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6 The Herald Hy The llmu Publishing Company. JOHN BRADBURY, President and u'tneral Manager. aiHToR IA L DIPAJtTMBHT: No. HOS New High Street, Telephone 150. -John 1. o*r»£Y ■ - ..Managing editor, BUSINCM OFFICK: Bradbury Building, 'J22 Wert Third Street. Telephone 'J47. DocOLAI Whits Business Manager. MONDAY. FEBRUARY 15, |80S- Now ior the Citrus Fair. La Fiesta, Boom de Aye! Work for the Salt Lake road. Who will be Queen of the Fiesta? Stand up for Southern California. Did you read The Herald yesterday? California's orange crop is all right. Death the griptnan is on deck in Chi cago. Sumptuary legislation can not be en ured!. What a dead letter that cigarette law will be. Good morning. Have you read The j Herald? Now the drummers are beating a reveille for La Fiesta. Guatemala and Mexico are still talking ba::i; at each other. Right triumphed over politics when Do'.ph was downed. Send in your suggestions for r.ovel fea tures to be represented in La Fiesta. How the welkin in Washington will ring. It is the last week in Congress. Trilby ami Napoleon—the twin fads anil both French enough to be interesting. The war between Japar. ami China has dwindled to a six-line dispatch from Lou don. A million, more or less, will not affect the prosperity of Riverside in this year of j übilee. That famous town, Milpetas, is an evi dence again—a chicken fight was raided there yesterday. When United States Senators are elected by the people there will be no more ex pensive deadlocks. By the way, has Ambrose Bierce said anything lately about "the prose poets of Southern California?" The Salt Lake Railroad petition is being signed as fast as the pencils of the people can affix their signatures. Writ" to your friends in the Legislature urging them to use their efforts on behalf of the Salt Lake Railroad proposition. The local engineers have inspected Santa Monica and they hove inspected San Pedro and they prefer San Pedro. The commercial travelers are solid for La Fiesta, and they will prove a most effective force on behalf of the celebra tion. Southern California iB at the present season, the only section where the cli mate justifies the holding of a Citrus Fair. Mr. Huntington calls it " unnatural gravitation;" the people call it opposition to the monopoly interests of Mr. Hunt ington. John Barleycorn and John L. Sullivan have had another set-to, and John Bar leycorn knocked John L. out in the tirst round—of drinks. San Francisco is awakening to the fact that Los Angeles is preparing to celebrate the glories of the state in a manner never before attempted. No wonder there is destitution in Mc- Kinley's district—miners are in luck to get HH days' work in a year, and then only at starvation wages. Riverside is unanimous for good pave ments and municlj al ownership of her electric lights. Riverside is a shining ex ample even for Los Angeles. Dana, of the New York Sun, has been threatened with arrest for libel. We thought the office cat would get the old man into trouble eventually. Redlands is entitled to a prominent place in the Fiesta parade. It doesn't cost much for a float, and then just think whai an advertisement it will be! Let the Supreme Court pass on the con stitutionality of measures Chat are clearly In the Interest of the whole people. Don't throw cold water on a popular movement. Poor Oregon! Sin* had to pay the two branches of the Legislature sixty-six days' wages to referee a light between 'tne people and a dog-in-the-manger poli tician. Those Oregon State Com miss ion era who hold over must feel grateful to Dolph for blocking the business, The Legislature didn't have time tv appoint men to suc ceed them. The "citizen soldiers" of Tennessee are on strike. Only a short time ago they were opposing strikers. What a difference in the morning when your own ox is being gored. Envious Florida is evidently trying to oreat'J the impression that frost has blijht3d tho California orange crop. The weather department shows that the man who circulated the stjry is different from George Washington. When you come to think ot it" tbe marriage of a Could to a foreign Dount, even if he is no account, is not a mesalliance. His pedigree is no more disreputable than the methods by which her money was acquired. Senator-slept Mcliride of Oregon has little to say. This is as it should be. What the Coast wants in Congress is work ers and not quibbling attorneys who, through technicality, block the wheels of progress and stand in with combines and corporations. One more week and the other fellow can tnke the helm of government. Let us see whether the party