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Twelve pages, one year $1.00 Persons desiring THE HERALD dellv. •red. at their homes can secure It by postal card request or order tnrough telepnone No. 347. Should delivery be Irregular please make laßSßedlate complaint at the office. Write the Truth as you see it: Fight the Wrong as yon rintl it: Pnb lish all the News, and Trust the Event to the ,1 v dgment ol'the IVople WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 23. 1803 A GENEROUS GIFT Of the many grnerons offers made by various newspapers throughout the country, none have ever made quite so liberal a gift to its sub scribers us The Herald is now do- Ing. The present management of The Herald proposes to place this paper iv the front rank among the big and great papers of the Pacific coast and of the United States. The offer to present every subscriber with a town lot, anil thus make them land owners in the most beau tiful section of the United States, issomcthing unparalleled in modern Journalism. Antelope Valley rivals in productiveness and climatic con ditions the most favored spots in this I.and of Sunshine. All that is required to own a town lot at Lancaster, in the Antelope Valley, is to become a subscriber to The Herald. There is no lottery at tachment in connection with this offer; every subscriber gets v lot and can make his own selection The only extra expense beyond the subscription prico of The Herald is one dollar for notary fees in making out the deed. For further particulars see adver tisement on another page. Sub scribe today and lake your pick ot the lots. GOVERNMENT AND THE UNEMPLOYED As winter approaches there is the usual agitation on the subject of employment for the unemployed; and of course the paternalist is on hand with suggestions as to how the government can best "take care" of tbosa who, merely through lack of opportunity, are unable to sup port themselves. Nothing could be more erroneous than the idea that it is ihe duty of a civil government to provido employment for those who may happen to need it and who apply for il. lint the fallacy is advocated not the un employed themselves, but by many intel ligent persons who are in comfortable circumstances. It is never the proper function of a civil government to give employment to anybody for the sake of aiding those who may want employment. It is true the federal government noes constantly em ploy thousands of persons to perform certain kinds of public work. So do the various local governments, according to the public necessities; but that ia because the work must be dine, and not because the government, is nnder either legal or moral obligations to employ those who want work. If such an obligation ex isted it cuulo nowhere be justly limited as to tho numoer of persons who should bo thus paternally cared for. It is, however, the duty of a civil government to provide such legislation as will afford all the peo ple equally free and unobstructed access to natural resources. Having done that, the government has performed its duty toward the unemployed. In fact, with nature's inexhaustible storehouse released Irom the grasp of monopoly, there would be no unemployed among those who real ly wanted work. If all valuable land in the United Slates were put to its best use, there would be no id Is men who wanted employment. Government aid for the unemployed, in a great emergen cy, .may be proper as a makeshift; but at best the relief afforded can bo only par tial and temporary. The underlying cause of idleness is the monopoly of an element which alt human brings must use, every hour, and without which hu man iife cannot be sustained. Land and lanor, the twin factors in wealth production, were joined together by tho laws cf nature, but man's laws have forced them asunder, Give labor the opportunity to which it is justly en titled, and it can never have any excuse for asking the government to become its father or its nurse. GRAND JURIES The layman reading the law covering the culling of grand juries in this county would think tbat two grand juries for each year were required. The language of the law is plain enough. It says that two grand juries shall bo summoned •ach year. The execution of tbis law is now entirely in tho hands of the superior judges of the county. As it is incredible that these judicial officers should deliber ately nullify or disoboy any of the laws ihey are specially sworn to support, the layman is forced int.. a different explana tion of the fact that we neve.