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WEDNESDAY, MAY I, 1805
LA FIESTA HERALD
The Herald's special La Fiesta edition, with
its beautiful illuminated cover and its finely
Illustrated description of the recent Carnival,
is admitted to be the finest and most artistic
issue of a newspaper ever seen in Southern
California. The demand for this number rap
iuly exhausted two editions, and n third has
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WEATHER REPORT
United States Department of Agricul
ture Weather Bureau's Reports, received
at Los Angeles April 30, 1895. Observa
tions taken at all Stations at 8 p. in.. 75th
meridian time:
Places Bar. Tern Max.Tm. Wnd W'ther
Los Angeles 29 96 63 70 BW Pt cldy
San Diego.. 30.0i 64 b8 W Clear
& L. Obispo 3D.02 5rt (52 W Clear
Fresno 29.SS 74| 78 ; NW Pt cldy
San Fran'co *0.c4 54 50 |W Cloudy
Bacraraeoto 29.90 64 70 SW Cloud v
Red Blufl... i9.0» HH 68 SE Clou iy
Eureka (30.O-' 54 58 SW cloudy
Roseburg. li9.90! M« I 68 |W iCloudy
Portland.. .|29.92| 60 04 |SE ICloudy
Temperature—Report of observations taken
at Los Angeles April 3U!h. INote—Baromater
reduced to sea level.)
Time. I Bar. Ther. RH'm W"d Vol Wther
:00 a. m.j29.98 M i R II 1 Cloudy
:00 p. m.|29.90; 03 I 67 | 8W | 6 rtcldy
Maximum temperature, 70.
Minimum temperature, 49
Ha n'all past 24 hours, .00.
Hainfall for season, 15 91.
Indications tor Southern California
San Francisco. April 30.—For Southern Cali
fornia: Fair, except occasional scattered
showers tonight or Wednesday on mouutains.
slopes and c evated sections of north portiou;
fresh westerly winds.
POOR RICHARD'S DAILY SERMON
WEDNESDAY'-Since thou art not sure of a
minute, throw not away an hour.
As we must account for every Idle word, so
we must account for every idle silence.
A FOREIGN POLICY THAT SHOULD REMAIN
SUB ROSA
In his Hartford speech Governor Mc-
Kinley says: "The Republican party in
vites the fullest discussion of its princi
ples and shirks no responsibility. Our
foreign policy, for the most part, during
the last two years, has fallen short of tbe
lofty standard of a century ago, and of
more recent times as well."
It were better for the Republican party
that the foreign policy of the past two
yejrs and of "other recent tunes as
well" should not be mentioned by a Re
publican leader. The present administra
tion has had to devote a large portion of
its attention for two years to undoing the
mischief accomplished or attempted by
Republican predecessors. The mischief
accomplished or attempted was directly
due to a kind of foreign policy directly at
variance with that of a century ago.
The government of the United States
entered into a compact with two mon
archies for usurpation and rule In the
kingdom of Samoa. This was a flagrant
violation of the American tradition of no
entangling alliances with European pow
ers. Grover Cleveland and Secretary
Gresham have had to seel: ways and
means of extricating tlie United States
from this political miscegenation.
A Republican minister atHonolulu con
spired with political adventurers tj over
throw the constitutional government of
Hawaii in distinct violation of the Amer
ican principle of non-interference in tlie
domestic affairs of foreign countries.
President Cleveland and Secretary
Gresham have bad to sp*lld a good deal
of time in an attempt to make right the
wrong done by Minister Stevens anil the
Jingo faction of the Harrison administra
tion.
It was a Republican administration
tbat, instead of ascertaining of its own
account honestly and then unflinchingly
defending our rights in the Bering sea.
abandoned them to a foreign tribunal,
whose judgment it was inevitable would
be against us. President Cleveland aud
Secretary Gresham have not yet succeeded,
notwithstanding faithful labor on their
part, it*disentangling us from the Paris
arbitration net in which we were en
meshed by tbe Harrison administration.
ft were better for the Republican party
if Republican leaders should not refer to
tbe American foreign p >licy of "a cen
tury ago" or "of more recent times." —
Chicago limes-Herald.
