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Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-30
A Life of Adventure

Moura made many other expeditions IN
search of valuables and treasure lost In
other ships, but never did he fail to re-
member that on that hidden reef, un-
known to others, there was still waiting
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his ends. The iliumina ton of ths
great bouleyards encourages hin. ratt.
er than the reverse. He helps himself
to the facilities of civilization in Or
der that he may defy it. The thug OF
other countries resorts to violence
when all else fails. With the Partisan
Apache violence comes first as con-
venient preliminary to robbery. and
q few francs of loose change are sui
flcient recon pense for the trouble OF
knife thrust. AS a result, the pru-
dent Partisan goes armed. 1t is
easy to get, but unless occasion arises
to use the revolver no one will ever
know that it is there, and il occasion
does arise its presence will be justi-
fed.
The police also go armed, indeed,
doubly armed, as becomes those whose
quarrel is just. They carry the SER
vice revolver, which must be shown
every day. and all empty shells or
chambers vigorously accounted for.
But there are occasions when the
Paris policeman likes to fire a shot
or two without the necessity for ex-
planning the why and the wherefore.
and for this reason he carries his
own revolver that he can use when
he wishes to keep the service weapon
charged and immaculate. Small blame
to him. The skulking figure in the
dark doorway is just as real threat
to human life as that same figure I'm
active fight with knife or sandbag.
and the sandbag, and the dead body
of an Apache will occasion far less
concern to the authorities than the
depreciation of live one. In such
cases Official inquiry is perfunctory.
OF course, everybody says that
something must be done. NJ. Touny.
the chief Of police. says so. although
his ideas of what this should be are
little hazy. The good man seems
to think that the prisons are too COM
Portable, which shows what strange
ideas Of comfort some people have.
The whole question will probably be
raised in the Chambers, which Is not
a cheering prospect for the citizen,
however. tenaciously he may cling to
the hopeful delusion that the epitome
of all earthly wisdom is to be found
in the Representatives Of the peo-
p!e"-St. Martin. in the San Fran
cisco Argonaut
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Is There Water on the Moon?

Some striking photographs made by
Prof. w. ii. Pickering of the volcanoes
in the Hawaiian Islands serve to point
out certain characteristics which they
have in common with the craters on
the moon. One photograph of a long
crack. extending some miles, in the
la:a crust at Hawaii serves to empha-
size Prof chickering's belief that water
or water vapor exists on the moon.
and by irrigating cracks on the moons
surface gives rise to vegetation In
them, just as trees and shrubs have
sprung up in the Hawaiian lava crack.
In studying Erastothenes In 1904.
Prof. Pickering found it's interior
scanned with numerous fine cracks.
Watching some of these cracks soon
after the sun arose on them he was
able to see them broaden out and
change gradually into canals. 1t is
his belief that the cracks gave out
water vapor, which fertilized the
vegetation along their sides and in
their neighborhood, and that it was
the growth OF this vegetation winch
produced the appearance of canal.
A further inference is that the canals
on Mars, which become more clear
~ visible at some periods Of the
year, owing to the melting of the Mar
tian polar ice cap and the flooding
of the waterways. are similar cracks
on the surface of Mars. Cracks OF
the kind occur on the moon. The
largest of them is that known as
Sirsalis, which. is 400 miles In length.
1t is possible also that they exist
on the earth, though they are not
readily discernible 1t has sometimes
been supposed that terrestrial vol
canoes lie along subterranean cracks.
Scientific American.
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ing 1t. 4 familiar illustration of THIS
to the reader will be the following:
You know how an egg, once hard
boiled, cant be beat''-not even in
hot liquids, even though you mash the
egg to a pulp first. 1t will always stay
in finely divided granules even after
the severest beating and shaking. This
Is due to the boiling Of the egg having
coagulated its corpuscles beyond pow
er of resolving again with liquids. The
same thing occurs when dried skim
milk is eyaporated above $50 degrees
Fair.
Still, there are some grades of skim
milk powder in the manufacture OF
which care is exercised not to reach
the coagulating point. A simple way
to test this is as follows: Mix some
in a glass of water, give it fair shak-
ing and let 1t stand. II any settles to
the bottom within few hours reject
it.
Dried pure milk with its fat intact
can be tested by mixing thoroughly
Auu dl1OWluS W Slduu AOI the CIcdm u
RISE Your own sense will tell you
whether the fatty cream is bona-fide or
has been substituted for solidified cot
ton-seed oil. ct al. If any sediment
forms, excessive heat has been used
here too. Reject it.
Dried cream is rara avis in purity,
but is easily tested. Mix with tepid
water to the consistency of cream, al
low to become q little cooler, and
churn. The butter-your own sense
will tell you If it is butter-will soon
be formed, but 1t ever has a fiattish
taste. and Is deficient in quantity COM
pared to what would have been the re-
suit from churning from the fresh
cream.
In fact. no dried cream or milk, re-.
constituted into liquid form. ever has
the same Identical fresh taste of it's
original self, nor the same pleasing,
appetizing quality as an article Of food,
although l will admit it is NEAR
enough" and the manufacturer or his
drummer who tells you the contrary
Is only quizzing you.-The International
Confectioner.
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A Proverb Reversed.

