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Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-25
4 SAVED BY WIRES
AS BALLOON PLUNGES

SACRAMENTO, April 24.-Five pas
sengers In a captive balloon narrowly
escaped being dashed to death just at
dusk, when the big bag ripped and the
balloon rapidly descended to the
ground. Grace Flower, aged 13, and
Norma Riddle, Is, of Oak Park, an
unknown man and woman and the
operator, Earl Wayne, were the occu-
pants.
The balloon was demolished, but the
passengers were saved from death by
the gas bag touching overhead wires,
breaking the fall
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-25
IDENTIFY DONOR Of
100000 HUB BRIDGE

BOSTON, April 24.-The mystery sur
rounding the identity of the Harvard
alumnus who had offered 100000 TO
build a new bridge over the Charles
river as an approach to the stadium
from Cambridge, was cleared today
when it was learned that Larz Ander-
son, '88, of Brookline, was the man.
The proposed bridge would replace
the present structure, which has been
found inadequate to accommodate the
crowds which flock annually to the
stadium for football and other games
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-25
TURKISH DEFICIT IS
MORE THAN ESTIMATE
Finance Minister Explains to Dep
uties That 1t Will Exceed
Thirty Millions

CONSTANTINOPLE, April 24-Ex-
planning the budget in the chamber of
deputies today, the finance minister,
Djavid Bey, announced that the deficit
would be e6, 900 Turkish "a Turkish
pound is equal to $440), instead Of A.
500, 900, as stated. Serious fighting has
been renewed in Albania, in the De-
moicza district, where incessant artil-
lery fire is heard The Albanians have
cut nearly all the telegraph lines.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-25
JAPANESE OFF FOR EAST

SAN FRANCISCO. April 24.-After
two days spent in this city the delega-
tion of fifty-seven business men and
financiers of Japan who are touring the
world on an educational trip left to-
night for the east. They are travelling
in a special train that will take them
to New York by way of Niagara Falls
and Buffalo
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-25
SHOOTS SELF TO DEATH

SEATTLE, April 24-John Benson.
aged 45, shot himself through the head
while IN bed at his home in Ballard
today, because he believed the closing
of the shingle mills presaged a long
siege of hard times. 1t is said he can
not recover All the shingle mills Of
western Washington were closed by
the manufacturers last week in order
to prevent the brokers from reducing
prices and $500 men We're thrown out
,,F
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-25
Auro Kills RANcHER

SACRAMENTO, April 24--Thomas
Elliott, aged q, and the son of
prominent rancher Of Franklin, was
killed early this morning and Newton
Ehrhardt was seriously injured when
their automobile crashed through a
bridge railing, throwing the two men
out. Elliotts neck was broken The
two men were returning home and the
accident occurred on the lower Stock
tor road about avs miles from here.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-25
HEINZE IS READY FOR
BANKING LAW TRIAL

NEW YORK, April 24.-F. Augustus
Heinze win be placed on trial tomor-
row in the criminal branch Of the fed
eral circuit court. He is charged with
violations of the national banking
laws; specifically, with over-certifica-
tion of the checks of Otto Heinze & Co.,
and misappropriation Of the funds Of
the Mercantile National bank, of which
he was formerly the head
Counsel for Charles W. Morse in the
fight for a new trial made capital OF
the fact that Morse's jury was guarded
by special agents from Washington To
avoid criticism, this procedure, it is
said, will not be Followed in the Heinze
case
Two weeks probably will be taken
up by the trial
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-25
COMMISSION WILL
HEAR COAST KICK
Interstate Board Sets Aside Day
for the TranScontinental
Traffic Hearing
FIGHT TO EoUALlZE RATES
Shippers viii Make Supreme e.
forts TO Secure Lower
Pacific Rate
FIGHT TO EoUALlzE RATES
[Associated Press J

