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6 The Herald By The HEBAtD Publishing Company. JOHN BRADBURY. President and General Manager. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT: No. 205 New High Street. Telephone 156. John T. Gaffey Managing Editor. BUSINESS OFFICE: Brsdbury Building, 222 West Third Street. Telephone 247. Docolas White Business Manager. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY ao, lßog. Quien sera Reina de la Fiesta? Who said the ladies can't vote? Bank robbing doesn't thrive at Azusa. What do you think about female suffrage now? When you get up in the morning read The Herald. What does the man that stole the memo rial think now? Los Angeles is waiting to see which way the cat will jump. It looks now as if that island cable would be a sure go. Did the married men in the Assembly square themselves? The woman who kisses a canine in pre ference to her hnsband needs a divorce. After all San Pedro is the key to the commercial situation in Southern Cali fornia. The private detective has been injected into Los Angeles journalism. It is a nasty business. A question of privilege: Why are As semblymen Pendleton and Lynch opposed to woman suffrage? The ladies will present the banner that will typify the patriotism and the Amer canisni of La Fiesta. The Herald does not need to publish affidavits to prove that it is a newspaper. Prima facie evidence is sufficient. The efforts of Senators White and Per kins, backed by the big Herald memorial, will put the harbor at San Pedro. From a chieftain In the Midwinter Fair .to an organizer of a syndicate to swindle banks is only half way across the conti nent. It is getting warmer in Salt Lake—the thermometer last Saturday registered three degrees above zero; on Friday the mercury was three degrees below. Oakland is making an effort to secure the terminus of the competing valley road. Oakland has always been the ter minus of the Southern Pacific Railroad but the freight and passengers do not stop there. It is hard to understand what value a "terminus" is to Oakland. It is estimated by Mr. Mulhall in a re cent article in The Contemporary Review that the shipping of all nations is of the appoximate value of $1,100,000,000, while the 110,000 locomotives at work represent a value of $1,000,000,000. The railways give employment to 2,394,000 people, while shipping employs only 705,000. The life of a locomotive is 15 years. It will run 270,000 miles, carry 600,000 tons, or 1,000.000 passengers, and earn $300,000. Its tirst cost is $10,000 and its general average is 300 horse-power. The average life of a ship and its earning capacity, compared with its cost, is not given, and is perhaps not yet computed, but it is not likely to equal or approach that of the locomotive, which may fairly rank as the most potent instrument of civilization ever devised by man. MONOPOLY EXTORTION The Bell Telephone Company and other monopolies are trying to get two bills through Congress for purposes of extor tion. The law limits the life of patents to 17 years. It provides, however, that where an invention is iirst patented abroad tbe American patent shall not outlive the shortest of the foreign patents. Under this law the public has a prospect of early rescue from the extortion of tbe Bell Telephone Company monopoly and some other similarly oppressive combina tions. But in order to prolong its monopoly the Bell Telephone Company is supporting in the courts a refrigerator patent suit, unimportant in itself, but important in what it involves. In that suit it is con. tended that a patent in this country does not expire with the expiration of a pre viously granted foreign patent if the American patent was applied for before the foreign patent was granted. A de cision to that effect would be worth many millions to the Bell Telephone people— every dollar of which would be extorted from the public. But the decision of the Supreme Court may be adverse. So the patent monopo lists have had two bills—N'os. 0301 aud 6098—introduced in Congress to accom plish the same thing by a statutory change. The New York World is out spoken in its demand that these bills shall be beaten, arguing that a patent is a gov ernment grant of monopoly and that the only excuse there can be for such a grant is that it stimulates invention by re warding It, and that by granting to in ventors v monopoly fur a term of years the public gains advantage in the end. But the term prescribed by law, even un der the most rigid construction of the statutes, is ample, as experience shows, to accomplish all the good aimed at. There should certainly be no extension of monopoly at the prayer of a concern like the Bell Telephone Company, which has paid annual returns of several thousand per cent on its investment, and which uses its monopoly with an absolutely shameless arrogance for purposes of con tinually increasing extortion. Congress should certainly not remove any limitation tiiat the law now imposes upon patent monopoly. A FINANCIAL SHOWING. Cheering results are reported from every lection of