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PART H—PAGES 9 TO 16.
IN THE FRIGID NORTHWEST.
A Correspondent Declare Chi-
cago to Be Its Center.
Thouirii Frozen Milid the People Are
Keady for tbe Fair Visitor*.
California's OVnortunliy Will Be nt thr
World's Fair Congested Hallway
Llaea — Notes About Cli
mate and Things.
Corre»po"di nee of the Uiir.tLD.l
Ohicag i. Jan. 15. —Well, according to
the calendar and general belief in mat
ters pertaining to chronology, one-half
of the present winter iB past and we are
about to enter upon the last half of a
season which, while possessing some
charms for a small and highly favored
class of personß, is dreaded by an over
whelming maj irity. Of course lam
speaking of winter as it appears and
feels when turned looee
IN THE FRIGID NORTHWEST,
of which Cnicago is tbe head center,
commercial metropolis and unrivaled
headquarters. Io the beet portiona of
our own matchless California the winur
season haa no terrors tor any class of
persons. On the contrary, it is the
Beason fraugut with more attractions
and delighiß than any other But
here winter means untold hardship,
privation and misery for uncounted mil
lions, whose financial condition will not
enable them to provide against ex
posure to torturing storms and relent
less cold. We are now well into the
fifth week of what, for convenience
sake, may be called zero weather. For
more than a month past the tempera
ture has constantly hovered around
zero, none of the time very far above
that suggestive mark, and much of tbe
time below it. This morning early the
temperature was 20 degrees below zero,
ami at thia writing (noon) it is 12 be
low. Meanwhile, this city and the cur
rounding country have been visited by
a series of snowstorms and regulation
blizzards, bo that on every hand the
earth is enow-covered aa well as ice
bound. But these conditions can not
laat always; and it ia tame eatisfaction
to turn from such a dreary picture an 1
in anticipation behold tbe novel, beau
tifnl and variegated scenes that will ere
long bo opened to the gaze of the won
dering world at Jackaon park.
As the time for opening
TUB GREAT COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION
draws nearer there are multiplying evi
dences that tbe enterprise will be the
moat stupendous ever yet Been. Every
thing points to BUch a conclusion. If
any man doubts it he should come her
and look over tbe field. He should
Bp md a few days on the grounds and
among* the buildings of the exposition,
and learn something of tbe plans ma
turing for exhibiting the wonders of the
wor !'l. . a , .'argo percentage of the
world'o inhabitants.
iv^ s times suggested,
tnis will be Oaitfurma'B opportunity. It
will be pOßßible for the Golden Gate
Btate to make euch an exhibit, and
euch a favorable impreepion thn ugh her
representatives at the exposition, as
will result in a general stampede next
fall of good people who will have had
enough of this eastern country and are
determined to shako its dust, its mud
and its enow from their feet.
THE PROBLEM OF ACCOMMODATIONS
for visitors ib astuming greater promi
nence as the first of May approaches
Even now, in midwinter, with no spe
cial attractions in the city to draw
H'rangers hither, Chicago iB pretty near
full of people, while the various lines of
local transportation are terribly con
gested by tbe permanent population
It is evident that during tbe exposition
season thoße visitors who are compelled
to ride in street cars or railroad trama
from various portions of the city proper
will be subjected to annoyances such as
may make them wish they were
at home, "where the wicked
cease from troubling and the weary are
at reßt." Numerous hotels, lodging
houses, dormitories and encampments
are being provided within convenient
proximity to the exposition v rounds;
but aa almost everybody prefers locat
ing near tbe show all such accommoda
tions are being pre-en,aged very rapid
ly. It is eßtimated that over 75,000
persons will be employed within tbe
grounds, aa in one way or another con
nected with the expoaition, all of whom
will naturally prefer quartera as near
their business aa possible. Add to that
aimy of workers the tens of thousands
nof workers who will wish even ter-
porary accommodations near the
grounds, and one can easily foresee the
situation.
LAKE MICHIGAN FREE FOR EVERYBODY.
