Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-07

of a delicate yellow tint tipped with
green. 1t is open during the day and
closed at night. Old settlers of Ham
mond have no account of the importa-
iton of the plant from Egypt and be-
lieve it is indigenous to the Calumet
as well as to the Nile river.
interchangeable Auto - A
motor inspection car interchangeable
into an automobile has been built by
the Chicago & Northwestern railway
for the use of one of its division super
intendents. The car has fanged steel
wheels like an ordinary car for use
while running on the rails These may
be replaced by pneumatic tired wheels
and the steering wheel unlocked so
that it may be used as an ordinary au-
tomobile. 1t carries seven passengers,
is driven by 22-horsepower engine
and, to a certain extent, will take the
place of the superintendents private
cars.
To Aid Actors-William II.
Cruden, superintendent of the Illinois
free employment bureau of Chicago, a
state institution, has taken up the
cause Of the actor. Acting under the
new Illinois statute governing employ
ment agencies, he called conference of
booking agents and vaudeville man
ayers at his office Thursday and told
them the clause in actors contracts
which gives a manager the right to
cancel a contract at a moments notice
has worked hardships too long and
must be changed Hereafter contracts
must be drafted in Illinois with the
Objectionable clause eliminated
May End Imbroglio - I'm
portant developments may occur in the
South American imbroglio growing out
of the strained relations between Bo-
livia and Argentina in few days ac-
cording to dispatch from Washington
Bolivia is about to inaugurate a new
president, Don Eliodoro Villaion. who
is known to be friendly to Argentina,
and whose incumbency of the presi-
Dental office, it is said will have q
good effect on pending critical situa-
tions. 1t is said that the retiring
president who is known to be un-
friendly to Argentina and whose OBJ
servations regarding it's decision in the
arbitration award provoked consider
able ill feeling in Argentina, may OBJ
ject to Villaion's inauguration.
All Three Saved = A woman's
choice of saving her husband in pref
erence to her son and daughter re-
suited in the saving of all three. Mr..
and Mrs. William O'keefe and children
of Sparta, Wis, were at the La Crosse
river. The son and daughter went in
swimming, while the parents re-
manned on shore. The son and daugh-
ter got beyond their depth, and the
parents went to their assistance, both
being god swimmers. O'Keefe was
caught in some roots at the bottom of
the river. The wife gave up her eff
forts to save the children and extri-
Gated her husband. In a moment he
was resuscitated, and then both
plunged back into the river, the father
saving the son and the mother the girl.
Starved Her Child-Holding in
her arms her dying babe, which she
had starved through ignorance,
Frances Nowitzska, a Polish woman,
burst into the central police station,
Pittsburg, Thursday night, asking in
broken English every uniformed officer
she met to save the child. She tried
for a half hour before she was able to
inform the officers the emaciated ill
fant needed care. The superstition of
a Polish man whom the woman
thought doctor prompted her to feed
the child, months old, on coffee and
bread. For several weeks the infant
struggled for life on this diet. When
the child was sent to the hospital by
the police authorities physicians there
said it was starving to death. Chances
for its recovery are slight.