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Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-02
QUESTIONS JUSTICE OF
NEW COLD STORAGE LAW

LOS ANGELES. Aug. 29.7-[Editor
Herald: I would like to ask, for the
benefit of many doubling Thomases
with whom 1 have come in contact
lately, as to just what benefit is to be
derived from the enforcement OF the
new pure food law which goes into eff
feet tomorrow, and which is intended
to prevent the sale in restaurants and
hotels of cold storage stuff? How will
this law benefit the consumer? Is it
aimed at the large eastern or the
smaller local meat trusts, and does it
not injure the local produce dealer
more than it does the real offenders,
the big eastern companies. who evade
the cold storage system by CANNING
and ARTIFICIALLY coloring and
banefully EMBALMING their chick
ems, soups, fish, beef etc.? would also
like to ask If it has ever really been
proved that cold storage meats are in
furious? Is it not a fact that most
ptomaine poisoning is from CANNED
goods? Kindly let me hear from some
of the savants who contribute to the
Letter Box. LEVITICUS.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-02

the meaning given as that when
heals a breach" and is "acknowledg-
ment' of our obligation to God as our
creator, with a feeling of reverence
and love- and consequently duty or
obedience to him.
We have as many different religions
as we have different conceptions OF
God and his character and require
ments, and these call out all the
various rites and devotions from the
sacrifice of animals and human beings
to the performance on Azusa street,
Los Angeles.
Some of us believe the Bible is
revelation from God. and that in 1t
are principles laid down for the heal
ing of the breach between him and
man, But even with this generally
accepted foundation, there are hun
dreds of conflicting theories as to its
meaning. This may be caused by en-
deavoring to make the Bible fit our
own ideas, without giving it a full
searching. For example, in today's
issue viii B. Smith writes, "Christ
emphatiCally claims to be the Divine
Son o food, coepual with him, or
that he and the Father are one"
Now. l fail to see where Jesus said
he was coequal with God, but 1 do
read Of his saying, my Father is
greater than l." (John 1928. And
while it is true that he said, "I and
my Father are one" John 10:30), he
explains this apparent enigma In
chapter 17:11, where he prays, Holy
Father, keep through thine own name
those whom thou hast given me, that
they may be one as we are" Ana in
verse 21. that they all may be one;
as thou, Father, art in me- and I in
thee, that they may be one in us"
JAMES T IRWIN,
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-02
DECLARES NEW THOUGHT is
BUT OLD THOUGHT REVIVED

PASADENA, Aug. 29-[Editor Her
add: New thought is but old thought
revived. Sun lights the material world;
Christ lights the spiritual. In the days
of the apostles works not understood
by the multitude were termed miracles.
At present we call the unknowables
mysteries. It's but ignorance on our
part.
Smoke is but dead fame. Devils are
but selfish undeveloped dead gods. or
as in the law, wolves in sleeps cloth
ing" Can man stop thinking? No.
Then mind is not our own. We can
and should control our thoughts, i. e.,
repel the bad so the good can enter.
]. G. Claxton said: Ever beautiful
thought is an angel visit"
We have two minds-positive, mega
tive; receiver and transmitter. Send
out the message, ASK and you shall
receive" Man is his own agent, and in
due time can withdraw into the house
of understanding through silence and
meditation without price and commune
with ALL as it was, is and ever, shall
be. G. r. LUNA.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-02
BELIEVES 1T POSSIBLE
TO LIVE EVERLASTlNGLY

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 29.-[Editor
Herald: In the morning paper of
August 2S, under the heading Of
"Occultism, you say that Mime. Editha
Lolita Diss Debar has turned up again
in New York. She says she can teach
people to live forever" You admit
there may be some foundation for her
claim, that there are persons who
think Nine. Debar is being prosecuted
by the police. To call her teaching
occultism is a misnomer, for Christ
taught theA same thing and made it as
plain as human language could. He
was not only prosecuted, but crucitied.
The most pathetic of all his utteranceS
was when he looked down on Jerusalem
and realized that they would not re-
ceive his teaching and come into the
kingdom Of God and everlasting life.
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou> which
stonest the prophets, how many times
would / have gathered you even as a
hen gathereth her chickens, and ye
would not" His whole teaching was
life, and life more abundantly. He
said, "Whosoever will let him drink
freely of the waters Of life," also, God
is the God of the living and not of the
dead" Again, "Take no thought for
your life what We shall eat or what
ye shall drink, nor yet for your body
what ye shall put on. Is not your life
more than meat and the body than
raiment? Take no thought, saying
what shall we eat or what shall we
drink or wherewithal shall we be
clothed, but seek ye first the kingdom
of God and his righteousness, and the
rest shall be added unto you," proving
that the life is more than food, drink
and raiment. He said, ''I am the resur-
rection and the life. Whose believeth on
me shall never die. Even though he
were dead, yet shall he live again..
He proved both assertions by raising
the dead and by ascending to the next
world in his living body When John
saw him in Rev. LII, he fell at his
feet as one dead. He laid his right
hand upon him and said: Fear not; 1
am he that liveth and was dead. Be-
hold, I am alive forevermore" I say
with Christ search the scriptures. They
teach the life everlasting from Genesis
to Revelation. MRS. A. r. M.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-02
REV. BR0UGHER OFFERED
TEMPLE BAPTIST PASTORATE
Feeling Among Members of Congre=
cation Is Almost Unanimous
for Portland Preacher