In London the latest is bill Of fare
which you may eat. The sheet ON
which the edible menu is printed"
IL made Of the sugar tissue paper
used on the bottom of macaroOns.
while the lettering Is made OF cake
frosting. The London caterer who "iH-
vented" the edible menu card has
been hon0red by the patronage Of
the King. The King commanded"
the caterer to teach his chef to make
the edible novelty, and the Kings
guests discovered that their menu
cards" were good to eat. They
promptly ate them.-Chicag0 Journal,
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The Queens Portrait.

When the Queen was in Paris she
was presented with wonderful por.
raft Of herself It was entirely EN-
broidered in silks by Polish lady.
and it Is to be offered eventually to
the South Kensinston Museum. The
work is so finely done that one has
to look very closely to see that it Is
not painted, says Woman's Life. The
face and neck especially are SO even
and so well shaded the effect is a.
most as beautiful as the lovely Queen
herself.
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THE DOMINANT RIGHT.
A "Sinister Superstition" and It's e.
fscts Upon the Human Mind.

tOCSS upon tne truman fUlno.
It took whole generation time of
experiments and mechanics to learn
that the engineer must stand or sit on
the right side of his engine or cab in
order that he could look ahead with
his right or dominant eye only. and
without sticking his entire head out.
as he would have to do If he sat or
stood on the left side. The railroad
men never learned why this is SO, do
not know why today, and to make the
desirable change in two American
left passing double track railroads.
while It would finally avoid expense
and accidents, would cost at once
many millions of dollars. Thousands
of years ago knights and men fighting
on foot or horseback had to approach
and pass each other on the left in or
der to strike or spear each other with
the right hand while the shield hand
held the shield or the reins. The rail.
way engineer. civil or locomotive.
does not know that the knight was
his right-handed and right-eyed pro-
gen1tOr and endOWer.
A food of light is thrown upon his
tory, sociology and medicine, espe-
cially upon psychology. neurology and
psychiatry, by left-handedness and its
sequels. OF every million born at
least 10000 probably more, are natur-
ally left-handed, so that in the United
States there are nearly 100000, and
in the world more than $4,000, 900,
thus handicapped. An indehnie pro-
portion of these have been or are be-
ing doubly cursed by the efforts of
the foolish parent or teachers to make
them right-handed. Sad suggestions
and Illustrations of the baleful results
of the work Of these improvers of ma
ture exist in such simple facts as that
right" which should mean only dex-
trail or hight-handed has come to mean
good, moral, advisable; and ''left" or
sfnistral, has become sinister. awk-
ward, unlucky, to be avoided, both per-
son and thing. "Dexterity" and "dex-
trousness." properly meaning only
"dextrality." have become synony-
WVNb Will CApcItucSS anu CACSpllOuaA
proficiency. whereas everybody knows
that the left-handed person, II purely
SO, is as cunning Of hand az the right
handed. Even the superstition of the
"evil eyec-the non-dominant one
teaches the same lesson. In all ages
and now surely, there are everywhere
strange mad unaccountable cases Of
failure in life,' peculiar ''odd,"
awkward" folk, cranks of a hundred
types. insists. Sufferers and all that.
What light the displacement Of the
cerebral centre for speech and writ
ing. or its pernicious double placing
and maleducation and Gripping by
"ambidextralists," throws upon the or
igin and fate of many sufferers, and
upon many Of the ''hopelessly stupid"
the laggards in school! How many
Of the medieval court testers and the
derided, the town fools, the kyphotics
and cripples were the products Of the
sinister" superstition Of the right
handed tyrants? And how many Of
the morbid minded and insane?-Dr:
G. M. Gould in the Medical Record.
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BY L. LODIAN.

