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Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-09
MANY VISITORS ATTEND
PORTLAND'S ROSE SHOW
Festival Begins with Rare Display OF
Flowers and Large Crowd of
Slghtseers

PORTLAND, Ore, June S.-Thou-
sands of visitors from various portions
of the state and the Pacific coast are
in Portland today in attendance upon
the annual rose festival. Hundreds of
the visitors are in Portland either COM
ing from or going to the Alaska Yukon
Pacific exposition at Seattle.
The Portland rose show which opened
this Afternoon is the principal day fea-
ture in connection with the festivities
of rose festival week. and the exhibit
ton is expected to surpass anything of
the kind ever attempted on the Pacific
coast.
Hundreds of thousands of choice bios
SONS, aside from the beautiful speci-
men roses entered in the contest for
trophies, are being used for the decora-
tions of the California building at the
exposition grounds, where the show is
being given.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-09

mt RS. REBECCA SPRING, matri-
IN arch of we'll known Los Ange-
AL les family and historically cele-
brated as 1.-The woman who nursed John
Brown" when he lay in prison wounded
after the Harper's Ferry raid" yes
terdav celebrated her ninety-eighth
birthday Mrs. Spring spent the day
quietly, receiving and chatting with her
friends at her home, 504 North Soto
street Mrs. Spring is the Oldest MEM
Der of the Friday Morning club, many
of the members of which visited her
yesterday or sent cards and messages.
Mrs. Springs relatives gatnereu
around her to spend the day. Among
them are Mrs. Peet, Herbert Peet,
Cloudesley Johns and Arthur L. Mac
Kaye, son of steele MacKaye, the ram
Gus playwright who wrote Hazel klrke'
and Paul Kauvar. Mrs. Springs Old
est great grandson, David Lor1ng Mac
Kaye, sailed for Honolulu few days
ago Her youngest great granucnllu Is
a little toddling infant.
Mrs. Spring has been resident OF
Los Angeles for twenty years
Il came here from New Jersey to end
NV days" she said yesterday. But
instead of ending my days l went on
living" ,.s.o,
she was asked.
eyes and no." she replied sadly. Yes,
because it is good to see my children
and nv grandchildren and great grand
children, and they are all fine boys ana
girls every one of them. But no, pc
cause where are all the people VINO
really knew me? My frlendsE MY olo
associates? | have made one set OF
friends after another. They CO. L re-
main" -, v,,o
of the day l remember the old-time
friends best"
"For instance, whom
"Why Whittier for one-the Quaker
poet. i was a Quaker too, thee must
remember-I was brought up Quaker
and can still say thee and thou with
very little effort. Then knew Lowell,
Mrs. Stowe, the poet Wordsworth, the
poet Longfellow. You see l knew plenty
of poets. Then by way of variety L
knew some men that had not a grain
of poetry in them-Thomas Carlyle
for instance. Oh, but ne was eross
man. Ny friends in England dared
me to call on him in his study and l
was never afraid of anything or any
body so l took the dare and we had
"Carlyle could see nothing but
trouble ahead for America. Well, he
was right We had plenty of trouble
over negro slavery.
"You mentioned the poet Words
worth Surely it is not possible you
remember"
"Oh, but yes I do. said Mrs. Spring
smartlv. 81 went to see him in the
Lake country. He was delightful
soul. cannot recollect all the names
of the people I have met at home and
abroad. In my earlier years and after
l married Marcus Spring | was de-
voted to emancipation or abolition.
"As a Quaker. of COURSE / was all
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-09
APPLICANTS TO WED MUST
BE EXAMINED BY DOCTORS
New Law Goes Into Effect in WASH
ington Today-Many Hasten
Nuptias

TACOMA, June S.-The new marriage
law providing that applicants must
undergo medical examination becomes
effective tomorrow. Many couples are
taking out licenses now, expecting To
hold them for several weeks.
Today, however. the prosecuting at
torney ruled that If used at all the
THE law provides that persons suffer-
ing from certain diseases shall not
marry, and this. he says, must be OBJ
served by ministers and other OFFICIALS.
1t is expected number OF Weddings
will be FASTENED by this ruling.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-09
FALLS FROM BICYCLE AND
BREAKS HIS WOODEN LEG
Prominent Dentist Found Near Death
in the Desert Unable to Walk
After Accident