- have more than one grand jury a year. This expla nation may be found in the otherwise astounding delay in calling the present grand jury. It is now nearly two years since tho last grand jury was convened. That was a jury that indicted but few public officers; amongst these were two city school board men, etc. Thai jury, however, caused more changes in tho bookkeeping and m the conduct of public business tban any public body of any kind has done in this stnte in the snme time. Considerable money was recovered from official defalcations line that of the street superintendent's office, and mai y politicians were saved from the moral elide on which political pr:s surejwithout public attention bad placed thorn. A tax collector, for instance, was hauled up short for lending public money on a "gold Orick." That last jury rattled the political hones into the most seclude! iioss haunts and thoroughly alarmed tho whole political push. Nearly two years elapse before another such dangerous body is called. The law on grand juries, then, which appears in common-place language to call for two grand juries each year, mint bo judicially interpreted to mean "One grand jury every two years." The reason for two grand juries a year in a large county like ours may be sum marized as follows: First—The grand jury is the sole method of tho people under our system of exercising proper supervision over its officers and public business. The grind jury ia an esaentia! feature of our system. Its examinations not only aiscover wrong-doing in public affairs, but, what is really more important, tend lo prevent laxity, waste and corruption in these. Second—ln a great county like Los An geles a proper supervision and examina tion of tho public business by a grand jury requires nearl/ the entire year. For instance, as matters now stand, scarcely any school district, town or city outside of Los Angeles has ever Deen examined at all. Third—No responsible and active men, such as should exclusively compose a grand jury, can afford an entire year, except at great sacrifice to their work.. Fourth—Every part and parcel of the public business should be frequently and thoroughly overhauled by men as free as possible from the usual political influ ences. F?ftb—Tbis can never bo done in Los Angeles with one grand jury a year, much less with one every two years. The citizen taxpayer must deeply regret that the legal language saying two grand juries shall be summuned in one year judicially means one grand jury in two years. ROADS The reecnt slight rain storm,the initial sprinkling of the season, is sufficient to precipitate a consideraiton of the ques tion of good roads With the rapid in crease in the population of this county and its consequent development, the sub ject of country roads becomes one of the most important before the people. Tbat Lob Angeles county has about the most indifferent roads of any county of its population and general private im provement, must be admitted. As far as roads may be indicative of tbe character and aspirations of the people of a section, those of this county certainly do not speak flatteringly of the ropulace. The majority of our highways would suggest the presence here of a shiftless, ne'er-do well class of people, thoroughly well satisliod to lead a primitive existence, in stead of tho live, progressive and enter prising lot of people wo really have. It is safe to assert that practically every resident of this county is ambitions for its prompt settlement and its speedy de velopment. It is also safe to assert that few of these residents realize what an important part in the building up of a section good roads play. It might almost be said that after the preliminary stages of settlement the good road is an essen tial factor in the rapid and economical growth of the country. It is about time tbat the people of this conuty recognized those facts, and fol lowed tbe recognition with effective action. We have had a plenitude of conferences in the last year regarding the matter, but a decided poverty of results or of even plans providing for results. Witli the coming ot the rainy season and its inevitable concomitants of