Some time ago it waa announced that
the world's fair directory had leased to
a Chicago Byndicate the exclusive privi
lege of landing passengers at the fair
grounds from boats which the syndicate
proposes to operate during the exposi
tion. Somehow or other the impression
obtained tbat the syndicate was to have
the exclusive right to carry paßsengera
on ite ooats from various points in Il
linois and Michigan to Chicago. Of
co\ltb6 such a monopoly of Lake Michi
gan would h« an outrage, if really car
ried into effect, and no wonder every
body who heard of the proposition be
came indignant. The wonder is that
anybody shoula ever have believed that
such a contract would be legal, or could
be lived up to, even if it were legal. The
waters of Lake Michigan belong to the
public, and any human being has a
right to navigation in them. The land
ing of vessels, however, is another mat
ter, and one that concerns not only nav
igators but Dartiee who control docks
and piera. The contract with the steam
er Byndicate relates to tbe landing«oi
boats at tbe lake front entrance to tbe
fair grounds, and nothing more. Wheth
er that agreement is in the nature of a
monopoly, intended to Bbut off health)
competition, to the detriment of tbe
pnblic, I have not yet learned. It is to
be boped not.
If thie couitry doee not become trans
formed into a aolid iceberg I will soon
make another tour through the exposi
tion grounds and buildings, of which the
Herald's readers shall learn in due
time. Ralph E. Hoyt.
Tbe W. O. Kerrey Co.,
159 to 165 North Spring* street, has tbe
finest and largest stock of hardware in
the city.
THE HERALD.
A DRUNKARD'S CRIME.
How He Killed a Child In a
Frenzy.
The host of friend-) and acquaintances
that young Mrs. Nellie Snowden and
her mother, Mrs. Dixon, made during
their long viait in Pomoua a year ago,
ays the Progress of that city, will sym
pathlze with them in the wfllietion
tbat has befallen thetn in the tragic
death of Mrß. Snowden's infaut boy.
Ttie lady liven in Onicago, and one mild
afternoon, two weeks ago, let the nurse
girl take her 8 months-old haby out for
an airing. The girl took the child to
tier m it Iter's home for a few mti.utee,
leavir.g the infant in its carriage upon
the walk. A moment later a man came
reeling along in a drunken frenzy, and,
pot knowing what he was about,
Bnatched the Bleeping child from the
carriage and burled it out upon tho
stone pavement of the road.
The child waa dead before any one
could get to it. The skull was crushed
end the face disfigured beyond recogni
tion. The man is in jail charged with
murder, and Mrß. Snowden bas been so
prostrated with grief at the occurrence
that her reacon has almont been de
spaired of. She will be brought to Cali
fornia for a chsDge and rest by her hus
band and mother as soon as she is able
to travel. The drunken brute ia sure of
getting a long term in prison and per
haps a life sentence.
CHILDREN AND RELIGION
A QUAIITETTE OF TRUE STORIES
ABOUT TUB YOUNGSTERS.
One In rant Ashti God to Exonse Her for
Laughing— Another Cltts the Su
premo Being's Polltenesi.
A Conple of Otherß.
Little children often in their strug
gles with religious matters get as badly
mixed up as their elders do when of too
inquiring a disposition. The following
anecdotes are all true, if they have no
other quality, but will aerve to illus
trate the naive innocence of the young
stern in question:
A little girl at the Orphans' home in
thiß city waa telling her Warmer, who
had been instructing her as to what
prayer waa, tbat ehe aud the other little
girls who occupied the room with her,
had held a prayer meeting a day or two
before, and that one of tbe little tots
had made ihe cuteßt kind of a prayer,
and that ehe was co little that she had
to laugh. Too teacher told her Bhe
ought not to have laughed, and she re
plied that ehe knew it, hut she just
laughed and then asked "God to pleaee
excuse me,"
Another little one named Mary Per
kins was recently taken by her mother
to the office of a dentist on South Spring
street to have her teeth, which had been
troubling her a great deal, attended to.
The pain caused Mary to become cross
and utirnly, and rrcr mother tdfrt hor to
sk> intn another room and ask God to
forgive her for being a naughty girl.