ELY, New, June s.-Dr. w. L. Ma
COON, a prominent dentist of this city
started for Osceola, sixty miles dis
tant, last Saturday, riding motor
cycle.
When on the desert he was thrown
from his seat, breaking his wooden leg.
He was unable to walk, and after
crawling for four miles in the scorching
sun collapsed by the roadside, where
he was found twenty hours later in a
serious condition, having been without
water or food for the entire time.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-09
objects to Women's Cars

Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch does not
believe in the special cars for women
and will fight the movement for them
She says that the last cars are given
over to women, but there are not
enough for them, and the young women
crowd out the old women. In the
meantime men. feeling that women are
intruders in their cars, will expector-
ate upon the floors, smoke and other
wise go back to plebeian ways, out of
which they have been lured by the
presence of women
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-09
MO pLuMs ON HIM

Mamma (to S-yeartold Willie)-Willie,
If you don't stop shaking plums off of
that tree I'll shake you"
Willie-Why, mamma, you couldn't
shake any plums off of me.-The House,
keeper.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-09
Russian Consul Appointed

ST. PETERSBURG, June S.-M.
Rosehevensky. the first secretary of the
Russian legation at Bucharest, for
mer secretary at the embassy in Wash
ington, has been appointed Russian
consul at San Francisco.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-09

The marriage of Miss Katherine
sucher and William T. Traynor was
solemnized last night at the home of
the brides father, Jacob Sucher. on
New Hampshire street, Rev. John j.
clifford of st. Thomas church officiat-
Ing.
The bride wore an empire gown of
white lace, over which fell the folds of
long veil, and she carried a shower
oouauet of brides roses. Miss Sigrid
Johnson, the brides only attendant,
was attired in pale, blue silk and car
lied white sweet peas, Joseph kim
lelon of San Francisco stood with the
groom.
Little Esther Rhoades carried the
ring in a magnolia blossom.
A canopy of greenery in the recep-
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-04

