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Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-21
BRYAN PAYS TRIBUTE TO
GREAT APOSTLE OF LOVE-
The Commoner Lauds ToIStoi as
a Wonderful Man


DALLAS, Tex, Nov. 2O.-William J.
Bryan, going to his ranch near Mis-
sion, Tex, paid this tribute to Count
Tolstoi today:
"Tolstoi saw the coming Of a broth
erhood. This morning in the news
papers I noticed the account of the
death of that great apostle of love.
He was a wonderful man. Born in the
circles Of aristocracy, he had access
to the highest circles Of Russian So
ciety.
Gifted with a great mind. he be-
came an author, depicting strangely
and powerfully the social conditions
in his native land. He enlisted in the
army of his country. With such ad-
vantages he sounded all the depths of
privilege for forty years. Yet he found
it all unsatisfactory. In the ceiling of
a room in his house there Is shown to
visitors a ring placed there by him
for the purpose of hanging himself.
''But after he was 40 years old this
man had a vision. He found cut and
declared upon an occasion of my visit
to him in his home few years ago
that the great rule for the lives of
men is that of the Master, Thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart, with all thy soul, with all thy
mind and with all thy strength, and
thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy
SELF and this great man added, Not
enough do we emphasize the first part
Of this commandment, for unless a
man loves God he has not learned to
know his neighbor.'
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-21

some one from the Carews on October
- and 20.
The medical man who analyzed the
contents of the victims stomach stated
that, in his opinion, Mr.. Carew died
from poisoning by arsenic, not adiilih-
istered by himself. Evidence was aiSo
given of Mr.. Carew having hapltually
taken doses of arsenic.
Mrs. Carew stated in the witness poX
that her husband had taken arsenic Tor
years, that she had sent Miss Jacoos
for arsenic at his request and that IL
was on the doctors prescription.
An amazing element was then intro
duced into the case. Mrs. Carew spoke
of a girl named Annie Luke, with
whom, she said, Mr.. Carew had been
intimate before his marriage. Evidence
had already been given Of a Velled
woman calling at the house during Mr..
Carew's illness while Mrs. CareW was
out. Mrs. Carew added that a woman
called at the house on October 10 (be-
fore her husbands illness), while she
was out and left card bearing on 1t
m. ]. and A. L., 1885,"
STRANGE LETTERS TO CORONER
Then a series of hysterical letters,
purporting to be signed by Annie Luke,
were put in. They were addressed to
the coroner and to Mrs. Carew's coun-
sci. No trace of Annie Luke could be
found. The jury found there was no
direct evidence TO show who admins
tered the poison to Mr.. Carew.
Five days later Mrs. Carew was
tried for murder before the British
consul at Yokohama. A new surprise
was furnished by the production of
fragments of letters from her waste
paper basket, which, when pasted to-
gether showed that a clerk in local
bank was advising Mrs. Carew regard
ing proceedings she was contemplating
against her husband.
The letters were produced in court,
and on being returned one was found
to be missing. The court was imme-
diately closed, and ultimately female
searcher found the letter in the dress
of Mrs. Carew, who was allowed to sit
beside her counsel. Mrs. Carew was
then committed for trial. On the re-
sumption of the trial affectionate let
ters written by the bank clerk to Mrs.
Carew were read, in which he urged
her to obtain a divorce. The clerk IN
his evidence stated that Mrs. Carew
had deceived him by alleging brutality
against her husband.
Mrs. Carew was found guilty and
sentenced to death, but the British
ambassador to Japan commuted the
sentence to penal servitude for lie.
Mrs. Carew was removed to Hongkong,
and subsequently to England.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-21
BACK TO AFRICA
IS NEGROES CRY
EthiopianS Hold Mass Meeting
and Name Delegate to
Dark Continent