that came aboard the ship of state on the crest of the last tidal wave can steer the old craft more satisfactorily than those who have been trimming her sails during the last two years. ALIEN OWNERSHIP 1 There has not been much discussion of tho Hatfield amendment to the state Constitution relative to the ownership of property by aliens—not nearly as much as the importance of the measure would seem to justify. The Hatfield resolution amending sec tion 17 of Article I of the Constitution is as follows! — • .... Foreigner) «hall not hare the right to ac quire, possess, enjoy, transmit or inherit prop erty in thi* slate unless they are bona 04* resilient) ol this slate, eligible to become clti | zens of tlie Batted states under the naturaliza tion laws thereof. I This modification of the existing law will not work a hardship on any citizen and it will be an incentive to citizenship. At the same time it will reserve to the bona tide residents of California the land of the commonwealth to the exclusion of foreign proprietors and syndicates. The extent of these holdings in the United States is enormous. The Texas I hand Union is the holder of 8,000,000 | acres. This is a syndicate of the British I aristocracy composed of Baroness Burdett i Coutts, Karl Cadogan, 11. 0, Fitzroy-Som erset (this is the Duke of Beaufort), Will iam Alexander Lochiel, Stephen Douglass- Hamilton, Duke of Beaudon, tho Duke Rutland; Uglitaed .1. Kay-Shuitlcworth and Band Ethel Cadogan (maid in wait ing to the ijueen). This syndicate owns ' wnole counties in Texas aud tens of thou sands of persons pay it rentals. Sir Edward Keid, the Duchess of Marl borough. Lady Randolph Churchill and I Lady Lester-Kayne own iOOJ.noo acres in Florida, I Other aliens owning and controlling im mense tracts of land in this country are summarized iv recent statistics as follows: I Viscount Scully—:i,OJd,ooo acres. His lordship maintains an elaborate system of bailiffs. Syndicate Xo. 4—1,800,000 acres. This syndicate has all its holdings in Missis sippi. It Includes tlie Marquis of Dal h vi.-;,, Qeorge Henry Howard ObolmOn deley (Viscount Cholmondeley), Georg ians, Viscountess Cross; Hon. Lady Ham ilton Gordon and lion. Lady Biddulph. Marquis of Tweedale—l,7so,ooo acres. The Marquis is William Montagu Hay, famed all over Scotland as the rack-rent landlord. Phillips, Marshall & Co., London-1,300, --000 acres. This linn has the whole peer age for its clients. The Anglo-American Syndicate, Lon don— 730,00!) acres. The funds of widowed peeresses arc largely invested here. The lands are in the South and West. Bryan H. Evans—7oo,ooo acres. Mr. Evans resides in London. His lands are in Mississippi. The Duke of Sutherland—l23,ooo acres. This is the actress-loving, champagne bibbing and rack-rent nobleman of police court fame. The British Land Company—32o,ooo acres. This land is all In Kansas. William Whalley—3lo,o,lo acres. Mr. Whalley is the squire of Pcterboro, Eng. The Missouri Land Company—3oo,ooo acres. This operates a Missouri domain and has headquarters in Edinburgh. Robert Tennant—23o,ooJ acres. This is all farming land. Mr. Tennant lives in London. Dundee Land Company—247,ooo acres. Lord Dunmore—l2o,o9o acres. Benjamin Xewgas, Liverpool—loo,ooo acres. Lord Houghton (in Florida)—6o,ooo acres. Lord Dnnraven (in Colorado)— 60,000 acres. English Land Company (in California) —50,000 acres. English Land Company (in Arkansas) 50,000 acres. Alexander Grant, London (in Kansas)— 35,000 acres. Syndicate Xo. 6.-110,000 acres. This syndicate includes the Karl of Vemlam and the Earl of Lankeville. The land is in Wisconsin. M. Elfenhauserof Halifax—6oo,ooo acres. The land is in West Virginia. Syndicate Xo. 1.-50,000 acres. This is a Scotch concern and its land is in Flor ida. it Is claimed that lolly 20,000,000 acres of American land are thus owned by great land owners in England and Scotland. This does not include the Holland Syndi cate, which owns 5,000,001} acres of grazing land in Western states, nor the German syndicate, owning 2,000,000 acres in vari ous states. In the face of these facts and figures it sounds like a sarcasm to advise our lutein p oyed to "till the soil," or to "buy or pre-empt farming land." There is not, in truth, much good land available—the for eign land owner and the railroads have fenced in most of this section of the earth and what remains is not fit for a goat pasture. Measures similar to that propose 1 by Mr. Hatfield should be passed by every Legislature in tho Union, for tho mere taxation of tlie holdings will not remedy the evil or open these lands to native owners. In consequence of lenient laws regard ing alien