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Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-20

an of the finest art galleries on the
Pacific coast is that which has
~ been opened this week at Long
Beach in the Virginia hotel and the
paintings which have been secured by
Mr.. Kanst of this city for the opening
exhibition come from the foremost
artists of the day. \ number of the
masterpieces from the Seattle exposi-
tion which have recently been on view
in Los Angeles will be hung in the new
gallery. and many others recently re-
ceived from the art centers of this
country and Europe, as well as a goodly
showing Of the work of our representa-
tive California painters. a free per-
manent exhibition of this nature means
a great deal to the art life. not only of
Long Beach but of Southern California.
and it is the aim of those who have
been fostering the enterprise to bring
our western artists in closer touch with
the visitors who come to US each season
from all parts of the world. In this
movement Mrs. r. n. Jackson has been
most prominent and untiring in her eff
forts, and she is seeing the fultllmenl
of her desire to make her home city
known as an art center. Mrs. Jackson
IS the curator and manager of the new
gallery, and her experience and in
terest in art matters fit her especially
for this work. Surely no more fitting
place could be found for an art gallery
than the famous Hotel Virginia, and
the spacious gallery, 40X80 feet, was
especially designed for this purpose.
The gallery was formally opened on the
evening of December IS with festivities
behtting the Importance of the Occa-
sion, and the paintings shown at this
first view give brilliant promise for the
future of this permanent exhibition.
The tenth annual exhibition of paint
ines by William Lees Judson is now
being held at the College of Fine Arts
and win continue until February /. MIR.
JudsOn is showing at this time twenty
four Arroyo Seco landscapes among his
oil paintings and a number of water
cOlOrs OF subjects in the Arroyo Seco
canyon. where he spent short vaca-
ton last summer
The exhibition of craft work by the
Arroyo guild is also being shown dur
ing this time and includes artistic
printing and bookbindng glazed and
enameled pottery, art needleWork and
embroidery, basketry, weaving, photog-
raphy, hammered brass and copper and
sculptured leather.
The first Of the series of Arroyo guild
lectures was delivered on the evening
Of December 10 by DR.. George Wharton
James, following the reception at the
opening of the exhibition. Other lee
lures of the course will be given by
Bruce Gordon Kingsley DR.. Scherer of
Throop institute and by members of
the guild or the faculty of the art
school.
William Swift Daniel, who has re-
Gently returned to Los Angeles from
the East. is once more at home to his
friends in his studio or. Manitou street,
and is showing there Il number Of wa
ter colors executed during his absence.
These are delightful bits of tranquil
landscape; quiet roads, enchanting
fence corners and gently sloDine hill
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-20
10y elizabeth Waqquner

sides make one wish to linger in Just
such places as the artist has found
there i'm the Berkshires, and after the
high keyed. rugged beauty of our much
painted California landscape they are
most satisfying in their restfulness.
Marion Holden Pope is showing some
of her exquisite echings in the exhibit
tion at the Blanchard gallery this
month and they are in such a source
of pleasure in their rarely artistic
treatment that one wishes to visit that
particular corner again and again. A
visitor to the Artemisia bindery in
these last days before the holidays
finds it a busy place despite the appar-
ent quiet and secluslon which add so
much to the charm of this interesting
spot, and with the books, pictures and
curios that Idah Meacham Strobridge
loves to have about her. it is always
full of interest, and first of all just
now is Mrs. Strobridge's latest book,
"The Land of Purple Shadows" which
is lust out and in most attractive form;
the mere beauty of its printed page,
the binding in harmony with the text,
the Illustrations by Maynard Dixon
and the decorations by Norman st.
Clair combine to make it work of
arr. to say nothing of the subject mat
ter. AS to that, the word-painting it
contains often presents more vivid nc
lures than could be shown on canvas.
"In Quiet Canons," the first of these
pen sketches, is one of the most beau
tiful in its description and the others
add their notes of human interest to
the expression of the authors evident
love and understanding of nature. The
foreword sounds most truly the key
note of the book. "At various times
in various places; in many moods, and
in different mediums, are the studies
and sketches made, which the painter
brings back to his studio after his
worIing-vacation is over. Mere sug-
gestions and rough outlines are they,
the first impressions of what he saw;
what he felt; what he lived. Not for
the galleries did he make them, not
for the critics, nor the careless. But
the portfolio is opened to those who
will understand; those who in the in
complete sketch - the half-hnished
studv-see the truth, even as the
nainter shows such. SO, too, are put
before you these studies of the West
this land of golden sunlight and purple
cha 6oWS "
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-20
HOLIDAY SPIRIT
AT PLAYH0USES
"THE TOYMAKER" IS REVIVED
AT GRAND OPERA HOUSE
CHARLES FARWELL EDISON ADDS
STRENGTH TO COMPANY
"santa Claus" one-Act operetta,
Serves as Curtain Raiser for
"St. Elmo" at Burbank, Now
in Its Third Week

