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PROPER LITERARY FORM
JAMES G. CLARK
The art of vituperation, to be really
effective, should be treated as a fine
art, subject to a steady nerve and never
resorted to as an outlet for passion or
excitement, or what my old and distin
guish-d friend Theodore Roosevelt
Woulu term "hysteria." If the old He
brew sage who said, "O! that mine en
cmv would write a book," were living
in the present era of Journalistic and
political literature he would probably
change the form of his petition to, "O!
that mine enemy would make a political
speech, or cartoon, or compile a plati
tudinous essay for the Shakespeare club
or woman's parliament, or write a coarse
screed for some dally paper"—in short,
do anything, no matter what, to make
a record through which he or she, as
the case may be, should stand self-con
•/lcted of vulgarity or malignity, or
loth.
On several different occasions I have
been unexpectedly honored by a per
gonal attack in the Los Angeles Times.
I will frankly admit that at first these
Attacks were somewhat annoying to me
—less on my own account, hnwever.than
that of my many friends. But later on
I have felt like thanking the Times and
Its correspondents for these special at
tentions, which have not only Berved to
render more warm and steadfast my
real friends among all classes, but also
to eliminate from the large circle a few
superficial and vacillating peopie who
were sufficiently wpak to be Influenced
hiy any utterance in the Times, either
In blame or praise.
So far as I know the- Times is the
only Journal in the United' Slates that
has, since the days of the fugitive slave
law ttrid the civil war—when I was de
nouncing with my pen and voice a far
less dangerous and objectionable phase
of oppression than the one I am fight
ing now—deliberately tried to injure
me socially because of my political and
reform work. In order to give the latest
Times assault a wider reading. I repro
duce it entire ln The Herald, whose
readers can be able to measure the
moral and mental quality of my en
emies:
"WHISKERS."
James G. Clark, the Statesman, Poet
and Calamity Howler.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. B.—(To the Ed
itor of the Times:) We wonder if the
man whose name appears above, and
who, by the yard, is now reeling off
learned criticisms of Uncle Sam and
his experienced and conscientious ad
visers, is the same James G. Clark who.
during our recent terrible railway
strike, which for a while threatened
the very existence of the nation, es
poused so strongly the cause of the
strikers, wrote so Insanely in the now
defunct Farm and Labor Review about
powder and bail and blood and thunder
for the business man, who, as the result
of his industry, frugality and economy
had recklessly accumulated anything
for a rainy day. and in the bitterness of
his invective did so out-Herod' Herod
(hat only his senility saved him from
presentation 'to the grand Jury? We
wonder if this is the man who, during
Ills sixty-five or seventy years of quite
average opportunity for displaying
genius In the management of affairs,
and for laying aside a competency for
his old age, is the one of the same
name who, as regards every vital rela
tion to the world is utterly stranded—
a mere straw drifting on the current of
events, and living on a narrow margin,
and yet who. with refreshing assur
ance, now comes forward with specific
and voluminous suggestions to states
HOW DR. SHORES CURES THE SICK
Dr. Shores' Army of Cured Patients _ _ f , " ."" _ _ " J ? toP * a " d ™ ney nature's warning
The People s Specialist s Mastery of Disease Trouble cured
If the number of sick people who have been cured of ca- Aches and Palns Are the Dan * er
tarrh and chronic disease by Dr. Shores were gathered to- ~" ?!M d a. Si s nals That You Ate sick and
gether they would make a mighty army. In the past three Under His Skillful Treatment Chronic Disease Quickly Yields and the Sick ZTSLmII CTp™! Need Treatment .
years thousands have come to this eminent Specialist, and are Made Well—Home Folks Speak in Grateful Praise ?