the country in the bank clear ings of the various cities. New York is credited witli $'.',:tt)o,iXm,(H)o, against $2,- II(»».hOO; Chicago, $.186,000,000, against £OT,«IUn,0O; Boston, $406,000,000, against 1100,000; Philadelphia, 1298,000,000, against $267,000,000; St. Louis, Illli.lhHJ, --000, against $105,0j00,000; Baltimore, $87, • 000,000, against fK2,OtlO,noO; Pittsburg, $58,000,000, againsts6B,ooo,ooo; Cincinnati, $60,000,000, against $58,000,0011; Kansas City, $48,000,000, against $41,000,000; Buf falo, $18,000,000, against $17,(KI0,0U<|; Min neapolis, $25i000,000, against 123,000,000; LOS ANGELES HERALD: WJSUJNJCSUAY MUKJN±JN<*, XJbiSMUAUX MU, I»W3. Milwaukee, $26,000,000, against $25, --000,000; Denver, $12,000,0 00, against $12,000,000; St. Paul, $16,000,000, against $14,000,000. The total clear ings (or the whole country have moved as follows: October, 18M, $4,288, --999.5H8; November, $4,173,064,688; Decem ber, $1,313,888,82!); January, 1895, $4,407, --154,364. Of the general result the l'Mnan cial Chronicle says: "A vtry satisfactory feature in the statement this time is the improved results at the Eastern monetary and manufacturing centers, some of which have previously been lagging behind. Of course at New York, where the increase has been 10.6 percent,the transactions con nected with the organization of the Brook lyn Wharf and Warehouse Company have bad an effect in swelling the totals. But at some of the other points in the seaboard section the gains are even larger, Phila delphia recording 15 per cent gain, Wash ington 17 percent, Rochester 10.1 per cent and Scranton 12.5 per cent. There are two small points which show a de crease—namely nt Wilmington and Bing hamton, the latter 5.2 percent, but the aggregate for the whole Middle States section records 10.7 per cent increase. The New England group shows only 4 per cent increase, and at Lowell and New Bedford there are losses; but at Provi dence there is 13.6 per cent increase, at Springfield 10.4 per cent and at Worcester 14.1. In the Middle Western section the comparisons are, as a rule, quite good, and the total for the section is 5.4 better than a year ago. Some of the far Western points, however, show the effects of the crop failure. A CIIOANTIC SWINDLE. According to the Chronicle, the story of the Panama Canal swindle, the Credit Mobilier and the old Contract and Finance Committee Of the Central Pacific sink into insignificance and appear the work of mere bungling amateurs in the now exact science of financial wrecking, when com pared with the clean-cut, high-grade rob bery perpetrated by the people who con trol the Market Street Railway Company. This corporation was organized in 1893. It was a combine amalgamation of other street car lines in San Francisco, and controlled one hundred and fifty miles of street car franchises over the most im portant streets in San Francisco. At the time of tbe amalgama tion in 1893 the combined roads had a bonded indebtedness of $7,03">,000. Tbe new company was organized and manipu lated by the owners of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company and almost its first act was to bond the combined street car lines for $17,500,0J0, netting on this little transaction alone over $10,465,000. It is true that the Union Trust Company is only to pay over the $10,4155,000 as it may be needed for betterments or new roads, but then the betterments will be made and the new lines built by the Pacific Improvement Company, and this of course, means tbat the $10,465,000 will be scientifically absorbed. According to the Chronicle, in the tirst deed made to the Union Trust Company the mileage is set forth as 175 miles, whereas in reality it is less than 150, and some of that is over streets the franchise to which has lapsed; but taking the 175 miles as the true statement-the new road is bonded for over $100,000" per mile, and taking the true mileage, at over $200,000 per mile. In addition it appears that the description of the property, as set forth in the trust deed, is so faulty that it would be difficult to determine whether the property proposed to lie transferred was in the neighborhood of Wei Hai Wei or the j 1 city of San Francisco. The thoughtful ness of the board of directors is shown in the fact that they are required by a pro vision adopted by themselves to set apart in 1918, as a sinking fund, the sum of $160,000, and the same sum each year thcreafteruntil 1924, when the whole sum of $17,500,000 becomes due. From 1918 to 1924 is just six years, and if $160,000 is set apart each year, $960,000 will have been accumulated to pay off $17,500,000 due in 1924. It is entirely probable that the original bonded indebtedness of $7,033,000 repre sented just double what it cost to build and equip the roads In the combine, but this steal did not satisfy the Southern Pacific manipulators who obtained con trol in 1893, for they promptly added to it $10,46"), 000 more. If live cents a fare enables the Market Street Railway Company to pay interest on $17,. r )00,003 bonded indebtedness, $14, --983,000 ol