secretary of the treasury Mr.. Vanderlp became his
private secretary. His work in helping raise the
Spanish War loan of 1898 that Mr. Gage
afterward appointed him his first assistant. In
1901 he resigned the vice presidency of the
City Bank York.
Mr. Norton thought George B.
Cortelyou. Mr. Cortelyou got job stenographer
in New York in 1883 at s275 day. In the last ten
years he has been secretary to two presidents
pied three cabinet positions and has become head OF
a great gas company.
- Cortelyou stepped from cerkship in the Post
ONCE Department into White House position under
President Cleveland later becoming assistant seere
When j. Addison Porter resigned he became full
nedged secretary to the President He was efficient
that he was retained When Roosevelt took the
helm of Office.
Mr., Roosevelt made him the first secretary OF the
new Department of Commerce and Labor In 1904
ne was selected by the President to manage the Re
publican eampaign Afterward he was appointed post
master general and later secretary of the
treasury. AT the end of his term he was invited to
6ee9i2e president OF the Consodated Gas Company,
official
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fering weak heart On the other hand. he says
a person with weak heart watch Marathon
and enjoy mid stimulation.
"Ali races" declares Mr.. Beam. "have psycho-
logical influence. They vitalze person. arouse IN
One gets In harmony with the racer and the
continued running exerts a mild stimulation
"A person with weak heart should not watch
contests For awhile the interest II exc
tremey tense; then there Is sudden relaxation. 10
instantaneous The effect 10 analogous TO an In
terrupted current In the same class such exsz-
cses the high jump. the broad jump the pole vault
the throwing of weights.
For nervous people long-distanos runs are most
beneficial. Boxing Is spasmodic; the emotions willis
watching Intermittent For other persons, who
need some 5oiting the effect Of watching boxing 10
good To watch games Of football and baseball -
beneficial Besides deriving muscular Stimulation the
eyes trained People naturally take sides. and.
psychically. they play the game with the favorfte
team Fencing light. graceful exercise ana 10 watch
will help toward a graceful development and play Of
the watchers muscles.
exercise, We are just discovering the possibilities"
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abroad to study the methods of banking in England
France. Germany and other continental countries.
Upon his return many bankers offered him induce
ments their profession. But he refused and
bided his time.
Norton is friend of Franklin Macveagh who
chosen by President Taft head the Treasury
Department. When Louis A Coolidge resigned as
second assistant MacVeagh thought of Norton He
offered him the position Norton accepted It
Vanderbilt who from secretary Of the treas
ury graduated to the vice presidency OF the National
City Bank, New York. of which he later became
president. Mr.. Vanderlip is today in charge of an
s25ooo000 and deposits Of s1S3oO0,Ooo. He is d.
rector and member of the executive committee the
largest railroad system Of the countryand that at
After the death his father Mr.. Vanderbilt when
a boy Of 16 started his career by making woodwork
ing machinery 75 cents day. Thence he
to work newspaper, afterward entering in
vestors' agency and taking courses in the Uni
yerstty Of Illinois and the University Of Chicago
His development steady and rapid. He became
financial editor OF Chicago paper. afterward start
ing papsr Of his awn whas rD'"sE j Cage became
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Then there is Leslie NJ Shaw. Mr.. Shaw II now
president of the First Mortgage Guarantee and Trust
Company, of Philadelphia. Mr.. Shaw started
lawyer in the West, where until the campaign OF
1896. he eontented remain in business and
practice law. His opposition to free silver such
that the Republicans nominated and elected
him governor the state. In 1902 he was asked
to become secretary OF the treasury.
He went from that position the presidency OF
the Carnegie Trust Company, of New York. whence
he to Philadelphia.
William B. Ridgley, who comptroller Of the
currency employ of the government become
president OF the National Bank OF Commerce, OF
sas City. As comptroller of the currency he AID
notable work fixing the responsibility of bank
management. During the financial trouble Of 1907 be
did exceptionally efficient work increasing the
rency circulation $50 100000.
Another man, James Heron Eckels who wag
comptroller currency under President Cleveland
left the government service to become president ul
the Commercial National Bank, of Chicago. He died
of heart disease in 1907 Two others. Hugh s Thomp-
and w. L. Trenholm both of South Carolina, after
serving the national government secured high Donar
tons in the world of hnance
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1%HE hotel proprietor having married
4 the most enhancing of the beautiful college
II girls who had drifted his way these last ten
years-she had intended to be Lady Professor
of Astronomy: but matter-now tor the nrst tins
asked her upon her Higher Culture for some
solution a common trouble In his trade
L. Abyss, darling" he said. "every season the So&
dining chairs at this hotel have been occupied
by 204 members of your adorable II some Of
them not replaced by members OF mine TIL have
back to being beggarly chef at $4,000 year
you'll have to chase up mavericks in the Milky
Way"
This" returned Abyss thoughtfuiiy, lis prob
lem In which must hrst determine our premiseR
The number of women guests must always be
the greater the number of guests always
the less-not because wish It, but because can't
help it,
Question: Weighing all existing circumstances
appraisng all psychological vagaries. what Is the
ideal proportion to which hope to attain7
Il should that should divide 204
commodations between the greater number Of women
and the lesser number Of men that two-nfths Of
the less being taken from the greater by previous
conditons of servitude, including engagements that
breach promise suits the remainder will
be just equal three seventies Of the greater sub
being capable of being faithful to about four
Abyss" exclaimed her husband you're the
human adding machine ali right; but won't those
figures end by splitting somebody into mere vulgar
fractions and having arrested for MURDER"
Would 1t? And, whether 1t would not how
Answer to the problem of the automatic ratons:
The oats cost 81 per bushel; the corn 81. and the
cowpeas, $I5O
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fatigue were Identical with those of muscular IA
tigue; that conscious processes and those of
ment Identical processes and take place in the
same cells: that every win impulse is Joined the
idea of movement to be executed and that the wiz
sensbility and functions inseparaby connected
with each other.
"Raes has shown that up to the fortieth there
formed in the cerebral convolutions plexuses
of hbers which lacking in the young. MY
experience shows that new tracts may be formed
in the cerebrum after so years OF and that
thought will assist greatly in the formation of these
paths.
zone may instance exercise on the bars and horse.
which form of activity, muscular mental. hastens
the maturity Of the BRAIN. believe either will
develop the BRAIN but there VIII always be the the
DRY of the leakage of energy to be considered
1.-THE Investigations of DR.. w. B. Cannon OF Har-
ward showing the effect of emotion upon the secretion
the digestive juices another example of the ef
feet of mind upon matter"
What exercises. you ask should indulge In with
the greatest benefit? That, it is explained.
must depend upon your condition OF health
w. Ward Beam, a well-known physical instructor
declares that whereas baseball is extremely beneficial
and stimulating well-constituted person In good
health the excitement Is too intense for person suf-
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ELATED AND STIMULATED

