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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-13

Colonel Griffith j. Griffith will
sneak tonight at o'clock on "Crimi-
nals-How We Treat Them, and How
They Should Be Treated" Colonel
Griffith, whose work in Connection with
the above subject and with the Prison
Reform league is we'll known, will give
a short address. but is anxious to de-
vote most of his time to answering
questions, speaking from his own &C
tual experience in San Quentin. He
MiU speak at Mammoth hall
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-13
SELF-STYLED N0BLEMAN
HELD ON THREE COUNTS
Proprietor of Hotel at MonroVia lden-
titles Fred Wellington as
Fred Schmidt

Apparently undismayed by his posi-
ton Fred Schmidt, who claims to be
a German count, was arraigned in
Justice Ling's court yesterday on three
ges-embezzlement, grand larceny
and forgery, preferred by A. e. Cronen-
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-13
anal Aid society to Move

The Legal Aid society, which now
has quarters in room 6l9 Chamber of
Commerce building, Will move TO 232
North Main street. The society will
share offices with the Associated Char
tiles and will renew it's activities in
giving legal aid where it is needed.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-13

handing damages in the sum of s10,-
900 from Niolas, alleging that he was
falsely imprisoned. Maloof spent eight
days in the county jail. The trouble
between the two men arose out of
business transaction.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-13
Sues for Damages

Il. S. Maloof, who was arrested
August 6, 1908, charged by M ] Niolas
with grand larceny, and later dis
charged by Justice Summerfield, filed
suit in the superior court yesterday de-
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-13
cinch

ssvho was that handsome woman you
bowed TOT"
"a widow OF my acquaintance, and l
think she has matrimonial designs on me-
"Ah. then you were bowling to the In
,evitable"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-13

{ never had a dear gazelle
To charm me with her soft mild eye;
II you must know the reason we'll
My wife might md It out, that's why.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-13
Busy

'Did you read that story about the ac-
tress who loves her husband? ?"
Nope, I've got no time for nature fakes"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-03
Piles Quickly
Cured at Home
Instant Relief, Permanent Cure-TriaI
Package Mailed Free to All In
Pisin Wrapper

Piles is a fearful disease, but easy to
cure if you go at it right.
An operation with the knife is dan
gerous, cruel, humiliating and unnec-
essary.
There is just one other sure way to
be cured-painless, safe and in the
privacy Of your own home-it is Pyra-
mid Pile Cure.
We mail a trial package free to all
who write.
1t will give you instant relief, show
you the harmless, painless nature Of
this great remedy and start you well on
the way toward a perfect cure.
Then you can get a full-SiZed box
from any druggist for so cents, and
often one box cures.
Insist on having what you call for.
If the druggist tries to sell you some
thing just as good, 1t is because he
makes more money on the substitute.
The cure begins at once and con-
tinues rapidly until it is complete and
permanent.
You can go right ahead with your
work and be easy and comfortable all
the time
1t is well worth trying.
Just send your name and address to
Pyramid Drug Co., 92 Pyramid Build
ing, Marshall, Mich, and receive free
by return mail the trial package in a
plain wrapper.
Thousands have been cured in this
easy, painless and inexpensive way, in
the privacy of the home.
No knife and its torture.
No doctor and his bills.
All druggists, so cents. Write today
for free package.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-03
SULPHUROUS IDEAS
ARE ALL ABANDONED
HELL NO LONGER REGARDED
IN LITERAL SENSE
Thinking People Cannot Be Induced
to Regard Blind Faith as
Virtue, Says Boston
Writer