Africa for Africans, with model
city of modern improvements in which
privileges impossible in a white mans
country would be enjoyed by the negro
race is the plan Of the Back to
Africa" movement which received an
enthusiastic impetus yesterday III Los
Angeles.
With high hopes of founding re-
public for the negroes of America and
returning to the land that gave birth
to their forefathers, the negroes have
been looking toward this movement
and official investigation to ascertain
the exact conditions there Is soon to
be made by the association formed
for the purpose.
Plans were made yesterday after
noon to send the Rev. j. G.. Gordon,
pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist
church, to Africa to investigate the
problems of the returning of the negro
race of this country.
A meeting was held in the Taber-
nacle Baptist church under the aus
pices of the International Household
African Missionary association, which
has recently been incorporated and of
which the Rev. ]. T. Hill is president;
Rev. j. d. Gordon tfounder), vice pres
ident and envoy; the Rev. r.. IL. Wade,
secretary, and Col. Allen Allensworth,
treasurer.
About 500 persons, mostly negroes,
attended the mass meeting. In the
preliminary remarks of President j. L.
Hill it was stated the association
wanted all the negroes to go to Africa
who were sufficiently ambitious to
meet the requirements of building new
homes on the foreign shore.
The Rev. Mr.. Gordon gave a descrlp-
ton of the plans of starting city In
Africa with all the improvements and
sanitary conditions for the homes OF
those who are favoring the departure
from Los Angeles and vicinity.
If the investigation of the Rev. Mr..
Gordon is favorable for the movement
back to Africa it is said that at least
1000 families will go from here to make
their homes in the new city and the
surrounding country where the soil
can be prohtably cultivated.
About $500 of the $500 which must be
raised for the expenses of Rev. Mr..
Gordon on his trip cf investigation was
contributed yesterday. He will sail
from Los Angeles harbor on the steam
er of the Ethiopian American Steam
ship company January 2. Many other
negroes will complete the list of pas
sengers to Africa, Mr.. Gordon, how
ever being the only official representa-
tive of the local organization.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-21
DRINKING QUARREL ENDS
IN OIL LAMP EXPLOSION

One man was burned painfully and
two houses were damaged by 6re as
the result of free-for-all fight among
a crowd of Italians who were passing
the evening drinking at the home of
Angelo Lapore at 6S5 Glover street last
night. The struggling men overturned
coal oil lamp and set fire to the
house. The flames spread to a two>
story rooming house occupied by John
Angelo at 6S7 Glover street and caused
the occupants to flee.
Alexandra Ponto, who rooms at 6S7
Glover street, was nearest the lamp
when 1t was knocked to the floor. He
fell to the floor and was burned on
both hands and arms and his left arm
was gashed by coming in contact with
a piece of the shattered lamp. He was
taken to the receiving hospital for
treatment.
1t appears that Lapore was enter
tanning his friends and all went well
until a dispute started and the entire
company began lighting. Then the
lamp was broken and the fire spread.
The guests lost no time in gaining the
street and their cries attracted the at
tention of passerby who noticed the
flames and turned in an alarm.
Before the fire department arrived
the fire had spread to the adjoining
house at 687 Glover street and the
flames had gained considerable head
way when the firemen appeared.
The flames were subdued within a
short time and both buildings were
saved from being destroyed. The dam
age to both structures is estimated at
$25OO. The house at 6S7 Glover street is
owned by J. H. Bulfard.
All of the rowdy guests escaped but
Louis Da Lagi of 628 Clover street.
He was foNnd staggering about the
burning buildings and taken to the
central police station and booked on a
charge of being drunk.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-21
COMMERCIAL CONGRESS
DELEGATES ASSEMBLING
Session of TransmiSsiSsippi Body
Will Begin Tomorrow

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Nov. 2O.-The
twenty-drst annual session Of the
Transmississippi Commercial congress
will begin here Tuesday morning.
OF foremost interest is the struggle
between New Orleans and San Fran
cisco for Endorsement as the place for
holding the Panama canal exposition in
1915. All Louisiana is backing New
Orleans, and that state will have 1853
accredited representatives to the con-
gress. Only Texas, with 728 delegates,
will exceed that number. California
will send twenty delegates.
1t seems probable the congress will
again go on record as favoring a ma
tional department of mines. Congress-
man George A. Bartlett Of Reno, New,
will lead the fight for Endorsement of
that proposition. All told. it is ex-
pected ,22o0 delegates will be present.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-21
SALOON MAN KILLS BANDIT
WHO ATTEMPTS H0LDUP
Robbers Command Answered by
Bullet Through Heart

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2o.-With
one well directed shot, August Warm
bold, q saloon keeper, frustrated an
attempt to rob his place tonight. He
killed one bandit and forced the other
to make a hasty escape. Three Gus
toners in the saloon were uninjured,
and the bartender, Fritz Schonmourz,
saved his skin by taking refuge behind
beer kegs.
Two robbers entered the saloon
through a side door, each armed with a
brace of pistols. They commanded
Warmbold and the bartender to raise
their hands, disregarding the custom
ers seated at table. AS Wartnbold
backed into his office at the head of
the bar the robbers opened fire. Sew
eral bullets sped at the saloon keeper
head as he secured his revolver and
squared for a fight.
AS he stepped to the Office door one
of the men confronted him. Warm
bold shot him through the heart. Pa
pers in the dead, robbers pockets bear
the name of Solomon Cohen. He has
not been identified.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-21
MOTHER OF FOUNDING is
HELD FOR ABANDONMENT I