ownership of lands in this coun try, the rapacious practices of the English landlord have been introduced—a "ten antry" class has b?en formed in free America, and eventually there will be an American peasantry to toil for the hulk ing aristocracy of Great Britain, and vote t I preserve their "privileges" under our laws. In the interest of public policy and as a safeguard against inevitable agrarian out rage, let the foreign millionaire who seeks aggrandise cent in this country be placed under the same restrictions as the foreign pauper. OUR OPPORTUNITY The news from Sacramento this morn ing is encouraging. There will be no more than technical objections to the proposition enabling Los Angeles to build a railroad to Salt Lake. The people of the northern section of the state are eager to bond themselves to secure railroad con nection with the Creat Northern. They are not content that the central part of California should reap all the benefits of railroad competition. The members of the southern delegation arc reported as a unit in favor of an; proposition that will open a transcontinental line between Los Angeles and Salt Lake. Thus the Legis ture is practically unanimous for any measure that will enable the people to build and own railroads iv competition with the existing monopoly. The only opposition will emanate from San Fran cisco, and this opposition will be by no means solid. It may bo overcome if the country delegations arc linn in their de mands. The prospect is bright for tangi ble results, and it is safe to predict that a measure will be adopted, under which the people may build and own the railroad now proposed. The people of Southern California are not lukewarm in this matter. They fully realize the danger that threatens if the LOS ANGELES HERALD: MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY" 25, 1895. Spreckels road establishes its southern terminus at Bakersfield. They know that if the interests of the Valley road demand it a connection will be effected with the Union Pacific through Salt Lake, thus cutting out Los Angeles and the entire southern section of the state unless we succeed in dosing the gap of 188 miles between liarstow aud Milford. The peo ple understand the situation thoroughly, and thej* also understand that our repre sentatives in the Legislature can greatly facilitate our efforts by united action on their part. The news from Sacrameuto is decidedly encouraging. Southern Cali fornia will not be left in this great rail road movement, aud if we act promptly aud effectively we will secure the cream of all the profit! accruing from the current agitation. CANNON'S BUNCOMBE Marion Cannon ranted and rnved and swore and swore again, while he was a candidate for Congress, that he would, if elected, immediately pass a free silver bid and get an appropriation for San Pedro Harbor. Mr. Cannon kept his silver promises by voting against free silver and has helped San Pedro hy talk. His recent claim that he procured the insertion of the much talked of 110,000 appropriation for the "inner harbor" in the last general appro priation bill turns out to be absolutely baseless, as the member* of both the House and Senate conference committees state over their own signatures that its insertion was a mistake made hy a clerk in the war department, and that even if it had been allowed to remain in the bill it would have inoperative. Cannon not only wrongfully claimed to have been the father of the $40,000 appropriation, but by innu endo attempts to saddle the blame of its being stricken out on Senator White. The latter gentleman's position in favor of San Pedro has always been unequivo cal, and when the proper time comes he will undoubtedly take the necessary s'eps to secure the appropriation to carry on the great work so much needed and de sired by the people of Southern Califor nia. Cannon has turned out to be a very small popgun, Mr. Huntington attributes the growth of San Pedro anil Wilmington, two of the oldest towns in the county, to what he is pleased to call "unnatural gravitation." If the phrase used by Mr. Huntington had occurred to the people of the towns re ferred to, they would have used it in re ferring to the manner in which the money of these people has gravitated toward Mr. Huntington's pocket. HEARD IN PASSING "What interesting stones of travel Du ll ix tells! He must have roved a great deal." "No-o—he's always been here. But Ins mind wanders." Had Boy—Pa, do you know where it says: "Riches are 'bettor than wealth, and the discontented heart is unsatis fied"? Pa—Proverbs, I think. Traveler (inquiring at famous castle) — Can I see the antiquities