The prophecy of Emerson that the re-
ligion of the future must necessarily be
a. scientific one has found its fulfllment
with a rapidity he himself perhaps
hardly contemplated. The dogmas
which confronted him in the early days
Of his ministry in Boston have been
Slapped one after another by scientific
thinking. Except in an ever narrow
ing theological circle, no one ever
dreams Of regarding the devil as per-
son with horns and a tail, capable of
appearing at one moment to st. An
thony as a beautiful woman and the
next to St. Dunstan in propria persona.
Nor does any one longer regard hell as
sulphurous and subterraneous cav
ern, fitted with ovens and caldrons, as
in the pictures of the otherwise gentle
minded Brother Angelica. Even on the
very question which caused Emerson
to sever his connection with the Uni
tartan church in Boston, the world is
beginning to waver. The fact is that
the time has gone when thinking peo-
pie can any longer be induced to re-
gard faith as the virtue of believing
something you do not understand.
Wordsworth, in a famous passage in
1.-THE Excursion" wrote Of
One in whom persuasion and belief
Had ripened into faith. and faith become
A passionate intuition.
People often talk of Christian Sci
ence as if it were a sort of mammoth
dispensary, whereas the truth prob
ably is that the proportion of people
coming to Christian Science simply for
physical healing is decreasing every
day. What actually is attracting peo-
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-03
JUDGES IN CONTEST
WITH STENOGRAPHERS
Secret Meeting of judiciary Proves
FrultIess, but Two Members of
Bench Take Independent
Action

1t developed today that the principal
purpose of the secret meeting held by
the nine judges of the superior court
in the chambers of Presiding Judge
James Thursday was to consider the
best method Of expediting the hearing
Of cases where the services of stenog-
raphers are required. A great deal of
complaint has resulted from delays in
securing stenOgraphers when wanted,
in the frequent changing of men during
the trial of case, making it difficult
to refer to testimony already rendered,
and in the perfection of transcripts.
For q number Of years the firm of
Longley, Keith, Bagley & Co. has sup
piled stenographers to do the bulk of
work in the superior court. Depart
ments one, five and seven have their
own reporters. The firm supplies the
other six departments, and, it is
claimed, because of it's long connection
with the courts and the political inf1u-
ence of some of its members, had
gained firm hold.
This hold was broken yesterday
While it was hoped that the judges
would act unanimously in the secret
meeting Thursday and declare a sepa-
ration as between the courts and the
Longley firm, all those present could
not be persuaded to view the matter in
the same light.
ne CUSTOM dI1OnR the Judges or de-
claring any proposition lost unless
agreed to unanimously prevailed Thurs
day. Two Judges, however, acted in
dependently yesterday. These were
Judges w. P. James and Charles Mon
roe. The former appointed N. Fl. Peter
son as stenographer in department
four, at the same time notifying A. e.
Bagley. member Of the Longley firm,
that his services in the department
were ended. Judge Monroe appointed
w. N. Tiffany. Both Peterson and Tiff
fanny have been employed by the Long
ley firm for some time, and, to prove
that the break between these two de-
partments and the firm is a clean one,
it was demanded Of each Of the men
before his appointment was announced
that he leave the firm and give his en-
tire services to court work
While Judge Houser Of department
three also took independent action, he
was not as insistent that the firms
representation in his court should end
He gave instructions, however, to M.
H. Conlee, employed by the Longley
firm, to establish an office in the court
house building where he can be reached
at any time.
1t is expected that Judge Frank B.
Willis, when he takes his seat in de-
partment one Monday, will reappoint
B. n. Smith as reporter in that de-
partment.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-03
REPORT GIVES DATA
OF CRIMINAL TRIALS
COMPARES RECORD AND THAT
OF SAN FRANCISCO
Los Angeles County, in Proportion to
Population, Has Larger Percent
age of Felony Charges and
Convictions

According to the biennial report Of
the attorney general for the two years
ended June 80 last, received yester-
day, district attorneys throughout the
state have brought charges during that
time against 1928 persons. OF these 2246
were sentenced to state institutions, 92S
were dismissed and 371 were acquitted.
Speaking of the report, District At
torney J. D. Fredericks said: 1.-The
comparison of the county's work with
that of San Francisco city and county
is interesting. In the past two years
there were S44 felony charges filed in
this county, compared with 664 in San
Francisco, showing that q per cent
more cases in proportion to population
were filed here than there.
This county has SGT convictions to
San Francisco's 400. The northern
county, however, leads in the number
of acquittals, having rs to our 40. They
are welcome to the honor.
1--WE have sent 415 persons to penal
institutions, as compared with San
Francisco's 20S, nearly 40 per cent
more being punished in Los Angeles
than in San Francisco. Those fined and
probated or otherwise disposed of are
about the same in each jurisdiction
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-03