The little one went to the room and in a
minute or two returned. Her mother
Baid: " Well, Mary ?" Mary replied :"I
told God about it. and he said, 'Don't
mention it, Miss Perkins.' "
A little girl of about 8 yearß, who at
tended a Sabbath school not a great dis
tance from the Herald office, and
whoße mother was a church member
and should have instructed her little
one, was surprised one Sabbath morn
ing to have the child return from tbe
school, where the lesson had been the
raising of L»z irua from the dead, and
tell her the story in her childish way
about the Savior raising the dead man,
and how he came out of the grave and
walked around the i me ac any other
person, and wound up with: "Now,
mama, I wouldn't have you believe such
a cock and bull story for anything in the
world."
There is another little girl in the city
who has a nurse, who is very devout
and teaches the little one, who is not
yet 5 years old, all the time about
Jesus and kindred subjects. The young
woman's mother, however, is an en
thusiaet ou whist, and the child haa
picked up some terms relative to the
game, which Bounds quaintly funny.
The nurse come days ago gave the little
one a number of Sunday school cards,
illustrated with scriptural sceneß, one of
them hearing a representation of Christ,
and this had been ijopreased upon her.
One day her mother wbb amused at
seeing her playing at playing whiat
with these Sunday school cards. She
dealt them to imaginary players and
proceeded to play ; at last she got to the
final hand, and the card referred to was
the only one left. She flung it down on
the others, crying out to the mingled
Bmußement and horror of her mother,
"Jetus takes the trick."
Costa Rica's Swedish Colony.
The government of Costa Rica has en
tered late a contract with Mr. Charles
Bcrg.gren for tho establishment of •*
Swedish colony in tho agricultural dV
tricts of tho republic. Tho contractot
has bound himself to bring 100 colonists
each w.th a capital of at loast $600, to
whom tlfo government will convey the
title in foo simple of 500 hectares of
ground as soon as tho land has been cul
tivated. All personal effects of the col
onists will be admitted free of duty.
The Cuban Sugar Kxport.
During tho ten months from Eec. 1,
1801, to Sept. 30, 1892, 51,408 tons of
sugar wcro exported from the island of
Cuba to Europe, while during tho same
period 300,400 tonß wcro shipped to tho
United States. There were 42,911 ton's
of sugar on hand in the island on Sept.
30 last. The sugar crop of 1892 is placed
at 905,019 tons, as compared with 815,516
tons in 1891, 045,894 tons in 1890 and
520,439 tons iv 1889.
Cost of Coal.
A careful estimato recently made
places the total American and English
coal consumed in the republic of Mexico
at 24,000 tons a month. The price
amounts to between $5,000,000 and $6,
--•300,000 a year.
An FxtetifleO Topnlarltv. Bhown'h Bron
chia Tno übs have hit ninny ycuN been thi
uiost popular ait'il- iii use foi relieving
uougbß anil Throat troubles.
LOS ANGELES : SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 22, lh!>3.
SENATOR WHITE.
An Outline of the Distinguished Gentle
man's Career.
Senator Stephen Mallory White ia a
very yonng man to be a member of the
United Statea senate, havi.ig been born
on the 19th of January, 1853. He mieeed
by 24 hours being elected senator oa bis
birthday.
Hia parents, Mr. and Mrs. William F.
White, resided in New York prior to
1849, coming to this state iv a sailing
vessel in that year, arriving, after being
at sea six months, in San Francisco.
Mr White, sr., engaged in commercial
undertakings in San Francisco un
til September, 1853. During this
time he suffered sevtre financial
losses by reason of having his property
burned seveul times in the fires which
often devastated that city in early days,
owing to the fl.mßy construction of the
buildings At the time mentioned the
family removed to Santa Clara county,
Bottling in Pajaro valley, and here they
made their home for 25 years.
Young Stephen received the rudi
ments of education at first from hie
parents and then ac a scholar at neigh
boring public and private schools. At
the age of 15 he waa finely enough
grounded in the elementary branches of
knowledge to be admitted to St. Ignatius
college in San Francisco, where he was
sent with hia brother Edward who ia
now nn ii fluential and respected resident
of Santa Cruz county. Alter s.udying
some time there the boys were sent to
Santa Clara college, where Stephen
made rapid progress in hia studies, grad
uating at tbe age of 18
He al nost immediately entered the
law office of Judge A W Blair as a stu
dent and continued his law studies to
their comp'etion in the offices of Judge!