today? Servant — I am afraid not, sir; my lady and her daughter have gone to town. Muggins—How do you. being a bachelor, know so much about women's bonnets, and so little about the drama? Muggins— Oh, I spend a great deal of time at the theaters. "Has Miss Gildingby any accomplish ments?" asked the yoiiug man. "I should say so," remarked her enthusiastic ad mirer. "She can refuse to play the piano ana stick to it." A small boy on Third street had some difficulty with the neighbor's children during the afternoon, und that night lie was not feeling in a very Christian spirit. After he had gone to bed his mother came in to tuck him away snugly. "Did you say your prayers?" she inquired. "Yes'tn. "And did you pray for the heathen?" The boy was slow to answer. "Yes'm, I did," he said at last, "all of them, except them next door." Mrs. Longnecker (of Squantuck Cor ners)— Who's that driven by, I wonder? I declare, I believe it's that' Pushington girl, from the city, that's visit In' at the Talcotts'. Peek though the blinds here, Almiry, an' see 'f 'taint. Miss Almira Fortysmith—Yes, that's who 'tis; but who s that sappy lookin' little feller with her! Do yon s'pose he's the one that they say's going to marry her? Mrs. Long necker—Shouldn't wonder. I guess that's her hasco. A Vision of Justice JAMES G. CLARK I see a mighty feast outspread. Where gilded lords their honors wear; The banquet king sits at their head; The guests are drunk on vintage rare; And far below on every side, No more by cringing fear subdued, And murmuring like a rising tide X see a countless multitude. As rivers to the ocean roll, All tongues and races join the throng. One purpose burning in eacli soul. And on :heir lips a single song; One common cause, one flag unfurled. They kneel to neither kin nor clan ; Th 'ir country is the round, wide world; Their creed the brotherhood of mau. Tho feiist noes on; the proud r.-'joi re; They hear a pound of distant waves; They think it hut the torrent's voice Comp dining through the highland caves; It is no mountain stream that leaps Rebellious of its rocky bands; It is the lifting of the deeps, The sinking of the ancient lands Resistless as the pulse of doom, The ocean swings from shore to shore; And frightened kings flit through the gloom, Like stars that fall to rise no more. The high sea-walls or caste are gone; The pent-up floods their chains have burst; The toilers face the golden dawn; The first are last, the last are first. The Old goes down, the New ascends; Its sunny isles in glory rise; A rainbow o'er tho delude bends, And Labor's curse dissolves anil dies; The gods ol gold no more hold sway ; The people bow to truth alone. And He whoso voice the tides obey He mill us forever with His owu, flanhood THE SPECTATOR. Not till life's heat has cooled The headlong rush slowed to a gui t pace, And every purblind passion that, had ruled Our noisier years, at last. Spurs us in vain, and, weary of the race, We care no more who loses or who wins — Ah ! not till all tho best of life seems past The best of life begins To toil for only fame, Hand-clappings and the fickli gusts of praise For place or power or gold to gild a name Above the grave whureto All paths will bring us, wherj to lose our days, We, on whoso cars youtu's passing bell has tolled, In blowing bubbles, even as children do, Forgetting we grow old But the world widens when Such hope of trivial gain that ruled us lies lirokeu among our childhood's toys, for then We win. to sclf-coutrol! And mail ourselves in manhood.and there rise Upon us irom *he vast and windless height : Those clearer thoughts tliat are onto the soul ' What itars aro to the night. LITTLE COMEDIES. CoJtPH.cn my F. G. Bah. Pat says some people spend their lives looking "lor an opening and never find one until after they are dead. There was a fancy dress ball nt an aris toeratte mansion on Harlem avenue. The I mistress Of the house stationed a servant lat the door to announce the guests by [ their costumes Among those who arrived a little late were two ladies in plain walk ing costumes wdio had only come to glance at the gay and dazzling scene. "What costume shall 1 announce la dies?" asked the servant courteously. "Oh. none—we haven't anything on at all." responded one of the ladies, "Two Indies without, anything on at all," bellowed the faithful domestic. Tableau I—Texas Sittings. There was a yo jug lady named Poo Who was asked to a play by her boe: But she had hut one shoe. And. as one would not doe, Hersllppera she wore to the shoe. Teacher- What is a heroine? Scholar—l guess it must be a married woman. —Detroit Free I'rcss. She (on the beach)— One can hardly blame the ocean for showing its temper occasionally, can one? He- 1 don't know. Why? She—lt has been crossed so often, you know. City Editor—Your copy is so illegible, Mr. Wright, that you must improve it if we are to retain you iv our service. Wright- But, sjr, Greeley nnd City Editor—Yes. yes. j know, but you are young. Don't "grasp after all the honors at once.