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Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20
STUDENTS IN QUEST OF
vALEDICTORY KNOWLEDGE

The quest for knowledge is causing
many a Los Angeles school boy and
girl to haunt the public library nova
days. The graduation days are not SO
very far off-and that terrible ordeal
of the valedictory, or the graduating
essay-whether the student be the
particular shining star of the class or
one of many to merely recite an orig
inal work on that day, must pc
overcome This ordeal is second only
to that of the final examinations. and
the struggle of writing it seems almost
heartrending.
In Los Angeles a man recently re-
ceived a letter from young friend
of his who did not know what a vale
dictory was like, and "she wanted to
know" as the task of composing a
valedictory, she frankly admitted, was
one for which she doubted her ability.
This Los Angeles man went out to
find a sample valedictory which he
might copy and send to his young
friend. But there was none to be had.
The young woman back of the coun-
ter at the library shook her head and
said there were no more left. All OF
the publications dealing with the sub
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20
GHOsTLY EMPTY STRUCTURES, ONCE GAY
WITH SPORTIVE THRONGS, NOW USELESS

around the polished floors, with all the
vim of youth and the zest of faddists.
Then again in the evening the crowds
came streaming into these barnlike
structures, and the band would begin
to unreel the same old, sad, plaintive
waltzes and two steps which it had
played down by the seashore in months
gone by-and the eager beginner smote
his head on the floor and the older en-
thusiast wore a callous place on the
southeast section of his trousers as the
band doomed out IF a boy like me-"
The crowds sweated through the
evening and wilted their collars and
caught cold going home, and poured
liniment over their complaining joints
and "swore off" skating, but went
again the next day.
Then-presto.
Something dropped.
1t wasn't the novice or the elderly fat
lady, either. 1t was the rink itself.
Today no one is on skates save the
small boy, who generally has but one
skate, and the steady patron of the
police patrol who wears his home.
The skating rink buildings-like their
older brethren of the bowling alley
craze-are used for garages, where the
gasoline scents the air, and for store
rooms and revival meetings-while one
even dared pose as a kitchen, and
others are as empty as the fad they
doomed once.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20
COUNCILMEN FACE
SOME PROBLEMS
ToDAYS SESSION LIKELY TO BE
GIVEN TO DEBATE
Fire Escapes, Car Licenses, Church
Tax Rebates, Reserve Fund Drain
and Race Tips Are on the
Program

Today's session of the city council
is likely to be consumed with discus
sions growing out of the passing of an
last Monday to the fire
escape law which has raised a storm
The councilmen generally are disposed
to rescind their action now, they say,
forcing the big building owners to take
the same precautions as the 300 or more
other building owners who have gone
to considerable expense to install es-
capes.
city Auditor w. C. Mushet will try
to have the street car license contro-
versy adjusted, City Clerk Harry Lee
lande having decided to demand a writ
ten report from the city attorney on
the subject.
The city auditors report regarding
the demand for 1896 of Gustave Bren-
rer will be taken up. On this the
auditor and city attorney disagreed,
the auditor holding that when church
officers slumber on their rights and
fail to ask for a rebate on taxes from
the board of equalization they must
have no further remedy from the coun-
Gil.
Councilman Healy's motion that the
city attorney be directed to prepare
The draft for the necessary ordinance
to take $4,000 from the reserve fund
and to place il in the street depart
ment fund, and to take $4,000 from the
reserve fund and place it in the custo-
dams fund, will be taken up.
The object is to sprinkle on Main
and other streets when dust is heavy
and to save cutting down the janitorial
force at the city hall.
Regarding the report of the city at
torney of January 10 relative to tips
on horse races the council will take
up the ordinance without first referring
It to the legislative committee, is the
tip. A majority of the councilmen have
declared Themselves in favor of the
measure but as it proposes to force
the daily new spapers to omit form
charts and selections" some interest
ing questions are likely to be raised as
to the liberty of the press.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20
MANY TO GRADUATE FROM
l.. A. HIGH AND POLY
Innovation in Commencement E~er-
cIses Whereby Students viii Re-
celve Their Diplomas at End
Of Each Term