Hagan and C. B. Younger. Judge Blair,
his first instructor, is now a resident of
Los Angeles.
So well did he prosecute his work
that w»-en he was 21 years of age, in
April, 1874, he waß admitted to practice
in the supreme court. He selected Lob
Angelea as his borne and commenced
practicing his profession, and has con
linued ever since.
In 1875 Mr. White waa nominated
npon an independent ticket for district
attorney gpf this county, and although
he ran largely ahead of hia ticket he
wae defeated. In 1876 he took a prom
inent part in theTilden campaign in the
interest of tbe Democratic ticket. Thia
alao waa tbe case in 1878. In the
election of 1879 he did not partici
pate in etate politica. It iB presumed
tbat he did not interfere becanee of tbe
fact that hia father waa a candidate upon
the Workingmen's ticket for governor,
and he did not believe that tbat organi
zation could accomplieh any of the pur
poses for which it waa formed.
In 1880 be wae a delegate to the Dem
ocratic etate convention at Oakland,
taking active part in the proceedings of
tbat body.
In 1882 be nominated George Stone
man for governor at San Jose, and can
vassed tbe state vgorously in support
of his favorite, and in the same year he
was elected district attorney of this
county, receiving the largest vote of any
candidate upon any. ticket.
In 1884 be presided over the famous
Stockton convention, and upon this
occasion public attention wae first di
rected to him as a presiding officer.
In 1880 he was chairman of the con
vention before whicb Governor Bartlett
waß nominated, and was subsequently a
successful aspirant for tbe state sena
torship of the Thirty-eighth district,
his opponent being Hon. Henry T.
Hazard.
In 1888 he was chairman of the com
mittee on resolutions of the state con
vention, and wae elected a delegate to
the Democratic national convention,
running ahead of all other aspirants.
He was chosen as the temporary presid
ing officer of tbe St. Louis convention,
and conducted tbe proceedings of that
body as its chairman for a large portion
of the period covered h- its business.
In 1890 he made tbe question of the
election of senators by direct vote of tbe
people a leading one, and bis speech be
fore the San Joae convention upon the
subject of the senatorial endorsement
attracted widespread and favorable com
ment. He vigorously advocated the
Democratic ticket, and especially crit
icised Senator Stanford's political career,
md argued against the election of men to
Ihe senate hy corrupt methods. He re
ceived all of the votes of the Democratic
HON. STEPHEN M. WHITE, CALIFORNIA'S NEW SENATOR.
minority ol that legislature for the sen
atorehip.
Mr. White is related upon bis father's
side to Congressman W. Bourko Cock
ran and upon hie mother's side to Con
gressman Stephen R Mallory, jr.
His work during tbe campaign is
well known He was an advisor on all
matters concerning the Democracy.in
local matters, but his great work was in
his debate with Hon. Moiris M E-tee
on the tariff, which wae conducted in all
the principal cities of the state. He
was generally credited with having hy
far the best of the argument, and to his
effort is greatly due tho fact that Cali
fornia is now on the list of Democratic
states.
His campaign for the nenarorship has
been in all particulars a remarhahleone
He has conducted his fight in a digni
fied, manly way, and his strength bas
been found entirely in the confidence
that the whole people of the
state, -irrrspsiVt.'o of party or
locality, have rdt, io> him
Though technically elected by the
legislature he was none the lees chosen
by the whole people, as the demand for
lim was general and expressed in une
quivocal tones.
Those who know tnd comprehend
Senator White, while appreciating the
high ronor he bas won, feel confident
that if hie life is spared he will win
greater distingtion even than that which
has jußt been conferred upon him.
THE WHITE RFXEPTION.
A Special Train to Meet the Srnator-
Klect.
The deßire to show something outside
of th 9 usual honors to the Hon. Stephen
M. White, senator-elect from California,
is not by any means confined within the
| sordid trammels ot party lines. The
significance of this unanimity of opinion
lies in the fact that Mr. White ia not
only the firat native born Califofninn
elected to tho United States senate, but
is likewise the first senator chosen from
the southward of the Monte Dmblo baFO
and meridian aince the admission of 'he
state into the union in September, ISSO.
