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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-11
For Mrs. Abererombie

Mrs. w. E. Wing of 1913 Council
street was hostess Saturday afternoon
at a delightful musicale and 800"
party. given in compliment to Mrs. c.
w. Abercronbie of ST. Louis, Mo-, who
is the guest of Miss Myra Kelly.
Women asked to meet Mrs. Aber-
erombie were Mesdames G.. l.. Higbee.
=. y. isanrug. Harley Brundage,
Is iaaea Whitney, Dor Salinas,
engs q - aShev, Nisse7 Label Brun-
asse. cas GaVor, era Coupe, Julia
y 7vlre Ca I5Wire
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Musical Advertisements
L. E. Behymer

Manager OF musical attractions ana the
great Philharmonic course Singers
ana instrumentalists furnished ON ap-
uiication for church choirs. recitals. re-
ceptions, clubs. societies and at homes.
Offices--Blanchard hall building. s4A
and 345. Phones; Main 1bSs. Home
1880. FIX. e2.
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a8H.f lunchson and Cards

&r4gng the charming social events of
81 week WAS taa buffet luncheon and
1Raajafe CigsH Thursday by Mrs.
siacf ~ We. .wenty-sec-
oad street.
The occasion might almost be called
a violet afternoon. for the dainty bios
SONS were used in profusion and their
subtle fragrance flied the air.
Sixteen contestants were seated at
the card tables, Mrs. Frank Hudson
and Mrs. William T. Craig carrying
away the hand-painted vase and plate
that were offered as. souvenirs.
Al happy feature of the afternoon
was several readings by Mrs. c. L.
I4frbee
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sneakInq of His Relations

Judge-What are your relations to
tie defendant?
nothing to him, if they were, I'd dis
own ali of them.-Yonkers Statesman.
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k, Mrs. ]. TANNER, Mrs. w. G. Es-
mayer and Mrs. Fred Hooker
d..
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70 Dc pIVUuOVti 80
ing year.
happy feature of the day was the
comforting of honorary membership in
the club upon Miss Corbett, which was
accompanied by the presentation of a
basket of flowers.
Miss Carrie Jacobs Bond, who has been
i'll since she came to Southern Cali
fornia few weeks ago. was present,
and delighted everyone with readings of
some of her own sketches. An in
formal social hour was followed by
tea. at which Mrs. Holmes and Mrs
Green were hostesses md Miss Corbett
was guest of honor
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Mime. GENEVA Johnstoae Blshsp

F.. rima donna, soprano. teacher OF soies.
cutie s42-azs blanchard building.
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IeIIer III WHICH, ne - lNHoIEV FA1i - 4
ward mail to r On Mrs, Nam g
asks for judgmei o. sS4lo.
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RepubIicans Place blame

Councilman Blanchard said Mr.. An
derson did not enter into the discus
sion.
''The mayor is responsible" said Mr..
Blanchard. ION him alone the re-
sponsibility rests.
1.-THE charter only provides that the
council shall prevent any bad men
from being appointed"
Councilman Dromgold followed in
the same strain.
81 am sorry to see a man like An
derson go. The mayor has the prerog-
alive of making appointments, and II
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The First Private Cars.

An old fashioned practice men
toned in the bruce case sounds
strangely to the modern ear. 1t was
given in evidence that the fifth Duke
of Portland had his carriage strap
ped to railway truck whenever he
took to the line. and that he sat in
In the carriage in preference to an
ordinary compartment. 1t was a
common practice with moneyed
people of conservative habits in the
early days of the railway, and the
companies made adequate provision
accordingly. On the Grand Junction
Railway the first-class fare between
Liverpool or Manchester and Bir-
mingham was 81. A gentleman
carriage was charged So, and pas
sengers, "if belonging to or riding in
gentleman's carriage" Is shillings
each.
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Lord Nelson's Tomb.

A London guide was showing an
American tourist the famous tonbs
at st. Paul's. This, sir" said he,
lis the tomb of the greatest naval
zero the world ever seen-Lord Mel
son. This marble sarcophagus
weighs AZ tons Hinsido that is a
steel receptacle that weighs II tons.
an hinside that is a lead casket
weighing two tons. Hinside that is
the mahogany coffin that old the
hashes of the great 'ero."
We'll" said the tourist, after a
moments deep thought, 81 guess
you've got him. If he ever gets out
of that, telegraph me at my expense"
-Lippincott's Magazine.
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NerYOuSncSS.