mud, slush and hidden chuckholes, the incon venience, discomfort and expense of traversing some of our notoriously evil thoroughfares may arouse such indigna tion and dlssatisfao ion on the part of horsemen, drivers and bicyclists tnat do the traveling, as will ba productive of early betterment. ANOTHER " RUINED" INDUSTRY. The report of Special Treasury Age.it Aver on the condition of the tin plate industry is one of those things the Re juiblian party will consider most un timely and will bitterly lament the pub lication of. The report covers the liscal year ending June 30, 1890, and shows a splendid increase in the number of mills for rolling the steel sheets, or black plates, whisb form the body of commer cial tin. The increase in the production ovet last year was 30 per cent. Forty eight liirms were producing in the last quarter of the year, against forty for the corresponding period of last year. Twenty-six new firms engaged in the business during tbe year. These and several othor interesting facts gleaned ; trom the report indicate that the destruc tion of the tin plate industry it was so ! conlidently predicted by the Republi cans, would be wrought by the "Wilson- Gorman freo trade tariff" bill, is yet j distant. SUNSHINL FOR DE PUSH The cabals about tho city hall ami the politicians generally have lost that anx ious look and do not seem to be trying tn find it again. The reason of all tbis political sunshine is the reported deter mination of the grand jury not to expert the city offices, and in fact to look into no public business whatever outside of the county books, unless a citizen makes oath that something is wrong. This ex traordinary immunity of the city politi cian is all the more extraordinary wben we reflect on the last grand jury's report, wherein the greatest need for grand jury I work was shown to be in the city. Two years, almost, have plipped away and the records for future examinations grow more and more unwieldy. This, how ever, may be a precedent to prevent any more annoying discoveries of malfeasance and emhozzlement in the city hall. De push grins,, while the taxpayer mourns. A Card to th: Public I.OS ANGELES, Oct. 23, 189r>. An ar ticle in the Los Angeles Record of this date headed A Scapeboat, says, among other things, "He (meaning myself, says he took Lowery up in this city when he was hungry and that now he has got him self into trouble he w;ll have to get him self out." This is untrue; whatever 1 have done for Mr. Lowery has been tbrougu the warmost friendship and con sidering him an honorable and upright man and I never made the remark im puted to me aoove quoted. T. H. WARD. Direct Trains From Race Track At I.os Angeles, leaving track at 6 p. ni., connecting at Clement Junction with Santa Ana, San Pedro and Long Beach trains, and at Arcade depot with Mon rovia, Ontario and Chino trains. Low round trip rates during race week on the Southern Pacilic. Huyler's Cocoa and Chocolates are unsur passed for their purity and dcliclousuess o flavor, nil grocers. LOS ANGELES HERALD: WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1895. CLIMATE LAND BY ABBOT KINNEY 11. Egypt, above Cairo, is a narrow strip of bottom land. A view Irom the low desolate bills that mn parallel to the valley a few miles on either aide gives the only realizaton of the situation. From such a point one sees the little narrow ribbon of green threading its way through the glowing sand and sun-blist ered rooks, tho sania indefinitely to the north, indefinitely to the south, and oarien wastes spreading everywhere, desert, on desert, on desert, into an infi nite region. After a few such views it gave me no surpriaj to learn that the territory supporting the hoary history ot Egypt about equaled the territory of Bel gium, that giant in industry and pigmy in size. Out cf so little has come ao tcuch. The ruina of Egypt are tbe only very old ones tbat are well preserved. Built of solid masses of stone in a rainless cli mate, they are today just as they were thousands of years ago. Fiven tho color of the frescoing and decoration remains bright and fresh, except where the torch of me guide has blackened it. Such is the condition o* vast numbers of Egyptian torn! s and temples. Vast numbers to have been spoiled or removed, not by nature, but hy man. Camhyses and his Persians made a business of destroying