NThe mother Of the abandoned newly
born baby that was found crying back
of a billboard a block from the Uni
versity police station Saturday night
was found last night when Patrolmen
Glenn and Stevens took into custody
Martha Young, 20 years old, a negress
employed at $50 West Jefferson street
The young woman worked hard dur
ing the morning and passed the after
noon visiting friends at Watts. When
she returned to Los Angeles last night
she was placed under arrest on suspi-
cion of child abandonment. She adj
mitted being the mother OF the child
and was unconcerned about the matter
The young mother is a prisoner in
the matron's department of the city
Jail. where she will be held for investi-
cation.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-21
BIC EARTH SLIDES
DELAY CANAL CUT
Panama Floods and Falling Rock
Cause Change in Isthmian
Specifications
REPORT AT WAR DEPARTMENT
Engineer Says Excavation and
Construction Progress Well
at All Points
REPORT AT WAR DEPARTMENT
rAssociated Press,

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20. - Sum
married. in a phrase, satisfactory
progress all along the Panama canal
zone" is the gist Of the annual report
of the Isthmian Canal commission
made to Secretary of War Dickinson
by Col. George Goethals, chairman OF
the commission and chief engineer IN
charge of the work on the canal, ana
made public today by the secretary.
With the work of excavation and
construction progressing favorably at
all points, with health conditions bet
ter than ever before, with the central
ization and consequent economy in GER
tain parts of the work, and with a
maximum of laborers since the United
States began to dig the canal, Col.
Goethals' report was decidedly pleas
ing to Secretary Dickinson.
The chief engineer reports, however,
that it was not all smooth sailing dur
ing the past year; slides, breaks and
floods hindering the work to a certain
extent He mentions four slides re-
quiring. during the year, the removal
of more than a million cubic yards
ut Nas expected" he says, "that
slides would occur, and in the esti-
mates provision was made for them,
but it now appears from cracks that
show in the upper surface adjacent to
the face of the cut that sufficient al
lowance had not been made and the
estimates were corrected to meet the
new conditions"
More than 36,500,000 cubic yards of
material were removed from all parts
of the canal during the year, of which
almost 100000 were from the Guile
bra cut and almost 10000,000 from the
Chagres section. About 35.000,000 cubic
yards remain to be removed from Gu
Zebra before this section of the canal
is completed.
The cost of excavation varied from
"a cents per cubic yard at one place
to as high as $2.51 at another The
cost per cubic yard for concrete work
averaged from $500 to $3.50. More than
700, 900 yards of concrete were laid dur
ing the year.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-21
ANNOUNCES
MRS. CAREW FREED
Woman Once Sentenced to Death
for Poisoning Husband Is
Released in England
STRANGE LETTERS AT TRIAL
Mysterious Case Cause of Many
Sensations in Yokohama
Thirteen Years Ago
STRANGE LETTERS AT TRIAL
fspeclal to The Heraldl


LONDON, Nov. 2O.-Mrs. Edith
Carew, who was sentenced to death at
Yokohama in 1897 for poisoning her
husband-a sentence that was after
ward commuted to penal servitude for
life-has been released from Aylesbury
prison.
The murder, which caused a tremen-
dous sensation in the far east, is known
as the japanese Maybrick case" for
1t presented many points in common
with the celebrated Liverpool affair
Mr.. and Mrs. Cafew were well off
and moved in the best society in Yoko-
hama. Mr.. Carew was secretary and
manager of the United club of Yoko-
hama (Rudyard Kipling's "Overseas
club"O. On October 10, 1896, he was
taken i'll, apparently with a liver at
tack, but the medical man who attend
ed him could not account for some of
the symptoms.
A local merchant made remark
able statement a week later to the eff
feet that his children's nurse had told
him she had met Mrs. Carew's nursery
governess, Miss Jacobs, coming out of
Japanese druggists, and that Miss
Jacobs, apparently in great distress,
had said to the nurse: 81 must tell the
doctor of this poison. If L do not speak
now it will be on my conscience all my
life should Mr.. Carew die"
Mr.. Carew was then moved to the
Naval hospital, but ne died the same
day from exhaustion. On the night of
his death Mrs. Carew mentioned that
her husband had asked her to get him
arsenic. The medical man then re-
fused to give a certificate, and an in
quest was held at Yokohama.
Miss Jacobs, in her evidence, stated
that she bought Fowler solution OF
arsenic and sugar of lead October Il at
the Japanese druggists and that the
assistant remarked on the quantity OF
deadly poison that Mrs. Carew wanted,
saying that she had bought arsenic on
the two previous days. The assistant
himself could not identify Mrs. Carew,
but was positive that he sold. arsenic to
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-21
REVOLT IN LISBON SCHOOL