Seventy-f1ve students of the Los An
geles high school and twenty stuuenIs
of the Polytechnic will graduate at tne
noidwinter commencement exercises 10
be held the first week in February I'M
mediately after the close OF the nrst
term. -, ,.,,
This is an innovation, as it has been
the custom for those graduating in the
middle of the term to wait until the
close of the school in the summer ana
receive their diplomas at the same tlIne
as those who had graduated at the emu
of the second term.
Probably for the first time the class
will have all of It's members present.
for in the past years many or the stu
dents have left the city Immediately
after graduating and have not attend
ed the exercises.
The first entertainment will be given
Wednesday, February 5, by the senior
"R" class Cor the graduates. Ihurs-
day the class play will be presented. IL
is called "a Scrap of Paper" Inc stu
dents who will take part are Franz
Badglev, Rex Kennedy, Loring Rogers
Arthur Polaski, Jack Beman' Josephine
Bolts, Agnes Brown, Sophia Kubach,,
Doris Rosenthal, Grace Welcher anu
Ethel Marsailles.
Jack Beman Is president of the class
diplomas at the Auditorium Friday
The program has not been completed
The class members have publication
which they call "Blue and White, and
are exerting all their energies toward
making it one of the best issues that
has yet appeared. Nelson Douglass is
editor-in- chief, Herman Endres is pusl-
ness manager and Albert Swiessinger
is assistant manager.
At tie Polytechnic no special ar
rangements have been made, but the
usual class day exercises will be held
and other entertainments will follow.
The following compose the Polytechnic
class. which will graduate: Warren H.
Cain. president; Elijah P. Gilbert, vice
president; Alan Patten, treasurer;
Richard B. Morton, secretary; Florence
Sunderland, secretary; Leonard u.
Rushton, Guy Goodwin, Edward -.
Bruner Howard Seelye, F. e. Yoakum'
Carrie Fisher, Vega A. Brugman, Lou
Use Michel, Lillian K. Moss, Julia w.
Murray, Augusta E. Wackerbarth,
Edith L. White. Rebecca Sheftelman'
Edna Schaffer and Edith L. Sunder-
land
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20
HERBERT WITHERSP00N
TO SING AT CONCERT
Postponed Recital Will Be Given at
Simpson Auditorium Tonight
Interesting Program Is
Arranged