The foregoing is quite apropos at this
day when the editor aud orators of the
Republican party are devoting so much
space and wind to reminiscences of a vig
orous foreign policy that existed only in
their imaginations. To the people who
traveled in Mexico, Central or South
America during the quarter of a century of
Republican administrations, or observed
the course of events in those parte
throughout the period referred to, the
news of "this vigorous foreign policy" will
come like a revelation.
it is notorious that during the era of
Republican control ol the state depart
ment, excepting Secretary Seward's ad
ministration, this country had no foreign
jiolicy worthy the name.
Kroni the Kio Grande to Cape Horr,
where our fluy should have been treated
with the utmost respect and American
citizenship should have commanded ua-
V
qualified deference, the Stars and Stripes
were received with derision or contempt,
and in times of riot, turbulence or insur
rection, the citizens of the great North
American republic have time and again
found it the part of wisdom to seek im
munity for their lives and property by
claiming the protection of Great Britain,
even if in doing so they had to deny their
relation to Uncle Sam. Outrages upon
the people of this Union traveling abroad,
were of continual occurrence, while the
instances of redress or reparation stood
out boidly because of their scarcity. When
Mr. Bayard became secretary of state in
Mr. Cleveland's Hrst term, besides the en
tanglements adverted to by the Times-
Ilerald, and a lor.g list of claims for rep
aration and indemnity which had lain in
statu quo for several Republican admin
istrations, he found at least three Ameri
can citizens who had suffered the misery
and indignity of confinement in foreign
prisons as suspects, and without having
enjoyed the benefits of trial, for almost
the entire time caverod by the Garfield-
Arthur administration. The most not
aole of these cases of unwarranted impris
on men t was that of McSwceny, the Irish-
American jailed by the British hecause of
the suspicion of being implicated in a
conspiracy on behalf of Irish national-
I . _
ism.
| McSwceny was in the custody of the
| English government during the adminis
! tration of that idol of American tail
twisters. James G. Blame, and it was not
until Thomas F. Bayard assumed the
duties of the state department that the
unjustly conrinel citizen was released.
The other cases referred t3 were in the
West Indies, Huyti and San Pomingo,
beins the countries infringing upon the
treaty rights of American citizenship. In
both instances after a proper investiga
tion Secretary Bayard demanded and
obtained the release of the men. In thus
vindicating the dignity of the United
States and conserving tiie legal interests
of these previously neglected Americans,
Mr.Bayard did not trail any coats around
] the world with invitations to tread upon
the tails of the garments, but with tbe
firmness, dignity and quiet wisdom that
should always characterize an American
secretary of state, he lirst ascertained the
status of the cases, and after satisfy ing
himself that injustice'had been perpetrat
ed he accomplished the results desired. |
If nap-doodle oratory and spread-eagle
editorialisni were all tbat might be re
quisite for a foreign policy, that of the
Republican party would thrill the world;
but if, indeed, it is a fact that a success
ful foreign policy rests upon the vindica
tion of American honor, the protection of
American citizens abroad, and the ae
] complishnient of purposes, then the least
tbe Republicans say about the subject
the less they will have to apologize for or
explain away.
THE JAPAN-CHINA IMBRQOLIO
If left to themselves the contest be
tween Japan and China would not be a
complicated affair, but a mere matter of
going on with the war, or agreeing upon
terms that will put an end to it. As
there is interference on the part of some
of the European nations, the situation
may be regarded as an imbroglio. It
seems to be certain that Russia, France
and Germany have united in a protest
against sonic of the features of the treaty
already agreed to by the representatives
of the two powers. If repeated reports
are true, they take the side of Chin i, and
it is supposed that Great Britain will
support Japan.
The terni3 exacted of China by Japan
are not unusual, nor as exorbitant as
are often demanded by victors in war
certainly not as unconscionable as those
exacted of France by Germany at the
conclusion of the Franco-Prussian war.
To acquire territory and an indemnity in
money is in accjrd with a principle that
has been recognized time out of mind. So
far as we have information there is noth
ing concerning trade which would give
Japan any advantage over the most
favored nation. There appears to be noth
ing in the treaty which directly affects
any nation except the parties ana Corea,
Which becomes independent of China.
Great Britain, France and Russia have
possessions in Asia, and it is natural that
they should bs watciiful of what trans
pires on tbat continent, and to sic that
none of their rights aro jeopardized.
Germany has no interests beyond those
common to all commercial nations.
Tliis interference on the part of Eu
ropean governments is but a phase of the
long continued conflict between Great
BHtaln and Russia for control in Asia.