LISBON, Nov. 20-At Coimbra uni
versity a few days ago a group of stu
dents entered the lecture rooms where
their colleagues were studying and de-
stroyed the pictures of King Charles
and King Manuel hanging on the walls
and then ordered the professors to
quit the rooms. The students demand
great reforms in the university. They
also demand that all professors pro-
Tossing monarchical opinions should
be expelled, especially those who be-
longed to the party of the ex-dictator,
Senior Franco,
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-21
TWO CONGRESSMEN-ELECT
HOLD OPPOSITE VIEWS

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 2O.-Victor Berger
of Milwaukee, Socialist congressman
elect, at meeting here today declared
that recently two men were elected to
congress ,one of whom represents the
world going down" and the other the
world going up"
The former, he said, was Speaker
Joseph G. Cannon of illinois, and the
latter himself.
Samuel Gompers and other labor
leaders attending the American FEEDER
alton of Labor convention addressed
large audiences of workingmen during
the day.
Archbishop Glennon of the Catholic
archdiocese of st. Louis, delivered a
sermon today in which he criticised
Socialism as inimical to labor.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-21
WOMAN INHERITS $4,000
BUT MUST REMAIN SINGLE

BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,, Nov. 2O.-The
will of Mrs. Mary Knight of Adams
county, just admitted to probate, pro
vides that her fortune of $4,000 shall
go to her daughter Ida, while thai
young woman remains single. Two
sons, another daughter and a grand
daughter will divide the estate with
Ida is she marries.
The property is in notes, mortgages,
mining stock, ETC., all yielding a good
income. Miss Ida Knight, it is said
has not decided whether she will per-
manently respect the provisions Of the
will.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-21
SOLDIERS PATROL
TOWNS Of MEXICO
Show of Force by Government
Prevents Open Rebellion
Against biaz
Continued from Page Ope)

would be maintained. No disturbance
occurred.
Soldiers were held in their barracks
at Juarez today. Usually it is the
custom to allow the soldiers to attend
the bull fights without arms. Today
this order was suspended.
Tonight it is impossible to buy a
rifle or ammunition in Juarez, the en-
tire stock having been purchased by
Mexican federal officers and stored
under guard at the customs house.
An El Paso contractor returning
from Chihuahua reports much excite
ment at the place, both among the
Mexican population and the American
residents. The latter, he declared, fear
another anti-American demonstration.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-21
UNITED STATES TROOPS
AWAIT CALL FOR SERVICE

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Nov. 2o.-On
what is regarded as good authority, it
is learned that Brigadier General
Aoyt, commanding the Department of
Texas, has been instructed from
Washington to hold troops in readiness
for service on the Mexican border. AL
ready four companies of the Twenty
third infantry, from Fort Clark, are
encamped near Eagle Pass
Francisco Madero, sr., father of the
alleged Mexican revolutionist leader,
made denial today of what purported
to be interviews with him, sent out
from this city last night. The elder
4Iadero was quoted as saying that
certain members Of the Mexican SEN
ate were in league with his son. He
gave out no interview, he said.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-21
VALUABLE RACING HORSES
DIE IN BURNING STABLE

WICHITA, Kas., Nov. 2O.-Forty-
five head of race horses, valued al
100000. were burned today In the
stables of the Wichita & Southwestern
Fair association.
The horses were being wintered here
after racing season on the fair cir
cults Of Kansas and Oklahoma.
The stables, which were entirelv de-
stroyed, were valued at $4,000, half
insured.
A further loss Of $4,000 was due to
the burning of racing carts, harness
and other accessories. The origin OF
the fire has not been learned.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-01
A VISION OF THE FUTURE

The man of the future sat patiently
darning the family socks From time
to time his mild blue eyes glanced
wearily round at the pile of mending
at his elbow, and he sighed as he
thought of Murphy, the raw Irishman,
who needed incessant instruction in
the most elementary details of the
culinary art. Two noisy, sturdy girls
romped tomgirlishly about the room,
aggravating his headache, while their
gentle little brother sat quietly by his
fathers side, studying pictures in an
old book of bygone. fashions, which
appealed naturally to the domestic in
stinct of the little man.
"Look, father" he murmured, point
ing to an old print of the year 1909.
"See what queer clothing that man has
on. What are they? Did men really
wear these, then?"
Eyes, DEAR" replied his father, lay
ing down his needle for a moment and
bending over the page. 1T never saw
any, but father once told me that
grandfather wore them when he was q
boy. They called them trousers!"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-01
WRONG PERSON