"The TOymaker," a musical extravaganza
in two acts and FIVE scenes, composed by
Audran and adapted by Ferris Hartman for
production at the Grand opera house sun
day evening Dec. 10, 1909.
THE CAST
Johannes Guggenheimer,. Ferris Hartman
Brother Mathew. &C.. Charles Farwell Edison
Frederick a novice ......... Walter DeLeon
Fran Guggenheimer. ..... Miss Alcthea Luce
Peter, foreman. .............M Miss Josie mart
Elsa a.............M Miss ''Muggins" Davies
Count Ballcuberg .......... Joseph fogafty
Herr SchwartzenbaCh. ...... Walter Gatlett
Notary .'s..'' ''.' L. A'oNV9
Monks q. POultney, J.. BOwes, j. Hanhahan
WOrlNmen. ballet dancers, dolls, clowns,
sailors soldiers, policemen, court ladies.
pages and funkies.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-20
His Sweetheart

An engagement between a handsome
young Philadelphia woman and an i'm
pecunious young man about town was
suspended several weeks recently be-
cause of a slight mistake by a boy in
the florists shop where the young man
was in the habit of buying blooms for
his prospective bride.
Being in a hurry one morning the
young man hastily penciled two cards
10 the florist. one was a brief compli-
ment to his sweetheart to go with the
flowers and the other was directed to
the florist. 1t read: do the best you
can for 70 cents"
The mistake occurred when this card
was attached to the fiowers.-Philadel-
phia Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-20
Shoes Half Price aad Less

over two hundred big display bargain table,
are displaying shoes for men, women ana
children. on sale in many Instances for half
price and less Convince yourself and coms
to the
MAMMOTH SHOE HOUSE,
$40 South Broadway.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-20

Eat at the Angeius grill.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-20
BRIDE is WON BY MAN
WHO MASTICATES TACKS

ST. LOUIS. Dec. 19.-Mrs. Torrance
Miss Gertrude Arnoldy, and is now
the wife Of the human ostrich" said
she had fallen in love with o'Grady
when she saw him eating tacks at one
of his exhibitions.
81 thought I would like to cook for
man like that" she said. "He can't
fuss at what | prepare for the table" :"
Mrs. O'Grady says her husband has
promised to teach her the art Of eating
tacSs and glass without feeling uncom-
Portable.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-20

Panther troupe of European acrobats.
Others on the bill viii be Dorothy
Dahl. Morris and Morton, Helen Beres-
ford and company and Dick and Alice
McAvov. There will be new motion
pictures.
Charles Giblyn, who has been absent
from the Belasco stage Tor some weeks
owing to an operation, will be seen
again in Through a Window next
Monday night.
Ferris Hartman probably will give
soon a production of Sam Bernard's
musical comedy success. "The Girl
from Kays.'
For more than week Lewis S. Stone
and the Belasco theater company have
been hard at work on rehearsals for
the coming production of Mrs. Ger
trude Nelson Andrews new play,
Through Window" while the fin
ishing touches have been put upon the
scenery. The first scenic and dress re
hearsal. under the direction of Direc-
tor Harry Andrews and the author,
will be given on the Belasco stage to-
morrow morning The sale of seats
for the first presentation next Monday
night will open this morning at the
Belasco box office.
David Warhcld will open a weeks
engagement in The Music Master
tonight at the Mason.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-20
HERALD PATTERNS

As further convenience to our readers all
patterns ordered from The Herald viii here
after he delivered within five days from the
time the order is received in this Office. This
insures ten days prompter delivery OF pat
terms than has ever before been attempted
by any newspaper in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-20
MIR. OPP
The New Book by Alice Hogan Rice
Author of "Mrs Wigs of the Cabbage Patch"

