gervaert, director
of the Brussels conservatory, has been
created a baron by the king.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27

The advance cash sale of "The Merr!
Widow" company, now playing at thu
New Amsterdam theater in New York
reached $9O, O,S4S.75 last Saturday night. 81
says the Courier, and practically ever.
seat in that enormous playhouse SOLE
for the next six weeks.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27

The Dominant club has it's usual "tea"
on Saturday. January 4, at the residence
of Miss Eva Pike, 22S9 West Sixteenth
street
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27

Ysaye appeared with the Queens Hall
Symphony orchestra December 20, receiv-
ing an ovation.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27

Miss Bessie Bartlett will begin her con-
cert tour in February.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27

In January Siegfried Wagner's new
opera. "Sternepgebot," will be given al
the Hamburg opera.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-27

Courier says: Miss Mary Garden need
not worry herself about any part of
America outside of New York. She could
not get any approval because her method
could not appeal successfully; 1T is not
musical"
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-07-11
Gems in senora.s stockIngs.

Embassy gossip revealed that
5000 a pair was the price Sonora
Creel, wife of the Mexican Ambassa-
dor, usually paid for her stockings,
and all Washington society, accus-
toned as it was to the liberality in
dress of this extremely rich woman,
fairly gasped. One of the Sonora S
dear five hundred friends" wnis-
pered that II the Ambassadors wife
had one weakness it was for jeweled
hosiery. Indeed. several of her finer
pairs, it was said, cost $500.
But 1t must be remembered that
the hose which the multi-millionaire
in petticoats wore on State occasions
in the past winter could be described
as of jewels and lace. The entire
front was made OF the finest lace,
covered with pearls, rubies or emer-
aids and diamonds, as the costume
required.
These stockings are seat by reg
istered express to a jeweler In Chi
huahua, where the gems are taken
out of the lace, The lace is sent to
an cAptIl ticducfs WHllt SIN
cleaner attends to the main body of
the stocking. Talk of five able-bod-
led men being required to give the
King OF France his chocolate in the
"good old daysl" The hosiery OF
Sonora Creel almost equals the
record.
Her shoes too, are as costly,
though no veraeious witness has re-
ported that the heels are of solid
gold studded with pearls.
All the elect of Washington are
wearing Mandarin coats in lieu OF
pony jackets or the conventionally
shaped evening wraps. Some are OF
costly Oriental embroideries and bro
caded silks. others are OF daintily
embellished linens. Mrs. James Gar
field is wearing light blue linen
with Cluny lace and the jacket is
wonderfully graceful. Ordinary lines
at the shoulder are obliterated in
the graceful effect OF the high class
Chinaman's outer garments. and
though certain persons aver snat the
nsw style resembles more . nealigss
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-07-11
Fertilizer For Corn.

II is the opinion OF many farmers
that commercial fertilizer does not
pay when applied to the corn crop.
1t is true that II does not when APP
piled as many apply 1t. In order
that commercial fertilizer may be
made to yield q profit on the corn
crop the soil should be well prepared
and well supplied with vegetable
humus. The commercial fertilizer
should be used to balance the plant
food in the soil, and since stable
manure is most deficient in phos-
phoric acid, It is often a good plan to
apply a moderate application of SUI
perphosphate to land where the
stable manure Is applied, or where
a sod is turned for corn. The fer
tilizer should be distributed all
through the sell rather than applied
to the hill in order to encourage the
roots to branch out all through the
sell in search OF food. A few years
ago saw an old field which had laid
out for years and had grown moth
Ing but broom sedge. 1t was regard
ed as worn out. The broom sedge
was turned and 200 pounds per acre
of a good grade superphosphate
drilled in with a common drill. Tho
field was put to corn and grew very
good crop of corn. In this part of
the country almost any old sod field
when well prepared will bring a
pretty good crop of corn with an ap-
plication of a phosphate only. II
the fertilizer is depended on to grow
the crop from year to year it will
soon cease to respond to such fer
tilization, but the proper plan to pur-
sue is to get such lands to grass or
clover as soon as possible and get
something to supply vegetable matter
to the SOIL
BY using the phosphate in connec-
tion with the stable manure the
manure can be made to go farther
and both being used together they
will give better returns than when
they are used separately.-A. j.
Legg. in The Epitomist.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-07-11
Feeding and Milk.