China lies between the possessions of the
two, and Japan being sea-girt is not con
tiguous to either. Russia for a long time
has had ambition to become a great
maritime power. Her frontage on the
Baltic is 1 iniite 1 and affords insufficient
opportunity for realization of her aspira
tions. For half a century Russia has de
sired to get an outlet through the Bos
phorus, aud thence through the Mediter
ranean sea to the Atlantic ocean and has
waged repeated wars for that purpose,
but has been thwarted chiefly by Great
Britain. Despairing of securing anything
of great value in Europe she nas turned
her attention to Asia, and by the con
struction of a railroad from European
Russia through Siberia has gained a foot
hold at tide water on the i'acific ocean.
Whether that country has other than
commercial objects in view is not wholly
conjectural,for she has advanced in other
directions than toward the sea, and at
some points ber schemes of territorial ex
tension have been checked by the Britis i.
Russia has been constantly reaching out
towards India in her acquisitions, lead
ing to the belief that she regards Gieat
Britain's most vulnerable point to b» in
Asia. In consequence of the assistance
rendered to Turkey by Groat Britian
when at war with Russia it is presumed
that the latter nation is disposed to get
revenge by imperiling British possessions
LOS AXGELES HERALD: WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 1, 1895.
in Asia, and if such be tho case support
of China in the present instance is in
pursuance of that policy. A friendly act
to China will tend to make hnr tolenint
of Rusian schemes and cause her to be
come a friend in case Great Britain and
Russia should come to blows in Asia.
The combination in Europe in favor of
China is formidable and peculiar. It is
not surprising that France and Russia
should unite, for the entente Cordials has
for some time existed between thorn; but
that Germany, having no special instercst
in the question, should join in, is some
what surprising. For France and Ger
many to be antagonistic is historical, and
the relations between them for the last
quarter of a century have been more than
ordinarily strained. Russia and Germany
have not been on tlie best of terms. It
is a triumvirate that may have an omi
nous meaning for Europa. Germany
formed a combination with Austria and
Italy to be able to me?t the coalition be
tween France and Russia. If the report,
be true that Italy will sido with Great
Britain on the present Asiatic question.
:t may be presumed that the Dreibund
was dissolved on the entrance of Germany
into the new combination. Whether op
position to the Chinese-Jap an treaty will
go beyond talk and protest, remains to be
seen. The tone of Russia seems to be
quite decided. No doubt Li Hung Chang
feels that he consented to the terms em
braced in the treaty under duress of war.
Japan will hardly cons nt to terms dic
tated by a power not in interest, as noth
ing in the treaty requires discrimination
by China against any country in the matter
of commerce, that plucky nation will prob
ably resent inlerfernce. Should Russia,
backed by France and Germany, demand
modifications not in accordance with her
ideas, and should China refuse ratifica
tion of a treaty not in accord with Rus
sia's demands, the war will undoubtedly
be resumed, and then the great question
will be whether Russia and her backers
will render aid to China in a substantial
way. Should that step be taken, Great
Britain would have no alternative but to
support Japan with force.
China is a neighbor to Russia, and her
friendship and stre lgth are of vital im
portance in an Asiatic conflict with Great
Britain. To allow Japan to become the
leading Asiatic power would weaken Rus
sian influence on the continent, and add
to that of her rival a/id enemy. This
Asiatic imbroglio may involve Europe.
The triumvirate that has been'formed
would seem to be a preparation for possi
b'C result. Happily the United States has
no political interest in the contest. We
have trade with both countries, and in
Japan it is second in volume only to that
of Great Britain, and it is about the same
with China. There is talk that in case
the situation becomes serious, Great Brit
ain will endeavor to induce our govern
ment to join her in support of Japan. It
is our policy not to interfere in cas'S be
yond the American continent, and it had
better be adhered to.
~ SOFIEWHAT IN ERROR
A correspondent of The Herald refer
ring to a paster used by the single tax
ers, containing the follow.ng extract from
an alleged supreme court decision: "The
reserved right of the people to the rental
value of the land must be conceded as the
condition of every deed," asserts that
this is in conflict with the late income
tax decision of the supreme court. He
claims that the court has decided that
the tax on rents is a direct tax and,
therefore, unconstitutional. This erron
eous construction of the supreme court's
verdict regarding direct taxation seems to
be 'quite Irrelevant. The court did
not decide a direct tax unconstitu
tional; it did aver though that the
method of imposing a direct tax,
as provided by the income tax,
law would be unconstitutional. Congress
can levy a direct tax, but it must be ap
portioned among the states in proportion
to the population of each. The accuracy
of the quotation alluded to we cannot
speak for, but the constitutional power of
congress to levy direct taxes will be ap
parent to anyone carefully reading the
third paragraph of section 2, article I
of tbe federal constitution. This mistaken
interpretation of the supreme court's de
cision regarding direct taxation walks
hand in hand with that other blunder so
many people nurse, that the decisions of
courts should consider the merits of the
law being tested. These hall ucinations
Would indicate that reading and reason
ing have become obsolete.