Herbert Witherspoon will sing his
nostnoned concert at Simpson audi
torium this evening, and all those VINO
were disappointed in not hearing THIS
interesting basso last Tuesday evening
and who did not attend the perform
ance of Elijah" Saturday evening VIII
have a chance to hear him.
Not for twenty-five years has an
American concert singer made such
universal success as has Mr.. Wlther-
spoon. His artistic and personal popu-
1arity. based on the highest intellectual
and musical gifts, has won him such
success and reclamation that he Is not
only having the greatest concert sea-
son of any basso in recent years, but
is also widely engaged for next season.
In Chicago alone during the past year
Mr. Witherspoon sang no less tnan
nine times, his engagements 1ncluolng
aDpearances with the Thomas orchestra
and other societies in that city, besides
his own recitals.
When it is recognized that twenty
concerts in London at Queens hall.
WITH hut few repetitions of any num-
her and that this list of engagements
includes performances of opera, ora
| torio miscellaneous concerts and SONG
| recitais in five languages, as wen as
numerous dialects, the extraordinary
versatility of the man is we'll IN evil
| dence. -.
great philharmonic course ana Ille lai e.,
we'll anpearance of Mr.. Witherspoon In
southern California, as he leaves after
the concert for Sacramento, where ne
sings for the Saturday Music club of
that place on Tuesday evening.
The program numbers follow:
PART I-OLD AND NEW AIRS
Recitation, IT Feel the Deity Within arr
"Arml Arml Ye Braves from Judas Macca-
baeus Co. F. Handel.
ESQ 'song to the Evening STAR Tannhauser).
(R. Wagner. ,r D,oo !,
Figaro" CIV. A. Mozart).
PART II-CLASSICAL AND MODERN SONGS
IN GERMAN
s.T,ar Doppelganger," (F Schubert.
''Wer Machtedich so Krank Alte Lante," Or.
Der Der Knabe nit dem wunderhorn." Or.
Schumann).
'rWaldeinsamkeit." Eugene Haile).
'.Helle Naoht," 'Drie Wanderer" CLANS
Hermann. .. -, ,,,,1,, ,e,,,
.Forever and Day. albert Mack.
,The Paupers Drive" (Sidney Homer).
''Pastorae." Oh Lane Wilson,
''Messmates" (Herman Lohr).
PART IV-MoDERN FRENCH SONGS
.IjOseau S'envole," paul ct Virginie)'
| (Victor Massie). ~
sci IN lie Veux." (Ch Koechlin).
ia Paix." (monotone). Reynolado Hahn.
.Chanson,'' (from La Jolie File de Perth }
PART V-TRADITIoNAI. MELODIES
.Meet Me by Moonlight Alone" (English(i
shall I Wasting IN Despair" (English)
| (Wilson). -. r,.uzo. ,, f1r,sh,
| (Hartyl. o,, r,,,, (rr,shA
| (Harty). .. ...o,,nor,s,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20
pETTY GRAFT PRACTICED ON MANY
BY PROFESSIONAL LODGE "JOINERS'

aid. Some of them are not destitute.
But they still ply their game and ask
their friends for loans.
Some of them really want work;
some merely want financial assistance,
but all look to him as one in authority
and, furthermore, as good fellow,
who will aid them whenever they get
in trouble.
Only recently Mr.. Flint was accosted
by a pleasant looking, rather joyial
man, who explained that he was up
against 1t" and needed funds.
The postmaster, after talking with
the fellow for a few minutes, discov-
cred he was an Odd Fellow.
Although the man declared he was In
good standing in his lodge 'up in
Washington" he had no receipts or
papers with him to prove his mem
hership. Just there he fell down in
the game. Mr.. Flint had already re-
TERED him to the proper local frater-
nal officers, and would have been glad
to assist financially one "in good stand
ing" But when asked for his creden-
tials from the organization, the apli-
can't shook his head despondently and
explained that his papers we're burned
last October" and he had not had them
renewed.
Mr. Flint, as chairman of the Los
Angeles Elks' boosting committee" is
still receiving letters from lodges scat
tered all over the United States pledg-
ing their support to bring the next ma
tionaI gathering of Elks to Los An
relies in 1909. Letters inviting the
gathering to this city at that timet
were sent out from here on January 1,
end already scores of answers have
been received by Postmaster Flint, all
indicating that the writer's will CO.
operate to bring the meeting here.
There are about HOO Elk lodges in the
United states.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20
PRIMER POLITICS MARKS
RURBANK'S "SQUARE DEAL"

