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PLAYS AND PLAYERS The Los Angeles Theater will be closed during the coming week, and in conse quence the Orpneum will have every thing its own way. There has never been a better aggre gation of vaudeville attractions brought together in one show than that promised for this week at this house. The new bill comprises more star features and of a greater variety than was ever pre sented here before. The management takes considerable pride in announcing the engagement of the widely-known favorite, Lydia Yeamans Titus. Lydia Titus has made herself famous as an Impersonator of small children. She will bring to the Los Angeles public this specialty, together with a complete new repertoire of songs. Mrs. Titus will be assisted by the popular singer. Fred J. Titus. The united work of this accom plished team has received the wannest praise from the press and public in Sun Francisco, where they have just com pleted a long engagement. Every one will have a hearty welcome for Ross Snow, the tramp comedian, who made such a hit here In Rice's 149.' company. Snow cannot be described. His humor is a part of him and the role of the familiar character known as a tramp is well adapted to bring out his peculiar genius. The tramp comedian LYDIA YEAMAN3 TITUS brings in a lot ot Clever specialties With his turn and keeps up a constant stream of fun from the time he first comes on the stage until after repeated encores he finally gives way. One of his best known tricks is the dangerous fall from a lugh stepladder while playing the trombone. Snow will furnish enough of irresistable comedy for the whole sho-*v. This will not be left to him alone, how ever, as the three trained animal com edians of Prof. Macari's have been re tained for another week These won derful animals, the baboon, dog monkey, formed the most amusing team on last week's bill. Their tricks are lit tle short of marvelous and are so ex tremely funny that the brutes appear to be making a studied effort at comedy. The musical part of the program will be well sustained by the two old-time favorites. John and Marian Manola Ma son. Their operatic sketch of last week was greatly appreciated by all classes and their new repertoire promises to be equally as good. Whatever the Macons do, whether in the line of travesty, pure operatic singing or recitation, it is al ways good and thoroughly artistic A bit of acrobatic eccentricity will be introduced by the one-limbed grotesques, Lea Donatos. Their turn is unique and of a most diverting nature. Thechange in their act this week will not affect their popularity. Miss Addie Favart. the charming song and dance artiste, will repeat her suc cess of last week with many pleasing changes. Hers is truly a popular turn that pleases the galleries as well as the critics below. The final touch of comedy will be given by those most humorous of all comic acrobats. Con lon and Ryder, who will introduce a breezy act. full of new com bination of song and jest and rollicking knockabout. Not a singly dull act mars the bill and the ensemble is what may truly be termed a good show. There Will be a matinee this afternoon and the regular performance tonight. • • • To those who believe that ignorance of the evils of the world is the only happy and safe condition of mankind it would be a difficult thing to explain the raison d'etre of Carmen —the presentment of a creature living for herself alone, who runs the gamut of the passions, caring not for the hearts and lives that arc trampled under her feet in her mad pur suit of the fleeting'pleasures of the hour, a human vampire, sucking the heart's best blood of her victims, their honor and integrity, and then viewing the ter rible results of her work with contempt rather than pity, and flying from the ruin she has created to seek fresh vic tims: a very devil of a woman, without the merit of constancy or the knowledge of truth: enslaving men's souls by the charms of her person and the Intensity of her passionate nature, and leading them captive in triumph, while all that is good, and noble, and true in them pro test against her. It is hard, in the light of these revelations of her character, to conceive why Carmen should have besn called into existence. Yet, stay. Does she not. in her daring wickedness, prove a more moving sermon against vice than the most Impassioned effort of a sou 1-stirring evangelist? It is a psychological fact that we see Only what we have s«'n, therefore, in stead of seeing vice In the Imperfect an 1 often enticing mental picture which warning words <ir descriptions of it call into being in the minds of the Innocei t and ignorant, in the presentation of Carmen we