which was a cold steal, and pay dividends to its stockholders besides, at what rate could the company afford to carry passengers allowing 10 per cent in terest on the real amount invested In the roads? This problem is respectfully sub mitted to the Board of Supervisors of San Francisco, or if that respectable body has not jurisdiction of the matter, to the Leg islature now in session in Sacramento. The bondholders will have submitted to them In 1924 probably some such proposi tion as the Reilly refunding bill, and if they do not accept it they will have to take the roads, the franchises of which will be expiring about that time. FOR m.NISTER TO MEXICO, The California delegation in Congress is urging the President to appoint Hon. R. F. del Valle as successor to the late Minister to Mexico. The appointment of Mr. del Valle would bo a graceful recognition, on the part of the administration, of the claims of the Pacific Coast to at least one lirst-class foreign mission, and the appointment of Mr. del Valle would be a peculiarly fitting one, both because he is a Californian and a man of ability and because bis knowl edge of Mexico and its people would at once bring him in touch with young, progressive Mexico, the element which now rules that republic, thereby leading to better relations between the two ruling powers of this continent. Where Women Fall CHICAC.O HEKALD The women of today are really wonderfu', in deed; Their conversation indicates the solid books they read; They're deeply versed in politics, in science aud lv art; In fact, they've learned most everything worth learning all by heart. Nature to them is an open book, and earth and sen and sky Have not a secret hidden from their penetrat ing eye; There's not a problem so complex but what it qu ekly tinds How easily they can solve it with their vast, transparent minds. Bravo! say we, and may the «ex press onward still and higher; May clearer, deeper, grander thoughts their purposes inspire. But when these women who so much ol knowl edge have acquired Get off a street car backward, then they make us awful tired. DOOLEY'S VERSION OF TRILBY CHICAOO POST "Jawn,"said Mr. Dooley, "d'ye want a book to read?" "I don't mind," said Mr. McKenna. "Take this home with ye," said Mr. Dooley, sliding a volume across the bar. "An' read it behind the dure, an' be sure ye don't lave it wdiere ye'er wife can get hold of it. It's a French book an' tough." " Trilby, said Mr. McKenna. examin ing tbe cover. "That's a queer name. Where did you get it and what's it alt about?" "I got it with a pound iv tay,"said Mr. Dooley. "an' it's about a girl be th' name iv Thrilby, a French girl, d'ye mind. I'll tell ye. Ye see, this here "girl Thrilby, she ain't no better than she ought to be, an' th' beginnin' iv the shiory she's a milkman. 1 tell ye thrue. Yell see f'r ye'erself. So she gets in with some lads that does be learnin' to paint pictures in the city iv Paris, France, an' she gets sthuck on wan iv thiol—a kid be th' name iv Little Billee. Now this here kid his people is ha-ard working industri ous people, an' they're sore again him marryiu' this here Thrilby, for she's no better than she should be, so lie goes off an' gets his little skate on be himself an' two Frinch sojers be th' name iv-well, niver mind th' name iv thim —au'bas the dellrum threatens to beat th' iliwle. "So then they're two other lads come in —wan a greeser with long whiskers like fire escapes be th' nine iv Molasses Candy an' th' other a Scotchman called th' lard because iv him bcitf a smooth lad. Well, things goes on from bad to worse an' j more of it whin in conies a Jew ! man—what th' 'ell's his name—well, niver mind, we'll call him Mose—an' a tougher lookin' gazabo ye niver see in yer life. He's a piano dinner an thea'ytcr manager. That there's him witii th' Whiskers all over iiis head, lint they was nawthin' th' matther with Mose. He was all right. He had the evil eye an he goes an' puts th' comotltcr over this here Thrilby an takes her round the wurruld showin' her in th' tbeaytert -In done one night stands in Roosiiiaan Bootgaharia an' I think I see her waust at the' Lvceem, but maybe I'm wrong. Anyhow, 'twas a* dam good thing f'r Mose whin he stole her away fr'in th' kid, f'r lie can make more coin be means iv her singin' thin' he could be chimin' pianos. Ye see, she culdn't sing whin he wasn't around, f'r save an' excipt whin his evil eye was on her she bad a voice like Mulligan's cow. an' was only good f'r wan song, 'Don't Ye Rayniiiuber Sweet Alice, Ben Bolt' lint whin lie had her right she'd melt th' hen-art iv army wan. Well, things whit on fr'm bad to worse, an' th kid was called home an' got into a row with a Prowtestant minister. This here kid was an infidel an didn't be lieve in no Gawd, dye mind, not knowili' army betther, bein' raisd among the French, who are immoral be nature. He was still stuck on Thrillby in spite of her bein' no betther than she shud lie an' runnin' off with Mose. Wan day wan iv th' other fellows—the la-ard. d'ye mind, they called Molasses Candy—meets Mose, an' they