Nervousness is often due to some
poison formed in the blood by the
decomposition of undigested food
in other words, often arises primar-
lily from indigestion.
Nervousness when due to this
cause may sometimes continue
through many years without causing
dangerous conditions. On the other
hand, nervous disturbances due to
this auto-intoxication or self-poison-
ing may be Immediately fatal.
Many people, however, suffer from
nervous indigestion" as they call
it, for 20 years or more without
fatal termination. In these cases
there is, of course, a gradual weak
ening of the general system which
predisposes to many diseases and
death is always premature, usually
being traceable to what is called
heart failure. Health Culture.
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Moth A HyDnotiSt.

Ibid you ever know" said the
hypnotist, as he played with Curl
ous glittering hypnotizing machine
Of crystal and silver, did you ever
know that hypnotism is practiced
among insects?
We'll, it is a fact. A queen bee
can hypnotic her whole hive when
ever she wants to. She makes a
curious humming sound and within
moment or two every bee in the
colony falls into a hypnotic trance.
THE deaths head hawk moth is
also a hypnotist Of great power.
This creature, indeed, makes its liv-
ing out of hypnotism. Entering a
hive, it makes a sound not unlike
the queen bees note, and the bees
Immediately sinking into slumber
the moth proceeds to plumber at it's
leisure"
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knew NO MAN TILL 2g, then She We'd The FIRST
Miss Pratt, of 'WOmen'S Commonwealth" Was Reared in the
Belief 1t Was Sin to MarryBeon8ed to Strange Sect
Founded by Woman Who Left Her Husband
and Formed Colony Who Saw No Men.

Philadelphia.-Bac of the mar
riage of Miss Adah Pratt, of 1897
Irving street, Washington, to b.
Franklin Hoover, of Philadelphia, lies
story of unusual romance.
Miss Pratt lived until she was
twenty-nine years old without form
ing the acquaintance of a man. She
was born and raised in a community
of women taught to believe that mar
riage was a sin. She was bound by
teaching and belief always to remain
single. Then she married the first
man to whom she ever had been in
troduced. She did more than half
the counting herself
Nearly thirty years ago, in Texas,
where Mrs. Hoover's mother lived at
the time, Mrs. Martha McWhirter,
OF Waco, announced that she had had
visitation from the Almighty, and
had been told that it was sinful to
live with man. Accordingly, she left
her husband and, gathering about her
small party of women followers.
went to the little town OF Bolton and
there established headquarters of the
new creed.
1t was called the Woman's Com
monwealth. Its members were all
well to do and self-supporting Some
were spinsters, some had been mar
rled and some had children. Mrs.
Pratt was one of the conv4'ts of the
religion, and, leaving her husband,
she Joined the colony where, two
months afterward. the present Mrs.
Hoover was born. There we're ten
children in the colony, all girls.
Ten years ago the commonwealth"
moved to Washington, taking up
farm of 172 acres in Montgomery
County. Maryland, and a large house
in the city. The children were taught
to beware of men. They never were
permitted to have acquaintance with
any of them.
OF course they saw men. Mrs.
Hoover says she often had noticed
them. But she never paid attention
to any of them until she met Hoover.
This is the way she told her story:
Five of the girls grew up" she
said, land then slipped away to be
married. OF course they were re-
garded as sinners. 1 thought them
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Japanese women's Complexion.

At a reception where she was the
guest of honor, Miss FL Imura, a
charming little Japanese maiden,
who is studying in this country, said
that one Of the reasons women in
Japan had such marvellous complex
ions and kept their youth so well
was because they never hurried
Miss Imura said in her quaint,
broken English: when l am in
Japan do not rush all the time, but
when l am in America | hurry, hurry
all the time, just as your women do,
because it is impossible not to i'm
itate them. boston Record.
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A CURE AT CITY MISSION.
Awful Case OF Scabies-Body n Mass
of Sores from Scratching-lIer
fortunes Yield TO CuticIIra,