ms special" I Read the following symptoms over care
- under his improved treatment been released from the aches and .Ml „ , ~- .j . . { B w .2 n }n w by: e *&^^
1 pains of disease. Scores have risen from their death beds and of n,s nodern Hedical Methods was "due.* and send or bring them to Dr. a. j. shores,
joined the grand legion of cured and happy patients. Every ca,t t0 make my * nl and 1 was " rcpar,,,s y ° u
week testimonials have been published from cured patients ' the head and throat
who give their names and addresses, and can be found. These Free Dr. Shores Treats
This form of catarrh is most common—
represent but a few out of hundreds of unsolicited testimonials and Cures • f ll
received by Dr. Shores from the sick who have been made Trial Catarrh m -°i."t™n m sTstopped u P t»
well. The small fee rate of $$ per month, which covers the Asthma' "&Kt«r
full cost of treatment and all medicines and appliances, brings T.„„i Kmnrhitis 4 •«/ • V™"n.nSl'lf^inltaS^r'
''the services of this great Specialist of the people within the 1 reai= M> ■ #1 Weak and ■ '^IV^^Z^V^i:^
reach of all sufferers Dr Shores Personally Treats % Sore Eves, """""r^™,
Every Case. Remember, also, that absolute lv No Charge merit ;.W . v wi Hiv F/vfr whe« catarrh ot the he** and throat is
is Made for a Full Consultation and Diagnosis of ,; P Deafness SS«o«xaTo«^^
-r _ ... . ■ ~ , ,i • , , r-T c» „~.»-i- i 1 *'•' ••" vO* 4)-«~\ UCill IICSS, -—>*if* arul after awhile attacks the lunas. Quick-
Your Trouble It you are sick it costs nothing to get Dr. So confident i- .\v. ; M %J\ Neimlp-ia ly curwl wuh " nu 6081 **•
t,.,.. j j • » e> _ „, , v?..v •'• liCUI ctlcla., sBMFBc222aHsT tamous treatment.
Shores opinion and advice. Dr. Shores tha he || ; 41 Insomnia, ■■^ U^X^
Come and See Him Before It Is Too Late. " n X. & H * W Heart Disease, te w .. t Goa , when my husbam3 waa :f«Sfih,r,
and CniOlllt DIS- \ I / rWiiAivda provltontlally moved to consult Dr. Shores ••Do you cough In the mornings? •
„„._ . ... - • / / UyspepMd, again. I began treatment and in one week "Do you spit up little cbeesy Mmpsr*
eaSJS, even ill Its •.!• ■■ . ,ty~VmM£\, \~ Phoimotcm ws* able to be out of bed. after lying there "Do you feel you are growing weaterr*
O • ■,■ / KneUmailSm, torn" inontha during which time! paid thn Don't risk neglecting these warnings-
Catarrh of Head and Bronchial Permanently Cured by Dr. worst forms, that a ;.^g. Malaria, blen\?«t^oVath P s stop the disease before it reaches the lung*.
Tiihea Ctirml chmc cordial invitation is v..-' / ghorea has saved me. lam gaining flesh op THE EARS
luoca vurca snores -„i«„j«j *- „,, ' . s t rapidly and feel Uke a new woman, praised -is your hearing fatting?"
.... •* BXienaeu to .111 per- A X\\iw\\t*rv 1,6 UIH Lord. It Is simply wonderful how "Do"your ears discharger'
Oliver B. Hoberts, who owns a large fruit Mrs. Harvey H. Allen, whose husband Is a ■ ( t; i. .. jr.\ L»ysciuci >, I Dr. Shores' medicines haye restored me to is tlte> wax dry In your ears?
ranch near Holly wood, living thre for a well known professor of music, rtsldimt -° b Slinerill" 11 011 l *«ft— rfv'?%. ''• .r / kfirlnPV nisPISt 5 health. I make this statement unsolicited Do you hear some days better than
fourteen venrs snvn- "I mifTered fnr " ... j. , If 1 ' I . rVIUIIty UIA>Mk, , and will glad y tell my story to all who call others?
fourteen years, says. I surtered for this dSCISe, 01 from A f • J*l? ■■■■ ■ k M.„, nn{ on me or write, for I wou.l be In my grave -i s your hearing worse when you hay.
twenty years with catarrh, and the mucous . v ,j- ? _ . . ' J • «3sl**"<-'' NetVOUS If It had not been for Dr. Shores' wonder- » cold-" n ' ar,nß wors * w ™" "" T '
stfim-m \ " COUgh, Asthma or -y,:. A 1 ful skill." Don't neglect this until yoinr bearing Is
1 '■''ri^V^a' , - ~ , , T, ~ /« f\ . <X\ Irreparably destroyed. Doctor Shores can
|* F m. any Lung Trouble, /?> f~ Blood Diseases, ! cure you now.