have throuble, an' bis gum dhrops belts th' Jewman in th' eye. It was tur-rble flight, but no wan was killed. Thin this here Chocolate Crathe got mixin' it up with some Frinch lads, an' took wan iv thiin be th' legs an' beat th' others with him till he'd killed most of thim. whin he wint out an' took a Tarkish bath. "Well so it kept on fr'm bad to worse an' no wan heerd tell iv Mose, but lie was around countin' upth' house in Hoo shia an' Boolgharia an makin' money be th' wagonload till he was wan iv th'r richest Jewmin anywhere. But wan night he had a tit at th' theayter where he wa showin' off Thrilby. They called a doctor, but 'twas no use, an' Mose lie floated. So Thrilby cudden't sing any more." "What was the matter with her?" asked Mr. McKenna. "Nawthin' at all, only whin Mose got his lamps off her she lost her voice," said Mr. Dooley. "Why didn't she get a new manager?" asked Mr. McKenna. 'She cudden't lind wan with the evil eye," said Mr. Dooley. "Her pipes was frosted if any wan bill Mose took her out. So she had to go off th' stage. " "'What did she do then?" asked Mr. McKenna. "She wint away an' died." "Well, that was tough." "It was so, the poor thing." "But I don't see anything wrong about that story." "Iv coorsc ye don't," said Mr. Dooley. holding his cigar between his thumb and forefinger. "Iv coorse ye don't. All th' tough tilings is in Frinch so thatth' polls cuddent get nt thim. I—r-read-thfm— there. Booswaw, Jawnny, booswaw!" AN ASIATIC BISMARCK Only a few years ago the Japanese Leg islature was "extremely unruly, and the Mikado was forced to dissolve the Parlia ment as recently as the spring of last year. Today the people give consent to every measure of the Government, and every one acknowledges that this is in a large degree due to the recent successes in the war with China. This war would have turned out less advantageously had not Japan possessed a man who, like Bismarck, reorganized the defenses of the country in spite of parliamentary opposition. That man is Count Ito, tiie Japanese Premier. The Tageblatt, Ber lin, contains an interesting sketch of his life, from which we take the following: "Count Ito is a scion of an old aristo cratic Jupanese family, and entered at an early age the army of the Shiogun, who then ruled supreme in Japan. Ito and his friend Inonye, who has now been sent to reform the administration of Corea, belonged to the anti-foreign party, for they hail been told since their infancy that the puleifaced barbarians would ruin the country. The foreigners then lived nearly all in Yokohama, and the two young lire-eaters, burning with patriot ism, conceived the plan to kill the bar barians. They left Tokio with a hundred men carry out- this ■ wild idea, but were discovered, and barely escaped detection, when, during the night, they fought their way through the soldiers that had surrounded them. They soon learned that the execution of their plans would have involved the country in a war with England, and that a victory in such a struggle was only possible if Japan pos sessed big ships and guns. Ito anil Inonye then asked Prince Clioshun, their chief, permission to go to England, to study the maneuvers of the enemy, inspect their arsenals, and obtain the secret of their sea power. Their money was sent to Shanghai, with orders to transmit it to London, but the instructions to the Shanghai agent were not very clear, and he shipped them as common sailors to England, instead of obtaining berths for them as passengers. Arrived at London, the crew left the ship, with the exception of the two young Japanese, whose agent, had not yet come to receive them. That day was the darkest in their life. They had a dollar left and went to buy some bread, and the baker seeing that the strangers did not know the value of the coin, did not. give them change. Luckily the agent came the next day, and they commenced tlieir studies of European in stitutions. "After many Strange adventures they returned to Japan, where, in the meantime, the enmity against the foreigner* hud increased* When the two travelers related that the foreigners were just as brave as the Japanese, and much more powerful, the Shiogun's men treated Ito and Inonye as traitors, and the hitter was attacked onej evening by a mob and left for dead upon tiie ground. His mother's nurs ing brought him around, but his lace shows to this day the sears of the wounds received during that night. "A revolution noon after removed the Shlogun from power, the Mikado be came the ruler i deed as well as iv name, and the two travelers, especially Count Ito, rose rapidly to influence and fame. "He has now directed the affairs of his country for many years. His first thought after the occupation of Corea was to open that country to western civil ization, and it is quit* possible that this far-seeing spirit intends already similar reforms for China. That Japan had in tended to go to war is amply proved by the manner in which" military author ities executed their task. Everything worked so admirably that 100,000 men could lie shipped from