the brother of the Lord has declared
how Every good gift and every per-
feet gift is from above, and cometh
down from the Father of lights, with
whom is no variableness, neither shadow
Of turning"
Not All Seek Healing
The theories of Chistian Scientists,
consequently, are no castles in the air
or houses built upon the sand. Christian
Science has come to rouse the in
habitants of these worlds of dreams
out of the sleep Of the senses into
spiritual watchfulness, and consequent
ly positively the most dangerous aspect
Of the heresy, as a London clergyman
confided not long ago to his congrega-
ton from the pulpit, is that those who
have become Christian Scientists have
also become much nicer people"
Quotes Emerson
For centuries the Bible was regarded
throughout Christendom as a book
which, though written in a strange
metaphor and in a foreign tongue was
to be accepted in the literal sense of
the languages into which it might be
translated. AS consequence number
less commentaries have been devised
for the elucidation of the text. They
are works Of immense learning and
often of intense interest, but not one
Of them has brought to mankind a
repetition Of the demonstrations of
the Syrian carpenter, who taught the
world, almost 1000 years ago, the prac-
teal import Of the gift Of God, do
minion over all. The simple truth is
that, in the words Of st. Paul, spiritual
things are spiritually discerned, and
that is why at last there has come a
commentary, Science and Health
with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs.
Eddy, which, approaching the subject
from a purely spiritual standpoint, has
made so clear to many thousands Of
people the divine law, traced in the
Bible from Genesis to Revelation, as
to enable them to fulfil, to the extent
of their individual perception, the COM
mands of the man who understood
that law in it's entirety. And so En-
ersons prophecy has come to pass:
when faithful thinker, resolute
to detach every object from personal
relations, and see it in the light Of
thought, shall at the same time kindle
science with the fire of the hottest af-
lection, then will God go forth anew
into creation. "-Christian Science Mon
itor.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-03

pie to Christian Science is the sight Of
an ever-increasing army of men and
women experiencing in their ordinary
everyday lives a peace, joy and con-
tentment, with a corresponding abb
sence of fear, worry and excitement,
which it is impossible to attribute to
anything less fundamental than a pro-
found mental revolution.
This revolution has been achieved by
shifting their mental basis from a be-
lief in physical to a belief in spiritual
causation, and as science in the words
of Professor Huxley, Consists of the
answers which mankind has been able
to give to inquiry, What do 1 know?''
that change in their health which so
astonishes the doctors, and in their
lives which so amazes the clergy, is
the scientific reply which they are
making to the questions, What do we
know, through the help of this new
understanding of God, that was hidden
from us before? They are beginning to
understand what law really is, and so
to comprehend for the first time that
wonderful saying Of the psalmisr,
"Great peace have they which love thy
law; and nothing shall offend Them
But faith, the world is beginning TO
realize, has a more scientific basis than
this, and that basis has been perfectly
of Science and Health: cit is a chry-
sails state of human thought, in which
spiritual evidenuce, contradicting the
testimony of material sense, begins to
appear and Truth, the ever-present, is
becoming understood" Just as our
knowledge of the multiplication table
gives US faith in our ability to work out
the problems of higher mathematics, so
the Christian Scientists perception of
spiritual causation constitutes his faith
in his ability to gain the understanding
of Divine Principle through which he
whom Mrs. Eddy has described as 1.-THE
most scientific man that ever trod the
globe" demonstrated by means of the
miracle or object lesson the omnipo-
tence of divine law.
The ordinary idea Of law is something
which can be broken with varying de-
grees Of impunity; even the unalterable
laws of the Modes and the Persians
were abrogated by the simple process
of fresh enactment. Law, however,
defined in the terms of science, is
simply the uniform recurrence of
phenomena in which no variation has
been observed, and no definition could
accord better with the words in which
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-03
BROADWAY DEPARTMENT TO
HOLD FIRE SALVAGE SALE