Were you to pause to think you would md that the
spirit the had taken possession of And
you compare your sensations before and after
the race you would afterward sensible
feeling of elation and stimulation.
Were you to continue watching Marathons according
TO the scientists muscles would begin to develop
almost impercepbly, Of but slowly and surely.
DR.. Anderson associated with Professor Irving
Fisher Of Yale, when he made his study Of the effect
Of diet endurance based experiment in thorough
astcaon Of food with nine students 1906 The tests
extended from January to In his conclusion Pro-
Fisher said that the improvement in endurance
likely due to detic causes that pos
sblA "unobserved element crept into the case, to
which. and not to the diet, improvement due"
DR.. Anderson has declared that he believes the 'un-
observed element" the attention the
the men, consciously and unconsciousy. They dis
cussed the tests, thought of them-and improved
Speaking of the effect of thought gain
culaT strength Dr.. Anderson. has said:
NO argument is needed to prove a correlation of
mind and body. The physical educator recognizes the
cooperation between the physical and the psychic
We who represent the health-makers will have done
but part Of duty If interdependence
OF the dual machinery Of the human economy. will
% able 70 secure only partial results IL fail first to
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to report one later at the and
under like conditions
Five were requested to think OF the strength
tests go over them frequently in their minds, but
under conditions practice Them No instructions
given the second FIVE aside from the request to
report days later
There gain In strength when the student
placed his mind upon the strength and loss when
he did not with two exceptions The men who
thought Of the then tried the tests had
their favor namely the Of atten-
ton, while those the other section had only the
tice Of the TRIALS. This would make diff
ference
"In the case Of student found gain Of 157
units did think gain Of 17os units when
he did, but the second gain under thought greater
than the first gain without thought
'The Of another student shows a loss OF as
units when he did think but only loss of 30.s
when he did. hence gain of 1917 units.
I'm making any study this character must
nize the value OF limited practice. which means
better adjustment OF the neuro-muscular machinery
Attention to test for week will create greater
interest in the subject, hence corresponding enthu
siasm which would act added impulse to the WILL
believe we have here the 'unobserved elements men
toned by Professor Fisher.
"Mosso noticed that the phenomena Of Intellectual
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acquain the pupil with the OF the muscuaturs
thought to unconscious cerebration uninentonai
will activity. and secondly to take advantage this
correlation"
Dr. Anderson in the new thought" which he
desgnates having appeared under various applications
destined revolutionze civilization What
Is purely psychophysioogieal phenomena. he is
too mysticism. Muscle read
ing spirit activities stripped of their trans
cendentasm.' he adds "by simple tests made in the
gymnasium"
The tests made by DR.. Anderson of particular i'm
portance them he found that mans biceps will
in he watches atenvely for period Of
five minutes another who contracts his
biceps against weight One of the young men he exc
amined scientific freshman. watched the elbow hexons
of another student nve minutes the spring tape
showed gain in his muscles
Speaking of experiments the ten students who.
he explains. not at all keen for gymnastics. DR..
Anderson says:
These given the collegiate strength
test and then told to keep from the gymnasium.
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The Latest Thing IN
Exercise Should Appeal
10 the Lazy Man
7THE game had progressed to the ninth
inning. The opposition sOas three
rms ahead. The home sympathizers