Acting on the report of the pulpit
committee OF the Temple Baptist
church, telegram was forwarded last
night to Rev. James Whitcomb Brou-
gher of Portland, Ore, offering the
pastorate of the church to the Port
land minister at a salary of $4,000 a
year.
The report of the pulpit committee
was announced by Deacon Crozier and
Mattison B. Jones made an address in
which he urged acceptance of the re-
port, the address and motion of Mr..
Jones being seconded by F. s. wager.
The discussion that followed the re-
port of the pulpit committee showed
there was almost a unanimous feeling
to have DR.. Brougher accept the pas
torate, which for years was so ably
filed by Rev. Dr. Robert ]. Burdette.
c. T. Boynton, D. K. Edwards and
Leslie Gray spoke in favor of the ac-
ceptance of the pulpit committees re-
port and by a rising vote it was de-
cided to forward a telegram to Rev.
Mr. Brougher, announcing the decision
of the Temple Baptist church commit
tee.
Word is expected from Rev. Mr..
Brougher in a few days and final
action will be taken on the question
Wednesday night
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-02
THINKS BUSINESS GIRL
MAKES MAN BEST WIFE

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31.-[Editor
Herald: Which makes the better
wife, the business girl or the stay-at-
home girl? My vote is for the business
girl every time. In the first place you
are more liable to fall in love with the
business girl, because she is more COM
panionable, and the girl you love IS al
ways the right one, of course. VINO
likes a girl who has no decided opin-
ions-Who never thinks-who asks her
brother or father, "What do we
think?" and after she marries asks her
husband, ''What is our opinion?' MOI
for me.
We would have more brainy men in
the world today If their grandmothers
had not been taught that it was unla-
dylike to think. When the brains OF
the mothers are cultivated the sons Will
have brains by right of inheritance,
and not before. The business girl has
been trained to punctuality, and is al
ways dressed and ready to start for
the theater on time-rshe never keeps
you waiting. She is used to being
neatly dressed in shirt waist and skirt,
and has not acquired the kimono habit
at home. She understands the value Of
time (from experience) and does not
give you half days shopping to do,
because "you are going downtown any
way"
AS for Familiarity with home du-
ties" etc. Does it require a lifetime of
practice to learn those things? A few
months with the Y. w. G. A. before
marriage and little practice after
ward makes a business girl far more
fit to be a wife than we are to be hus-
bands How many of us can put up a
stove the first time, nail down car
pet or hang a picture? If you love
girl, anything she cooks will taste just
right to you. A man who complains
about his wife's cooking is not much in
love. MR.. NEWLYWED.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-02
QUESTIONS BENEFIT OF
TEXTS FOUND IN BIBLE

LONG BEACH, Aug. S1.-TEditor
Herald; Bishop Butler says that "a
believer can make anything out of
any thing" Mr.. viii Smith is a "be-
lever" a "devotee" He has an un-
doubted right to be one. But there is
no use to discuss any of the beliefs"
he is so cocksure of with him. You
state a position. and he bombards it
with texts from an old book, This
book is the "word of God" This God is
omniscient, omnipresent. omnipotent.
He can do anything. He can make a
law and then upset it in answer to a
whim. He has been making things out
of nothing from time immomoriaI He
can do all that the human mind can
conceive of and then some. He wrote
this book. Or had it written at his
dictation. Every word is inspired.
Even the commas and the dashes are
inspiration. The man who doesn't be-
lieve all this is an infidel He is
doomed to eternal damnation here
after. Now there is a splendid sort of
logic and symmetry about all this
business. It saves a man from any
trouble in discovering his paths along
life's highway. All he has to do is to
gape and swallow. His thinking
app tus is an incumbrance where
mois, questions are concerned. When
way is tc shut your eyes and open
the volume "promiscuous like" 1t may
cape at the description of the beast in
the Apocalypse, or the tale of Baa-
lam's ass, its all the same. The book
has the power to adapt itself to the
needs of the human. whatever.
And If Brother Smith and his ilk
are right in their "beliefs," their
premises, then their conclusions are
, solid. If God can halt the sun over
Gideon to give a pet general the
chance of a long day to wallup an
enemy. and If the book says he did do
it, and the book is the truest thing
alive, then what's the use for us poor
dependers on human reason, to deny
it? Smith pulls a text on us, and we
are silenced. 1t is all beautifully sim
pie and decisive. Out on the inves-
tigating spirit Of this or of any age!
To the dogs with your scientific ()
discoveries! Away with your assaults
on the heavens with telescope cannon!
Your findings that the world moves
ana the sun is not the lamp set in the
upper deep for the lighting of it!
SFINEX
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-02
Herald Letter BOX is the Peoples FOrum