WASHINGTON, April ga notable
conference will be held by the members
of the interstate commerce commission
Thursday and Friday. Those days
have been set apart by the commission
for the consideration Of the Pacific
coast cases heard by the commission on
its long trip last fall.
The cases involve not merely freight
conditions local to the Pacific coast
but questions of rates affecting the
transcontinental traffic in its entirety.
The cases include the rehearing Of the
Spokane rate matter, the Portland and
Seattle back-haul cases, the San Fran
cisco cases involving the rate into in
termountain territory and the Reno
ASK SAME RATE
The last is the most important now
before the commission. Reno shippers
have urged the commission to give
them the same rate on class and com
modify traffic from the Atlantic sea
board as now is given to Pacific coast
terminals.
1t was developed in the hearing of
the case that the rate from Atlantic
ports to Sacramento and the Pacllc
coast terminals was So on first class
freight, and proportionally less on other
classes and commodities.
The rate to Reno from the Atlantic
points is the sum Of the Pacific coast
rate plus the local rate from Sacra-
rnento to Reno. The distance from
Sacramento to Reno is under $50 miles,
and the back-haul rate is S1.29 on first
class freight. This makes the rate from
the Atlantic seaboard to Reno $4.29, al
though the freight is unloaded at Reno
on the westbound haul.
,1oAFpTvrTTIVEr POINT
The defense of the railroads is that
Sacramento is a water competitive
point, boat line being operated be
tween San Francisco and Sacramento.
They hold, therefore, that although
Sacramento is a longer haul, they are
obliged to make a lower rate on ac-
count of water competition.
It is understood the commission is di-
vided on the question of the proper ad-
justment of these rates. 1t appears
likely it will be determined to reduce
the rates to both Sacramento and Reno,
the reduction to Reno proporttonately
greater than to Sacramento.
This case in concrete form involves
the question of the long and short
haul, which is being considered at
present by congress IN the admins
tration railroad bill.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-25
FLIES 14o MILES IN AIRsHlP

PARIS, April PA dispatch from
Dion says Baron de Caters, the avia-
tor, in a Farman biplane, today beat
all cross country records, flying with
a passenger with Mourmelon to nearly
ten miles beyond Dion, total dis
tance of nearly 140 miles. No con-
firmation of this has been received
from any source and aviators are in
clined to doubt the truth Of the re-
port.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-25
LAFARGE, NOTED ARTIST,
NEAR DEATH IN N. Y

NEW YORK, April 24-John La-.
farge, artist and author of worldwide
reputation, is critically i'll, and it IS
said physicians hold out little hope for
his recovery He is II years old, and
is suffering from intirmities of old
age. His wife and son are at his bed-7
side
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-25
ouEEN ESTHER is sUeJEcT

At the First Congregational church
yesterday the pastor, William Horace
Day, gave an address on THE Cost OF
a Girl" taking the story of Esther,
whom Mordeicia reared till she became
queen, for his subject
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-25
OAKLAND FIRE DOES
DAMAGE OF $125,000

OAKLAND, April 24.-An early morn
ing fire that caused a loss of $1250O0
destroyed the big warehouse Of the
Hall Warehouse company and nine cot
tages on the same block.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-25
TOO BAD

Father-You are marrying my
daughter for love, you say? But she
gets $4,000 dowry.
suitor-Well, that can't be avoided,
can it?
Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-25
THE GOLDEN RULE

He-Why is it that girl wants to
kiss every baby she sees?
She-to show that she is willing to
do unto others as she would have 9TH
ers do unto her.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-04-20

one of those with the girl he loves he
is Inundated by the comparison with
himself and a little afraid, too.
ut isn't a disagreeable fear, but a
human one, because he cannot know
whether the girl really cares for him.
And may not the advantages the 9TH
er man can offer be greater to her
than is his love. 1t is this combina-
ton Of humiliation and fear that
makes many a man sit silent.
80, as you were hostess, I think
you should write first and say you
are sorry he was hurt, or ask him to
come again soon to see you. Each
girl has her own way of mending
matters when they have gone wrong,
and you will be sweeter and much
happier if you make the first advance
in this instance. You will know from
the way it is met whether the MAI is
ugly or only hurt, and in either case
you will have nothing with which to
reproach yourself"
II think I'll write to him now"
the girl said softly. And there is the
moral for those who need it.-Ro-
sauna Schuyler, in the Washington
Star.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-04-20
Boston to Form New C1uO.