Japan without dis turbing the social or commercial life of the country. It is also very characteristic that the iroops did not only go abroad well provided with arms and ammunition, but had all such modern appliances as telephonic and telegraphic instruments. Moreover, while the Chinese army of occupation in t'orca reduced the people to beggary, the Japanese took their pro visions with them and had thousands of coolies to transport their language. "What a lively political spirit there is in these people I Not only the government, but the opposition parties also sent their reporters in order to obtain political ad vantages through the news from the seat of war. Nearly all newspapers, too, have their special correspondents. But Count Ito has Increased the censorship, and the newspapers have been warned that they will be confiscated if caught publishing news without the consent of the censors. "Count tto shows much interest in the industrial development of his fatherland. He believes most foreigners underrate the chances of Japan in the international struggle for international supremacy. Tbe Jpaanese women, be thinks, are equal to the men in every field of labor, anil double the capacity, for work of the na tion. It is not too much to sny that the time is near when the last vestige of bar barism will have vanished from Japan. "11l no little measure this change is due to the exertions of her great statesman Ito, the Bismarck of Japan." HEARD IN PASSING We don't know what we can do till we try. and then we frequently lind tbat we can't.— Puck. *>« Some men seem to think there is no solid comfort in anything 'but liquids.— (ialveston News. The great secret of life is good conduct. It brings all the rewards that are worth having. Ham's Horn. Man wants a good many things done up brown, but his while shirt isn't one of them.** lb ston. Courier. You will always lind the boastful liar on the windward side of his own record. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. When a young lady calls a young man a bore it doesn't augur well for the fellow's chances.—Atlanta Journal. It seems a provoking paradox that a light bill can be made sucii a heavy hill when it's a gas bill.—Philadelphia In quirer. The sudden end of a severe run of bard luck will do more to.maKe a man an opti mist than will years of luxury. Atchison tilobe. Teacher—What is the meaning of haz ardous? Tommy—Hazardcss is a female hazard. —Philadelphia Record. Judge What's the verdict, gentlemen. Coroner- Death by suffocation. Tried 1> kiss the two-headed girl at the same time. —'I ruth. It is said that many women drink vine gar for tbe complexion. These must be the sour-faced women we sometimes s?e. — Albany Argus. "I guess I'll take them," mused tbe burglar, softly slipping the silver spoons iv his pocket. "I in no darned gold-hug." —Chicago Tribune. There arc times in most of our lives when the past is the only comfort—the present being disagreeable and the future uncertain.—Milwaukee Journal. Professor—How long should a man's legs be in proportion lo bis body? Mr. Lowstand—- Long enough to reach the ground, sir. —Yale Record. Living Skeleton What's the matter with the glass-eater today? Fat Woman— I hear be lias a pane.il) his stomach. — Philadelphia Record. First Villain (in hoarse whisper)— Shi Are we quite alone? Second Villain (glancing grimly at, the miserable audience)- Almost.—Judge. At the theater—Waggs—How gloomy that curtain is! (Jaggs—Wait till you have seen the play, and you will think the curtain the bright est tiling in the house. Cora Fee—My sister and I are going to save our money to build a home for aged cats. Sue Brette—l should think you would lind It cheaper to board. -Town Topics. Miss Peart—ls Miss Straight Lace cir cumspect? Miss Caustic—Circumspect! Why, she won't accompany a young man on the piano without a chaperon.—Philadelphia Inquirer. "Bab! I believe every man has his price." You may be right, but at. any rate it's consoling to me to know men whom no one is quite wealthy enough to afford."— Smith, Cray & Co.'s Monthly. Theater Ma nag er—You say you object to having real food on the table in the banquet scene, Mr. Oreesepaynt. Why, the rest of the company are delighted at it! Mr. Oreesepaynt—Yes; but my part requires me to rise from the table after a couple of minutes and say: "I cannot eat tonight—a strange dread comes over me; I will seek the quiet of yonder apart ment for a time!" - Puck, Huntington's Erescoes A current magazine prints an article describing the fracoes of the new house erected in New York for Mr. 0. P. Hunt ington. Many pictues accompany the article, from which it appears that as the happy Huntington casts his eyes upon the ceilings he sees shapely and fleshly women in divers stages of nudity— usually the last stage—Hoating thereoii in glori ous abandon. Elihu Vedder is the artist, and the decorations reflect credit upon his lancy and skill as well as upon the Cheerfulness of the American people.. For the American taxpayer paid for those fleshly fresoes and has a deferred payment to make in a week or two. Mr. Huntington's inonev came from the Cen tral Pacific Railroad Company, and the United States treasury will in a few days have to pay several million dollars for in terest defaulted by the corporation and guaranteed by the nation. It is a pity Mr. Vedder did not include a good pic ture of Justice among his frescoes for the Huntington palace.