vail if the girl met an accomplished
scoundrel with circumstances his way
and she thought him saint?
My opinions have been denounced.
not on their merits but merely because
these virtuous women think that my
words disturb their comfortable ram
parts, as Beau Brummell very tritely
says. may not be as old as some Of
these virtuous sisters of mine, as l am
26 years of age, but l have-unfor-
tunately-had opportunity to see and to
feel both sides of the question which
perhaps they lack, and perhaps one who
has fallen may serve a useful purpose
in guarding and guiding the footsteps
of others. MARY MAGDALENE.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-02
RIFLE BULLET
FATAL TO BOY
YOUTH KILLED ACCIDENTALLY
BY COMPANION
ARTHUR BIGLER SECOND VICTIM
OF SMALL WEAPON
William Harper UnintentionaIy Hits
Hammer of Gun, Which Is
Discharged, Striking
Lad in Head

Arthur Bigler, IA years old, the son
of Frank B. Bigler, carpenter, living
at 1441 East TWenty-seVenth street,
was shot and almost instantly killed by
the accidental discharge of a small
rifle yesterday afternoon.
The scene of the accident was at
Slmons' brick yard on East Ninth
Ter with William Harper, a playmate
of about the same age, living at 1925
East Twenty-fifth street, had been be-
yond the city limits hunting rabbits.
They had with them a 20 caliber rife
owned by Harper. They were return
ing home and had stopped to rest in an
empty building in the old brick yard.
Harper was sitting in window with
his legs crossed and the rife was lean
ing against the wall by his side. Young
Bigler was standing nearby and the
Harper boy, changing his position, let
one of his feet drop; the heel of his
shoe striking the hammer of the rife
and discharging it. The bullet struck
Bigler in the side Of the head above
the right ear, ranging in and upward
Dies on stretcher
AS his companion fell young Harper
ran from the house screaming with
fright and attracted the attention of
a HunDGT OL DGISOllS VIII llul IlCQ "
the house. Several others took after
the Harper boy who, crazed with
fright, was running away from the
scene. He was overtaken and escorted
back to the house and the police
notified
The police ambulance was sent to the
scene and the wounded boy taken to
the receiving hospital. He died on the
stretcher on the way and the body was
removed to the Bresee morgue.
Detectives Jones and Boyd investi-
gated the case and afterward turned
Harper over to the custody of his
father to await the result of the COR
oners inquest.
The rifle which the Harper boy had
was obtained by him several months
ago at Evansville, Ind. from another
boy who had just previously accident
ally shot and killed a boy companion
while out hunting.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-02
WILL fight FOR
AFROPLANE MEET
DICK FERRIS STARTS GAME
WITH $1,000
THINKS ANGEL CITY is REAL
SPOT FOR RHEIMS CONTEST
Urges Chamber of Commerce and
Citizens Not to Overlook Big
Opportunity for Mid
winter Carnival