fPoniona progresses in journalism as she
iloes in other important enlightening
agencies. An addition to her press has
appeared in the Saturday Post, a weekly
publication, owned and edited by Edgar B.
Young. The Post is a neatly printed and
newsy sheet, evidencing promising jour
nalistic ability.
The voters of Los Angeles should not
forget that on Friday of this week a
bond election occurs. Bo ready to vote
and to vote intelligently.
People can now go from Los Angeles to
Pasadena, like a telegram, by wire. The
electric road is complete.
The Los Angeles Herald published a
special edition of La Fiesta, which is a
beauty as a newspaper and an artistic
production.-Blue Lake Advocate,
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The Los Angeles Herald issued a hand
some La Fiesta edition last week. It was
printed in colors ami contained illustra
tions of the various floats of the festival,
together with much valuable reading
matter.—Hemet News.
Of the few genuine relics nf Shakespeare
preserved in his native town, tlie most
interesting are his s gnet ring, with the
initials W. S. on it, and the desk at which
he sat in the grammar school at Strat
ford. The average number of visitors to
the poet's home and church is 28,000 a
year, of whom 6000 are Americans.
Or. Price's Cream Baking Powder
Awarded Cold Mtdul Midwinter Fair. San Franciaca.
THE FIESTA EDITION
THEIR POINT OF VIEW
In unity, progress and generosity Los
Angeles is the Chicago of the west.—Sac
ramento River News.
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I A member of the Illinois legislature has
; distinguished himself by introducing a
bill calling upon the girls not to marry
foreigners. Whether this is to be made a
misdemeanor or not, tbe senator does not
state. —Pasadena News.
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The new woman is in evidence in
Florida. "Several of th? most prominent
ladies" of Port Tampa unmercifully
whipped a drunkard who abused his
wife. If eveninz socials of this character
become popular tbere will be no need for
the whipping post. -San Francisco Post,
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Los Angeles cast her bread upon the
waters by spending $30,000 In getting up
tbo grand tiesta, and it returned to her
more than ten fold, in the shape of nearly
|400,0n0. That is what enterprise does.—
Oakland Times.
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That the next campaign will be almost
entirely based on financial issues there
appears no reason to doubt. Both parties
will probably split on the silver question,
and the result will probably be that the
blnietalllsta or silvoe men will carry tbe
country'—a conclusion most devoutly to
be wished. —Bakerslield Califomian.
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While Los Angeles is building at the
rate of live new houses a day and getting
the cream of immigration, San Francisco
is spending its entire time in reading and
wrangling about murders and murderers
of every description, and meting out
justice to no one.--Sacranionto River
News. ,
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California is even now rallying from
the long depression from wbich it, in
common with the rest of tho country, has
been suffering, and the indications of a
return of confidence and a revival of activ
ity in all branches of business are un
mistakable. Soon new enterprises will be
launched throughout the state. —Stockton
Mail.
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Timber is so scarce in France that fag
gots sell by the bunch and kindling wood
is sold by tbe pound. In that country
what is annually wasted in the United
States would be worth many millions of
dollars. And the waste is costing us
countless millions in breeding cyclones,
floods and like diversions.—Petaluina
Argus.
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It is thought that a greater Raymond
will take the place of the hotel that now
lies in ashes on the hill south of Pasa
dena. At Redlands. also, since the burn
ing of the tourist hotel, the Terracina,
the matter or a fine hotel is being agitat
ed. Los Angeles thinks she has room for
the finest hotel ever built, and so does
San Jacinto. The fact that plans are
being drawn up for a thirty-room house
here does not necessarily imply that we
will get It, but it looks encouraging.—San
Jacinto Searchlight.
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It will not be long before some action
will have to be taken by the authorities
toward limiting the speed at which bi
cycles may be run on the streets. The
bitumenized pavements present a strong
temptation for fast riding, but the
cyclists should content themselves with
the speed allowed the electric, cars. The
cruelty to animals ordinance cannot be
invoked in such cases, as is done with
fast driving of horses, But if the wheel
men do not regulate matters of their own
accord it may be necessary for the trustees
to pass an ordinance against cruelty to
pedestrians.—Sacramento Bee.