—Puck. First Sport--Federwait hain't, got, no license to tackle tiltemhard. Dat Feller'll put 'im to sleep do lirs' roun'. Second Sport — Dats right. W'y, dat bloke'd wilt if de llght'd strike 'im. Cobwigger—There's a chance that you might recover the watch if you remember the number of it. Mrs. Cobwigger—Oh, is that so, dear? I once wrote tiie number down on a little bit of paper, as you suggested. CobWlgg#r—Where did you put it? Mrs, Cobwigger—Why,' in the back of the watch. -Judge. Mr. Jonbuhl(who ll inspecting our rail road system)— Mr. Rohlinstock—-pardon the question—why do your railroad com panies Issue so many pass's? Really, sir, it is bryond my comprehension. Mr. Rohlinstock (a railroad magnate)— Policy, sir—merely a matter of policy. We wish to obtain' favors ourselves sonic ti tnes. Mr. Jonbuhl—Ab! I believe I under stand you, sir. But what an expense it must be! Why, lam informed that even your great mountain ranges have passes! Jeweler—The inscription you wish en graved on the inside of this ring, 1 un derstand, is: "Marcellus to Irene?" Young man (with embarrassment) — Yes; that's right. But—er—do.i't cut the "Irene" deep.—Baltimore Telegram. On Temple street recently a High School Miss was overheard wishing that she could see a "real, live, Italian Count." A benevolent citizen offers the suggestion that she make a small purchase of the man who "sella de banana" on the cor ner, when she would have an opportunity to see a "real, live Italian count." "Do you know,'' said the cheerful idiot, "that it is the easiest thing in the world to tell whether a man is going out on a journey or returning by the way he car ries his valise?" '■[ never thought of that," said the youngest boarder. "What is the differ ence?" The cheerful idiot settled himself a little more firmly in his chair and gloated a mement before answering. "It is just this way," he went on. "When a man is going away he carries his valise toward the railroad station, and when he is coming back he carries it in the other direction." —Indianapolis Jour nal. HERE AND THERE Several gentlemen sat about the South ern Pacilie Railroad waiting-room in Po mona the other evening, waiting for the belated overland to Los Angeles. Two men sat aside by themselves engaged in earnest conversation. One of them had a loud voice that became more powerful as he became animated in discussing the reputation and character of a man named "Bob." He spoke in these words: "You see, I'd lent Bob money, but so long as I bad cash in my clothes I never asked for it. I never do when a man is square, 'cause I know he'll pay me when ne can. But one day I was a little short, and went into the bar, and I says to Bob: 'Could you let me have a little of what you're owin' me?' He was tight and ugly and began, to swear and kick and jaw about bein 1 struck when he hadn't got only 15 cents to his name. 'All right, says I; 'taint pulling no man's leg wiien that's all he's got. Some other time'll do.' "But he kept on a-kickin' and a-swear in' ami sayin' 1 wasn't no friend of his, and finally he worked himself up to the iightin' pitch, and, says he, with a regu lar holler: 'Yer rip-whack, blinkety blank, come outside and I'll do you up.' Well, I wasn't lookin' for a fight, and I didn't feel like lightin' that day, anyhow. Had a kind of a cold. So I told him I wasn't goin' to have no quarrel, 'specially with him, lor I thought he'd come out all right when he'd got rid of his quart. But he says again: 'I'm goin' to hurt you the first time I meet yer.' Then the boys they took him into the back room anil I went home. But after that I was hound to carry a gun, and I got my re volver out that night. Next mornin' be was in Ned's room at the boardin' house, and Ned's door bein' open I looked in as 1 was on my way to the dinin' room. " 'Who are you lookin' at? says Bob, still ugly. " 'You,' says I. " 'Fer what?' says be. " 'Cause I'm bound to,after yon warnin' me that I'm liable to get hurt,'' says I. "He sat down,kind oi careless, and I starteil on. By — I'd only got my back turned and'l stepped into tne hall, when he ups as quicK as a flash and hits me in the neck. I gave him a good one on tho jaw. Then he closes in and begins to bite. At that I pulls out my gun and lets him have it. He broke away and can tered upstairs, squeaUn' 'Murder 1' and I let him have it again. "Then I didn't know what I'd done, and didn't much care, hut I was excited audi meandered outdoors to cool off. The boys came out iv a minute and said that there was no telling how much Bob was hurt; he was bleedin'and ycllin'consid erable; and so's to avoid any scenery I'd better get over the border and hide till he felt bitter. So 1 worked along to El Paso and got across the Rio Urande to Old Mex ico, and I've been down in Sonora for sev eral month-. 