THE international aeroplane contests
come to America next. Los Angeles
must have them" said Dick Ferris
when in Minneapolis he read that Glenn
Curtiss had won the aviation cup at
Rheims, and he started plans to that
effect.
Mr.. Ferris had been dreaming about
aeroplaning in Los Angeles this winter
for some time, and already had put a
winter trip to Los Angeles before Cur
tiss through Roy Knabenshue before
Curtiss left New York for the contests
In France.
ut would be the finest advertising in
the world to have that contest here and
to bring it in midwinter," said Mr.. Fer
ris after he had brushed off the dust OF
travel last night. ut would bring more
people and more money here than even
Elks' week did. People are wild all
over the country about aeronautics, and
they would come from everywhere to
see flying and spend the winter here.
Los Angeles must get busy on this
or ST. Louis or Denver will take the
contest away from US. 1t will be the
FIRST international flying machine COM
petition ever held in the United States,
and is a tremendous big thing. And to
hold it in midwinter is something that
will attract a worldwide attention to
Southern California.
PERSONALLY L am willing to give my
time toward anything that will make
this a success, and as it takes money l
will go down on a subscription list for
$1,000. There is no question that the
money which may be needed to get this
contest and to cary it through will be
brought back many times over. 1t is
not proposition that should fall into
the hands of any private interests-in
fact, the Aero club of America would
not allow this--and / want to see the
chamber of commerce take it up and
let everybody get behind it for the good
of boosting Los Angeles.
"At the same time we can have with
it the biggest balloon competition that
ever happened and bring out the east
ern balloonists, making an aeronautic
event that will stand the world over as
the most comprehensive ever held"
Mr.. Ferris was so enthusiastic over
winter aeronautics in Los Angeles that
he had a conference with Roy Knaben-
shue in July, and the latter talked with
number of eastern aeronauts and
avlators about spending the winter in
Los Angeles. Several, among them be-
ing Glenn H. Curtiss, who won the Cor
don Bennett cup at Rheims, expressed
great interest in the proposition, and
Mr.. Ferris has agreed to send them
further details now that he is back
home again.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-02
WAR OVER DEAD CHICKENS
TAKEN TO POLICE COURT
Arrest of Mrs. NIsen Ensstead De-
manded by Mrs. J. Gibson and
Her Friend, Hazel Cloud

As the result of quarrel over sew
eral dead chickens, which were tossed
back and forth from one yard to the
other until there was hardly anything
but bones left, Mrs. J. Gibson of 1157
Jasmine street and her friend, Hazel
Cloud, ID years old, appeared at the
central police station yesterday and
asked for a battery complaint against
Mrs. Nilsen Engstead of 1853 Jasmine
According to the story of the com
plaints, Mrs. Engstead is alleged to
have thrown a pan of lime and water
on Miss Cloud, which resulted In the
latter sustaining painful burns about
This action, they declared, was the
result Of a dispute over some dead
chickens which were found in the Glib
son ward. Mrs. Gibson stated she was
awav from home and when she re-
turned she found the dead fowls in
her back yard. AS Mrs. Engstead is
she was asked by Mrs Gibson to re-
move them. This Mrs. Engstead re-
fused to do.
Mrs. Gibson then telephoned to Eng
stead and asked him to remove the
offensike fowls. He declined to take
any action in the matter. Thereupon
Mrs. Gibson threw the dead ones"
Into the yafd Oh tue EH5atSduS AHS
dead chickens promptly were returned
via the aerial route over the fence.
Mrs Gibson returned the compliment
and the chickens promptly sailed back
into the Engstead yard.
wishing to be credited with the final
eoup. Mrs. Engstead, it is alleged,
mixed some lime and water in dish
nan and threw the mixture on Miss
cloud, who, it seems, had assisted MRS
Gibson in making aeroplanes out OF
dead chickens.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-02
FIND HIGH CLASS ROCK
IN PAC0IMA QUARRY WALLS
Bore Shows Stone of Superior Quality
and Crushing Plant Is
Planned

A bore Of 1877 feet was completed by
E. E. Shaffer at the Pacoima quarry
yesterday and his report to the high
way commission was that the opening
showed solid rock of superior quality
throughout. Further boring for a dis
tance of thirty feet will be necessary,
it is estimated. before an opening is
made in the opposite side of the quarry
and this will be followed by an inVes-
tigation in other portions of the mound
furnish 500 tons of rock daily with one
shift working.
Revised specifications for crushing
plant at the quarry are being prepared
at the highway commissions offices
and will be submitted to the board Of
supervisors Monday.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-02
SAYS MANY ARE PRONE TO
FIT BIBLE TO OWN IDEAS

POMONA, Aug. 26-[Editor Her
add: The belief in the existence Of a
Supreme being, or God, seems to be
almost universal. with as widely diff
fused a feeling that he has been Of
Tended and requires TO be placated or
reconciled. And for this reason we
have that which is called religion,
which is said to be derived from the
Latin word religo, to bind back, and
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-02
WANTS MEN osTRAcIzED
FOR SIN, AS WoMEN ARE