The fire in the Van Mugs block on
Christmas eve was more disastrous to
the Broadway department store than
was at first supposed. It's insurance
losses have been adjusted, and the fig
ures are set at $51,50O. The terms of
the insurance company were promptly
accepted by Arthur Let's. The reserve
stock in various departments repre-
scented there sustained losses Of shoes,
21,100; on house furnishings, hard
ware, enamelware, baskets, trunks,
bags, woodenware, etc, $22, 900 on beds
and mattresses, $1,000; on soaps and
washing powder, $4,000, and on domes-
tics, $1,000.
The salvage stock which was dam
aged in the receiveing room of the
Clark and Sherman building fire will be
combined with this Van Mugs salvage
and will be offered by the Broadway
department store in a fire salvage sale
soon.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-03
MITCHELL SAYS
DUTY WAS DONE
DECLARES He KNEW THAYER
HAD WR0NGED SISTER
CERTAIN HE WAS CAUSE OF HER
LEAVING DOOR OF HOPE
Shoots Man Without INDUCING In Any
PrelminarIes-Office Search =
Diligently for Missing
Young Woman

Il only did the duty Of a brother
when 1 shot Cecil Thayer," said Will
liam Clinton Mitchell on being ques-
toned yesterday as to his motive for
killing the messenger boy who had been
paying attention to his sister, Ethel
Mitchell, for more than two years.
Mitchell would not make any state
ment as to his reasons for suspecting
Thayer, but said he knew it was
Thayer who had Wronged her and was
the cause Of her leaving the Door of
Hope, $500 South Main street, where she
was placed June % by her parents in
order to get her where she might not
communicate with her sutton.
The prisoner displayed no signs Of re-
morse, but, on the contrary, seemed to
think he had done his full duty. Ethel
Mitchell and her two companions, who
escaped from the Door Of Hope Friday
night, have not yet been located by the
officers detailed to make the search.
Mitchell is "a years of age and is the
main support of his parents, with whom
he resides at 301 GlesS street. He came
here recently from Arizona, where he
was employed as miner and cattle
herder. He has been employed by the
Baker iron works in this city as tool
Sharpener. His father suffers from
n
Attorney Earl Rogers will defend the
prisoner. When Mitchell heard Friday
night that his sister and her COM
panions were missing from the Door of
Hope he quietly took his revolver and,
saying nothing, left the house. He went
directly to the home of George Coulter,
2122 East Fourth street, and asked for
Thayer. Being informed that Coulter
and Thayer had gone out to Hollenbeck
park, Mitchell left the place, but met
the two men he sought in front of 1924
East Fourth street.
His only preliminary was to ask as
your name Cecil Thayer?" and being
answered in the affirmative he drew his
revolver and shot Thayer through
the heart. subsequently emptying his
weapon into the fallen body.
When Thayer began going with Ethel
Mitchell he was Is years Of age and the
girl was IA. Several officers ventured
the suggestion yesterday that it was a
case of childish love, that Thayer really
cared for the girl and would have mar
ried her had her parents consented
Just what grounds young Mitchell had
for suspecting anything to the contrary
ton of the missing girl and her testl-
mony may throw light on this obscure
point.
Just now the officers are interested
in ascertaining whether Mitchell really
knew anything to justify him in his
act, or whether he was brooding over
supposed wrong and had no real reason
for suspecting Thayer.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-03
AUDITOR DOW PREPARES
TO FIGHT AUTO CHARGES

H. G. Dow, county auditor, is making
preparations to meet the legal proceed
ings instituted by the Los Angeles Mo-
tor Car company, which seeks to COM
pei the county official to pay the bill
for Coroner HartwelPs automobile and
"fxings."
Auditor Dow was served with an or
der yesterday to appear before Judge
Monroe at 2 o'clock, January 8, to show
cause why he should not pay the bill.
Pending that date he will, it is said,
investigate the cost of automobiles and
attachments.
The auditor first held up the bill be-
cause it included coats, caps, goggles,
etc. Later he determined not to pay
any part of the amount, failing to I'M
derstand why the coroner should have
an automobile.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-03
BRACKET PICTURE SHOW WILL
DANISH POST-HOLIDAY CROUCH