11 i got through it all right, and I didn't have no need to skip, 'cause it was self-defense. You've a right to use a gun on any man that tries to make a meal of you, I guess. Well, sir, you've no idea what a change that scrape made in Boh. lie don't get drunk no more and he goes around talSctn' decent, and he don't bluff, and he's as steady and quiet as a sheep. What's more, he paid what he owed me. Shoo.in. did him good." it it it A Miss Cozzens is to lecture in San Francisco on tlie liolden Calf, or Money Worship. Mis., Coxzens is a Colonel, and has been a I'nited Slates Marshal, and is a woman of ideas; but she is not up to date. The golden calf of today is not the symbol of mammon, nor the idol that cans ii the Israelites so much trouble: on the contrary, it is a gracefully moulded bit of feminine anatomy, clad in silk tights and illumine,l by calcium lights and enriches managers aud fairies alike. RIVERSIDE'S BIG SHOWING TiIVKR-SlllE I'KKSS. Thfi present year will demonstrate again the wonderful productiveness ol the Riv erside orchards. From present appear ances our people will this year receive an amount variously estimated from 11,500, --000 to *2,C00,000. That our readers abroad may not taink we are talking loosely or extravagantly,nor basing our figures upon extravagant prices, we will give the figures which prove the reasonableness of our estimate. The Exchange people reckoned the amount of fruit under their control early in the season at 2300 car load:,, which now appears to have been an underestimate. The other shippers claim five or six hundred carloads. Taking the smaller figure, tuis would make the total amount, without counting the lemons, 2700 carloads. This would be 709,800 boxes. More than one-half of this is Navels and other late budded fruit, Which will unquestionably bring tin average price considerably "exceeding *2 per box, and the balance will bring an average gross price not much below this figure. The income from the lemon < rop, at any rate, may be depended upon to furnish .in amount equal to what the si edlings may fall below this estimate. Taking, then, $2 f. o. b. as an average price we have the Sum of 11,638.000 as the gross income of Riverside this season. We will throw in for good measure the by no means small amount obtained for dried fruit, raisins, alfalfa and farm products. For the benefit of those people who have in recent years seemed disposed to fool themselves' with the notion that River side is a back number, and liable to be dis],laced from her position at the head of the orange growing sections, we will quote tbe assessor's figures—which, as everybody knows, are considerably under the truth—to show that this crop comes from 370,702 bearing orange and lemon trees, and that we have in this district 1,043,761 in orchard. As the third of these trees now in bearing furnishes in an off year like the present such an income, what may not be looked for when the two thirds not yet yielding shall add their quota in a good year? It will be seen that Riverside is beyond all question as clearly the center of tlie orange growing industry of Calfornia as is Fresno at the head of the raisin making. The massing of such a business in one valley, in years when crops are large and prices lower than at present, is an advantage worth a good deal to those who engage' in it. Even at the smaller prices anticipated in years of great production tbe aggregate must al ways be such as to make tins the wealth iest fruit section in the world. Between $1,!>00,000 and $2,000,000 will flow into Riverside this year from the sales of her fruit product. That is a fact that deserves the attention of those who ques tion her wonderful advantages for busi ness or home making. THE HERALD IN EVIDENCE The Los Angeles Herald appeared last Sunday in a rich cover, illustrating some typical California scenes.— Norwalk Call. f- f- it A recent special issue of the Los Ange les Herald was handsome. That paper has taken a great stride forward under the new management.—Alameda Argus. iV * * The Los Angeles Herald has been greatly improved under the mnaagement oi Colonel Bradbury, and is now one of the best dailies in the state.