A group of influential Boston Wo-
men again are busily at work on the
organization of a woman's club in the
Hub, to be founded and conducted
on much the same lines as the Colony
Club in this city. The project was
mooted last year, and the first re-
Spouse was so satisfactory it looked
as if success was assured. Most OF
the leading women in the Back Bay
Joined the organizing committee, q
charter members actually were pay
ing their subscriptions and being en-
rolled when a hitch arose. 1t is hint
ed that one or two social undeslra-
bles managed to find a place "on the
ground floor" and the exclusive ones
at once withdrew. 1t was decided to
return all subscriptions and call the
whole scheme off, and these tactics
have made it possible for the original
organizers to get together once more
and start all over again, though this
time with a far stricter censorship
over those permitted to take part.
There Is certainly no lack of money
to stand in the way of the new club,
and tentative negotiations are said to
be under way for the purchase of Mrs.
John G. Phillips home in Berkeley
street, at present occupied by Gov
ernor and Mrs. Draper, and the re-
modelling of it for the club house.
New York Press.
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Not an Inch of Healthy Skin Left.

"~S
MY little son, a boy Of five. broke
out with an itching rash. Three doc
tors prescribed for him, but he kept
getting worse until we could not dress
him any more. They finally advised
me to try a certain medical college.
but It's treatment did no good. At
the time / was induced to try Cuti-
cura he was so bad that / had to cut
his hair of and put the Cuticura ONT
ment on him on bandages, as 1t was
impossible to touch him with the bare
hand. There was not one square inch
Of skin on his whole body that was
not affected. He vas ~ a OF
sores. The bandages used to stick to
his skin and in removing them tt used
to take the skin off with hem, and
the screams from the poor child were
heartbreaking. l began to think that
he would never get we'll. but after the
second application Of Cuticura Ofnt-
ment I began to see signs OF improve
ment, andVwith the third and fourth
applications the sores commenced to
dry up. His skin peeled of twenty
times, out it finally yielded to the
treatment. Now | a say that he's
entirely cured, and a stronger and
healthier boy you never saw than
he is to-day, twelve years or more
since the cure was effected. Robert
Wattam, 114S Forty-eighth St.. Chi
oaoo ri Ont O 1Q0Q
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AR : .7W
AAAAEAsH9oW@

Silk batistes, with the most allur.
ing designs in soft colers, are being
shown.
Embroidery and braiding are elab-
orately employed on waists and
skirts.
Some of the smartest quilts seen
on hats are heavily gilded, and are
decidedly curved.
A very satisfactory material, and
an inexpensive one, for a tailored
suit, is Venetian cloth.
A handsome sweater, worn with an
outing costume, is of angora, with
hood and gloves to match.
The many-ribbed pagoda-topped
parasols, as we'll as the square ones,
promise to give a touch of variety.
The Russian blouse is the feature
of novelty, and shares popularity of
the short jacket, which has taken the
place of the long coat.
Whole gowns are being made OF
baby Irish lace, with one-button, short
coats, small revers and long sleeves,
open V-shaped in the front.
The cord groupings, shown in the
new dimities and other wash fabrics.
are unusual. Some Of the plaid eff
fects are especially charming.
Rat-tail braid is used on many OF
the new suits Of tailored style, much
in the same way that soutache was
used in the past, but less promi-
nently.
Rough weaves continue in the as.
cendant, but a vogue of smooth serges
is promised, and some light-colored
suits of these materials are in evi.
dence.
Pique in a variety of colors, en-
broidered and dotted, promises to be
popular for children's dresses. These
are ornamented with linen or en-
broidered buttons.
An odd and pretty neck accessory
consists Of an inch-wide band of col
ored velvet, Joined by a hook and eye
at the front, where is a frill in
straight jabot effect, made of net or
lace, with ends dropping below the
lower edge of the velvet. finished with
tsssels.
Even coats are now belted. Those
for street wear have them of the
material or of soft patent leather run
through mether-of-pearl buckles in
front, and those for motoring or driv,
ing have heavy stitched belts at
tached to the foundation and lifted
slightly above the normal watstline.
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TO Appear Well Gowned

Use hairpins, visible, invisible ard
all kinds.
Wear a net or thin veil to keep In
vagrant locks.
Cleanse your face with cream every
night before going to bed.
Keep your shoes polished and don't
allow the heels to become run over.
Wear immaculate neckwear, a
clean shirtwaist and gloves without
holes.
Don't allow the public glimpses of
a soiled white skirt or a shredded silk
one.
Don't display a hole in your stock
ing right above your heel when you
hold up your dress.
Don't go around with soiled nails
or nails that are as vindict!vely long
as a mandarin's.
Don't wear your collar pins awry,
and don't forget TO sew on missing
buttons.
Don't wear a veil with a slit across
the face, and don't wear n at ali
unless you can adjust it neatly.
But, above all, look at your back
in the glass before you start out; the
punishment of Let's wife does not
await you if you do.-Indianapolis
News.
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The Germ HObgOblin.