nation to my knowledge
" ~ Of putting up lines oil
\ H biscuits or crackers. To
-. they just use the rice
~ Of all flours. The pure
.'.al are always made very
I nlId-sometimes quite hard
s. sweetening agent is just
IN syrup peculiar to China.
4 so,y the Chinese who seem
AZ snow white cereal con-
~. f,ur own American whitest
mid look dingy white in
a. I first came across these
$3.50 in the Orient in 1886.
esred much for their pecu-
Intensely sweet taste-almost
. A. "a more Of candy than OF
y nsu.
~ 4. Chinese should rival each
4 n production OF these snow
i. Irux1s / never learned, but be-
i 1 i only a fad. Possibly one
y 4 Ill: The Chinese are much
= 4 bsstowing presentation boxes
nov white crackers. The
! 1. nusly lined inside with the
\ ugsa but exquisitely beauti-
. tsseair silk known as woven
]. hbric inimitable outside of
- It Is 80 called because the
naambles the irregular effects
;. adyea snow as we sometimes
\ now swept fields. a purely
nne-for as If there could
" q woven snow!"-yet SUI
aggressive.
- silk-''woven snow
nlIetionery boxes must have
vnlte confectionery to match.
J crackers would look dingy
! n therein. Such the explain
mAafed by the captain of one
- steamers as we were one
- through the charming in
~ Japan.
It specimens Of this unique
an6Dctonery silk ''coddlfng" |
- with me. Its remark
y that 1t will-being made
ummed silk-last more than
1 sland 4 hundred washings
lovef Ghrink-not even a lit
IN ever retains its chaste
n-mow effect which has
RI It the singular name OF
new."
~ contrast from this land
IA \ the biscuit Of China
IL iet black cracker. 1t Ia
afbooised cracker dust. de-
In taste Of burning" which
I tStremsly disagreeable, and
SDS1tsned. In the dark, you
lktsll the difference between It
g91hasy medium sweet crack
tnneh esteemed by the Chin
e1h-what corresponds to our
I'D "; In fact, a supply-suf-
Rths following day-is often
10 the tea caddy the day
4huDe when 1t absorbs con-
= he fragrant od0r of the
= ghjeA It Is destined to be
- secular absorption prop.
- = the aforementioned car
k9 dust used as the basis
1Ee. The odor also inn
1e taste to the biscuit.
imam il wonderfully
! sonfectionery, but lacks
Aoognment of the Italian.
eoersd glass veneerings Of
The Oriental prefers his
~ fruits in the Juice; the
d for initiating them in
gytsry.
~ uniquest thing in the
1Fia trade-apart from
\ elever and able fruit imi-
tAslr skin-chocolate known
-. For all the world this
= Glossy new black sausage
oodlng, but is much softer.
specially during the cool
j ~ better class of con-
eegss throughout Italy for
lng cups OF chocolate for
& consumption ON the
! = squeezed out at a time,
= cup. on the same prin-
ea6-container artists col
safsr b added. and pres
- chocolate 10 ready with
- q sweeteninE.
- It always In paste form
> beans are being grounds,
utter fat intact. between
ssths inlpisAteas juice Of
- II added, insuring .
- THIS n the sweetening
= many people still like to
- The cup. Sometimes, but
= httA Of the dark high
n Italian wines, extra
uAol, d added to the mix
- mill - . slight pre-
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There are different grades of oil
stones. hard and soft. The best oil
to use on an oil stone is parad1n; water
Il better On = hard stone.
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Nearly every Japanese follows the
trade or profession Of his father.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-01-22