the grand temples of Thebes, and others followed in his footsteps, down to the iconoclastic fury of tbe lire-souled Christian anchorite. Thrift has also played its part in destroying. Whole towns have been built out of temples,and tombs have furnished quarries to the builder from generation to generation. Even th. 1 great pyramids did not escape. Originally covered with smooth white marble from base to summit, they are now rough tiers of great rock blocks. Only a little cap ot the old marble cover ing remains on one of them. The rest is in tbe fountains, mosques and minarets of Cairo. JVIy lirst visit tc Egypt was at tho building of the Suez canal. The country was thronged with distinguished people, all of whom wore lavishly entertained by tbe khedive. the only difficulty being to lind a place to lay one s head. At chat time there were many American officers in the Egyptian service. These made life very pleasant to Americans, nor did I liir! the English o.tieers much behind thorn in giving us a kind reception. Two Englishmen I shall never forget. In one of tho desert oases there is an old tomb deep covered with the sand drift. It is approached by an inclined descent, and at its entrance lies an Immense sar cophagus hewn from a single block of stone. Behind the cottin four of us stood in the dark entrance for twelve hours against a predatory bund of Bedouins. My last irip to Egypt was made witli the intention of making it my residence. Hut the summer, the institutions and the peope were too much for me. One can live in Egypt a lifetime and never become an Egyptian. Tbe condition of the country ano climate are peculiar and have perpe - uated through ail mutations tho native race. The curious narrow hips, broa I shoulders and slim bodies of the hiero glyphic men, made six thousand years ago, are tugging at the boat, oar or work ing tbe shadoof with tbe monotonous chant, Ya ha bam mad Ya Solieman, etc., today as though they had walked out of some ancient bus-relief. These Fellaheen work incessantly, but without courage, hope or intelligence. They give one the effect of what athletes call "going stale." Take the shadoof for instance; this is j a long pole with a stone at one end and ' a bucket at tbe other pivoted on another pole in the ground. As the Nile goes down and tbe banks rise these are going everywhere The Eellah pulls the bucket down into lb:' water and the stone lifts it up a few feet, when he turns tbe water into a little basin. Hi re is another shadoof and another Fellah, and so on till tbe general level is reached, when a little trickle of water flows to iirigate [be crop. All ibis goes on from fourteen to sixteen hours a day. Warner says that the first requisite of a gardner is a cast iron hinge in the back; if this he so then the lirst requisite of a sbadoof Fellab is a back made of nothing but cast-iron hinges. These people work too much to accomplish a great deal. On this Irip I went up the Kile with Mrs. Julia Ward ilowe, reading Homer in the Greek, and her daughter. Miss -Maud, now Mrs. Elliott, who lent that interest and zest tv tho party that can only come from tho presence of a fisauti -1111 and fascinating woman. Dr. Stillman was tbcre too, but more devoted to Byron than to Rameeeg. He read Childe Har old aloud until I believe I could re'dte Ihe whole of it. Young James Flood, the financier, was of tbe party, and a pleasant member ho was. Strangely enough 1 have never eeen him in my twelve years of t'alifornia. The Riviera de l'ouente is a narrow belt of country on the Mediterranean be tween Marseilles and Genoa, it is part in France, part in Italy and part in Hell. Hell with due deference for this gam blers' paradise,the principal city-of Mon aco, is the most beautiful and the best located of all the rituations on the ttiv lera. The Riviera has the titleless Mediter ranean on one side and the rocks of the Alps on the other. Wherever v torrent opens through the mountains tbe mistral blows and the climate is deteriorated. So narrow and rocky is this coast that the shore railroad is a series of tunnels and viaducts. The old waeon road was known as the "Cornico road" oy reason of its supposed resemblance to the cornice of a building. Every available nook and cor ner of this strip of climate is gardened, terraced, built on. Many of the towns are a series of terraces