Republicans aud Populists ar ■ jostling
each other in their efforta to do him
honor; and if Mr Kerns, who has been
censured for voting for Mr. White hy
a few Populists outside of this
coonty, will go before the people
of Los Angeles county two years hence
as a candidate for re-election he will find
himself the nominee on two tickets.
There are no p .pulists here to censure
Mr Kerne, for the moat, intelligent men
in bis own party here know that a vote
for Mr Cator (who harf about as much
chance to be elected as he had to lower
a fire-proof safe out of a third story
window with a horse hair) meant a
dead-lock in the eenatorshjp and the
reappointment of Mr. Fflton by Gov
ernor Markham for two years longer
So that CatoT and bis friends may as
well "gnaw a file and flee into the
mountains of Hepsidam, where the lion
roareth and the whangdoodle mourneth
for the loss of its firßt born "
The state auxiliary central committee,
feeling that a reception to Senator
White was the proper thing, called upon
the board of trade a-id the chamber nf
commerce to appoint a committee of 511
members to arrange for the proper and
fitting reception to the first Bsnator ever
elected from the Bouthward of the San
Joaquin. Mr Patterson of the board of
trade ia an inn. pendent in politics, as is
also Mr. Dan Fieeman, chairman of the
chamber of commerce. Consequently
in the selection of an executive commit
tee those gentlemen cliose equally from
the ranks of the Republicans and Dem
ocrate, and the selections of those l Hi
cials enumerate the following well
known gentlemen:
Board of trade committee—W. C.
Patterson, E. P. Johnson, P. H. Howell,
Nilea Pease, Jc hn E Plater, I B New
ton, Harris Newmark, S B.Lewis, H.
W Latham, I. N. Van Nuvs. Roland
Bishop, A. D Childress, W. j. Brodr ck,
J. Griffith, J. M. Elliott.
Chamber of commerce committee—D.
Freeman, H. Germain. Hancock Ban
ning, F. W. Braun, Charles Silent, T B.
Brown, D W Field, V Ponet.J S Slau
son.Wm.Lacy.H T Hezard.J D. Lynch,
H. G Otis, John F Humphreys, W H.
Perry, Joseph Meemer, J. C. Cuzner, C.
D. Willard, Frank Wiggina. H J. Wool
lacott, X H. Wade, E F. C Klokke, T.
D, Stimson, M. S Severance, J B.-
Lankersinm, Robert McGarvin, M. L.
Graff, P. Beaudry, H. Z. Oeborne, C. F.
PART II—PAGES 9 TO 16
• A. Last. T. W. Conk, IT. W. Hellmen,A
W. Francisco, J. D. Bickneil, 11. Jevne.
I Theselec:iou of Hon. Henry T. Haz
• ard as president of the day will meet
- the approval of oil the more intelligent,
voters of both parties. He is a big man,
i mentally, morally and pnysiealh ; a:;d
I the vote he polled tho last time he ran
i for mayor was proof th.it he waß almost
i as strong with tho. Democracy as with
) hie own party.
I Mr. White was telegraphed to yesfer
i day afternoon to know on what day he
will arrive, but no answer badJjeen re
ceived iiom him up tor 5 p
ni. , All arrangements bearing up
ion this have been made al
ready end a spec'al train haR been
i chartered to meet the fouth bonnd over
land at N-whall and give him a rousing
■ reception hy all the Angelt fie, irrespee
i tive 6f party. Invitat ous for this cx
i eureion will he issued Monday m .rning.
i and no person will bo admitted without
' a tliikal."'" «*• *~
Thsoroif! bnnqnot to Mr. Whito will
be g yen at the Redondo hotel on the
night of Fehrtiarv 25'h, and it is ex
pected that, in tiddition to heal owoie,
there will be m» or two speakers of na
tional celebrity at the festive hoard. It
is, certain to be the greatest banquet
ever g.ven south of me great Tohachepi
range.