There was a man in our town, and
he was quite case,
He jumped into a bramble bush and
badly scratched his face;
Forthwith he sougth a barber shop
The naughty barber said,
The while his razor he did strOp
you shave yourself sometimes,
don't your"
Washington Herald
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plant and Ii, too, seems to tighten
ITS hold upon life.
But as the animal Is nearer to US
than the vegetable, SO Ia animal in
telligence nearer akin to our own
than plant intelligence. We hear OF
plant physiology, but not yet of plant
psychology. When a plant growing
in darkened room leans toward the
light, the leaning, we are taught, IS
a purely mechanical process; the eff
feet Of the light upon the cells of
the plant brings 1t about in a purely
mechanical way but when an animal
is drawn to the. light the process Is
a much more complex one, and i'm
plies nervous system. 1t is thought
by some that the roots of water
loving plant divine the water from
afar and run toward it. The truth
is the plant or tree sends its roots in
all directions, but those on the side
OF the water find the ground moister
in that direction and their growth is
accelerated, while the others are
checked by the dryness. of the soil.
A birch tree starting life upon the
top OF a rock, as birch trees more
than any others are wont to do,
where the soil is thin, soon starts a
root down to the ground several feet
OOAO0 III UAGt 0OClo d very
gent way. Now the tree cannot know
that the ground is there within reach.
On one side of the rock, usually on
the north side, it finds moss and mois-
ture and here the root makes it's way;
when it reaches the edge of the rocks
1t bends down just as a fluid would
do and continues Its course till it
reaches the ground, then it rejoices,
so to speah All other roots are call
ed in or dry up, this one root increas-
es till 1t Is like a continuation of the
trunk itself, and a new root system
Is established in the ground. But
why the birch SO often establishes it.
self upon a rock do not know
The intelligence of the plants and
flowers of which Maeterlinck writes
so delightfully."- is, of course, only a
of the general intelli-
gence that pervades all nature.
Maeterlinck is usually sound upon his
facts, however. however free and
poetic he may be in the interpreta-
ton of them. The plants and flowers
certainly do some wonderful things;
they secure definite ends by definite
means and devices, as much so as
does man himself-witness the elabo- |
rate and ingenious mechanical con-
trivances by which the orchids Sc
cure croSs-fertilization. Yet If W
are to use terms strictly we can hard |
ly call it intelligence in the human
sense, that is, the result of reflection |
On the part Of the plant itself, any |
more than we can ascribe the general |
structure and economy of the plant, |
Or OF our own bodies, to- an individ- |
lal act of intelligence.
There are ten thousand curious and !
urnndnrf1rl fhin0- in hot |
and vegetable worlds; and in the |
Inorganic world as we'll, but it is only /
n poetic and imaginative sense 1
hat we can speak of them as the |
'esult of intelligence on the part Of |
he things themselves; we personify |
he things when we do Scouting
Magazine.
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The Last Great Fire

Did not cause so much suffering to the
homeless as many case Of eczema causes
its miserable victim. And the relief fund
did not bring so much Joy as Hoods Sarsa-,
parilla has given thousands OF times, in
relieving the agonizing itching and burning
OF eczema-tortured people.
In Bed Of Fire. lived in bed Of
IRE for years. owing to blood poison. all over
my body, itching intensely. Hospital treat
ment did not help me. tried Hoods Sarsa-
saparilla and continued taking it until 1 was
entirely cured" MRS. j. 7. WILLIAMS.
CarbondAle. Pa
Tied the Aands-"We had to tie the
hands Of our two-year-old son on account Of
eczema on his face and limbs. No medicine
helped until we used Hoods Sarsaparilla
which soon completely cured" Mrs. A. VAN
WICK. LIS Montgomery St, Paterson. N. j.
Hoods Sarsaparilla is sold everywhere.
In the usual liquid. or in tablet form called
Sarsatabs. 100 Doses One Dollar. Pre-.
pared only by C. 1. Hood Co., Lowell, Mass.
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WHAT CAUSES HEADACHE
From October to May Colds are the most
frequent cause of Headache. LAXATIVE
BROMO QUININE removes cause. E.
w. Grove on box. Csc.
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GRIP EPIDEMIC
SPREADING
Over 100000 Cases Reported !,
the Large Cities.
Leading Doctors Agree That The o.,-
Sure Preventative and Cure is Duffv,,
Pure Malt Whiskey as Pfescrihea

Grip, with all its distressing svmD,,-
and Its dangers % poorly nourished nersOr IN
has been steadily increasing during n. -
few weeks, until now the disease has aI,St
reached the stage of an epidemic.
The fact is that since the opening NJ IL.
wear grip has been on the increase. cGa
statistics in the records of the H..tI
Department show this.
Experts are agreed that grip contribu...
by complication with other diseases. 70 !,
increase of the death rate. 1t is also ~
gcrous ailmcnt, because of its liability ~
neglected, to develop into pneumona'
Doctors agree this epidemic couH |.
avoided by Keeping the system in no-rI
healthy c6ndition by using Dufy'S pn.9
Malt Whiskey as prescribed Mr.. "
Stage, 1868 Pacific ST., BROOKLYN. V
who is vigorous at the age of q, has b.
cured several times of grip by Duffy's Pr.
Malt Whisky, taken as prescribed. and -
also been saved by Its use from the bad af.-.
effects of the disease.
Mr.. Stzsg writes:-" Fer thirty v-,,
Duffy's Pure Malt Whisky has been =,
one medicine. / have always used i !,
prescribed, and it has proved valuable aid
as it has not only cured several attacks J,
grip, but has prevented any bad after-ea,ct,
cannot speak too highly of what Duly,
Pure Malt Whiskey has done for me, .ri
will always keep it to stimulate and tone N
my system and as sure cure for colds sr5
grip. Although - years old, am hale and
hearty, due TO the jsdicious use of Dufy'I
Pure Malt whiskey.''
Write DR.. c. M. Curran, Consulirs
Physician, Duffy Malt Whiskey Co., ROchss,
Il, ". Y, and state your case fully. H,
n prescribe and advise you free Of charys,
The Lewis Bear Company,
Distributors, Pensacola, Fla.
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RUFF To BE
TRIED FIRST
Will Face a Frisco Jury on
January % Under the
Bribery Charge.
RU AeanraahAd 0rssa