—Chicago Times. The Perfect Rose JOAQUIN MILLER Grew once a rose within my room Of perfect hue, of perfect health; Of such perfection and perfume Its filled my poor house with its wealth. Then came the pessimist who knew Not good or grace, but overthrew My rose, and in the broken pot Nosed fast for slugs within the rot. lie found, found with exulting pride Deep in the learn, a worm, a slug. The while ray rose-tree died. Ah. me! the pity 'tis 'tis true. The fairest rose, the richest mould, The richer mould the ranker grew Some lonely life within its fold From tirst to last. Would'st breathe the rose, Or break the not, and nose and nose? Nay, plead not I for self at last ; The past, 1 have survived the past; My ruined rose, my wrecked repose; But plead I for that coming song, The sweeter, fairer ro*e. God is not far, man is not far l r rom heaven's porch, where paeans roll And yet shall speak from star to star In silent language from the soul; Yon star-strewn skies be but a town, With angels passing up and down. "I leave my peace with you." Lo! these, His seven wounds, the Pleiades I'ieice heaven's porch. Hut resting there The now moon roekt. >V: Child Christ In Her silver rocking chair. THE HERALD IN EVIDENCE The Los Angeles Herald has discarded its old dress and donned a very becoming new one. Its makeup has been entirely changed. Typograhically it presents a handsome appearance. The Herald can now he classed among the leading dailies of California. We consider it one of our most reliable and newsiest exchanges. It is daily securing many new subscribers in this locality.—Arizona Sentinel, ft ft ft An attorney of this city called at this office today and inquired for a Los An geles paper. The Herald was handed him, and after looking the paper over he threw it down with the remark, "Singular, but there are no lawyers in Los Angeles." He desired tbe address of one, who could attend to some legal business for him.— Hanford Democrat. * * * The Los Angeles Herald is now by far the best paper in California outside of the Examiner and Chronicle, and it is push ing these journals hard for iirst place. Wo are glad to note the fact that our people are patronising the Herald liberally, as it is the consistent advocate of silver and friendly to the interests of the laboring class.—Mohave County Miner. * V- -v- The new management of the Los Ange les Herald is making big strides. It is fast pushing that paper into the enviable position of a model metropolitan journal. The paper, too, besides being bright and newsy, is made very attractive by its new dress. The Herald'hoth deserves success and commands it.—Riverside Daily En terprise. ft ft ft The Los Angeles Herald, the best of Southern California papers, and one of the few great journals of the West, has come out in a new dress. This is in keep ing with its new spirit of progress and is a change that will be appreciated by its countless readers. -Bakerslield Democrat. ft * ft The Los Angeles Herald of Sunday was a twenty-four page paper and was chock full of good reading matter. The Herald in Its new dress makes a line appearance and is bound to take with the people, and is destined to become one of the lead ing papers of California.—Santa Ana Blade. * * * The Los Angeles Herald comes to us in a new dress which adds greatly to its ap pearance. The Herald is one of the best papers on the Coast and is setting a lively pace for its contemporaries in the Angel City. Besides it is working in the in terest of the people.— Healdsburg Enter prise. * V- * The Los Angeles Herald made its ap pearance in a new spring suit last Sunday, and everyone says it is the neatest paper on the Coast. Being in close touch with the people the Herald, under the new management, has taken a decided lead.— Phosnix Saturday Review. ft ft ft The Los Angeles Herald made its ap pearance in a new spring suit last Sun day and everyone says it is the neatest paper on the Coast. Being in close touch with the people, The Herald under the new management has taken a decided lead. — Plnenix Review. ft ft ft The Herald appeared last Sunday morn ing in a new dress of type* A neat "new dress" is always pleasing to the eye, es pecially when it is "backed up' with good common sense. The Herald has been making several important changes lately.—Boyle Heights Criterion. ft ft ft The Herald came out yesterday with a special edition in honor of its new equip ment, including a battery of live Thorn c typesetting machines, with which it is HOW set. A write-up of the history of the paper is also very interesting. —Pusadena Star. ft ft ft The Los Angeles Herald is making rap id strides toward being a metropolitan journal. Since changing owners it has improved ill ever* way, and last Sunday came forth in a new dress. —Perris Valley Record. * ft ft The Los Angeles Herald comes to us this week in an entire new dress of type, and materially improved in every depart ment. 