—Fullerton Tribune. <r <r * The Los Angeles Daily Herald has been given a new dress; the type is now set by linotypes, and the paper has come to the front recently as one of California's great journals.—Santa Paula Chronicle. * 4 * The Los Angeles Herald on Sunday last made its appearance in a new dress and a finely illustrated cover, making it not only one of the best but among the very handsomest of California's many fine papers. The make up and typography of the paper cannot be excelled. On the whole the Herald is a splendid paper.— Arizona Citizen. * * *r In its new dress the Los Angeles Herald makes a tine appearance and is a model of typographical neatness and excellence. The' Herald is the oldest living daily paper in Southern California, and has long ranked as among the very best and most influential. It has removed its publica tion office from its dingy hole on Second street to handsome quarters in the Third street side of the Bradbury block, where it hopes ere long to make itself known as the leading morning newspaper of Los Angeles. Without reflecting on any of its good looking contemporaries, The Herald is, typographically, much the handsomest daily in Southern California this minute.—The Capital. OUT OF THE WAY FACTS Poe found his sole amusement in drink ing. In 1226 a hen was bought in Paris for a penny. In Venice in 1274 a pig brought two shillings. A bed in a Greek inn in A. D. 327 cost twopence. Danton was the most noted card player of his day. In Rome, B. C, 6, roses were a half penny a dozen. Virginia has had seven snowstorms in the last two weeks. In 1542 Italian oranges were sold in Rome for tenpence a thousand. In the year 1400 English horses, suitable for cavalry, brought £2 apiece. Poppsea, Nero's wife, paid twopence a quart tor asses' milk to hat he in. Essex, the favorite of Elizabeth, had a set of shirts which cost £10 apiece. " Queen Elizabeth was very profane, and when angry would Kick and cuff her maids. B.iston women to the number of 11,200 registered in 1894, a gain of over 204 over the registration for 1898. There are floating about in the pockets of our people or hoarded in banks, safety d qiosit vaults and old stockings, $061,000,- UOO of gold and $624,000 000 of silver. Miss Anna Gould's wedding present from the Count de Castellane, is a corsage decoration, consisting of 250 diamonds, and two emeralds, estimated at $14,000. There are 4,712,622 people engaged in manufacturing industries of various Kinds, receiving every year $2,382,216,529 in wages and manufacturing goods to the amount of $0,372,437,283. Princess Ninito Tapan of the South Sea Islands, who is visiting in San Francisco, thinks the "new woman" does anything but make her husband happy. They have no such women in her land. In 1702 an act was passed forbidding King William 111. to quit bis dominions without obtaining leave from the repre sentatives of the country, ami this neces sity arose from his frequent visits to Hoi land. Dean Hole, the eminent British divine, says that tbe clocks and chairs in this country, asserted to have been brought over in the Mayflower, would load to the water's edge the fleet of vessels ever known. South America has the greatest un broken extent of level surface of any coun try in the world. The Llanos of tbe Orinoco are so Hat that the motion of the rivers can scarcely be detected over an area of 200,000 square miles. Dutch military cycling volunteers have to pass a real examination before they are accepted for the maneuvers, hut when passed they get 5 florins a day, lirst elass traveling expenses, and are lodged as officers at the expense of the state. A French railway has lately arranged its lelegaapb lines so that at a prear ranged signal the wires are switched from the telegraphic instruments to telephones, thus enabling the operators either to tall; verbally or to communicate by the tele graphic code at will. Or. Price's Cream Baking Powder World's Fair h' ; *i.