$ San Francisco, Jan. 21.-When the
cases of Patrick Calhoun, TREY L..
Ford, Thornwell Mutually. Eugene E.
Schmitz and Abraham Ruef, in con-
nection with the alleged bribing of
supervisors to grant a trolley fran
chise to the United Railways, came
up before Superior Judge Lawler to-
day, district Attorney Langdon asked
that all the cases be continued until
Jan. %, and announced that on that
day he would proceed with the trial
of Abraham Ruef.
George B. Keale, who represented
Ruef, asked for two or three weeks
time that Ruef might obtain counsel
and prepare his case. Judge Lawler
declined to give Ruef more than two
days to procure counsel.
.Ruef, it was disclosed yesterday.
had been granted immunity provided
that he testIhed for the state against
other defendants. He failed to keep
his word, and the state now purposes
to prosecute Ruef on 1T indictments
voted against him.
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TRIAL Of MAJ.
v. T. HANCOCK
Officer Stationed at Fort
Barrancas Being Tried
At Atlantas

Major W. F. Hancock, stationed al
Fort Barancas, where he was attach
ed to the coast artillery. is being
lanta. on serious charge, as will be
seen by the following from the morn.
| ing edition of the Atlanta Journal of
yesterday:
The rcourtmratial now engaged in
trying Major w F. Hancock, coast ar.
tillery corps, u S. A, on a charge of
having broken his pledge to abstain
from drinking whisky, was Resumed
at 8 o'clock Monday afternoon after
forenoon session devoted to the
preliminaries of the hearing.
Following several unsuccessful eff
forts of the majors counsel to throw
out the case on technical grounds,
the defendant pleaded not guilty both
to the "specifcation"-tha is, the
formal arraignment-and also to the
charge itself. 1t was soon evident
from the tactics of his counsel that
he intended to fight the case in every
detail.
The first witness to testify Monday
afternoon was Major George T. bar
ney, member of the artillery COPS
now stationed at Sandy Hook, near
New York city. Major Barney testi-
fed that in March and April, 1906,
he was in command at tort Casey,
Washington state, near Port Town
send.
The accused, he said, was then
there in the rank of captain, and
from midnight, March 26, 1906, until
the morning of March 18th, was ABB
sent from the fort without leave of
absence.
On Captain Hancock's return, said
the witness, he (the witnessl warned
him to abstain from drinking and en-
deavored to secure a pledge of alb
stinence from him. Captain Hancock
is reported to have replied That ne
would think it over Again on rhe
morning of April 18th, the witnesses
testimony continued, Captain Hancock
was absent without leave of absence.
Major Barney then preferred charges,
tain Hancock arrested at the officers
mess. These charges were absence
without leave"
At this juncture the judge advocate
read a paper purporting 70 be the
original pledge of abstinence signed
by Captain Hancock.
Major Barney, reSuming his testi-
mony, declared that it was upon the
strength of this pledge that Captain
was released at the particu-
lar time under discussion, and the |
charges against him dismissed. This |
agreement, he said, was made upon |
the recommendation and consent. Of |
the general commanding the depart |
ment of Columbia, the de4artment in
which Captain Hancock is alleged TO
have committed the offense Of being |
absent without leave.
In concluding his testimony, Major |
Barney said that Captain Hancock |
so long as he remained under his |
kept his pledge.
Lieutenant Gordon n. Kim5all, |
counsel for Major Hancock, explained |
mis- first alleged absence from the |
fort on the ground that the major had |
gone to a nearby station to send a |
telegram to Washington concerning |