The fact that proper feed and good
care do make a difference in the
amount of milk which a COW will
the Modern Farmer;
Here is an illustration of the in
fiuence of proper feeding and good
care, and perhaps, proper milking.
The editor of the Modern Farmer
bought out of a dairy herd young
Jersey that had been giving milk
nearly year, first calf. She was CIV
ing less than two quarts of milk at
milking when she came to us and
had been sold because 1t did not pay
to milk her. She was very thin and
dirty, but very gentle and kindly dis
posed. We put her on good alfalfa
hay and what we thought to be the
proper feed, used the currycomb
freely, treated her kindly, milked her
regularly and properly. She is now
giving two and one-half gallons of
milk per day, and from all indica-
tions she has not yet reached the
limit. OF course, all dairy cows
would not respond in this way in so
short a time, about one month, but
many of them would, and those which
would not are not profitable cows to
keep. This heifer was probably cost
ing the party who had her as much
to keep her as II is costing the editor
of the Modern Farmer, but she was
not being fed on the right kind Of
feed, ear corn and timothy hay, to
produce milk. Perhaps the treat
ment and method of milking had,
also. something to do with it. but we
do not know anything about this.
We substituted alfalfa for the tim
othy, and ground corn for ear corn.
mixed with little bran, and pushed
her as fast as we thought safe, with
the result mentioned above. We will
leave our readers to draw their own
conclusions from our statement of
facts.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-07-11
New in the Way of Leashes.

Extremely doggy women in New
York's fashionable set have taken
up with something new in the way
of leashes. A little gold clasp fast
ened to the bottom of the skirt at
one sid 3 snapped into the ring
of the dog collar. Two women with
dogs attached were in one of the up
town department stores the other
day. Apparently the dogs had been
broken to the skirt leash, for they
trotted along at the side without
once getting under the feet of the
owner and without getting tangled
In the crowd. One of the women had
her dog fastened to the bottom of
a long coat, and this seemed to be
better than the skirt clasp. although
she had to keep the coat buttoned.
A good many persons who saw the
women wondered what would hap
pen If two of the skirt-leached dogs
took notion to mix it up.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-07-11
AGE Limits of Dairy Cows.

"A bulletin from the Wisconsin Sta
tion states that cow is at her best
during her fifth and sixth years, up
to which time the production of milk
and butter fat by cows in normal
condition increases each year. The
length of time the COW will maintain
her maximum production depends on
her constitution, strength and the
care with which she is fed and man
aged. A good dairy COW should not
show any marked falling off until
after ten years of age. Many excel
lent records have been made by cows
older than this. The quality of the
milk produced by heifers is somewhat
better than that of older cows, for a
decrease has been noted of one to
two-tenths of one per cent. in the av-
erage fat content for each year until
the COWS have reached the full age.
This is caused by the increase in the
weight of the cows with advancing
age. At any rate, there seems to be
a parallelism between the two sets of
figures for the same cows Young ami
mails use portion of their food for
the formation of body tissue, and 1t
is to be expected, therefore, that
heifers will require a larger portion
of nutrients for the production, of
milk or butter fat than do other cows.
After a certain age has been reached,
on the average seven years of age,
the food required for the production
of unit of milk or butter fat again
increases, both as regards dry matter
and the dlgestible components of the
food. A good milch COW of excep-
tional strength, kept under favorable
conditions, whose digestive system
has not been impaired by overfeedine
or crowding for high results, should
continue to be profitable producer
till her twelfth year. although the
economy of her production Is apt tc
be somewhat reduced before this age
is reached.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-07-11
Memory Of sIeepwalkers.

The memory of sleepwalkers is
occasionally prodigious under the ln-
tiuence of the dominating impulse
that moves them.
There is an instance of poor and
illiterate basket-make who was un-
able to read or write, yet in state
of sleep he would preach fluent SER
mons, which were afterward recog-
nized as having formed portions of
discourses he was accustomed to
hear in the parish church as a child,
more than forty years before.
Quite as strange case of "uncon-
scious memory" is referred to by
DR.. Abercrombie. A girl given to
sleepwalking was in the habit of imi-
tating the violin with her lips, giving
the preliminary tuning and scraping
and fourishing with the utmost fidel-
ity 1t puzzled the physician a good
deal until he ascertained that when
a child she lived in room adioin-
ing a fiddler, who often performed
on his violin in her hearing. Pear
sons Weekly.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-07-11
Alchemy In Vegetables.

The discovery of means of meta
morphosing radishes into potatoes
has been made in the Academy of
Sciences, Paris. The inventors
method, briefly described in popular
terms, is this: He takes very
young radish, "pasterizes" 1t in a
certain way and it grows up into a
fine potato. More scientifically, the
young radish is cultivated in glass
retort, after a process invented by
Pasteur, in a concentrated solution
of glucose Starch then develops
plentifully in the cells of the radish,
which swells out, loses its pepper
iness and acquires practically the
consistency, favor and especially the
nutritive properties of the potato.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-07-11
To Make a Suit Case.