7 trust that no one will misunder-
stand or will think that I cherish un-
cleanliness when I confess that /
deeply regret the advance made by
modern science in bacteriology. IL ID
not that I love disease, or fail to a
the enthusiasm of those who would
Danish it, but the knowledge tending
to prolong life has made life in many
ways so much less worth living that
some of us would rather go back to
shorter and merrier days. 1 am all
compassion for a piteous childhood
brought up no longer In the fear OF
the Lord, but in the fear OF Inc
germ" A young friend of mine,
not long since, told me of her little
sister, aged five, who came home
daily from the park full Of entnusl'
asm over a new acquaintance made
there, a little girl Of about her own
size. The family, interested, pressed
her with inquiries about her frlend'
very naturally asking her name. The
youngster bore the questioning for
some time, but at last burst into tears
with, IT don't know her last name,
but her first name is Dorothy, and n
hasn't any germs!"
The story made me recall a tiny
niece, all too young for such horrld
thoughts, disciplining a still younger
sister on a railway train for having
put a splinter from the porter's
whisk-broom into her mouth. The
infants idea of what might be on that
whisk-broom appalled, me: Worms
and wriggly, Gravity things that Will
get inside you and eat you up re-
member, too, the four-year-old daugn'
ter of a friend who r%esolutely refused
to kiss her sick mother because, the
little monster averred, she was afraid
of getting sick herself. Are these bac-
teriologists in miniature to be en-
dured? What shall be done with a
childhood, robbed of its legitimate
fear of boyle and hobgoblin, n lett
to construct from distorted facts such
an u~nattractive mythology of its own:
Are not eriking and witch wife as
true as many a bacillus legend, and
far more enticing?
II the minds of those on the very
threshold of life are thus overshad-
owed, what shall be said of the mind
of cid? Uneasy age, waking to the
import of recent discoveries, nds
wretchedness in the place of long
comfort. Isolated facts hit hard when
used as missiles, and the younger
generations do not hesitate to hurl
them as fast as they can pick then
I'D. Heaven help the unprotected old
gray heads.-From Scribner's Mag
azine.
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Feeding the Pu.

Miss M.-TiP feeds pups four or
five times a day, mostly stale bread
soaked in milk or gravy. Now and
then a little finely chopped meat with
broken puppy biscuit. AS they grow
older knock off meals, until when
grown they have but two a day
biscuits soaked In gravy in the morn
ing and biscuits with meat and veg
etables in the evening. Plenty of ex-
ercise and fresh air. Do not bother
about powders to which you refer,
but take it to a vet" 1t will be-
have itself in time If you allow It
outside as much as possible and cor
rect as you have done.-New York
Press.
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Cause OF Temperance.

"The cause of temperance is work.
ing great Roadway in Norway. We
have adopted the local option policy
with excellent results" said P. An
ensen, a manufacturer of white pa
per, from Skien, Norway. 'Whenev-
err the people of a certain district or
county wish to abolish drinking
houses an election is held, at which
all adult males in that territory are
supposed to vote. If any are absent
their votes are counted for prehibi-
ton. Another election cannot be
held until after five years."
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Children Define Idea of Lady.