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27.-LEditor
Herald: No one can dispute the truth
of "Savanorola's" statements. All
women are not good, and women who
destroy young men should be summed
and punished. What we are contend
ing for is that men shall be ostracized
for sin in the same way that women
are today. If women are better be-
cause society demands more or them,
society should demand more of men,
and they will be better. Let us nos
lower the standard for women, but
raise it for men-maHe it equal.
HELEN STANDISH.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-02
Bombard Garrison

MELILLA, Morocco, Sept. 1.-Ac-
cording to official reports, the Riffs,
who are opposing the advance of the
Spanish punitive expedition into the in
terror of Morocco, recently directed a
heavy artillery and musketry fire
against the garrison at Sidimusa. They
ware, however, silenced by Spanish
batteries.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-02
Precinct Club MEETING

S. A. Waldron will address the
Twenty fifth precinct club of the
Good Government organization in the
Park Congregational church at Met
Gals and Temple streets at o'clock
tonight.
Will d. Gould and B. A. Stephens
were speakers last night in precinct
16 of the Good Government organiza-
ton
The Good Government club of pre-
cinct % will meet tonight at 211 West
First street.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-02
Millionaire Expires

SEATTLE, Sept. 1-Isaac l.. Hume,
president of the Vulcan iron works and
a millionaire, died last night after an
operation. aged SO years. Fifteen years
ago he had charge of the mechanical
department of the Southern Pacific
railroad, with headquarters at Sacra-
mento.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-02
TOBACCO KINGS FORMER
WIFE RAVES IN PRISON
Alice Webb Duke, Unkempt and
Ilusion-Haunted, Appears Before
Chicago Judge

CHICAGO, Sept. I'm the unkempt.
illusion-Eaunted woman whose fever
ish lips answered to the name of Alice
Webb Duke in Judge Gimmelps court
here today, there was little to remind
the spectators of the former wife Of
Brodie L. Duke, the millionaire to-
bacco man.
Mrs. Duke was arrested last night
charged with having failed to pay a
SIS automobile bill. In her cell last
night she sang snatches from grand
opera for hours.
Today Judge Gimmel, on the state
ment of a physician, that the defend
ant is insane, held her for eXamina-
ton as to her mental state
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-02

TO CORREs EsPoNDENTS-Letters intended
for publieation must he accompanied by tne
name and address of the writer The Herald
lives the widest latitude TO correspondents
but assumes no responsibility for their views
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-02
ACCUSED OF STEALING
GEMS FROM ACTRESS
VALUABLES TAKEN FROM BOX
IN BATH HOUSE
Lee B. Warren and Wife Alleged to
Have consplred to- Secure
Possession of Diamond
Rings and Watch
Photos of

Lee B. Warren charged with grand
larceny for the alleged theft of two
diamond rings and a watch belonging
to Betty Hart, an actress, while they
were bathing at Long Beach May %.
was placed on trial before a jury in
department IL of the superior court
yesterday. Judge Crow of Santa Bar
bara presiding in the absence of Judge
Willis
Miss Hart says she placed her val
uables in a box at the bath house
office and that Warren also placed
his money and watch in the recep-
tacle. When they returned a few
hours later Warren told her somebody
had exchanged keys in his dressing
room and that their belongings had
disappeared.
The trouble was reported to Chief
of P6IAce Williams of Long Beach,
who says he recognized in Warren a
man he had arrested more than a year
ago on a felony charge. Williams,
who will be called to the stand today,
says he took Warren to the Los An
geles city Jail, where an opportunity
was given the prisoner to write let
ter to his 16-year- old wife, then in
Fresno, and this letter, which will be
read into the evidence, is said to prove
corclusively Warrens connection with
the robbery and that his wife acted
as an accomplice.
Says Keys Were Shifted
According to Chief Williams, War;
rsn exchanged keys with his wife in
the plunge while Miss Hart was dom
ming her bathing suit, Mrs. Warren
coming Immediately to Los Angeles
after procuring the jewelry, pawning
two rings and then going to her
parents home at Fresno. Two pawn
brokers identified the rings yesterday
as those claimed by Miss Hart and
testified they had been pawned at their
stores, loans of $50 and $50 respective
ly being made on the jewelry.
Mrs. Warren is a defendant in the
Juvenile court on a charge of COM
plicity in the theft, and, it is said, has
already acknowledged to Judge Wilbur
that she took part in the robbery.
The trial will be resumed today.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-02

Labor Day picnic Monday, Sept. 6.
Chutes park. Tub races, tug OF war
and sports.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-02

90 entries in tub races. Labor Day,
Monday, Sept. 6, Chutes park. Admis-
sion 10c
Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-02

The Angelus grill has excellent serv-
Ice and better focd. Fourth and Spring