OUT-OF-THE-WAY FACTS
A well-known electrician. S. A. Varley,
has expressed his opinion that a light
ning discharge may occasionally kill
birds Hying in the air, but simply from
their being accidentally in the line of the
path of discharge or in close vicinity to
that path.
The lirst coining of money is attributed
to Phcidon, king of Argos, in the year
Sfl"> B. C. Coined money was first used
in western Kurope twenty-nine years be
fore the opening of the Christian era. -Gold
was lirst coined in England in the elev
enth century, and the first round coins
were not made until 100 years later.
It is certain that the big ships have
revolutionized all the habits ef buying
and selling in France. Vy> to 1830 every
thing went by barter and there was no
fixed price. Traces of this practice are
still found in the small shops around
Paris, where the price first asked has
very little to do with what will be ac
cepted.
It is now a well recognized fact, states
a medical journal, that the structures of
the eye, especially the cciicn 1n 1 con
junctiva, are subject to malarial affec
tions, periodical in character, differing
from tbe usual affections of these parts,
but involving actual tissue change, and
amenable to quinine or other anti-ma
larial treatment.
For heavy land tbere are few better cor
rectives or disintegrators than limo. It
is also useful on light soils, but on clays
and marls its effect is most marked. A
moderate quantity sprinkled over the
clods of clay in trenching will crumble
them up as nothing else will do except
frost.
Some birds in Patagonia have a foolish
habit of roosting low down, close to the
ice, and in the morning may sometimes
be seen the cur OttS sight of scores of
these unfortunates with their tails fast
frozen in the ice. There tbey arc com
pelled to remain until the sun, by the
process of melting them out, liberates
the prisoners.
It is not commonly known that the cap
ital of China is ice bound for five
months out of the twelve, or that the
stolid-looking Chinese could ever be
graceful skaters. Tbe Chinese use a very
inferior style of skate, of their own man
ufacture -a mere chunk of wood arranged
to tie on the shoe, and shod with a rather
broad strip of iron.
The teeth of rats are kept sharp by a
very peculiar provision of nature. The
outer edge of the incisors is covered with
a layer of enamel as hard of Hint, wdiile
the "under side is much softer. The lay
ers of enamel on the underside, there
fore, wear away much faster than those
on the upper surface, and a keen cutting
edge is always presented.
A New York printer, who has struck off
several thousand Bismarck curds, has dis
posed of more than »iOOO, some for parties
Hi Texas, and from the United States be
tween 26.000 and no, on congratulatory
postals will be sent to l'rinee Bismarck.
The cards of United States origin go for
2 cents.
The Hot Bird and the Cold Bottle.
HOT!!l WHAT? WELL, I GUESS NOT.
SOME SPORTING MATTERS
L. A. A. C. Pool Contest Last Night and
Ventura Races Today
norrls Ashner Keeps the Southwestern
Championship--The Road Race Entries
for the Ventura Events
The Los Angeles Athletic Club billiard
hall was crowded last night to witness the
championship pool contest between Mor
ris Ashner, the champion of the south
west, and Harry Prick, champion of
Southern California. From 300 to 880 of
the clubmen surrounded the table and
enthusiastically applauded a Spirited con
test.
Ashner won in 27 innings, with a score
of 120 to 98. The play was for a match at
|50 » side and tho club nurse, Ashner to
make 120 points to Flick's 100.
The game was dose from start to fin
ish, and when ihe score stood at 118 to 08
the crowd was on tiptoe with excitement.
I''rick lost his shot and a fair chance by
not calling his ball, and his shot gave
Ashner a set-up. When the latter scored
his 120 points he was roundly cheered.
"Doc" Kennedy was master of ceremo
nies.
Charley Cook acted as referee of the
game and U. W. Kilmer for Ashner and
.lames Morley for Frick were the umpires.
It was considered a fair game well played.
<i. W. Creaser, backer for Ashner, and a
thorough sporting man. said that though
the latter was not in good condition, no
would back hint against any man of his
class for from 1800 to $400.
D. Winne Kilmer, who claims to be
champion of the coast, afterward issued
a challenge to the winner, or to James
Morley, to contest in a pool game for any
reasonable amount, to be lixod after an
acceptance.