f to call at his offics • 1. i^wi^^. ci,: n 1 kidney disease
«38?« ZvtblmwiK • ii m i- i ii i . ■ ■■ ••i*'.*."*;/' I I - >XIII UIStaSCS, • p Mf l Thi«! Results In two ways by taking cold and
<W> in the Redick block y. ■ if.'. , \ I VJf FAmalp [ Keau I nis> by overworking the kidneys ln separating
\W> •MW&SSS&*. Wfflmmfr t r ' : -'W'*H ■>/■•;'' V ',■ 3 >' •<? renidie from tU.- l.!oo«l the.-atarrlial poisons which
/ ' Wki Tlßfsf J»/ ' «K??W9S' (Of a iIC examilia- 'tf- . ,n\ \ rf--?-<! nicAl«o<t Tpstimnnv affect all organs, cjuiokly cured with Uttle
t JK , V t4IW JSimr' ~ • W^"tT ! Aw N\ V V\'- UlSeaSeS, l e&UniOliy cost by Doctor Shores'famous treatment.
I iTnflMhffl --<SMT '.*M tion and. a lav trial ' V\' •»• . VC ._.i. .' J ■ V HAnwrrmirk "Do your hands and feet jMfellf'
&BBBBS& jpp** Mlf/ ' leal treatment ?t.-- • ■ J i 1 — \jjjst! c nemerrnoius. '.I s \ h is nou l ed i mo m^iof^ackr
| J&mkf' James llcfm r. who re>id« at W. Phi'a.l, :,.lda street, this city says: " I have been sick with catarrh of for -!so''':.u lia""'lo p-t"ul! often"at night?"
(<•' I ' '^'v*4mHb>':''<••'" a long time. 1 ctuild not iak« food, vomited everyiliing I ate, and could not retain water hi my stomach. 1 lost Sjopomtds in / Wk "is there a deposit In urine If left stand
k\\k*- 'i * two weeks. 1 tri. d sis ulircrini tors ntl r.o relief. I began treatment wit h Dr. Shores on. month ago, and since / ..jj4k\\ Ing'"
VWsssli'Rißr >s®?r X H<«' lin » ' bod regained my lost tlcsh and eat nnytliing. and now to my meals with I ne\er km Don't neglect these signs and rlak
\wf* pQflUi .•'•«-*,>; such an appetite us 1 now have. I cannot speak too highly of Dr. Shores treatment, believing he has saved m> me. i sn«aPnßMl Bright's disease killing you. Cure it now.
i ' will gladly answer all tpiestlons as to my wonderful recovery." g
.. , . . , ' , . The liver is affected by catarrhal poisons
lately began to close up the air passages at Garvanza. says: "For several years 1 , HHfHKSF extending from the stomach into the ducts
and lungs. Lost appetite and took to my had been suffering with catarrh. My svs- sj „ Tr> . i No One Deprived of the Benefits of Dr. Shores' Treatment Because of fWnillfili IPrW of the liver. Quickly cored wlih little cost
bed. Remembering that Dr. Shores had tern has been badly run down. I had kid- IIOiTIC 1 1 CatltlCllt Liviil' a* a. Octanes from the Office. by Doctor Shores'famous treatment
cured a ranch hand of mine named GHdUen, ney and liver and' stomach trouble, lost " _ jMHHHBv '•« "Do you iTave com feet'"
tour toy. got'relferand wLTonflned m??? ™Bho"re. The **™ wonderful and uniform succsss attending the treatment of Dr. Shores it. his ofiice is found in his home treat- ''Do you
am as strong as I was when a young man and nave at,, hi, medTcines and loca •«•">' " r >"' U hv ><»>»• "V «*•' of a sympt ,m blank he is able to diagnose cases and "Do you ffive'h^nShSir-
I now eat heartily, my air passages are treatment!and to the success his reports he keeps a close watch upon them. Patients living In the country may enjoy the beneflt of Dr. Shores skill W lyri'i H* "Are your spirits lo* at thnes?
clear, mucous gone, and'l am rapidly get- of his treatment, tf aye gained flesh moid- as well as those in the city. Write for symptom blark and have your case diagnosed. It will cost yon nothing. The t \l \AjiL "Do you have rumbling In bowels?
ting well. Dr. Shores has worked wonders ly. recovered my appetite, sense of taste charges for home treatment are $5 a month, all medicines free, including all INSTRUMENTS AND APPLIANCES. ' ' These are se\ en simple
in my case, as all my neighbors can vouch, and smell, and never felt better in my life, Ing disease of the liver. have any or
Did not know how sick! was until I be- as I feel Dr. Shores is permanently curing Richard G Doyle a well known real es- »" of tl . ien '' sock Doctor.Bhos*s now and
•ran to get well. My cure seems almost me. I publicly make this statement to tatt San it No 117 Broiwav "y™ "In be .cured.