Mrs. Rice has done
l approaches the whimsical humor and
pathos of this story. 1t interests from the
first line to the end, > absorbs, and
makes a tear come between the laughs.
You will love Mr.. Opp the famboyant
little Kentucky editor, the extracts from
whose paper, The Opp Eagle" are
little gems of rural journalism. And
there is plenty of love in it, too.
.Strikingly illustrated by Guipon. Price $IOO
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-20

The seveuty-nvc mcmbcrs of the
"Top Of the World" company viii have
two days rest before their opening at
the Majestic Christmas matinee. The
company viii arrive in Los Angeles
Thursday, anl Manager George MW-
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-20
Talk About Hapnlness

Ful1y-Nghat p happy world this would be
II moro Of us got what Wc wanted.
Duddy-Ios or else fewer OF MS got what va
deserved. Boston Transcript.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-05
BACK TO THE OLD SUBJECT.

The
moving this week and will increase number
steadily hereafter unit! the full food is on
the
the Of the past that many planters will have the finest
they in years.
district there pound,
dollars bale than paid for the
Prosperity accordingly
necessities held off will be supplied
abundant months
generally oiled swift motion The
propious launching enterprises
appreciated everywhere
Columbus mill and
another big enterprise
find that here there and
there OF determination to expand the existing
everywhere? compelled to
should but Americas
The cotton mill spirit half dormant mere But can De awakened 10
will thirty there has been much
this line doing much waste of words without fruit
reason why the same sad epaph soud De cSed on the
better the past why such
certainly that be reasonably
urged now lack OF unity has been the deerrng oce IN he past II It
has held the city back then let
spirit local pride local patriotism take its
spoke building
that progressive city to greater position in the world industry Some
his comments without their application to other cities perhaps
Americas Urging cooperation the part the citizens the
speaker
Only when there is greater unity OF purpose and action among
public affairs and broader conception among some few of
BY jealousies animosies
the paralysis the n
ee in ma towns and Which, Conditions Keep
gt f4P not sS Ss o us these
absence of unity and cooperation
here for the industrial upf OF the city that there shall be no more reason
hereafter? Surely this fall and winter when prov
this
will be possible for all OF our people TO JOIN ha 10 we'd INTO
solely by the love of Americas and with
establish mill here that will be but the
Others the open sesame the city of 10000 people that should be
luresof buried
glorious
the people
the emblem of victory the fight
And that stack will be but the orenner others
that will add nightly to the wealth and population and business generally
of the city
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-05
A LONGEVITY TRUST,
New York Times. }

The term life insurance" never
meant the insurance of lives until this
year, when Dr.. Burnside Foster and
Prof. Irving Fisher interested the life
companies in their plans of preventing
premature death. One company has
this week announced it's purpose to
save one-third of the amount awarded
| for death claims of tuberculosis policy
holders by a campaign of cure and
prevention. The agents of the compa-
MES might easily be transformed into
a militant body of health agents
armed with pamphlets and advice to
each holder of the millions of policies
A staff of visiting physicians, special
| lists in the chief diseases, may treat
patients in every community who can
not otherwise command skilled ser
vices. By such work the companies
would have fewer death claims tc
pay They could promise larger ben
efits. But this, which has hitherto
been a deciding argument in insur-
ance competition, is only incidental tc
the added promise that the policy
holders life, which is of quite inesti
mable value to his family, would be
guarded
The competition of the life compa-
MES, once started toward the prolong-
alton of their patrons lives, woulC
not end until not only tuberculosis
but all the diseases that figure largely
in the actuarial tables become the
subject of skilled attention. The lives
of most men who can afford to employ
doctor are already insured" Ulti-
mately, we presume, those physicians
not retained by the companies would
be reduced to treating minor ills, Oh
they would be forced quite out OF
their profession.
The organization of preventive med.
icine has reached startling proper
lions, but it has failed to keep pace
with the progress in medical science
This progress is so rapid that tht
medical colleges complain that the!
cannot catch up in their equipment
But if the new departure in life insur
ance means anything, it means tina
the companies are beginning to re
solve themselves into what they hav,
an inherent right to be, companies o
| physicians a LONGEVITY Trust.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-05
CURRENT COMMENT
THOU GAVEST 1T TO ME.