'The Herald is one of the great dailies of the state, and one of the best newspapers,—Winters Express. ft ft ft The Bazoo's animadversion upon the typographical appearance of the Los An geies Herald had the desired effect. That paper comes out pretty and readable now. What! it didn't? Why "of course it did.— Booth's Bazoo. FOR THE NEW WOMAN London's postoffice employs 660 women, Women seme on the police in Berlin. | Australia has 200 feminine station mas ters. Women nre securing employment as "elevator men." There are 50,000 more women than men in New York. Elizabeth Peabody introduced the kin dergarten teaching in America. In a battle in Dahomey, October, 1892, twenty women soldiers were killed. The University of Pennsylvania has a past-graduate course for women. Women are admitted to the New York state bar upon the same footing as men. The women of New Haven have decided tbat they will wear no more high hats at theaters" Mrs. John Martin has gone into the detective business. She iB on the trail of Counteifeiter Dean and his wire. Mary WWUatoncraft, the English teach er, puDlhihed, a book called Vindication of the Rights of Woman, which was one of the tirst steps of the woman's movement. It is interesting to know that in this country 300,000 women are earning inde pendent incomes. In the professions are 2500 doctors, 275 preachers and an in creased number of lawyers. Some 6000 women have postoffices. Who Will Succeed Hale ? There has been a good deal of talk around the Capitol during the past few days to the effect that Warden Hale will not be reappointed in charge of San Quen tin, but that the place will go to Senator Seymour of San Bernardino. ■"'I have not made any application for the place," said the Senator, today, "but I have been mentioned for it, and have been urged to go into the race. I have been interested in prison work for many years past, and my hobby is a reformatory where iirst offenders shall be confined. I think that many a young man who goes astray could be reclaimed if the proper influences were cust around him when he lirst gets out of the straight path, and exactly the opposite happens when he is thrown into the company of hardened and vicious criminals."—Oakland Tribune. Excursion Party Socials A novel form of entertainment was re cently given at the residence of a well known Atlanta, (la., lady, which may prove a valuable hint to hostesses who desire to entertain. It was called an ex cursion party, and when the guests had all assembled a gentleman attired as a pal ace car conductor appeared and announced the time the train would leave. Then there was a rush for tickets nt the ticket office, which had been attractively fitted up for the occasion. Each passenger re ceived an unlimited ticket with coupons, aud all took seats in the dining room. On the ticket was written something about each of the eighteen stations, and the game consisted in guessing the name of each station from what was written. For instance, the eighth station was "a city whose end and aim is go." This, of course, was Chicago, but most of them were more difficult to guess. Those guess ing the greatest number of stations cor rectly were awarded prizes. Plumbing done uf every description at Furrey's, 161 N. Spring street. OUT OF THE WAY FACTS Missouri has 365 coal mines. China levies a tax on beggars. Cuba makes 1,000,000 cigars daily. .' The total length of the Erie Canal is fil miles. . New York spent $20,000,000 for charity last winter. The population of the earth is said t be 1,479,72 ft, 400. " The longest telephone line is thai frdm • Boston to Milwaukee, Oxen and sheep fatten better in com pany than when kept alone. According to Chinese law, a wife whojti too talkative may be divorced. Itis estimated that there are 3000 mar riages a day throughout the world. £ The longest bridge in the world is thai over the River Tay, at Dundee, Scotland. The humming bird of Mexico lays an egg that is not much larger than a pill's head. A Boston electrician asserts that the common poplar. tree is a natural light ning-rod. Some of the insurance companies ,<& Paris refuse to insure people who dyt their hair. The name Monterey means "Kinlte mountain," named in 1602 in honor *f Count de Monterey. Texas is preparing to celebrate tjta semi-centennial anniversary of her ad mission into the union. Sixty-four old merchants are supported by the merchant's fund of Philadelphia. Their ages range from 60 to 83. Members of the Australian legislature are phenomenal reformers. They have actually reduced their own salaries. Thejfattening of live stock on cotton seed hulls and meal is becoming an im portant feature in the South. A Maine woodchopper recently cut down a tree containing a peck of'buck wheat which had been stored by mice, m A public monument has been put up in, Irfiuvain—his birthplace—to the memory of Father Damien, the priest of