on the mountain sides. The houses seem to be climbing the hills, l'nere is but one large vsllev opening out to the sea. tnat near Cannes. A smaller one at Nice is very narrow and restricted and largely occupied by tbe pebbly bed of a dry mountain toirent that is dry except during a diluvial rain or tuountain snow melting. Tbe wide Ded of this torrent with its miles of stone protecting dikes is a notice of the effects of forest destruction on mountain and the work of the French forest department in reforesting and treating their water shed is a notice of the time end cost of curative measuies. Coming into the Riviera from Marseil les the little town of Hyeres is tho tirsi health resort. This place is a sort of climate outpost. It is entirely isolated from the rest of the climate reuorts and is surrounded by place of no hygemc reputation, tis dull, pretty place with a fewgoou palm trees. Her motherly magesty. the queen of Great Britain and empress of India, is to spend a part of the winter at Hyeres. or rather at Coste bclla near by. There is a pine wood at this place and many charming villas and good hotels. Amongst the villus is the costly reticat of tho Duke of Grafton. It is three miles from tho sea and in this respect is alone amongst the Itiviera re sorts. Cannes is larger, has more Accommo dations ami i» more exposed. It is indeed, w.tb Nice, the least protected of any of these places. Lord Brougham set the tide to Cannes and made it) popular amongst the English. The American birds of passage never did lake very much to it; they go on the fevr miles to Nice. Nice is a city—a gay city in win ter and a dead city in summer. It has n grand promenade, theaters, clubs, ca sinos, military bands and sewage, a city of nearly a hundred thousand inhabitants dumping its sewage into a tideless sea aligned by its hotels and villas is bound to create a nuisance. Cannes a few miles away with some twenty thousand people does the stme. Tho high death rate in these places can scarcely ba wondered nt. I have a special prejudice agaiost the sewage ol Cannes. It was in one of its excellent hotels thav I long lay ill. very near Charonn's ferry, smelling the smells in that long, dull October. Don't go to the Riviera in Ootober. It is the rainy seuson; the air is heavy, muggy, as the English say, and nothing has commend. An invalid can gain nothing by being thore then, and no one els- but a gamble! at Monte Carlo could find life tolerable. Hotel keepers, valets us place, waiters, thrust themselves on the attention, in groups and smglv here and in the vim vista, prepared for ihe tourist and the season, but no tourist and no seasun. What is one among so many? Nice is indeed a gay place, or was in 'lift. Here one meets the reckless and the rich of all Europe seeking winter quarters. It is only a few minutes by rail from Monte Carlo (Monaco). European home social conventions are relaxed and one meets prince and merchant in the same hall or dub. Tho beautiful Madam Rataygi.nee Bona parte dazzled Nice with both jewels and looks. She was then young, of course, as beautiful women must be, but a sort of second youth, and now tho papers say she is having still a fresh - affair de coeur." One sees all sorts of life. I romembor the dinner of a Russian princess at which each of us received a costly jewel, and the arrest the same evening of an adven turer who had been entertaining the toAtn on the credit ol his supposed vast fortune. ■ Nobles blue with their descent from the most orthodox bandits are cheek by jowl with the sorriest speci mens of the social purusite. The Ameri can visitors take up with cither class with about equal frequency. The nobles of Europe had in feudal times a very sound reason for being. They wero a vi tal organ of society. Now they are not, and like any unused organ must go into an atrophy and decay. Thus the rag, tag and bobtail of feudality does and must proportionately increase vi.til knights and ladis are hecome only a memory. There will be, Ihough, a nobility of heart and brains to run the earth, and some few of tbe titled ones of today may be in ft. Through a tunnel or two and a short run lands us at Monte Carlo, a lovely pluce on tho side of tho steep mountain, plantej and terraced into a garden. In front is the blue Mediterranean and the old town of Monaco covering a small rocky