The font in the memorial church at
Cawnpore was erected by Queen Vic
tOria: ITO the memory of Robert Nc
Gillup of the Bengal Civil Service, who
lost his life in the Indian mutiny
while carrying water from the well to
the distressed women and children.
| who within my hollow hand
Have held the raging sea
And stilled the storm that swept the
land
And set the rain clouds free.
By whose command the fierce monsoon
Above the plains has burst,
i, who am King of land and sea,
|, too, have said Il thirst"
Hung on the Gross. and dying there
That all the world might see
The whole wide world whose sins
bear
That nailed me to the tree!
Pierced by the anguish of the sword
My life blood slowly fell,
You brought to me, your dying Lord,
The water from the WE'LL
Lord, what am l, that | should dare
Even to lift my eyes
To Thy dread form that fingers there
Against the darkened skies?
1 never heard Thy thirsty moan,
Deaf to Thy plant was I
They nailed Thee there
My sins alone, my shame
That made Thee die!
l only saw the women fade
Beneath the burning sky,
The fierce light piercing even shade
Where sorrows self could lie!
[ only saw the children pine
AS struck to death they fell,
And to those thirsty ones of Thine
Brought water from the we'll!
was with those who bore with Thee
The heated furnace fire,
Mine was the sad and thirsty eye,
And mine the fierce desire;
Mine were lips for water faint
The hand outstretched to Thee.
And as thou gavest it to them
Thou gavest it to me!
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-05
FRIGHTENING OTHER LIVES.
Christian Science MonitorO

J
great deal OF comment, some fav-
orable but more of it adverse, has been
called forth by this piece of advice
from a wely-known man nowinpartial
retirement who has distributed many
Iof his millions phiIanthropically
Brighten some one else's life. Cheer
some one else's pathway every day.
This is the best investment that any of
us in this world can ever hope to
make" And this is certainly as good
advice as most of us can ever hope to
give. 1t loses nothing of it's goodness,
either, by reason of the fact that the
man in question is not credited with
the virtue of having done, through the
greater part of his career, what he adj
vises others to do Indeed there is
resentment here and there that he
should have the presumption to give
utterance to such good advice. Yet
few are better qualified to do so than
he.
We have learned in these recent
years, among many other things that
should be immensely helpful to us and
to the generations to follow us, that
prosperity of purse is a poor substI-
tute for poverty of soul We have
learned this, too, at first hand-from
those who have acquired wealth only
to discover that it brought no satisfac-
ton; who have found it to be worth
less except in so far as they might be
given opportunity, even when very
late, to use it for the frightening of
other lives
And with this knowledge of the dis
appointment in the lives of the So
called successful, with this understand
ing of the unsatisfied yearning of the
captains and generals of industry who
have given their best years to needless
pursuit of the dollar, we must have
learned also, that among the most
priceless of all gifts that can be Of
fered others, that their lives may be
bettered and frightened, is charity.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-05
NJ TENDON CASE IN COURT.
(The Valdosta Times.)

tine FalQOSta l1meS.)
If Hon. S. G. McLendon decides to
carry the fight to retain his seat on
the railroad commission into the
courts an interesting legal battle may
be expected
News dispatches from Atlanta state
that the deposed commissioner will
undoubtedly take quo-warranto pro-
ceedings in the state courts to have
himself re-instated, that is if the
House concurs in the Senate's action,
which is more than probable. 1t is
said that the proceedings will be
brought as soon as Governor Brown
names his successor on the commits
sion and will be an attack on the con-
titutionality of the law which de-
prives an official of his office without
trial
1t is said to he Mr.. McLendons idea
that he can bring his case in the Fed
eral court and take it from there to
the United States Supreme court if
necessary. He will contend that the
recent investigation was in no sense a
trial, and the proper method to have
considered his case would have been
impeachment proceedings. This is the
view held of the matter by some of the
best lawyers in either house of the leg
islature, and it is understood that Joe
Hill Hall will introduce a bill for i'm
parchment proceedings.
When the case goes into the courts
| it will be decided on its legal merits
Politics will be eliminated, and the
dignity of law and justice upheld.
Governor Smith fired McLendon fol
his vote on the port-rate question, but
the Senate, if newspaper reports are
truthful, put the blocks" to the com
missioner ostensibly as much for his
connection with the Athens Street
Railway bonds as for his port rate
vote. Really, however politics was
the sum and substance of the whole
business.
1t is rather unusual in court OF
law to indict a man on one charge and
| try him on another. If the indictment
is not sustained the man must go free
or a new indictment be drawn, but
the legislature is not worrying about
any little legal bubbles like this. The
house will no doubt concur in the ac-
| ton of the senate last week and sus-
tain Gov. Smiths dismission of the
commissioner.
The blind justice will be invoked
and we will see a pretty legal fight.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-05
THE CHANCES THE SOUTH OF.
FERS A POOR MAN.
augusta Herald.