"Beastly nuisance, isn't it?" said
young man at a social gathering the
other evening. "Spoke to that fellow
over there-took him for a gentleman
and found he had a ribbon on his
coat; some blooming head waiter,
suppose?"
''Oh, no." replied the other, that's
the guest of the evening""
"Dash it all, now is it? Look here,
old fellow. AS you know everybody,
would you mind sitting next me at
dinner and telling me who every one
is?"
"Should like to very much, but you
see 1 cannot. I'm the blooming head
waiter"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-01
EASILY REM EDIED

repertoire company was walking
into seaside town in England, where
they were billed to play Romeo and
Juliet" The leading man approached
the manager, who strobe moodily
ahead.
"Boss," he said, "T've got to have
threepence."
"Threepence?" growled the manager.
you're always yelling for money.
What do you want threepence for?'
"What do I want threepence for?'
repeated the leading man, bitterly. "T
want it for shave, that's what want
1t for. 1 can't play Romeo with five
days black beard on my face"
"Oh, WE'LL" said the manager, you
won't get no threepence. Well change
the bill to 'Othello.''
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-01
BON, MONSIEUR

mo, no." cried Bruat, 'I have not
yet condensed it sufficiently. You see,
l know myself; know the public. To
hold 1t, to leave something to pos
terity, to create a lasting work, one
must be intense. To be intense-that
is everything. A hundred pages! That
is too prolix. In my first inspiration
"a form short, precise, chiseled,
straight, fitting the idea like cuirass;
1 mean the sonnet OH if 1 could re-
call the marvellous sonnet of my
youth But it has been abandoned too
long. Today 1 will do better. I will
put into it my experience, my life.
Could L but live ten years longer men
would see what fourteen lines could
express, and posterity would know our
modern life. so vast, in this poem so
small, as one inhales a subtle essence
prisoned in a diamond"
He lived those ten years, and the
story was abandoned, like the novel
and the drama, and slowly, letter by
letter, word by word, line by line, was
written the colossal sonnet which was
to contain everything.
At ninety-two Ferdinand Octave
Bruat lay on his deathbed.
His faithful friend was at his side,
weeping, sobbing, in despair at seeing
so high an intelligence laid SO low.
weep HOIy my ITl0Ilu, SdlQ DTudI,
weep not. I die, but my idea dies not
with me. 1 have destroyed my first
sonnet, I have burned my drama, I
have burned, one by one, the twenty
seven volumes of my novel; the ten,
then the five, then the two, then the
one and only, then the story. But, at
last l have created my masterpiece"
1.-THE sonnet! the immortal sonnet!
Give it me! You have not read it to
me, but L know that it is a master
piece. Give it me; / will publish it. If
necessary, 1 will ruin myself that 1t
may be written on gold in letters of
diamonds. 1t merits it; it will dazzle
the world. Give it mel"
"The sonnet. the immortal sonneti
Give Bruat, gasping for breath.
your great sonnet!" sighed the
friend, who saw the delirium of death
approaching.
"Ah! yes, yes, the sonnet, the great
sonnet! Too great my friend, too long!
1t must be made more intense"
What! have you burned your last
sonnet also?"
81 have found something better. I
have found everything. Modern life,
modernity, 1 hold it, 1 have it, 1 ex-
press it. 1t is not in a sonnet, nor in
a quatrain, nor even in a line, it is"
His voice grew weaker, became
hoarse, wheezy, lost.
His friend, with bloodshot eyes, gap
ing mouth, leaned over the bed to
drink in his last word, the word that
would give the key to the mystery the
open sesame to art in the future,
Speak, speak," he cried.
Everything in one phrase, every
thing in one phrase!" murmured Bruat.
And the old man raised himself up
in a paraxysm of agony. His look was
ecstatic. One felt that over the
threshold of death he saw his ideal.
He made terrible effort to express
it, and the wondrous phrase fell from
his lips with his last sigh.
1t was, "Bonjour, monsieur!"
Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-01

to grow just as sunlight does, but in
less degree. If then he wants to get
both sun and moon to pull together to
advance his young plants, he should
plant in the dark of the moon, so as to
have the plant ready to be pulled. But
he should have more regard to SOL
condition, moisture condition, frost con-
dition, ETC., or else he may have a
weak plant or none at all, and then not
the sun, moon and all the stars working
together can make it amount to any
thing.