peninsula. The prince had ono soldier and a number of antique cannons inscribed with the motto in Latin "The last resort of kines." The rule in Monaco is different from that in Louisiana. In our sister state the preamble of the lottery law sets forth the advantage of keeping the gambler's mon ey at home, therefore to make a home market, as it Wert", they i a home industry and protect it from Havana and other lottery marauders, in Monaco, however, there is one strict rule, no citi zen is allowed to enter the gaining rooms and tho homemarkot is protected against the home monopoly, Beautiful as this place is, both natural ly and by man's work,one has only to go into the roulette to see the ugliest thing in tje world —the human passion for un earned gain made visible in expression. There are iwo things that the philos opher may note at Monaco more easily than in most places—first, tbe thinness •:f the veneer of on- civilized conven tiona, and. second, their toughness, elas ticity and vitality. Though man is so near barbarism, he is still so far away from it, and that, too, not only in rules and conventions, out in instincts that have grown into his life. Monaco has its last men and fast women; its habitual gamblers for excite ment, its dabblers on t..e edge, its waders and those who plunge into the depths where vast fortune or financial ruin and suicide indifferently await them. The games at Monaco run nearly con stantly. They are Roulette and Rouge et Noire. Besides the regular game in each case a number of arra gements are made for side beti on the table, based on tbe vasrarios of the call or card. The busino'S is conducted lairly. Outside of the large returns possible for a small chance in roulette, the bets aro rfven as to each one between the bank and the gambler. The bank gains through the practiculiy universal increase of winners' stakes and decrease of losers. Thus a man winning ten time 3 has a tendency to increase his bets until, when he loses the eleventh time he will have a larger stake to lose than at the fifth, and so, contrariwise, the loser of ten bets will have a smaller stake on his winning elevenht than he had on his first, and so, while the laws in chance on betting on a color would give the bank and the gambler Ihe same number of successes in a given time, this tenaency to increase bets when winning and decrease them when luring, makes toe gamlber win less and lose more than the bank. Rome times great winings are made at Mon aco, but it is rare that a winner can leave off gambling or that he ever even tually gets away with his gain. Mentone, the chin, has long been ad vertised to the world by the writings of Dr. Bennett, who there regained his health ami lived many consecutive winters. The income of Mentone comes about in equal pans from tourists and from lemons. Both are terraced up the hillsides and both do very well. As Dr. Bennett pointed out long ago, the diffi culty of the sewage question lias grown with the piosperlty of this, as of all the Riviera places, I am inclined to agree with Dr. Bennett that Mentone is the most sheltered of the Riviera resorts. Certainly it is the lemon producer of the shore, and thus must be less subject to climatic extremes than those places where this delicate tree does not suc ceed. Burdighera, beyond, lias an in terest peculiar to it, from its monopoly in furninshlng palm leaves to Rome for tho Easter festivities. Kan Kemo is in tbe finest and most important health re sort of the Riviera in Italy. It is a quiet place, somewhat affected by Germans since tbe late Empsror Frederick spent so much time tnero. In my timo Alassio was the only other station with modern accommodations before reaching Genoa, the superb. Here ends the "Riviera di ponente." INDIANASOLIS, 4000 DEMOCRATIC Reed- Say, Hen, how's this? By gum, if you iiave things in such a fix In your town, what pull havo you To chow 111 '£6? Great Caeßar, Ben, if my home town .Should do as yours has done, I'd go and saw my log off short, Before I'd try to run. Morton — Dear Benjamin, I'm pained to see Your town in such a plight. If this is all you can do, I'll beat you out of sight. I played tlie second lidale once, Don't you remember, Bbh? Well, once was quite enough, dear boy, I'll not do so again. McKiniey— 4000 Democratic! Gosh! What strange things will happen when We have no