A HINT TO BANQUETERS.
People Who Intend to tie at the White
BattVftnet Should Notice.
That men who have great reputations
as public npeaaera, who are called upon
to and do attend several banquets each
week during tho winter season, are chic
always to look aa though in perfect
henlth and show no signs oi indication
ia a source of wonder in men who, after
perhaps a single banquet, find medi
cines necessary.
At these banquets were served, in a
Iml fdo can courses, all the fancy dishes
that the tnii.d of a chef can conceive.
Then there are the wines of various
kind, sometimes good and sometimes
very had. How ia it. peoole ask, that
men who sit at such tabies so often
eullVr no ill effect?
It ia because their experience has
made them cautious. Constant dining
out. has taught them the absolute need
of moderati' n. Many of (hem have con
fessed that it is their habit to dine at
their homes before going to a banquet.
Then at 'he banquet they will just nib
ble at what ie placed before them, so as
not to appear odd among the company
of feastere.
With the wines it is the ssme way.
They will drink, perhaps, a little cherry
to begin with, and then a great many of
j them m ike it a rule not to drink any
thing else until the champagne iB
served. Oi that th. y drin* enough to
satisfy a natural I hirst, aud for the rest
of the .-veuiug they drink nothing but
Apollinaris, which innocent potion they
find not only extremely palatable after
the wine, hut calculated to offset any ill
effects.—[New Yo'k Times.
SOME STAR POINTS.
A Alliance Announced
for Tomorrow tlv. niug.
"A F ," who is apparently an astro
nomically inclined person, writes as fol
lows to the Herald:
I On the evening of the 2.11, at 3:40
p. m., Jupiter and Mars will be iv close
conjunction, and by sunset the moon
will join their lordships for a short time;
she will he very close, almost touching
Jupiter. It will be a very interesting
sight if clear.
There waa an oceultation of 21 by tbe
moon on the 13th of August, last, which
wes watched with much interest
There will he another at 0 h. 23 ru
a in ,on February 20th; also at 10 L
57 iv. p. m, on March* 20'h, making
four, ami ell occurring Within the sigu
Aries. This conjunction means, accord
ing; to a distinguished occultist, victory
to the British fl ig, however numerous
her enemies; alto that ep''demic dis
eases will he likely to be prevalent dur
ing the coming year. Tbe last time the
moon transited these planets the tern
perature i ose several,degrees; so we vi ij
expect a warm spell of weather for a few
days, especially as Foster has eaid the
same for this meridian: it will surely
iollow. Jupiter will leave the Bign Arie
on the 24 h of March ; to there will be
no more occnltationa of big royal high
ness for some years. A. F.
A PIGEON MAIL SERVICE LINE
To Established BHweeii ban
JPedro and Catalina.
Palmer T. Rped, a Noted Fancier,
Tells About the Birds' Power.
Their ITnconq'ierabl" Instinct to Return
to Th«lr Home Cole How to Start
■ Fl..ok— Keats the Bird!
II»vo Accomplished.
The Herald come days ago exclusive
ly anuouaced the intention of the
Banning Brothers to establish a mall
service between Catalina island and
San Pedro, by means of carrier pigeons.
Thia novel enterprise haß attracted
considerable interest and Mr. Palmer T.
Keed, the noted breeder of theae use
ful birda, who has in hie cote at Sierra
Mudre eorne wonderful birds, gave a
Hkrald reporter the following interest
ing information about tbem:
"Comparatively few people have any
idea of the powers of flight or intelli
gence of homing pigeons.
"I have been asked 'how long it would
tnke a pigeon to fly from New York to
Francisco,' arid others are surprised
that birds can find their way from the
const 30 mileß distant to my home loft
in Sierra Madre. Many pigeons have
flown home, covering 500 miles, between
sunrise and sunset; hir I know of only
four birds doing 1000 miles, and it was
many days before they reached home.
They cannot fly after dark, and in long
flights sunset sometimes catches them
in an exhausted condition, far from food
and water, and they perish or become
au easy prey to hawks and gunners.