labor tinder no Illusions. The thins itself is before us in all Its enormity. We see its consequences, too. And it ls a spectacle which, far from be ing alluring, inlalit tempt even a hard ened sinner to jiause and say to himself, with the Psalmist: "Perhaps darkness shall cover me, and night shall be my light ill my pleasures." Yet will some people say: "Why should this wickedness be exploited at all? Why not seek rather to ignore It i existence?" This might obtain were it not an Impossibility to keep the huma.i mind from seeking after the unknown. Such being the case, the question arises whether it Is not wiser to show vice and Its Inevitable consequences, as in Car men, In a way which, while true to na ture, must disgust any healthy mind, rather than permit the brain to clothe It In the poetic visions of fancy and leave Its hldeousness covered until it has in sidiously inveigled the victim to the lure and caught him in its iron grasp for ever. Camille. which has always been re garded as a play having a moral pur pose, pales into insignificance as a moral lesson compared with Carmen. In Ca mille vice wears an alluring front. For example, to those whose inclinations naturally lead them to sacrifice every thing to their personal comfort, how fascinating would appear a life like that of the "Lady with the Camellias." of whom it Is written: "She had carried to such a height the science of interior com fort and self-adulation that nothing could compare with her dresses, her lin en anil the least trifle she used; for the decking ot her beauty was, by far, tha dearest and most charming occupation of her life." Would this picture of tha life of this woman, without a seeming care, be likely to disgust any one with sybaritic tendencies? True, there is i reverse to the picture. Camille suffered and died, but in her mental sufferings and bodily sickness she had the comfort and support of many friends, nnd her death was sincerely mourned. Does stern virtue often have a happier fate? Carmen has no sybaritic surround ings. She is not an exponent of the aesthetic side of vice, but a child of the people, a bold free lance, rejoicing tn her freedom, enjoying the fleeting mo ment with all the intensity of her pas sionate gypsy nature, and yet ever va guely conscious that a merciless fate must eventually overtake her and the law of compensation be satisfied, Surely this fear conveys its lesson. It is the • little rift within the lute, that by an.l by will make the music mute." There is a wholesome moral to Carmen that the sickly sentimentalities of Camille could never exploit. • • • Miss Coghlan has a subtle conception of the role of Carmen. As she presents it, the characterization remains With and haunts one. Carmen really lives and appears to the mind nt odd moments , with all tier deviltry lurking in the depths of her dark, liquid, passion lighted eyes, or playing wantonly on th? curves of her ruddy lips, or in the dim ples of her peachy cheeks. Yes. it is a line Carmen, this creation of Miss Cogh lan, and one that will live in the mem ory of those who have seen it by the Im pressive truth of its conception. • • • Mr. Warde. as Don Jose in Carmen, proved somewhat of a disappointment. It was not that he did not give a schol arly presentment of the unfortunate Basque soldier: every one familiar with Mr. Warde's careful methods knows that his characters are all well conceived, but, somehow or other, the role did not seem to fit him. We have been so long accustomed to Mr. Warde in heroic rol?=t that we cannot, ail at once get used t > ' him in the eharcater of an impassioned. ] yet weak withal, lover, flinging honor and duty away at the beck of a wanton. When one thinks of him as Lanclotto, or Damon, or yet as Richard, he feels in clined to say to him. with kindly intent: "Cobbler, stick to thy last." « • • It would be both interesting and en couraging to those to whom time ap pears as an inexorable tyrant, in view of his ravages upon the human counten ance, to make a careful study of Miss Coghlan in Carmen. They would dis cover, for their encouragement, that ths appearance of perpetual youth ls at tainable, and they would be interested In seeing for themselves how much careful expression and clever dressing have to do with the case. A good many summers have passed over Miss Cogh lan's charming head—how many It would be rude to say—yet, in tha rob? of Car men, mere ir- ....lnnig nt etltKr IKI ttas» \ or ligure to preclude the idea that she is i yet in her early youth. And what shall be said of Mr. Warde? Any one seeing him in the first acts of Carmen and subsequently in his strug gle with Garcia, where-he displays tbe supple agility of a boy, would declare