NHE BRACKET moving picture show in Spring street,
which The Herald offers daily free passes proving
= most attractive of the down town entertainments The
tendance has shown that appreciated with the increasing
Mr. Bracket steadily improving the bill The pictures
offered include travel educational adventure features max
ing bill which, its entirety has been eXceed in the
feel
poshoday crouch there better ward it off than
daP the Bracket theater for hour 1t takes little less
than hour the show there numbers that
may want to than All you have do to clip the
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-03

they tried to explain to the police Of
ficials just how it happened. 1t was a
very sober bunch that meekly filed out
of the Jail yesterday morning, each
having taken the pledge never to touch
another drop.
The men taken in were from every
station in life and every calling and
profession. They were not the ordinary
bunch of DRINKS, who pay their pc
riodical respects to the police station.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-03
Gives Worthless Check

The man who gave his name as H.
G. Gee, arrested Thursday while try
ing to cash a supposed worthless draft,
was arraigned before Justice Selph
yesterday and pleaded not guilty. He
refused to tell the court his correct
name. Preliminary examination was
set for January % at 10 o'clock.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-03
Divorce Suits Filed

The following suits for divorce were
filed in the superior court yesterday:
Ada E. Reeves against Frederick J.
Reeves; jamie Skies against Berry w.
Skies; Lena E. Jones against Edward
George Jones; Anita V. Rivera against
Pedro Rivera, and Emma Gordon
against George Gordon.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-03
STATION CROWDED
BY NEW YEARS Jewellers

More than fifty New Years jewellers
paid the penalty of overindulgence in
liquid cheer on the first by being given
a free ride to the police station, where
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-03

we offer the services of foremost American
specialists in artistic home furnishings, and
employ the most experienced salespeople to
aid purchasers in making most satisfactory
selections;
we engage none but the best workpeople in
all departments;
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-03

in other words, Barker Bros are big enough
and our establishment complete enough to
deal with all persons, upon any plan or terms,
to meet all wants great or small-and to give
every customer absolute and invariable sat
isfaction.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-03

GOOD Only on Date Of Issue.)

GOOD Only on Date of Issue.)
II HIS entities Admission to
the famous South Spring street, be-
tween the hours of O'Clock and o'clock M If
this
The BRACETT SHOWS guaranteed to The Herald in writ
TONL character This with The Herald policy
sented its readers IChage Angeles HeraIdI
tering
Sunday, January 8, 1909.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-03

we send buyers and experts East every sea-
son for newest goods and latest ideas;
we buy at lowest prices, discount all bills,
sell at lower margin of profit than any other
Western firm, and still extend accommodation
on the partial payment plan whenever the
patron desires it;
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-03

An oriental rug collection that is famed far and wide
for its extensvenes and hundreds and hundreds of
and beautiful specimens;
gathering of modern rugs that gives range of choice
of twice many patterns shown in any other one
Western establishment;
the largest stock Of carpets every yard guaranteed for
quality and service;
linoleums, ocloths, mattings, ETC., in all grades
stock that embraces Styles choicest designs
and most satisfactory selection from every standpoint;
and don't forget
WE ARE NEVER UNDERSOLD
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-07-22
HUNGER STRIKE
BECOMES GENERAL
Imprisoned Suftragettes Defy.
= ing All Prison Rules.

London, July 22.-Six out Of four
teen suffragettes who were recently
imprisoned in the Holloway Jail for
breaking windows at Whitehall have
been released on account of insubor-
dination and Herbert Gladstone, Sec
rotary of state for home affairs, init
mated in the house of commons that
it was only a question Of. a few days
until all of the women would be
turned out, as the hunger strike" had
become general. Since the womc 4
were sentenced to close confinement
they have been defying all the prison
rules and now, Mr.. Gladstone said,
they have taken to kicking and biting
the female wardens.; The home secre-
tary holly denounced James Kerr Har-
dies suggestion that the cells under
ground were unsanitary. -:
Attempts made by the supporters of
the sufragettes to adjourn the house,
in order to discuss "the infection of a
punishment that was dangerous to the
health of the ladies'" was defeated by
the speaker, who refused to put the
motion on the ground that there had
been no departure from the ordinary
administration of law.