"I have sent birds 4or 5 months old,
who have never been one mile from
home, to parli°a 75 miles away, and on
being released, back they come. Of
course they wandered a great deal, and
oiensaid: 'Where are we at?' but they
got there. The homing instinct can be
trained and developed, and it is best to
give a young bird hie first toss-np two
milts from home; the next, five miles,
an I the next, 10 miles. After thiß yon
cnn make skips of 25 miles, and may be,
finally, you will get a bird to cover the
distance between San Francieco and
Los Angeles in tbe iight of one day.
''And yet tho blue rock or common
domestic pigeon, which resembles the
Antwerp or Belgium homer, can be
made to adopt new quarters three
miles from his old home and either
don't know enough or care enough to go
buck.
"So much for blood and generations
of training. Pigeons pair and once
paired tney are mated for life. They
don't know what a Chicago divorce is.
Fanciers take advantage of this and by
separating a young pair when they have
reached a housekeeping age mate the
beet, flyers and avoid inbreeding Every
in intends, lor breeding Bhould be
tented and if he don't come up to cer
tain requirements should go to pot.
'On short flye and knowing the
course, tbey will ma-e one mile a min
ute at-1 often better. There are various
ways «.." establishing a new flock in new
quarters. Old birds can be made to
adopt a new home, but I would not ad
vise any beginner to try. It is a tedious
operation and a pigeon must have his
wing feathers clipped or pulled for a
long time. Even then he may return
and it will never be safe to fly him. The
only sure method ie to take fully fledged
birds, just ready to fly and
capable of feeding themselves,
hut which have never been
outside of their loft. The old carrier
pigeon ie a thing of the past, and very
seldom bred. The Antwerp homer is
the carrier of today, and ie thought by
Borne to be a cross of the carrier Belgium
smerlo aud owl pigeons. He iB the bird
used in all races, and played a promi
nent part carrying messages in the siege
of Paris during the Franco-Russian war,
and is now to be put in service by the
Banningß between Catalina island and
San Pedro. It is proposed to establish
a double line—keeping a flock at each
place. They will be a feature at Avaion,
and I have no doubt will attract crowd*
to see them come in.
"It is a pretty sight. The Antwerp
does not linger and circle down like the
common pigeon, but comes straight and
swift as. an arrow, flying high, and
pitobes into the dovecote like a hawk
on an unlucky chicken. They will be
utilized to curry messages on days when
no steamer is plying, and during the
summer are to be principally runners or
flyers for the hotel, telling how many of
us main-landers are coming over to be
fed and catch ( ?) yellow tails.
"The pigeons can cross tne water in
half an hour, and beat the steamer a
long ways. Some think they will not
cross water. That is a mistake—they
will and have done co. In search of
home they fly over water, but never go
out of sight of laud unless tbey know
their course.
"Mr. Hancock Banning will have the
birds carulully trained, and they will
"i ver hesitate to go to sea. Homers
have be n fl iwn between London and
Par s, and were ÜBedsuccessfully in New
York during the out-ido yacht races.
The first bird to be trained, when profi
cient., is to be us.cd as a pilot or help in
training the balance. He comes of a
tried family—no ocean will ever bar his
gong home from San Pedro. Hia
mother has flown from the desert, cross
ing two mountain ranges, and carried
many a letter home for me when I have
Keen hunting and fishing in the moun
tain" far from any poßtuffice, and this
without any train>ng.
Many governments keep flocks of
homers aud subsidize them. The
U.iited States has a dove cote at Key
West. Fla.
In Paris every keeper of over 20
h«.mere in allowed something for their
support, and in caee cf war they are at
the disposal of the government. Mee
sa-»ea are attached generally to the tail
feathers, as there they are lets liable to
impede the flight. Oue way is to write
the message on tissu paper and wrap
around tho base of a feather from which
the web has been cut to fit the paper.
The .Host Plrai.i'.ut Way
Of preventing t lie urippe,e"litr., headaches
and fevers is io u-e the liquid lex uive
remedy Syrup oi Kit whenever the sys
'etn needs a gentle, yet effeciive cleans
ng. To be benefit d, one must get the
■ rue remedy, manufactured by the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Go. only For sale by
all druggists in 50c acd $1 bottles.