that, like Faust, he must have made a bargain for his youth. •Until the last act. where he intentionally makes himse'f appear older, Mr. Warde looks not one day past 80, and is handsome enough to create sad havoc in- the breast of many a susceptible matinee girl. • • * The dramatic version of Carmen draws its sol,- elements of strength from the histrionic capabilities of the players presantlng it. From a literary stand point, the play is puerile. It Is the ex treme of commonplace, abounding in dic tion that can best be called claptrap. As a matter of fact, the new race of play-makers and adapters are sadly lacking in literary graces, and few, in deedi of the great mass of plays that have been projected on the stage of late years possess any quality of merit in this respect; but Carmen is worse than mediocre as an exposition of the ele gances and effectiveness of the English language. * • * Verily, the world has gone mad in the variety line, and, perhaps, so radical are the changes in artists' heretofore conceived Ideas that we may yet be treated to the announcement of Pntti doing a turn—say, the Suwanee River or Home. Sweet Home, or the Shadow- Song, with calcium effects—at some en terprising vaudeville theater, with Nieolinl In a little burnt cork sketch on the side. Or yet "The De Retzsk.- Broth ers, operatic sketch artists of European ft.toe," or "The Fat -famed Nordioa, tho delight of the crowned heads of Eu rope," or "Bernhardt, in the dead scene from Camille." may yet greet our novelty-seeking eyes from the bill boards of a variety theater. Quien sabe? • • • To come down from lesser luminaries from those above mentioned, who that saw Marion Manola some years ago, W in n she wits the leading lady of Duff'r, comic opera successes, would ever Im agine that he should find her confining her efforts to the giving of an operatic sketch in a vaudeville house? Yet here she is, in company with her clever hus band, delighting Orpheum audiences with her pretty, clear, bell-like voice an I proving a pleasure to many who would never have the patience to sit through an opera. "And thereby hangs a tals." It ls written that the time is not far dis tant when the ( team of all productions, operatic and dramatic, will be skimmed for the delectation of the patrons of vaudeville theaters, and the continuant-: of an entertainment through several acts will be a thing of the past. This state of things will be a concession to the growing restlessness and perpetual j boredom of the human race. * * « As an example of the hold vaudeville has take on the people, a passer-by on one of the streets of our city had his at tention called to the antics of some chil dren at play in a vacant lot. They were amusing themselves by giving a theatri cal performance. Did it consist of grand Impressive scenes from Shakespeare? Was it imitative of the conventionali ties of the modern drama? Not much. It was a variety performance, pure and simple. One enterprising youth was turning handsprings and performing other acrobatic feats to the best of hi:; ability. Another gave a comedy sketch, carefully presenting for the delectation of his audience all the jokes he had heard at the Orphoum for months past. He was followed by a little lady, in a very good imitation of Lizzie Raymond In her song. The Benches ln the Park. And so it went on. until every small per former had carefully exploited the meth ods of his favorite upon the stage. If "a straw shows the direction of, tho LOS SUNDAY "MOBNTCTGr, ATJGTJST 9, 1596. current," then, in the words of thereon - gressman, "Where are we at?" • ■ * There is one peculiarity In whici Los Angeles audiences differ widely with eastern theater-goers. When a great actor or a good play has pleased aln au dience elsewhere, at the final dropof the curtain the audieuice remain in their seats and extend atrecall to the players. Here we get up aisd make for the door as quick as the certain falls. Well known actors, acciistomed to this final tribute to their genius, have been sorely puzzled by this hab&t of the Angelcno. Green Room'Uostlp N. K. Falrbank hrss decided to carry to the appellate suit in which David lielasco galnevVa verdict against him for training Mrst Leslie Carter. John E. Ward, referee, has reported to the supreme court of New York that Jennie Yeanians is eintitled Jo an ab solute divorce from Her husband, Chas. B. Dillingham. Paul Arthur has made a strong hit in London, and has been re-engaged for a year by l George Edwardes, who thinks he will become as great a favorite as Haydon Coffin. Commodore Mollar. last season Inter ested with E. B, Rice in the production of Little Christopher, will the coming season interest himself with Edward Harrigan in the presentation of a new play by this popular author at the Bijou theater. New York,,entitled Marty Ma lone. Mart W. Hanley, who will next sea son direct the tour of Robert Mantell, Intends to present hlststar in a scenic production of King Solomon's Mines. Mr. Hanley Is has/inn the novel, dram atized by a well-known playwright, and he is confident that It contains material for a very effective play. The openings this season promise to be unusually ?ate. Even-the money making stars of the road will not. ln most cases, go out befoiv election. Thomas W. Keerre does not,start until late in December. Mbdjeska waits until after Christmas, andi then plays a sea son of less than'two months. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt has left Paris for her country chateau. Relle-lsle-en- Mer, for her summer outilng. She will cycle and otherwise enjoy life so as to pull herself together for 'her autumn winter in Paris. Sue is the title by whlchlßret Harto's new play will be known. The initial production takes place at the Braod street theater, Philadelphia, on Septem ber 11th. Joseph Haworth and Annie Russell w ill head the cast. From all accounts the Rayrnuth per formances are but medlcore expositions of the Wagner music dramas. The or chestra, under Hans Richter. is superb. Dili Lehmann seems to be the orli'ar tist giving absolute satisfaction. With a few exceptions the other singers are persons whose present standing In musical art is indefinite. The mlse-en scene is said to be lacking its former ■ompleteness. It is evident that the character of Bayreuth festivals has en tirely changed. Their purpose was once artistic—lt ls now purely commercial. ************************** I MUSICAL COLUMM 1 ************************** The majority of the musical peoplo have lied to the Island and the beach, and those that are left in the city have to be content with fain echos of delight ful impromptu concerts from Redondo. Santa Monica and other seaside points. • * * Miss Yaw's late business manager seems to be getting in his deadly work, as the following from a San Francisco paper seems to prove: ' .Speaking of Miss Yaw, whose appearance here has been so long expected, it is now ■ that the young lady has had a serious misunderstanding with her manager. YneVfW id SOnrVt'tHWH tilfcfeafcAelr'awr withstandlng that she is now in Los An geles. This resolution will be a disap pointment to many who wish to hear her as a matter of curiosity, but from an ar tistic standpoint it will possibly be no great loss, for it is pretty generally con ceded that her high reputation as a sweet singer was in a great measure due to clever advertising, and will probably vanish with her manager.'' The truth concerning Miss Yaw and her prospective engagements has al ready been published in The Herald. The soprano contemplates commencing her tour in October next from Los Angeles. • • • J J Gilbert of Peterborough. Kngland, has exhibited at the Music Trades ex hibition, London, a unique specimen in the form of a liliputian violin of his own manufacturing which is pronounc ed by experts to be a fine sample of the luthl'er's art. Though a great deal of work is microscopic it contains the same number of parts as that of a full sized instrument, which with the gold mounts and the fittings, the strings, etc., make up a grand total of ninety* nine, though its weight Is something un der one-quarter of an ounce. c c c By the terms of the last will of the late Ambr6lse Thomas, M. Weckerllen, li brarian of the conservatory, has re ceived all the papers and manuscripts of the deceased, including the scores, namely. Le Guerlllero, Le Songe dune Nuit d'Kte, La Tonelll, Le Carnival de Venise, Le Roman d'Elvire. Mlgnon, Hamlet. Fraricolse de Rimini, the ballet music to Th" Tempest. La Cour de Celi mena, Psyche, ln two versions, and Le Caid. The last named score is minus the overture, the sheets of which have been lent to a conductor who has "forgotten to return them." Ambroise Thomas had never been able to recall his name or his address. Le Menestrel comments, "Ne pretez jamais vos livres nt vos par titions." Ambroise Thomas left a con siderable stim*to found two prizes bear ing his name, one at the conservatory, the other at the musical section of the institute. • * » There is musical taste as well as hon or among thieves, fine night, so says the Lisbon Amphlon, a thelf crept cautious ly into a hotel and found his way to a room occupied by a celebrated pianist. The artist suddenly awakened from his slumbers, .lumps out of bed. seizes a re volver and accosts the unceremonious Intruder with the query: "Well, what do you want at this hour?" "I—l—l—] — excuse me." gasps the frightened knight