-- Award. ANNIVERSARY Ancient History, on a Modern Plan, Accnrdh | to the Light and the Conscience of One C. A. Webster, In the Evening Post—Mary Queen ol Scots, Lxecutcd, Last Tuesday, A. D. 1587 "You are a mean, spiteful old thing! "Hut, your serene nighness, I am ni red-headed—l have not freckles like gn per snaps. Ah, ha! She winces!" Ml the lady laughed sardonically over In right shoulder. The drat speaker was Queen Elitabet of England; the second was Mary, <Juet of Scots, late of France ami Scotland. The two young things glared at cat othei like the soprano and contralto of church choir. Elisabeth's green eves sizzled wit rage. "You Mormon—you second Mrs. Taqu ray! she hissed. Mary grew coolly sarcastic. "Possibly, BeSsie dear, I suppose I w have to confess to a few attractions admit heing popular with the gentlemen. "And you—-you dear emancipated thing —here she emitted a gurgling laugh—•' fear you will never get anyone hut At brose Bierce after yon. You know 1 referred to you lust Stindav as one Them Loud —the brute 1" and she thrc off another Installment of her liquid ti leaded laughter. "Serpent!" "I crave the pardon of your serene hig nets," here broke fn the Lord Cbamba lain of the Rear Freight Elevator, wl hail arrived at, the scene of war with h rubbers on; "hut I inadvertently hea some strong language used. 1 prithc your highnesses, remember that you a a pair of queens, and it is due that vi comport yourselves in a right queen manner. I Implore—and my gray hai give nic the warrant to speak—l Imploi lair ladies, that you get onto yourselvc THE TWO ANGRY QUEENS LOOKED EACH OTHER AND SNIFFED. "Besides, you should remember," continued, casting an eye about tbe h "that this is not a session of the Po Club." * » * * * * While the old Laid Chamberlain speaking, the court jester, who had been sleeping behind a portiere, awoke, and seeing tbe ends of the two 24* foot trains together of the ladies' dresses bandy, tied them together in a knot known on the water front as the "Carrick bend". The chamberlain administered his re proof and departed . The two angry queens looked at each other and sniffed. Then they started out. They walked away with the slack. The*Carrick bend is noted for its un yielding firmness and tenacity of pur pose. There was a ■ #*#•»» That day's work settled her doom. She had chased John Knox out of the County. And it was all right. Robert Dudley, Elizabeth's favorite, proposed to her and she told him she would be a sister to him. But she didn't die for that. She married Darnley and stirred up a revolution. But she was not beheaded or that. She brought Rizzio to his death. But that went. She woke up the Bothwell family. But none, barring Mrs. 8., kicked. She abdicated her throne. But that never touched her. She had her husband'murdered. But that suited most people. But when she tried to walk on a red. beaded woman it brought on a sudden case of sore throat, superinduced by violent contact with a butcher's cleaver. She expiated the crime of calling Eliza beth "Old Freckles" at Frotheringay this day, 1587. THE WORLD OF SCIENCE The Swiss B.undesrath is urging th» construction of an electric railroad to the very summit of Yungfran. During all the wire cutting indulged in by the Brooklyn trolley strikers not a sin gle man was shocked. The new Taussig electric smelting pro cess now being tried in Germany promises to show advance in this industry. In the recent telautngraphlc test be tween Paris and London writing was electrically produced at a distance of 312 1-2 miles. The greater effectiveness and superior ity of the electric over the calcium light in lantern projection has been clearly es tablished. A recent survey has established the number of glaciers in (he Alps at 116S, of which 249 have a length of more than four and three-quarter miles. In Japan the Tokio Telephone Ex change has now 1800 subscribers and is constructing lines and installing instru ments for about 2000 more. In the Loo Choo Islands, between Japan and Formosa, though there are neituer vehicles nor public lighting, the inhabit ants have letter boxes and telephones. An electric furnace for heating irtfa strips used in making 'horseshoe nails has been recently installed in Montreal. Five feet of strip are heated per minute.. Professor Rowland, of Johns Hopkins,, University, has devised a very sensitive;', electrometer, the working parts of whicTV are immersed in a non-conducting liquiu',,, To prevent th • possibility of contagiotiPj diseases spreaumg through the use of the telephone, Paris physicians recommend tbe use of a specially prepared antiseptic paper. Arrangements for the Paris Interna tional Exhibition of kxkj are being made. Tbe area designed for exhibits will he about 4,500,000 square feet, of which 180,000 squaii' feel will be reserved for electrical exhibits. The Philadelphia committee recently ap pointed to investigate the merits of the ••chloride electric storage battery" has recommended the award of the John Scott premium and medal to Clement t'ayen, the inventor. In the excavations in England on th. site of the supposed Unman villa one ol the most interesting discoveries is the elaborate system of wanning by heated air. In several place) the arrangement of lines is in perfect condition