\ young woman came to our city mis-
sion in most awful condition physically.
Our doctor examined her and told MS that
she had scabies (the itch), incipient pare
sis, rheumatism, ETC., brought on from ex-
posture. Her poor body was a mass of sores
from scratching and she was not able to
retain solid food. We worked hard over
her for seven weeks but we could see little
improvement. One day bought cake of
Cuticura Soap and a bottle of Cuticura
Resolvent, and we bathed our patient well
and gave her full dose of the Resolvent.
She slept better that night and the next
day l got u box of Cuticura Ointment. In
five weeks this young woman was able to
look for a position, and she is now strong
and well. Laura Jane Bates, IS Fifth
Ave, New York, N. Y, Mar. II, 1907"
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There is more Catarrh in this section Of
the country than all other diseases put to.
gether, and until the last few years was sup.
posed TO be incurable. For great many
years doctors pronounced il local disease
and prescribed local remedies, and by con.
stantly failing to cure with local treatment.
pronounced it incurable. Science has proven
Catarrh TO be constitutional disease, and
therefore requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by +. j.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only con-
stitutional cure on the market. Ii is taken in
ternally in doses from 10 drops to teaspoon.
full. IL acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. They offer one hun
dred dol lars forany caseit fails TO cure. Send
for circulars and testimonials Address +. j.
CHENEY & Co, Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-04-23
ODDS AND ENDS.

Norway has new cabinet under
the premiership of Gunnar Knudsen.
Forty-seVen arrests were made in
Berlin in connection with the suf-
frage demonstrations.
The most exclusive thing of the
sort is the Jockey Club. of England.
1t has only 20 members, including
the King.
New York paid last year $21 ,000,-
600 in interest and will pay this
year $24,OOO,00O, about the same
as the federal government.
Alta grass, Of which 100000 tons
yearly are already exported from AL
geria, is used in France for coarse
wrapping paper, but in England for
printing paper. Aloes from North
Africa, seven or eight times as ex-
pensive, furnish material for high
grade papers
Consul Frank w. Mahin, of Not
tingham, advises that after eight
years experimenting, at heavy ex-
pense and against many discourage
ments,. a machine has been perfected
by a mechanic and lace manufac-
turer OF that English city for spot
ting yeilings with chenille.
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bad. But about a year ago I went
down town with a girl friend and she
introduced me to Mr.. Hoover.
Somehow or other 1 could not get
him out of my mind. 1 found myself
wishing / might see him all the time.
| knew it wasn't right; at least.
thought it wasn't. Later l met him
down town again. and several times
after that. Then he told me he was
going to leave the city and asked me
to write. 1 told him 1 would"
From her story it seems that Hoov-
er, who is a hotel clerk, went to Chi
cago, then came to Philadelphia, and
wrote his intention to Miss Pratt in
Washington.
II was crazy to see him." she ad-
mitted. land decided to risk the fear
of my mothers displeasure. So l
slipped quietly out of the house in
Washington and came here. When
found Mr.. Hoover he was greatly sur
prised.
Why, Adah, have you come up
here to marry me?' he asked.
L don't know that / thought
much about that I replied. L Just
felt had to see you again
Well, will you marry me?' he
asked. 1t took me by surprise, al
though L was not wholly unprepared
for it.
I'm willing said finally.
Right away?' he asked. This
was so sudden it took my breath
away.
Can't you wait until tomorrow
night?' 1 asked him, and he said he
would"
The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. ]. B. G.. Pidge, pastor of the
Fourth Baptist Church, at the parson-
age. The same evening the bride
wrote to her mother, but has not re-
ceived an answer as yet.
Pm afraid she never will forgive
me" she said. she always was very
strict with me. There are still three
unmarried girls atthe commonwealth.
They are twenty-three, twenty-eight
and thirty-three years old"
Mrs. Hoover is tall, of a striking
figure and stylishly dressed. She has
wealth of chestnut hair, brown eyes
and an expressive smile.
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Live Stock.

New YOrk.-Beeves-R Receipts, l.
273 head; no trading; feeling steady
Latest cables quoted the market
firm. live cattle selling at 1919 Ollie.
per pound.
Calves-Receipts, 992 head; feel
ing weak. Pennsylvania and Viz
ginia veals sold at 700 to 735 per
100 pounds; no prime veals offered.
Sheep and Misunderstanding, l.
GAS head; market dull. Unshorn
lambs sold at $50 per 100 pounds;
no prime offered; clipped lambs at
$50 q 100; unshorn lambs at 500 to
500; few unshorn wethers at 100;
clipped sheep, at 5000 500; spring
lambs, at 3.5O@5 90 per head
Hogs-Receipts, 1896 head; more
on sale; feeling nominally steady.
Chicago -Cattle-Market steady
TO strong; steers, 5.OO@7.1O; COWS,
$50 500; heifers, 3.4O@6.25;
bulls. $500 $50; calves, $50
6.25; stockers and feeders, $3.50
SIS.
Hogs Market steady; choice
heavy shipping, 5.8O@5.95; butch
ers', 5.S5 a 5.95; light mixed, 500
5.75; choice light, $500 $50; pack
ing, 5.O0@5.75; pigs, 4.25 a 5.25;
bulk of sales, SIS a 5.85.
Sheep-Market strong to 1Oc.
higher; sheep, $500 600; lambs,
6.50@765; yearlings, 5.50@6.50
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COMMERCIAL COLUMN
Weekly Review Of Trade and Latest
Market Reports
Bradstreet's says:


Easter trade at retail, though at
fected in sections by unfavorable
weather. is. on the whole. fair. Col
lections show slight improvement at
few centers and filling-in orders by
1obbers are a triie better, but re-
ports from leading industries are no
more favorable. rather more weak
ness is noted in iron and steel and
fall trade in leading lines is still dis
appolntingly backward The dull
ness in building lines-expend!tures
FOR the first quarter being 40 per
cent below 1907-affects all lines Of
materials and export and import
trade are ebbing, indicates the first
decrease in foreign trade from the
preceding fiscal year noted for five
years past.
The number of idle hands is as
large as for some time past, wage
reductions curtail buying power and
the number of failures continues far
ahead of year ago. Business fail
ures in tie United States for the
week number 261. against 25S last
week, 1877 in the like week of 1907.
i67 in 1906, 1873 in 1905 and 1919
In 1904.
Wheat, including -four. exports
from the United States and Canada
for the week aggregated 2.47O,177
bushels, against 2,451 ,099 last week.
5,lO2,467 this week last year, and A.
11S,10S in 1902.
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Eyesight And Locality.

1t is said that best eyesight is
possessed by those people whose
lands are vast and barren and where
obstacles tending to shorten the
sight are few. Eskimos will detect
a white fox on the snow a great
distance away, while the Arabs of
the deserts of Africa have such ex-
treme powers of vision that on the
vast plains of the desert they will
pick out objects invisible to the or
binary eye. Among civilized people
the Norwegians have better eyesight
than most others.
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How Fast Wind Travels.

ldost people at some time or other
have used the expression went like
the wind" wishing to convey the
idea of extraordinary velocity.
Coming down TO actual figures.
however, the wind is not such a
speedy traveller after all. The month
OF March, more than any other in the
year has windy record. so the fig
uTes supplied by the local weather
bureau station for the month just
ended will do to illustrate the fallacy
of the expression.
From the first to. the thirty-frst
the wind movement. as registered at
the top OF the Federal Building, was
1886 miles, or an average of 27S
miles a day for 80 days. Here is
an average of only y miles an
hour, a speed which even a slow
moving freight steamer approaches.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-04-23
The Field of Snorts.

Adam Ryan, the Chicago light
weight, is being side-stepped by all
the lightweights in Philadelphia.
Ryan can make 100 pounds.
Fifty-five trotters have been en-
tered to compete at Hartford on La
Dor Day for $4,000 Charter Oak
Purse for horses of the 200 class.
II see that Englishmen think no
game develops singleness of purpose
and directness of method so much
as cricket" Gays the baseball enthu-
siast. That may be, but II struck
nle that.what Il developed mostly was
the tea drinking habik."
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the danger which they will run. It
is possible that volunteer officers and
men will man the tower. One Of the
twelve-inch guns has been taken from
the turret of the monitor and a stub
installed in its place. The stub will
be fired at
A heavy plate of armor has been in
stalled between the other gun and the
stub to prevent injury to the gun,
and bullet head has been constructed
in the forward part of the vessel so
that should it be struck at or below
the water line the vessel will not sink.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-04-23
THE PAINTING SEASON.

Good results in painting at the
least cost depend largely upon the
material chosen. Paint is a simple
compound and the ingredients can be
easily tested. The solid part or pig
ment should be White Lead. The
liquid part should be Linseed Oil.
Those best informed on painting al
ways buy these ingredients separate.
ly, and have their painter mix them
fresh for each job. Before the mix
ing the test is made.
Place a pea-sized bit OF White Lead
on piece OF charcoal or piece of
wood. Blow the flame against II and
see what 1t will do. IL IL is pure
White Lead, little drops OF bright.
pure metallic lead will appear, and
with patience the White Lead can be
completely reduced to one globule of
metallic lead. This is because pure
White Lead is made from metallic
lead
You may test dozens of other So
called White Leads and not be able
to reduce one of them to lead. II
they will not change wholly to lead,
but leave a residue. 1t is clear that
some adulterant is present.
III you should have your painting
done with such materials, no matter
how cheap they might seem, 1t would
be costly in the end
National Lead Company, Wood
bridge Building. New York City, are
sending on request a blowpipe free
to any one about to have painting
done, so that the White Lead may be
tested. With 1t will be sent a hand
somely printed booklet having as its
frontispiece the Dutch Boy Painter"
reproduced from the original paint
ing. This little painter has become
noted as the guaranty OF pure White
Lead.
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Wholesale Markets