gun! Say, do you think any chance for Ben? Take mv advice and stay at home; And Henjie, buckle down To local politics until You ye straightened out your town. Allison- Dear me! Dear me! Dear Benjamin, What news is this I hear? Have you permitted Democrats To catch you in the rear? fAnd rigbtlatjbotne! Well. I decla-el When will you write a letter to Announce that you won't run! (Not for publication.) Harrison— !!!!!!!!!! clam ! !!!!!!!!!! tell I [ll t i 1 I I 1 j !!!!!!!!! ——!! —New York Sun. Dr. Price's Crsam Baking Powder Werld's Fair Hlzheat Awar* AT THE THEATERS Burbank Theater. —Another large au dience greeted the Frawley company last evening and tho performance of Sweet Lavender was received with pleasurable djlight. In the character of Clement Hale, the law student, Mr. Frawley gave a finished presentation, and bis manly, dignified hearing in the part won hearty applause from those present. The senti mental scenes were well carried out, and Mr. F'rawley, as well ns the rest of the able company, gave as finished a perform ance as even the most critical could de sire. The announcement that Lady Sholto Douglass will make her appearance with the F'rawley company tomorrow evening resulted yesterday in a heavy demand for seats, and the indications are that the little songstress upon whom the eyes of two continents arc now turned will be greeted by a packed house. Sweet Laven der will be played for the rest oi the week, including the Saturday matinee. * V- D- Orpheum — The new bill st this popular home of vaudeville has made a big hit. The house was again crowded last even ing and every one of the cloeer and amusing specialties met with hearty ap probation. Haines and Pettingill pre sented their famous original sketch, The (Inly Poolroom Open, last night for the ;irst time, and kept ihe aunience shriek ing with luughter by their lively sallies of wit. They lire a volley of jokeß with a rapidity tbat reminds one of a discharge from a Catling gun, and create more merriment than any team who ever ap peared here. Their sketch cleverly repre sents the sura thing allurements con trived to obtain tiie money of the unso phisticated at a raco track, and has a borsoy flavor tbat is particularly appro priate to race week. LANCASTER LOTS The Los Angeles Herald is giving away town lots at Lancaster to its subscribers. Its contemporaries call tho gift a rank swindle, saying tbat Lancaster is only a sagebrush and alkali waste, and the lots are not worth the money it takes to re cord the deeds. If any Los Angeles paper bad, not so many years ago, given away lots in what is now Rcdlands, Ontario, South Riverside or half a dozen other places, it would have been open to the same charge of swindling and with just as much reason as in the case of Lancas ter. While it is not at all likely that the Lancaster lots will ever ba worth as much as property m Los Angeles, yet there ia nothing more absolutely certain under the sun than that tho now de spised place will some day be a good sized and prosperous town.—liakerstield Californium The foregoing from an intelligent con temporary,published in a proiperom and growing town, states with groat perti nency and ability all that The Herald contends for in its scheme for tbe ex tens:on of its circulation. Wa may re mark, incidentally, that the scheme is a success. IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION A Meeting to Arrange the Preliminaries for Celebrating Tno Los Angeles Improvement associa tion held a regular meeting last night at which the plans to celebrate the opening of the I3sllevue avenue electric roau were further considered. The officers and leading members of the association, together with the city officials and other visiting guests, will occupy tho place of honor on the first cars that go river the road. Henry T. Hazard and otbors will ad dress the meeting to be held in the hall Saturday everting. A display of lire works, a brass band and other features have been prepared for the crowd which will gather outside the hall. CHINESE BODIES Permits fur the Shipment of Eight Issued Yesterday Permits were yesterday issued from the health office for the shipment of eight Chinese bodies to tho country of their nativity. The remains are at present interred ut Evergreen cemetery. Eor every permit issued tho city receives flu. Royal Arcanum Entertaimnsnt