Without doubt the South is the
country which above all other coun-
tries in the world offers the poor man
the chance to gain competency and
| independence There may be other
| places where great fortunes may be
won more quickly. In Monte Carlo
he may win fortune on the turn of a
card in the Klondike he may become
millionaire by finding a gold mine;
in South America he may grow rich
| by starting a successful revolution and
in England he could roll in wealth if
he invented a practical plan to pre-
vent airships from crossing the wa
| ter. But these and other ways of MAX
ing a quick fortune are precarious,
hazardous and very uncertain To
make an honest competency and reach
a position of independence of worldly
cares no country or no section of our
country offers the enterprising young
man better chances than the South.
and especially our own State.
In his article on Glorious Old Geor-
gia' Mr.. Garault Agassiz did not men
ton this fact. Perhaps it went beyond
the scope of his purpose, or perhaps
he did not study the resources of Geor
gia from a standpoint to have brought
this fact home to him. He confined
himself to presenting in pleasing form
the wealth of the state in her scarcely
touched natural resources, but he did
not mention the ease and certainty
with which young man, with a de
termination to make his fortune as his
only capital, can succeed in this state
Land is cheap in Georgia. Although
during the past few years the advance
in the value of land has ben rapid, an(
in few years more cheap land will be
thing forever past, at the present
time there is yet land which may be
bought for song, and the purchaser
sing it himself" 1t was cheap lan6
| which caused the rush of immigrants
to the West, and is now causing the
rush into the Canadian western pro
vinces Just because land was chea1
men, and women too, went into these
sections with their inhospitable eli
mate, braved the hardships and dan
gers of the wilderness, but succeeded
in making their individual fortunes
and incidentally of building up great
and prosperous comon Wealths.
The cheap lands are here in Geor-
gia, and in additionu a country already
settled producing more wealth thar
any other section, and requiring none
of the hardships incidental to new
countries And besides this the eli
/ mate is such that it is not only health
| full and pleasant, but makes Twin
cheap and allows the growing of con
| tinuous crops the entire year Under
such conditions it cannot be otherwise
than that an industrious man, careful
ly outstanding his resources and max
ing the best use of them, make rapid
Roadway in accommodating wealth.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-05
THE EDEN ROSE.
(RndYard Kipling.

Fair Eve knelt close to the guarded
gate
In the hush of the Eastern Spring
She saw the flash of the Angels sword
The CLEAN of the Angels wing.
And because she was so beautiful,
And because she could not see
How fair were the pure white cyla-
mems
Crushed, dying, at her knee,
He plucked a rose from the Eden tree
Where the four great rivers met,
And sheltered her bosom's thorny pain
Meath its petals dewy wet.
And though for many a cycle past
That rose in the dust hath lain,
With her who bore it upon her breast
When she passed from grief and
pain,
There was never a daughter of Eve,
but once
Ere the tale of her years be done,
Shall know the scent of the Eden rose
For once beneath the sun!
Though the years may bring her joy or
pain,
Fame, sorrow, or sacrifice,
The hour that brought her the scent of
the rose
She lived it in Paradise.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1909-08-05
THAT WATERING CART.

The business section is not suffering
from any overuse of the new watering
carts these dry and dusty days. 1t is
probably correct to credit the water
works with the water used for water
ing purposes, but such being the case
the water should at least be used. Bus
mess men rightly complain about the
excessive care that is taken of the cart
1t is new and will probably stand lit
tie more use than it is put to. If it is
an ornament put it in a glass case. II
not let the merchants see it on the
streets a little earlier and a little more
frequently.