The L. A. A. C. I.i providing much en
tertainment at the rooms for its mem
bers, and many good billiard and pool
games are looked for.
After the championship contest last
night. L. L. Magnus, who claims to he
champion three-cushion carom shot of
America, played an exhibition game of
billiards with Harry Frick; he also gave
an exhibition of fancy shots that sur
prised and delighted the audience.
Ventura Road Rices
At the Athletic Club last night the
wheelmen wero eagerly discussing the
Ventura medal road races today and from
all indications, crowds of the city cyclers
will roll down to the meet this morning
that is held under the auspices of the
Caledonian Society of Ventura.
As members of local crack clubs are
entered for the handicap events, they and
numberless friends will be in attendance.
The handicaps for the race are as fol
lows: W. M. Jenkins, Phil Kitchen. Emil
ribricht, A. W. Cleaver, scratch; H. K.
McCrea. Will W. Hatton, Tom McAleer,
Fritz Lacy. 30 seconds; Godfrey Schmidt,
James L. Standefer, A. D. Tompkins. 1
minute; E. Orton, 0. G. Bobbins, H.
Flint, C. E. McStay. L. Wade. Vi min
utes; H. Keene. J." Kckhardt, E. McLure.
W. Yonmns. 2 minutes; W. Knight, B.
Shaw. 2';. minutes; E. Cole and D. G.
Collins, 3 minutes.
The boys expect to revel in trophies and
prizes after it is all over, and some of the
scorchers think of knocking out a line
record for Southern California road
racing.
JOHN W. MILNER'S BURIAL
A Large Attendance of Friends at the Funeral
Yesterday
John W. Milner, late cashier of the
Farmers' and Merchants' hank, was
buried yesterday, the funeral tuking place
from the family residence, No. 721 West
Washington street, at 3 p. m. Rev. I.
W. R. Tayler of St. John's Episcopal
church officiated, and the pall bearers
were such prominent citizens us 1. W.
Hellman, Major George H. Bonebrake. L.
N. Breed, J. Frankenrield, Frank Gibson,
Ivar A. Weid. John McUrea. Oust aye
Heinemann, John Alter and Dr. Joseph
Knrtz.
Numbers of prominent citizens were at
the funeral, and bis death is felt as a
great loss to the city. He was regarded
as a man of great integrity and high
honor. He leaves a wife and eight chil
dren, as well as a wide circle of friends
to mourn his demise.
Mr. Milner was born in Hanover. Ger
many, where he received his education.
In 1858 he came to California and en
gaged in mercantile life in San Franc
isco. When the war broke out he enlisted
under General Banning and seived until
peace was declared. Then he was made
agent at this city for the Los Angeles
and Wilmington railway, which position
he held until 1874. when ho entered the
Farmers' und Marchants' bank with I.
W. Hellman and worked up to the position
of cashier. His death closes the end of a
long and successful career.
AN $80,000 CROESUS
Worries the Bankers, Finds a Solon and Gets
Thrown In
W. A. Hay ward, tall, pale and cadaver
ous, languishes in the city prison, hooked
for medical treatment and clouded witli a
suspicion as to his sanity. He lias played
the Monte Oristo act on his jailers, but
they are as unbelieving as the creations
ol Dumas and refuse the fabulous wealth
he offers for his liberty. Solon Office
Shannon of the Temple street crossing
gathered him In while Croesus llaywurd
was wandering about the Farmers' and
Merchants' bank ordering out his wealth
and showing it off to the policeman.
To illustrate the matter Havward tried
to cash a check for $80,000 and went from
window tj window, but at each he was
refuseu. and finally became so annoying
that the officer was requested to jail him,
and so did.
It seems Havward thinks he owns the
money in all the city banks and has
visited many of them with that $80,000
check he so much wishes to realize on.
Monday he called on his treasurers at
several* banks, and before bas wcrried
the cashiers at the Citizens and other
banks. If he does not recover from his
affection after medical treatment at the
| city receiving hospital he will probably
! be committed to the county hospital.
Letter cairiers in London sometimes
become crazy hi cause of the great num
ber of streets wh'ch have the same name.
There are 2tit Victoria stieets, T4l Cross
streets, 212 Church streets and lid Queen
itrects.
A Model Cook.
She can hake, she can broil, she can fry, '
Ne'er a cake does she spoil, nor a pie,
She's perfectly neat.