Iloyal Arcanum will entertain friends and brother members at the hall, 245 South Spring street, tomorrow nigh.. Several |of the lending frnternal orders have been invited and have signilied their intention of being present in a body. The following well known people will take part: Messrs. Foley, Tarkor. Dalton and Ward, Professor I>. Wormser, Mr. and Mrs. Tompkins, Miss Gllbolm and the Auiphion banjo orchestra. Master Ang elotty and Miss Ethel Graham t>nd sister and the Story family are specially en gaged. The entertainment will concludo with a hop. Cheapest Sunday Excursion to Sea Shore Hound trip of 25 cents to Santa Monica, Lona Beach or San Pedro. A chance to see Soldiers' Home, Mammoth Wharf and the now bicycle Hack. Southern Pacific company. Kregelo <fc Bresee, lunernl directors, Broadway and Sixth sroet. Tel. 243. Female and Rectal Diseases Albo rupture treated by Dr. C. Edgar Smith, northeast corner Main and Seventh streets. 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Sold by all druggists. r-lrw\/i'cx D2llc cure habitual constlpa- IIUUUS r I«» tion. Price »se. »«»•». "The Beat jj the Cheapest" BOSTON qoSds STORE TELEPHONE 904 239 South Broadway Opposite City Hall I ' 1 CorS6tS Muslin Underwear Second Floor Grace, Comfort, Durability Style ' Quality ' Economy What is more uncomfortable than an ill-fitting corset? Have your cor- , ~. .... , , ... .... v, „_„_ . „ A visit to tnis department will sets fitted to your form. We have convince {h; most m , al not only the best appointed fitting Hme and money are s;lved by bliying . rooms 111 the west, but the largest and ready-made Undergarments. We are best assortment of Corsets. showing the latest styles in great as sortment* and at prices only a trifle Our leading brands are : more than the cost of the material. The Celebrated W. B.— plain Tucked Drawers— $1.00 to $5.00 25 cents The R. & G.— Embroidered Trimmed Drawers— $1.00 to $2.50 75c, 50c and 30c The P. D.— Beautiful Embroidered Gowns — $1.50 to $5.50 85c, 75c and 50c The I. C. — Lovely Lace Trimmed Gowns— $3.50 to $6.00 $1.50, $2, $3 T $9 ——We carry full lines of Thomp- 1 Fancy Empire Gowns trimmed son's Glove-Fitting, Warner Bros.'s, with Paris Lace and Swiss Embroid and a dozen other makes. Also , cry. The very latest styles in French Children's Good Sense Ferris Waists j Umbrella Drawers and Skirts, ln at 25c Two new style Bicycle Cor- j fants' long and short slips in tine ma sets. 1 terials. BOSTON ooSos STORE 1 . . MILLINERY . . j I The Surprise, 242 South Spring St. j I I Latest Winter Styles as fine quality Imported French Millinery as can be found on earth at Cut Rate Prices —50c on the dollar. @ 50 dozen Ladies' latest style Felt Hats 40c —Value 75c 3 §j 20 dozen Trimmed Walking Hats, French Felt $I.oo—Value $2.00 {1 b 2; dozen English Felt Walking Hats, Trimmed 75c —Value fl,or) g Bj 100 dozen Buckram Hat Frames 10c —Value 25c ra ffl 50 dozen Buckram Bonnet Tocque 5c —Value 20c | So many bargains too numerous to mention. Convince Yourself. |h ffl Economy is the road to wealth. E I A. J. RIETHMULLER. If YOll Suffer FROM YOUR OWN FOLLY 4^ Expert Specialists California Medical and Surgical Institute 241 S. MAIN ST., who, with unparalleled succo.s, treat and cure all NERVOUS, CHRON IC and PRIVATE diseases, snch a. Bit Ml" A L WEAKNESS. N IGriT LOSSE". LOST MANHOOD, BCZKMA, THROAT, NOSE, LIVER, KIDNEY and RECTAL troubles; SYPHILIS, the worst o! blood poisons, Gonorrhneii, Gleet, Stilcture, Orchitis, Varicocele, Hydrocele and all other re. suits of these diseases, or ignorant treatment of same. Curea Guaranteed. Honorable Treat ment. Charges moderate Diploma and License call be seen at office. Consultation Free and n confidence. oflice hours. 9to a: evening*. 7to 8 : Sundays, 10 to 19. 241 S. JtAIN ST., L. Am j NILES PEASE j ♦ Wholesale and Retail Dealer la Telephone 338 f { — furniture! X C*7\ VT\C\\ g Lace and Silk Curtains % ♦ Portieres, Oilcloths ♦ «> Window Shades «> ♦ 337-339-341 Linoleums, Mattings, Etc. $ I South Spring Street \ X LOS ANGELES, CAL. 5 % ♦♦«♦♦»♦♦ ♦♦♦♦ «.♦♦♦♦♦♦» ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦ ♦♦<V>i »♦♦ X gBHHaaSHHHBa^ 5% Thomas Bros. S°r Stoves, Ranges Heaters HARDWARE j Mechanics' Tools c- 230 South Spring Street. Chrysanthemum Flower 9»w;*JS^%se Admission Free. C*or. Main and Jefferson Streets , Japanese Nursery.