nf the road. "I only wanted —to ask you to, to—oblige me with a Beethoven sonata!" • *. * Figaro says: The son of a well known sportsman obtained the other day a hearing from the directors of the Paris Opera. He selected for his trial the grand air from La Julve. and ln singing it revealed most extraordinary vocal qualiaies. M. Gailhard became quite enthusiastic over the strength and un heard-of compass of his voice. Unfor tunately this future tenor knows noth ing of art. He i« going to enter the con servatory to commence tbe study of solfege, and as he is KO years old, the full term will be dispensed with for that reason, and on account of his miracu lous gift. It appears, ln effect, that the voice of this "white blackbird" goes from the low A In bass to D In the tre ble. The voice of Fame, added to that of Due. "It is hoped that after two year:, study at the conservatory this marvel will be fit to appear in opera, where un doubtedly his debut will create it sensa tion." • • * A German correspondent of the Per severanza of Milan /rives a rather un satisfactory account of two operas which have been recently announced. Apro pos of Igno. by M. Philippe Rufer, given at the Berlin opera house, he writes: "The subject Is drawn from an old Ger man legend; the music Is Intellectual and well wrltten.but has no effect. Rufer ls a learned musician, who understands fugue, sonata, symphony, Instrumenta tion and voices. But all this knowledge is not sufficient to create a chef-d'oeu vre. The famous sparkle ls missing. Without it nothing is achieved. It may inspire esteem and respect, but sympa thy and enthusiasm —never. One may say of Ingo. It was born and It is dead.' So much for the Belgian composer. Now take the Italian composer, of whom the same correspondent speaks thus: "Cre scenzio Buonglorno has Just brought out at the Leipzig theater his opera, Festa del Carro, a work of the kind of those that pollute the stage in these days of realism; scenes of jealousy, of brigands, of blows with the poignard. blows with the knife, battles with such like m|slc appropriate to the subject, but of a triv iality which recalls the music of the circus. Behold the two extremes, which touch, an*neither one or the other has a shadow of vitality." STRAY CHORDS Miss Bernlce Holmes has been win ning universal plaudits from the San Francisco press for her conscientious work and good singing with me Hin richs opera company Yvette Guilbert has signed an agree ment to sing at the Cafe dcs Ambassa deurs till tho end of the century Mr. DOyly Carte, the music manager, will shortly retire from active business life, owing to bad health He has a for tune. Count Giza Zioha. the one-armed Hun garian pianist, pupil of Liszt, is to play soon ln London ln concerts and not as a freak. Tn fact, he has always appeared as a legitimate artist. Johann Strauss is composing during his summer sojourn at Ischl an operetta on a text by Willner and Buchblnder, for the Theater an der Wlen. The centenary of .the famous ballad composer and singer, Johann Carl Oot lleb Loewe, will be celedrated through out Germany on his birthday, November "Oth next. Mr. and Mrs. Henschel gave a concera recently at the German em bassy ln London in aid of a proposed monument to Loewe. One of the features of Prof. Sousa's program for the rest of the season at Manhattan Beach will be the Patrol of the Marionettes. This very psetty mel ody was composed by Llzette Le Baron Cotton, the actress, and will be heard on the roof gardens and in the theatrical orchestras later on. Sonzogno has succeeded In having his contract with the city of Milan can celled, and has transferred the man agement of La Scala to Cortl and Poz zali. representatives of the Ricordl firm. By this arrangement the house will be able to give performances of Verdi and Wagner works, and it Is reported that in tho coming winter Gotterdammerung will be produced there. The new opera by Mascagni entitled the Japanese Girl, says the Musical Courier, is based on a very poetical and fanciful libretto by Illica. Among the characters represented are a doll, a screen—that is. the figures painted thereon—the sun. a lotus flower, and the Fates. Among human personages are a pair of Japanese lovers, and a cruel father whose cruelty is of no avail, but who has ultimately to hand his daugh ter over to the detested lover. There are also some low comedy characters. HARRISON'S $4000 LOO CABIN The Ex-President's Summer Hone on One of the Adirondack Lakes Ex-President Harrison's summer home on one of the lakes of the Adrion dacks will be a log cabin similar to the cabins that wore use,J as living apart ments in his grandfather's time, but his will cost more than $4000 when