The time-honored task of defining
4 LADY" was submitted the other day
to a score of little girls in n OF the
public schools in this city and
brought out the usual variety of an
swers in which the possession of
wealth stood out as an almost indis-
pensable condition in the juvenile
minds. 1t is noticeable, however,
that kindness and good manners"
are rated equally highly. "a lady is
rich and very kind to the servants"
one description ran, and it was added
"The servants have to be clean and
tidy in work as we'll as the ladies'"
One of the more ambitious efforts, at
a description ram: "A lady is a person
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quite a nice little income. So it
stands to reason that he who has only
his affection to offer, with no income
to back it, frowned through that time
until he could take his departure,
which was early, and with chilling
politness.
Croesus-the comparative Croesus
had the rest of the evening to him
self and a particularly nice time, be-
cause the girl was piqued by the chill
illness of the farewell of the first, and
so made herself unusually agreeable.
But, poor girl (and this is where
the oracle comes in), she spent most
of the night in tears because she
didn't see how the impoverished one
could be so silly, and never, eve
would she say she was sorry, and So,
of course, he would never come again
to see her.
But the oracle shook her head and
spoke thus:
"You are wrong. 1t isn't wrong to
have the other man call upon you If
you are not trying to flirt with him.
If you are you are acting ~disloyally
and unfairly. Your mistake is in
saying you will not write the first one
to come again. You are not seeing
his side. It Is not necessarily jeal-
ousy or ugliness that sent him away;
he was hurt. One of the hardest
things a mar has to live through Is
the consciousness, when he honestly
loves a girl that he hasn't money
enough to make a home former. Many
other men could, and when he sees
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Work of Swedish Women.

Many enthusiastic and serious
minded women are enlisted in tenn
perance work in Sweden. Am--g
them is Mrs. Vendia Hollstrand, O.
Upsala, who has achieved a gre-t
work in the organization of the
Swedish white ribboners. The work
taken up by the Swedish women is Of
a most practical nature. Their plan
Of establishing temperance %restaur-
ants for all classes leads the world.
No other country has made such a
success. Royal personages and 9TH
ers of high social rank indorse the
movement by d%edicating the temper
ance restaurants and giving them
their patfonage.-Philadelphia Rec
ord.
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Female Doctors.

At the annual meeting Of the trus-
tees of the Manchester Royal Infirm-
airy it was decided by a large majority
that ONE should not be resident
physicians and surgeons. Bishop
Weldon argued that women doctors
we're not worth as much as men for
the treatment Of all cases. and most
patients disliked to be treated by
women physicians. There is no such
foolish prejudice here in New York.
New York Press.
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For the Young Girl.

The pretty girl OF the house was In
a ouandary, and so she went to the
household oracle to submit her case.
Her difficulty was this: Two men
callers had arrived at practically the
same hour the night before. She ex-
pected only one, but every girl knows
there sometimes arrives another who
would be more welcome, had he cho-
sen a different time. The first arri-
val was one to whom this girl is en-
gagged, or would be had he money
enough to make a home for her. He
undoubtedly thinks that the second
arrival is a real rival, and he knows,
alas, that the second has money
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-04-20
Some Truth in 1t.

Discussing the proposed laws
against scorching motorists, Raymond
Hitchcock. the actor, said:
1T is time to check these men.
They are getting quite too reckless.
There was more truth than humor IN
a burlesque dialogue l read in a man
uscript play the other night.
"'If there's one thing more than
another 1 hate to run over said a
burlesque chauffeur, it's a baby.
"'Quite right his companion
agreed. Those feeding bottles do
play hob with a tire, don't they?.' -
Washington Star.
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Coasting Flying Machines.

In Switzerland the coasting flying
machine furnishes great fun. Sleighs
are fitted with wings, or gliders, and
taken to the top Of a steep hill. They
dash down with lightning speed, and
when the wings are released the
sleighs rises into the air for a beau
tiful slide. It Is al easy way to learn
flying, but aside from this the new
sport beats coasting all to pieces
New York Press.
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Feminine Philosophy.

Tell a woman of the murder of a
woman in Kansas City recently be.
Gently because she distrusted banks
and carried her money with her, and
she will not see the suggestion in the
incident that the woman should have
trusted the banks. The woman
would have been wiser" she will
comment, "if she had spent that
money at the drygoods stores.'-
Atchison Globe.
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who has all her manners and who has
a little money with which to help
he poor. She generally is busy about
something, and lives in a large house
with a lawn in front" Ladies
should have good Manners" wrote
another child, land they ought to
send a lot of presents to poor people
because they have nothing else to do"
It is hard to realize the cynicism was
unconscious in: "a lady is a woman
with a lot of money, but she ought to
know her manners as well. New
York Press.