the lep ers. The annual fire loss from incendiarism in the United States and Canada is $39; --OXI,OOO, according to conservative esti mates. Over one-half of the sand of every shore is composed of minute shells, each of which was once the home of a living creature. All ancient music was in the minor kejft without harmony or counterpoint, ana entirely vocal and rhythmical, like our recitative. Curiously enough, a huge statue of Li Hung Chang, ordered and paid for in his more prosperous days, has just been fin ished in Oermany. The Sahara is crossed by mountains sufficiently high to be at times snow covered, while in other parts it is much below the sea level. West Virginia has a girl hunter whose aim is death to bears. She has a record of seven large memhers of the bruin fam, ily during the past year. A "chaser" that is shot from a rocket, ami shoots around tbe heavens for fully ten minutes, has been invented by a man in Victoria, Australia. No less than a dozen Tennessee men are at work on flying machines. One of them hopes to be able to give a trial trip at the Atlanta exposition. The first passenger train drawn by loco motive was run by George Stephenson;, September, 1825, on the Stockton and Darlington railway, England. An acrobat in a Spokane theater fell from a height, landing unon and seri ously injuring a spectator. The sprctator sued* the manager ami received feud. A Georgia raccoon, supposed 11 be tame nnd being allowed the privilege ol a, fanner's bouse, recently killed five cats and severely wounded three fine dogs. .. Margaret Allen fell overbtard at New York and would have drowne.l had not an intelligent pig on board the same sebconer raited an alarm that saved her. D?ad bodies, when, .taken as cargo on a ship, are always described as eithet statuary or natural history specimens, owing ' chiefly to the superstition ol sailors. The French industry of icing milk if an original departure in tinned commo dities. The milk is frozen and placed in block form into tins and requires to bs melted previous to use. Lizard wine is said to be a and% cure for diseases of the eye. For tM brewing of this decoction more than lOfJS 000 dried lizards are annually export*! from Pakhoi, ifi Chiua. The Salvation Army was inaugurate"-! July 5, 1865, at Mile End, London, by the Rev. William Booth, formerly a minister of the Methodist New Connection. Ue name was originally the Christian Mia si °"- THE ARIZONA EDITORS It must not be forgotten that every pub lic man who has openly opposed this right of American women has paid the penalty of retirement. It was Tammany that de feated the women suffrage amendment to th« Constitution of New York, and the New York women took a hand in the last election and turned down Tammany. It must also be remembered that M. M. EstflS declared against women suffrage in Call fornia, while Budd was in favor of their rights.—Arizona Daily Star. >. tr In another week the Santa Fe, Present and Phoenix Railroad will be complete*! from the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, ut Ash Fork, to the city of Phcenix. FifteHl hundred laborers are at work on it, laying over a mile of track a day. When it JR completed to Phcenix, which will ocdi? within a week, what will be done? Will the 1500 men be discharged? Thar shouldn't be. If San Diego doesn't caflgj the new road may continue to Tucson a 44 southward, connecting with the SonoM branch of the Santa Fe at Nogales, and then, when the Nicaragua Canal is coifr pleted, Arizona would do business via the port of Guaymas, if .San Diegans doicf. look out, because Guaymas is 700 miles nearer Nicaragua than 6an Diego.—Aejg zona Sentinel. w ™A few political mountebanks have la bored to postpone Arizona's admission in order to secure another constitution. And these fellows who desire to make the ofr ganic law of this new state a political maw chine will be badly disappointed. ThM present Constitution is one of the best iff the Union, and will be the organic law of this new state. —Arizona Gazette. The Phcenix editors are knocking thil chips from one another's shoulders io great shape. This bucolic spirit has arisen over a division of the legislative printing, and the earth promises to bk gory and the water in the wells blood* before the bottom of the ink pot has be.ejf reached.—Daily Citizen. It is said that C. B. Huntington, of th# Southern Pacific Railroad Company, ill confident that the millenium is now lea than three years ahead. This belief haM not yet induced Mr. Huntington to ditj| pose of his business interests, howft ever.—Arizona Republican. Every spot in Arizona that can suppoo a county government should be cut off and set up in business for itself. This is the way to build up a Country. Our big, unwieldy counties are a mistake.—Mp have County Mentor. A Quarter Century Test. For a quarter of a century Dr. King's New Discovery lias been tested, and the millions who have received benefit from its use testMS to Us woneerful curative power in all disease of throat, chest and lungs. 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