Her temper i s sweet,
Ann' this is the reason why,—
She uses Cleveland's Salting Powder, ■
Receipt Book Free.
78 pages, covering the whole snbj tc , f rom snu p
to dessert. Mailed on receipt o( sump and address.
Cleveland Baking Powoer Co.,
81 Fulton St., New York.
MISS BEATRICE HARRADEN
Passes Through Los Angeles and Stops
Several Days
But Manages to Do It 60 Quietly That She
Almost Succeeds in Escaping Without
Having Been Recognized
One of the penalties attendant upon
greatness is the fact that the enterprising
American newspapar is bound to add a
grain of notoriety to one's fame. There
fore, Leoause Miss Beatrice Harraden qui.
etly and unostentatiously ate dinner wiih,
three lady friends last evening in one ol
the down-town cafes, the readeis of the
Herald mu;t nejds ba made acquainted
with that fact today and a few further
points regarding the brainy little woman's
personality. Miss Harraden is petite,
with a tendency to stoop forward when
she w. Iks that is evidently the result of
ill-hea.th, but wbich makes her look the
smaller at the ;ame time. She is slight of
tttture, has vcy dark hair and brown,
eyes that glisten and gleam through her
glasses when she talks and also her wholo
face becomes animatoa.
She came to Southern California last
fall, broken in health and very much in.
need of an entire change and rest. All of
this she has had in the home of hes
friend Mrs. Kendall who lives seventeen
miles out of San Diego and who came north
with Miss Harraden that she might sea
the Fiesta and. le bataille d»s tleures at
Santa Barbara. For several days the au
thor of Ships That Pass in tne Night,
The Oreen Dragon and other clever sto
ries has been the guest of Misses Kelso
and Hnsse in their jolly, comfortable
quarters on South Hill street. Mrs. Ken
dall has also been here, and the quartette
w r ere enjoying a very charming dinner
en famille at at the hostelry above stated
when the scribe intruded, as scribes, will.
The little, writer speahs with a strong
Knglish accent, and expressed herself as
very, very charmed with this section of
the country,of course, and told how much
she wantJU tj stay here now and meet
some of the friend's Miss Kelso wants he»
to meet, nnd others whom she brought
letters: but even r.fter all these months
she is not yet strong enough to bear too
much without rest. She flits southward
today again, therefore, to remain until
she has overcome the effects of the lata
festivities, and the wonian'scongress eoni
venes in May, at San Francisco. She wjll
attend that, and upon ber return from
tbcie she will spend a week in I.os Ange
les before she starts for New York. Then
it is she hopes to extend her acquain
tance among the people here, and stadtl
the storms of formal interviews if must
be. Meanwhile she s riled very grac
iously in the informal chat of last night
and alluded with much naivette and
charm to the interesting day just spent
in Chinatown, where the party had ex
perienced the unholy joy of buying and
burning punks and other delectable Chi
nese curios.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE
Wild Electric Car Runs Down a Coupe on Second
Street
Coupe No. 8, J. C. Gratton, driver,
with an unknown passenge., was going
east on Second street and at the cornee
of Los Angeles turned from the right side,
of the track to go north on Los Angeles.
At the same moment a home-bound Ar
cade electric car, Ed Ward, motornian
and R. K. Hndle. conductor, went plung
ing and careening down the incline of
the hill at a speed said by bystanders to
have been of about thirty miles an hour,
and without sound of bell, bowled into
the rear of the coupe and whirled it over
onto the horse.
The horse was Knocked down three
times by the bumping coupe and car and
the whole.mass of confusion, car. coulpe
and horse and veiling men. was banged
along the track liftp feet. The coupe was
wrecked, front, rear and all around, and
was smashed and twisted and thrown o - i
its side. The coupe passenger ciawled
out of the debris and,scared half to death
slipped away from the scene. The driver
picked himself up and extricated his
horse and after exchangiung names and
compliments with the car crew, quiet was
restored and all went home.
The birds are weather prophets. Fish
ermen and shepherds often are guide! by
the augury tif birds, some of their actions
so surely foretelling change of weather.
When tlie rooks come home by day and
indulge in one of those mad and m t/.y
dances, cawing loudly, this is a sure
presage of coming rain.
The Turkish ministry of public works
has determined upon the reconstruct ion
of the ancient water conduits of Jerusa
lem, dating from the age of King Solo
mon, liy this means it would be possible
to convey 25,003 cubic meters of
daily to the Holy City.