According to the billboards Presi-
dent Roosevelt approves "A Square
Deal" Attendance at the Burbank
Yesterday afternoon, however, gave
rise to the suspicion that 1t was the
abstract principle and not the Edward
e. Rose comedy drama that MT:
Roosevelt had in mind when he voiced
his approval, though the familiar
presidential properties are all there.
Much is made of the square deal" to
begin with: one of the characters
brandishes a formidable looking cudgel
which he proudly announces is the
big stick and there are other phrases
borrowed from the executive polltlcal
vocabulary.
The play is the story of an indepen-
dent movement in politics, led BY Han
nibal Hawkins, who conquers the ma
chine as his ancient namesake
triumphed over the Alps and whose
determination to reform political meth
DDS is of so exalted character that
he wouldn't spend a 2-cent postage
stamp to secure his election to the
senate if by so doing he could make
certain that much desired result.
The scenes of the play are laid IN
Kansas. where women vote. HannlDal
is a good looking chap-Wflliam Des-
mond plays the part-and corrals the
.women's vote without difficulty. Hence
he is elected, despite the tricks OF tne
opposition and despite an eleventh
hour roorback which comes perilously
near to encompassing his defeat.
Plays Primer Politics
The politics of "a Square DeaP' is
of the primer variety, bearing ABOUT
the same relation o the real thing that
a story in 1.-THE Fireside Companion"
hears TO literature. It's characters, too,
are illy drawn, but Rose is an ex-
nerienced craftsman. Consequently ne
has supplied his play with several
rousing climaxes and he has written
into it the inevitable love story. FOR
these things yesterdays audience for-
gave him much and applauded Iber-
ally. ,.,,o..
in this piece is better than the drama
deserves. At times different members
of the company succeeded even IN I'M
parting a lifelike appearance to their
roles despite the handicap imposed by
the author. Desmond, for instance,
doesn't pose constantly, though his
mart makes temperance In this regard
rather difficult, and Beasley isn't quite
so low down and ornerS a boss" as
The author evidently intended him to
he. Harry Mestayer struggles OBJ
1,;ouslv to read life into the lines OF
clinton Hargrave, but John w. Bur
ton scorns to follow his example. MT
Rurton nlays his role in an exaggerat-
cd comedy vein that wins much laugh
ter which is its only excuse for being
lawrence Underwood has a good char
anter hit as an old Civil War veteran
and the women of the company, Misses
blanche Hall, Elsie Esmonde. Louise
Royce and Maud Gilbert appear N
conventional roles which they play
veil as could. be. expected, consid-
ering the material they have to work
with. ... -,
triumph of right and the confusion o.
rasnality in politics. Its lesson is
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20
Many Big Skating Kinks, Lunadapted
to Other Purposes, Present Prob
lem to Owners as Fad Passes
from Popularity

There is a class of lonesome looking
buildings which are sort of insists
perched around town, launching their
shoulders up in despair and waiting
for another swing of the fad" pendu-
lum to give them back their lost Jobs.
1t Is indeed hard times for these soil
tary buildings when it comes to their
getting another job this season or for
many seasons to come.
These structures are the old roller
skating Kinks. Built of frame, long
and low-roofed, without any particular
acoustic properties to make them avail
able for meeting places-saVe FOR the
caucus of a party so intrenched IN
power that no one needs to hear what
is said by the nominating oft1cer-they
can be used for nothing much.
Time was when they We're the center
of attraction. At 5 o'clock in the after
noon the young people came pouring
out of them, after having enjoyed good
skating for two or three hours. They
were used In the morning as well, ana
the crowds would glide and bump
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20

out beforehand. So the young friend
of the girl has but one hope. She will
soon receive the following letter from
him:
my Dear Friend: I would be only
too glad to accommodate you and send
you a sample of a valedictory, but the
other students have beaten you to it,
There is no work on this subject left.
However, I have done my best. In in
close you a snapshot of a valedictory
/ saw In the Occidental college grounds.
Trusting that this will suffice, believe
me your devoted friend. -."
And he had to pay excess postage on
the thing.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20
MOTHER OF MAE WoTKYNs
MAY DIE FROM THE SHOCK

Mrs. Alice A. Swain, mother of Mrs.
Mae Wotkyns, shot to death by George
A. Gill, who then committed suicide at
her home last Wednesday night at Re-
dondo, is lying critically Ill at her
home there, and may not survive the
awful shock of the tragedy.
If Mrs. Swain should die hers will
be the third death resulting from last
weeks tragedy.
The effect OF the shooting was such
that it is scarcely believed she will
recover.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20
SEEK TO BAR GIRLS AND
BOYS FROM PUBLIC DANCES