The girl whose vacation journeys
are few and far between, and who
for that, as we'll as other reasons,
cannot afford to purchase a suit case,
may make one for herself If she will.
The case l wish to tell you of is
very appropriate for the summer va
cation fittings, and costs little or
nothing, as the foundation is nothing
more expensive that the pasteboard
boxes such as the tailored suits are
sent home in from the shops, and the
covering is the cool-looking straw
mating. This may be either the tea
chest mating, which your grocer
will give you for the asking, or it
may be one of the heavier Japanese
mattings, costing twenty-five cents a
yard, or less.
To make the case strong and dur
able as well as neat in appearance
two boxes are necessary. Carefully
take them apart, which will give you
twenty pieces of cardboard-that is,
four sides. four ends and four top
portions to each box, or five pieces
to each section of the boxes. Take
ten of these sections (the various
parts OF one complete box) and lay
them on the mating for a pattern,
cutting 1t the same size. Now take
bias strips OF brown linen and bind
each piece neatly; the sewing ma
chine will do the work If a strong
needle and a loose stitch are en-
ployed. The other ten pieces, which
should be about an eighth OF an
inch smaller all around, are covered
with brown linen in the same man
ner, though in this case the binding
may be omitted, the linen being
Tapped over half an inch ON the
wrong side and stitched.
Now overland the corresponding
pieces together, a mattlng-covered
piece with a linen-covered one. with
the pasteboard sides turned inside.
When the sections of the two boxes
are thus Joined, giving you two sides,
two ends and one top portion for
each OF the two parts OF complete
box, put the box together in Its orig
inal form, using strong thread and
close stitches, in the old-fashioned
overland stitch.
Now buy good shawl strap in
tan leather. which harness maker
will rivet In place for you II you
wish, OF 1t may be left loose. and you
will have very serviceable and neat
suit case.
A final coat Of waterproof varnish
will render the case and its contents
safe from wind and weather. Maude
e. s. Hymers. In The Home Maya
zine.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-07-11

Hereafter when persons wish to
typify idealic peace they will not
prate about the lion ana the lamb
lying down together. A leopard
caressing a sparrow with It's tongue,
or a sparrow perched on n friendly
leopard's back, is a better symbol.
1t might be given on the seal of
the Hague Conference or painted
on Andrew Carnegie's doorpost
1t happened in the Central Park
Zoo The keepers took from the
leopard to wean them her
three-months-old cubs. Alice. Teddy
and Nicholas. The keepers put Alice
in a little cage by herself, because
her brothers have been teasing her
very rudely lately, cutting and even
biting her. That she might under
stand she had done with food for
babes, that she Nigh. exercise her
jaws and small, sharp teeth, some
shinbones of Deef we're thrown in
Alice's cage.
A sparrow, Just about DID enough
to forage for itself flcw in the cage,
and, alighting on bone. hungrily
pecked at a scrap of meat. The Loop
ard, which is no bigger than big
domestic cat, its distant cousin,
crouched, eyed the sparrow for a
moment or two, and then stcalthily
approached it in just the way every
one has seen a domestic cat stalk a
bird.
The sparrow seemed not In the
least afraid, but kept on pecking at
the meat industriously. Slowly,
slowly, the leopard approached the
sparrow until the bird was her GER
tain prey Then Alice opened her
mouth 3nd--
Did the leopard eat the bird?'
No. children, no. Director Smith,
of the Zoo, and Head Keeper Sny-
der, who despise a nature faker,
swear solemnly that Alice thrust out
her tongue and caressingly licked
the sparrow. Then Alice lay down
and the sparrow flew on her back
and perched there FOR an hour.-N.
Y. World.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-07-11
Philanthropic Indian Maid.

Miss Waneta Toskatomba is a full
blood Choctaw maiden who an
nounces that she would rather de-
vote herself to works of charity than
to think of matrimony. This will
doubtless be a great disappointment
to the young men of her tribe, as
Miss Waneta has a good education
and is worth 100000 in her own
right. 1t is her intention to locate
In Oklahoma City. Another Indian
girl of more than local reputation is
Kiowa Annie, who owns one of the
handsomest shawls in the United
States. She was ten years in max
ing this handsome garment and
spent $3.50 for material. 1t is a
beautiful creation and she is said to
have refused $4,000 for it.