finished. Plans have been prepared for the camp and other buildings, and work has been begun on the foundation. The cottage, or camp, as it is called, will siand a short distance from Indian Point,-which Is near the head of First lake. Last sum mer Gen. Harirson occupied the Dodd camp, which is further back from the main land. Where he is building is con aJjlctflAvhOt. UMJ<U»««hd. w.rortrwv^n-.to-hn All of the buildings will be made from logs hewn flat on two sides, and locked at the corners by regular log-house joints. The cabin will have a frontage of forty-eight feet and a depth of thir ty-four feet. The main living roow will be 16x32 feet, with a ceiling twenty three feet high in the center. A fireplace built of rough hewn bowlders, fitted into place without cutting, w ill be one t of the features of the room and an ex- i treme novelty to the inhabitants of the j section of the Adirondacks where the general w ill spend his summers here- i after. The two towers, which are also | a novelty in Adirondack cottages, will I have sleeping rooms. The dining build- I Ing will be 22x40 feet ,the first story of 1 logs and the second story of shingles. Besides the large dining room, the build ing will contain a room for the guests, j a pantry, kitchen and six sleeping rooms, j About thirty feet from the main build | ing, near the edge of the lake, will be i the boat house. The sides will be shin gled and the roof gabled. In the second story will be three rooms for the use of guests. The buildings will be spread out over six lots, which have been cleared of underbrush and other forest mater ial. Contractor John H. Nelson of Her kimer Is now at work on the camp and expects to have it in readiness for the general when he reaches Old Forge with his bride. —Indianapolis Journal. Algiers is becoming an Important coaling station, many English, German and Belgian steamships preferring it to Gibraltar and Malta as more central. "Whereas, in 1888 only eighty-five steam ers put In for coal, there were last year 1370, besides those which brought car goes. Coal to the amount of 209,000 tons was imported last year, of which 289, --000 tons came f ron* England. j Paint, buggy, 75c. 32 SS. Spring. Los Angeles' Family |f\»\A. _ . A Performance every ev-. V mdevilie Theater VVfOCV ning, including Sunday South Main st. WlVBiiJw\Vn Prices— 10;, bet. First and Second w lT 25c ' 50C ' TeL '** 7 " o WE DON'T CABRY ALL THE TALENT IN THE WORLD 1 0- ONLY THE BE3T. 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Every Friday ..•Grand 3*all*>* ' A polite Floor Manager and Caller always in attendance. Ladies without escorts not -idmitted Free busses will meet Traction cars at Western avenue and University cars at Jefferson street every Friday and Sunday. PAUL KERKOW, General Manager. A /iENNK Bt_iF=p=E3T 114 and 116 Court street \/ F. KERKOW, Prop. Free, refined entertainment; classical music every evening. "SIXTEEN TO ONE" ••YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN" LHY SERMON Two thousand years before the Chris tian era, this wholesome advice had an imperative significance. Then, as now, the first or animal birth was but the stepping stone to the second birth or "birth of reason." By a violation of this invincible law of nature, which tends to a mere existence on the lower plane of sensuality, unrest, disappointment, crime, insanity or whatever might fol low as its legitimate fruit, each suc ceeding age has plunged deeper Into the consequences of this unchangeable law of cause and effect. "Ye must," and there is no other way to drink from the fountain of intelligence, but to liberate that operative nerve center which reg ulates the brain. Not by the slow stage coach of precept, example, drugs or prison discipline, but by the electric Hash of thought upon the telegraphic nervas whose normal action leads to v predjjstlned ideal life. Sex and sex alike this moral controlling organ di rects the life of every human. Fearing, to oppose either the spirit or letter of this natural law, th* ancients enforced the requirements of a balanced organism and advanced ln art and science and at tained great age without the use of drugs, prisons or Insane asylums, as Il lustrated by the Jews, who have little use for them, even by a partial observ ance of this seemingly simple regula tion. But it ls not claimed that the phy sical and intellectual giants who long ago enforced this only law of human progression weep aware of the nervous organism thus operated, or employed edge tools In the operation; for the hu man fingers are entirely sufficient to do all that'is required if attendeiiAo in time. Ten years have passed since it was discovered that the physical and mental force of