For the purpose of compelling pro-
prietors of dance halls to prohibit the
admission of boys and girls to their
places Rev. Baker P. Lee and asso-
ciates are being assisted by Prosecut-
ing Attorney Joseph Ford, who is seek
ing through the city and state laws to
find a means to accomplish this end.
Many complaints have been made to
Mr.. Ford by the Humane society and
by the parents of young people who
say that children are led into crime
through the means of these places.
Rev. Mr.. Lee will conduct a party
of men and women who are in sympa-
thy with this movement, through sew
eral public dance halls for the purpose
of showing them the evils thereof. 1t is
not known what evening this will be.
but it is proposed to take place some
evening this week.
1t is the object of Rev. Mr.. Lee to
find some means of excluding persons
under 20 years of age from these places.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20

two weeks Of it's season were occupied
Following the presentation Of Dolly
Warden which is the bill this week
"Babette," the opera which served as
q vehicle for FRITZ Scheff's first light
opera success, will be sung.
Elaborate costuming and stage set
ings are to be used, and the opera VIII
he given for the first time in Los An
geles with a brilliant equipment ana
CD
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20
All Were Prime Ministers

An eminent surgeon was once sent Tor
by Cardinal Du Bots. prime minister Of
France, to perform a very serious opera
ton upon him. The cardinal said TO him.
you must not expect to treat me IN the
same rough manner as you treat your
moor miserable wretches at your Hotel
Dieu.' ~,
ssMy lord" replied the surgeon with
great dignity, every one of those miser-
able wretches, as your eminence is pleased
to call them, is prime minister IN my
eyes. success Magazine.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20
"sAHETTE" WILL BE SUNG
AT LOS ANGELES THEATER

The San Francisco opera company
has come into its own now and is Civ
ing rs real comic opera instead of the
musical comedy with which the first
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20

a HoLLENBEcK LODGE, NO. $40. F.
"a & A. NJ, will confer the third de-
~ ~ gree Tuesday, January q. commence
wv ]. WILL DICK. Secretary
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20
Masked Mob LYnehes NEGRO

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Jan. 19.-Alto
Faux, a white man, was shot and Sc
riously wounded at Dothan by negro,
who was in turn lynched by masked
mob of 200 citizens.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-20

fr1IIc rIrM MAC npnnIIrEn EpnM THE
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-07-18
MONITOR NEWS

Mr.. A. Clothier of Montana has re-
turned to visit us again.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. D. Hall and family
have returned from a three weeks
trip to their daughter, Mrs Blagg.
Mr.. Walter Richardson AMI daugh-
tiers, Neva and Aisle and son, Ray,
relatives in Kansas. They expect to
stay year.
Mrs. Tom Smith, Of Lake Wenat-
chez, has come to make us a visit
again. She also brought her two
sisters. We are all glad to see her
in our midst.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Harter and IA
mily visited the latter's folks Sunday.
Mrs. Wilson and baby are doing
nicely.
One Of George Browns horses was
killed by a freight the other morn
ing.
Miss M. Loring is visitor to Mon
itor.
Miss Ruth Bixler has been visiting
with some of her Monitor friends.
- Miss Opal COvington has returned
rom California, where she has been
Visiting her aunt
Miss Margaret Wantz has returned
from a two-yekrs' WITH her sister in
Great Falls, Montana. 1t seems like
they all come back to dear old MOni-
tor.
Miss Martha Anvil has also return
ed to Monitor, where she expects to
stay during the summer months. She
! is staying with her brother Wallace.
Misses Margaret WantZ, Laura and
Martha Anvil, Elsie Richardson and
Messrs. Leon and Walter Richar jsOn
and Wallace Anvil have gone on a
camping trip to the Entiat. They ex-
pect to stay until Saturday.
A very pleasant birthday party was
held at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ferguson in honor of their son Her
bert's eighteenth birthday. A few in
teresting games were played, after
which Mr. Ellis favored us with many
beautiful selections on the guitar.
Luncheon, consisting of ice cream
and cake was served after which the
guests departed for home with the
satisfaction of having had good
time.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-07-18
AN INDIAN ATTACK.
One In Which Caster and New York
Broker Were Mixed Up.