new hork.-W heat-Receipts, 49,
600 bushels. Spot. firm; No. 2 red,
I.OOB elevator; No. red, 1.OO5s
l. o. b. afioat; No. 1 Northern Du-
iuth, 1883, f. o. b. afloat; No. 2
hard winter, LOCK- f. o. b. aloat.
Corn - Receipts, 1926 bushels;
spot firm; No. 2. nominal elevator,
and ~ asked f. o. b. afloat; No. 2
white. ~ asked, and No. yellow,
nominal f. o. b. afloat.
oats - Receipts, $4,000 bushels;
exports, 3,166 bushels. Spot marke.
barely steady; mixed, 266D 80 pounds.
55;; natural white, 26@32 pounds
80 Il a 81 II; clipped white, 5000
pounds, 57@62
Poultry - Dressed. firm; turkeys,
II a II; fowls. 12@15.
Butter-Irregular; receipts, $3.50;
held creamery, common to special,
1907.
Eggs - Firm; receipts, 26.73I;
State, Pennsylvania and nearby.
brown and mixed extra, II.
Philadelphia - Wheat firm; con-
tract grade. April, 960961ac.
Corn steady; No. 2, for local trade.
100 lac.
Oats steady; No. 2 white natural,
81 II a Sc.
Butter steady: extra Western
creamery. soc; do, nearby prints,
Eggs firm; Pennsylvania and other
nearby firsts Gree cases). 16c. at
mark; do, current receipts Tin re-
turnable cases). 1914 at mark:
Western firsts free cases). l6 al
mark; do, current receipts Gree
cases), II II at mark.
Cheese steady; New York fuli
creams, choice. - a 10 &c, do. fair
to good, 141h G14%.
baltimore. - Flour - steady and
unchanged. Receipts. 3.S19 barrels:
exports, 1877 barrels.
Wheat-Dull and easy; spot, con
tract, 1914 a "a; spot, No. . red
Western, 94M 095; April. 93% a
81; May, 94h G94%; July. 90 ask
ed; steamer, No. 2 red, 90H a 9O% ;
receipts. 5,261 bushels; Southern. on
grade, 91695.
Corn-Firm; spot. mixed. 69K %
60 q No 2 white, 20 "A: April. GO Z
a. 693s; May, 6912 06934; July. 70
a FOX; steamer. mixed. 65 a.
65 4 B.; receipts, 22,795 bushels; ex-
ports, 42,S57 bushels: Southern
white corn, 67@7O Southern yell
low corn. 7O!A.
Oats - Steady; white. 57h @59;
No. 3 white. 56053: No. 2 mixed,
80 Y q So receipts. 9.751 bushels.
Rye-Dull' No. 2 Western domes-
tic. S46S5.
Butter-Firm; fancy imitation, %
a 26; fancy creamery, 81; fancy la
die, 23@ "a; store packed, 1G017.
Eggs - Steady and unchanged
ID Y.
Cheese-Steady; large, IA; flats,
IA Il small. 14%.
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Willing To Oblige.

The poor but nervy young man
was after the hand of the heiress.
Young man." roared her irate
father, never darken my door
again
''All right, sir" replied the suitcr
blondly, "I'n come around tomorrow
and give it a coat of bright red
paint. That will be much better than
darkening it."
And the next instant the poor but
nervy young man was being chased
by Scotch coachman, a French
Chauffeur and an English bulldog
Chicago News.
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MEN TO BE ABOARD MONITOR FIRED AT BY BIG GUNS.
They VIII Perch a Tower High to nlizC
Bal

Norfolk, Va.-The indications are
that men will be aboard the monitor
Florida when that vessel is made a
target for the test of twelve-inch gun
fire, two or three weeks hence. An
observation tower, sixty or seventy
feet above the main deck, is being
constructed from the stern of the YES
sci.
There could be no use for such
tower, but to observe the effects of
the fire. The tower will be large
enough to contain several men. Their
height from the deck will minimize