man is each impelled from its respective focal center In the lower or gans. Back from the burled centuries when Methuselah and other aspirants for perpetual life on earth gave the les son of physical perfection as the basis of health and mental balance, there comes again the assurance of extended years. Upon that notable dissecting ta ble was discovered the operating nerve terminals, which, through the calls of nature, operate the vital forces in per fect humanity and give their perfecting to the world as the universal remedy for all who need repairs. SIXTEEN* TO ONE. SIXTEEN students who had set sail upon the medical sea of uncertainty were cured of their various afflictions by this simple adjustment of nerves, as a test of the universal application of this ONE remedy. Why it is that, after thousands have been cured by this means alone and are being constantly reported in journals advocating this principle, this "only cure on earth" should be al lowed to suffer the contaminating in fluence of a thus exploded theory of drug financiering, has never been ex plained. By this discovery the healing art Is again returned to the people who have so long suffered the tortures of profes sional experiment. Its acceptance will be through a gen eral intelligence of those who seek health, rather than those who seek rev enue from disease. To be drugged Into insensibility Is a different proposition from removing the obstruction to a self-cleansing and self-repairing organ ism. HEALTH IS NATURAL, and only re quires free action of the nerves to obtain the highest ideal ; therefore all sickness or peculiar actions present a natural rem edy by enforcing their freedom. When the natural requirements of this second language woum hukscsi, ami meae ic cently discovered nerve centers are again known to be the key or regulator of the entire physical and mental forces, the long-hoped-for millennium will be at hand. An important feature of this discovery is that any person of ordinary intelli gence may Instantly locate the cause of any physical or mental disturbance Without professional aid. It seems won derful that nature should have provided on every hand, for rich and poor alike, a : universal remedy for slckaess or pain I which excels all other means of cure. While this ever-ready and instanta ! neous means of forcing a circulation jt blood was revealed to all natural tribes 1 those who ought to adopt this lesson of health are perishing without knowing that the life principle is within them selves, and needs only to he set ln mo tion! As the dilation of nature Is always delicient in any sickness or pain, no suf ferer should fail to try this "free to all" remedy. In case of accident or sudden shock, when delays- are dangerous. He who always provides gave this boon to all "without money and without price." The gloomy, the discouraged, whose ex pectations are not realized, the revenge ful, the intemperate, the bad, will find that the requirements of this text have not been complied with in their special cases. 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(TPlDEREcleaoaeatheUver, Okt ■ BEFORE and AFTEH kidneysandthonrlnarynrirnnsotalluiipurluea, ■ rtTMDENE per rent .re trenbled wttt - _ "AAff 0 noon les.imorl. siren wdmoney returned If lis boxes doe. not efrect a i-ermaoeotout* S ruff??™.M-nT,dl.Vnd for fbek circular and teatlmoulala. * »»ir>««»<ritl««J| «•©.. P.O. Box 207S Ben Francisco. CM. H»«** 'oFF VAUGHN. Northeast corner Four th and Spring Btrssta._ ' El (aa (aa iaiß larrj iara narrj M—H—B?| I American Bimetallic Union i 1 g M ,1 Do you desire to assist in restoring th; free coinage of silver t \m If you do, sign your name and address to the following coupon, g ™ clip it out and send it to The Herald Oflkc, and your name will be enrolled as ?. member of the Los Angeles League of the American 1 Bimetallic Union: I S ® MEHBERSIiIP CARD | / , 1 ■ ■ Los flnoeies leooue Hi Bimelallic Union B 1 COL. JOHN R. BERRY, Prei. CHAS. L. EAGER. Sec. * U, W. nROfIOOLD, Vice-Pies. S. Hroadw.v. ' E. S. HUBBARD, Tre... ALEX. B. BUSH, As.t. Sec. • g Z ■ ; I PLATFORM 11 J FIRST—The free an unlimited coinatr.3 of gold and silver at the ratio of jgj m i6toi without regard to the action of foreign mtiDns, t'ne coins of botrt I metals'to be unlimited ls?al tendsr for all dabts, public and private, si SECOND —No issuance of Intsrest-bsarlng bonis in time of p-ace,. ana m I I the payment of all coin debts In gold or silver, at the option of ths govern si mt I endorse the above platform, and hereby enthorlat my nima to be aubJorlbil to tH» B g membership roll of said League by the Secretary thereof. » ( | Name i — I I Address . f Ig— g ilia" fm "m ' ibib sibi ims - ngrat b«bi BS J 14