Charles Osborn, q New York broker,
friends, and Osborn annually visited
the general at his camp on the plains.
During one of the Indian campaigns
he invited Osborn and party of
friends to Kansas and after giving
them a buffalo hunt arranged :; novel
experience in the way of an Indian
scare. AS Osborn was lying in his tent
one night firing was heard at the out
posts and the rapid riding of pic.;ets.
Boots and saddles"' was the order In
the disturbed atmosphere OF the night,
and Custer appeared to Osborn loaded
with rife two revolvers, sabar ard
a scalping knife.
Charles" he said in his quick merry.
Gus way, "you must defend yourself.
Sitting Bull and Flea In Your Bo9ts
with Wiggle Tail Jim and Scalp Lock
Skowheban, are on US in force did
not want to alarm you before, but the
safety Of my command is my first
duty. Things look serious. II we don't
meet again, God bless your
The broker fell on his knees. Gus
ter" he cried, "only get me out of this!
Ill carry a million shares of Western
Union for you and let you into the firm
to get me home! Only save me!'
But Custer was gone and the camp
by shrewd arrangement burst into a
blaze, and Shots. oaths and warwhoops
were intermixed until suddenly a paint
ed object doomed on Osborn's sight
and something was flung into his face
"a human scalp. He dropped to the
ground and said the Lords Prayer
backward and sideways until the noise
died away and there was exposed a
lighted supper table with this explana-
ton on transparency:
"Osborn's Treatr
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-07-18
WANTED THEIR GOATS.
4 curiove Adventure Among the No.
tives Of Africa.

Mrs. Constance Larymore, author OF
"A Residents Wife In Nigeria" re-
counts this curious adventure in AT
ca: 1.-THE sahib, as from ineradica
Indian habit still commonly call M
husband, had gone out at sunset after
deer, and during his absence the entire
population of the village came stream
ing up the hill to the rest house, all
talking loudly and at once and evident
ly under the influence of strong excite
ment. l was by that time well accus-
toned to creating sensation when
ever l appeared. no white woman hav-
ing been seen previously, but these
people struck me as having more than
situations in their minds and on their
clamOring tongues. l had been six
weeks in the country. My knowledge Of
Hausa was confined to salutatiOns and
our interpreter to help me to entertain
my visitors.
''They chartered, shouted and gestic-
ulated at Paul. who eventually explain.
ed to me smilingly that they had never
seen q white woman before and were
anxious to offer me personal well
come. nodded and smiled In high
qualification, thanked them cordially
and when l had exhausted my small
stock of polite salutatiOns told the in
terpreter to give them leave to 60
home This they did, somewhat re.
luctantly, thought, but after describ-
ing the interview with some amuse
ment to the sahib dismissed the mat
ter from my mind.
"Six weeks later we passed through
Lukpa again on our way back to Loko
ia and found it deserted-nOt man
woman or child, not goat, not fow
all gone, obviously fed into the bush
I felt distinctly hurt at this churlisf
behavior on the part of my late admir-
! ers and learned long afterward that OF
our first visit our precious interprete
and others of our party had seized an(
killed every goat and fowl in the vii
lage. The wretchcd owners had rush
ed up to the rest house to complain
and all they got was Thank you"
Il am not ashamed to confess that
cried when made that discovery. Thu
| lesson. however, went home to us boil
and drove US to work ceaselessly a
the Hausa language. knowing Their
could be no security for ourselves o
justice for the people until we could b.
Independent of dishonest interpreta
| ton"