Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-03

| slumber that he must awaken with his
| first dream, or If not with that with it's
second dream. Subconsciously this
strong ante-sleeping command delivered
| TO himself was present all through his
/ dream consciousness. When the first
scenes of d vivid dream came before his
fancy, he felt himself awakened and he
| sat about writing down the facts upon
! the pad at his table. 1t was then that
from some source of inner conscious
| ness he felt the command again to
| awake, although he seemed at the time
! to be in full possession of his normal
| faculties. His eyes opened and the
secret was out. He found himself lying
In bed, where he had been all that
night. His rising after each dream
mad become so much a routine that he
had dreamed that he had arisen and
had made the notes and his dream was
SO clear that it seemed reality.-From
The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of"
| by John r. Meader, in The Bohemian
Magazine for January.
One Of the extremely interesting
things about New York is the number
| and variety of the entertainments Of
| Tered for the delectation Of those Of
| us who have "a moment to spare -
| from time to time, says FairchiId's
Magazine for January. The Madison
| Square garden plays a large part in
the filling In Of idle moments, and the
/ crowds that gather there to witness
the several events that mark a season
at this big arena are curiously inter-
esting, so different are they at each
particular show that happens to be
| taking place at any particular time
The six-day bicycle race was strik-
ing example of this. The interest taken
In this event is tremendous and the
big arena was literally packed from
pit to dome. Probably no single event
brings out such an enormous concourse
Of people. Hardly any women at all,
except perhaps a few interested sight
seerS who stopped but a. short time in
that smoke-ladened atmosphere were
present at this race, and one saw u
great throng of prosperous looking
men, clad in somber tones, the major
ity Of them in black derbies and dark
overcoats. no matter where one looked.
In fact, the only bit Of light in the
picture was the costumes worn by the
| riders themselves or an occasional
waiter in white duck coat. The race
| however, attracted countless numbers
Of youngsters, bank runners, clerks and
| the like, who were almost invariably
wearing soft hats. With the advent Of
| the winter season one wondered what
had become of all the soft hats that
| seemed to be "called i'm at the first
suggestion Of a frost, but the answer
| to this problem was certainly to be
4 found at the siX-day race, where all
| the younger element Of enthusiasts,
who were so intently watching the
struggle for what, to the casual OBJ
server, seems an extraordinarily mad
equate prize, were wearing the soft
felt hats that have so generally disap-
peared from our streets.
/
General Kuropatkin says in the Jan
uary McClure's that sit would be ad-
vantageous to neither ourselves (Rus-
sia) nor to our neighbors to change our
frontiers. The change would be too
COSTLY
1.-THE chief work of our army in the
last 200 years has consisted in the en-
! largement Of our boundaries on the
northwest and on the south. In the
last two centuries but seventy-two
years have been peaceful. In the re-
naming 1928 years, thirty-three foreign
and two internal wars have been
waged. Russia's outlets on the Baltic
and Black seas required the labor Of
our armed forces for 200 years, and
cost us great sacrices in killed and
wounded. We reached the Pacific in
1897 without bloodshed. But so easy
a victory bore within itself the germ
Of defeat. The enlargement Of Russia's
| boundaries in I'll directions has
! brought into her possession divers peo-
pies alien and even hostile to Russia.
The borders of the empire have begun
to be surrounded by a population not
sufficiently amalgamated with the Rus
| sian people. And in this respect our
frontiers in 1900 were less favorable in
! a military sense than in 1900
Russia, in her frontiers of 11,O0O
miles, contiguous to nine different
Kingdoms, needs, in my opinion, no
alterations in her boundary lines. This
| deduction is tranquillizing in the high
est degree, for it appears to be en-
ttrely probable that if Russia, content
ing herself with her frontiers, occu-
pies herself during the twentieth CEN
fury merely with the consolidation Of
the kingdom she has won at the cost
Of such tremendous efforts and sacri-
fees in the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries, the danger Of war with her
neighbors will be eliminated
In his Comic Side of Crime" Harry
Furniss tells an interesting story in the
January Strand of how lightningliEe
quickness Of thought once saved a
rogue from arrest. Monsieur Claude
chief of the Paris police, was ordered
| on one occasion to arrest an ESCAPED
prisoner who had defrauded the gov
eminent. At the time Paris was wild
over the songs of Pierre Jean de Be
ranger, which were heard everywhere,
though the poet himself was little
known. In his hunt after the convict
Claude entered the famous Closerie des
Lilas, where he found his man sur
| rounded by a swarm of pretty girls,
| the bewitching danseuses of the Latin
quarter. The escaped prisoner saw
him and turned pale. Quick as light
| ming, however, he put his lips to the
( ear Of the girl nearest to him and