"HE game mad progressed to the nfnIh
inning. The opposition sOas three
rims ahead. The home sympathiSers
mere depressed and disappointed. Until
NTH tremendous blo1O the man at the bat
sent the ball sailing through the air and the
three men on bases went eareering homeaard.
Then the crowd zCent mad.
You, doubtless, have been in such a
erowd and participated in sach enthusiasm.
Bnt do You kmos0 s0hy your interest sas so in
tense, sohy preparation broke out ON your
brose as yoa matched? Did you realize that
--psyehicaily-yoa were participating in the
game; that you, in sense, sOere the man at
the bar, The men on bases, and that sUlien they
ran Your muscles responded
No? Did yoa ever realize that sohen
YOU sratcled Marathon, a game Of football
or baseball you also took part in the game,
evea sUl,ile yon spere sitting stillg
Although yoa did not realize i, accord
ing to modern psyrh0logisfs and physical a.;
rscfors. VOC did. s9A : 'pa.t$ IS
Even to tlIiak of feafs of exercise, they
declare. caasss one ID benefit Evsn to srateh
q Marathon gives one recreation and increased
Development, without the fatigue. Great es-
ercise for The lazy man, yon say. Se'sntisfs
agree Nth you.
Psychic sxercise, mind Marathons, men
tai boxing boats-these form the nesUest
"uvinkle" in athletics.
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rFYOU will not take exercise. think OF exercise II
4 YOU do not have time to run Marathon, watch
II Marathon. II playing baseball 10 too strenuous
watch baseball s
/ And derive benefits.
If a man viii not exercise. declared DR.. William g.
nasu che should witness feats of strength and
skin The change character OK the thought coupled
with a slight activity, is helpful deviation
from a routine of business life"
II was Dr. who enunciaed the assertion tnat
ne derives accruing actual exercise
simply by thinking of exercise watching games His
statement based study made with twenty stu
dents at Yale during and December 1901 These
observations proved sciencathe truth of his theories
You witnessed game of baseball You nave
felt the jolt when the bat made great hit
ana a sense of dizziness has over you when the
man on started OF Psychology and base
bali never probably having any re-
laton perhaps you nothing of psychology which
may be regarded pardonable than an ignorance
Of the country's national game .-...
At any rate psychology has great deal to do with
baseball And to measure the muscles of his
legs before the start their and while
they are running he would find that they are slightly
contracting and moving in sympathy with the runners
This is q fact proved by DR.. Andersons experiments.
he asserts.
Or you watch Marathon. The runners in trunks.
stand ready to feel the of expectancy
and when the signal is given feeling though cord
snapped. They of. You lean forward, your eyes
fastened on your favorte. He lags behind; you feel
relaxing muscles. sense of WEAKNESS of dis
appointment.
He darts ahead you brace up. He leaps ahead of
his rival you feel a of elation on-on-on-your
heart beats steadily, feel the pulse rising and
falling your coming fastand watch every
thing else forgotten
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-04

nROBABLY few men would resign $4,000
a-year position for paying only $4,000:
Yet this was what Charles Norton, of
Chicago. did when he resigned the position
of general agent for large life-insurance com
pany to become second assistant secretary of the
United States treasury.
In giving up salary as large that received
by ex-President Roosevelt the young man is max
ing sacrifice which, he believes, probably will pay
ceive less money his government position will be
a valuable asset in the future. From the school
of government service many men have graduated
into bank presidencies and heads of great business
concerns.
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"HARLES NORTON Is a young Many
persons might have thought that he made his
mark when he attained $4,000 year agent
for the life-insurance company. Banking,
however,. appealed U hiro strongly. he
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Answer to the problem of the automatic rations:
The oats cost 81 bushe1; the 81, and the
cowpeas, $3.50.
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rF YoU will not take exercise. think Of exercise If
4 Won do not have time to Marathon, watch
IL Marathon. II playing baseball is toe strenuous
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