like magic guide other sufferers to see Dr. Shores." gf* mam A Mnnth fni* All Diseflcev 41* Cff aT\sr \ February last I fell from a'ladder and OP THE STOMACH
sksfS I if A monin 10l All UISCaSCb == JHfc IB Ml .truck my knee, seriously Injuring It I catarrh of the stomach Is "anally caused
•PC/ev'V/ MEDICINES FREE *X , consulted' several specialists, and they |hv BWa n owill g mucous which drops dowa
iiEuimiw rnui. de a thorough examination and' then f - tho heal f and thro at at night. QulokW
_ ; told me probably that I »o t(l i , wlth liu , B cost by Doctor Shores'
/V _ • _ »_ All " either have knee cap opened and a stiff famouß treatment.
Une PriCe lOr AH knee ,or "ft'/*,f av lk the leX Cut i o "/ „J "rtherl nausea?"
,vv -v '" — v a . I—w1 —w a then consulted Dr. Shores and in four »Do you belch up gas?"
~ „ „, A —■ -~ ~ f weeks' time my leg was entirely healed, "Are you constipated?"
11l treating with Dr. Shores you know Just what you have to pay. Dr. I Mr £X I || I 1 !>. vl 1 - . and it is no« as good as It ever was. t "i s yo „r tongue coated?"
Shore, doe. not oh.r«o *B for Catarrh and. «ao for Kidney Disease or Z - !. *J • TO \mf%J* 9 • nubli liDo^b.oat^^
other trouble He will treat you for all your aliments, no matter how _ . , m friends who I k ! , , oW „'';^. f l ac ,"i Now Is the time to be permaKn^OßfSJsV
many, fs>- f» per month, all medicine. Included. Now understand, 85 a Redick Block, First and Broadway. Office Hours—9 a. m. until Ip. m.; 2p. m. until sp. m.; Evenings, 7tO 8; ot special- Doctor Shores is curing hundreds eveew
aaonth is all you have to pay for expert treatment. Sundays, 10 until 12 noon. WHY NOT COMB TODAY? lsfs who wealed to cut my leg oft." week.
men and financiers as to the best means
and methods for the management of
our vast national concerns? We won
der If the man occasionally seen on our
streets with very long, heavy curly
locks and white, luxuriant, Populistic
wind-swayed whiskers—the Hag of an
Inveterate crank, as every sensible per
son must see—is the self-constituted
adviser of the nation touching the pro
foundesl subject that ever engaged the
attention of political philosophers in
competent and thoroughly conscien
tious statesmen. And yet the tailors of
Tooley street, who pronounced the
British parliament a failure and Eng
land an egig shell that would soon bi
crushed, may have American cousins.
The party of the name of Clark re
' minds us of the colored brother who
acknowledged that Gen. Grant meant
well, but said " 'Twas cl'ar he did not
onderstan' de plan ob de campaign."
Also, of the man in rags, the crown of
whose hat was napping In the wind,
who cried to the shipbuilder, "Launch
your huge steamer; never mind the
gale; I will take the responsibility."
Alas! alas! if those who have shown
themselves to be utterly incompetent
to steer their own craft amidst the
currents of the world—to be no match
for even the ordinary circumstances of
life; who have become mere drift
wood on the stream of events —were not
quite so confident of their ability to
pilot the ship of state, not quite so sure
that all their business misfortunes are
directly attributable to the prosperity
of Jones, Smith and Brown, backed by
the connivance of the government, not
quite so certain that Uncle Sam should
saddle the most of their disasters—if
they were a little more willing to comply
with the conditions and pay the price
of business success, or could see that
their business failures are clearly
traceable- to their own weaknesses, sev
eral of our most serious political prob
lems would at once be solved and our
national horizon would be clearer. Be
yond all question the great republic
founded for the purpose of individual
encouragement, is today threatened by
the very class that, ignorantiy or de
signedly, would sacrifice it to their In
terests, and stab it to the heart because
It canot consistently carry them. In
crowds these men are following Mr.
Bryan. If our freak or his double, com
posed of about equal parts of curled
hair. Insufferable conceit, business dis
appointments, empty pockets and viru
lent cynicism, would lie low, sing small,
and mostly keep out of sight, till his
anarchical proclivities, his dangerous
sympathy with strikers, his fellow feel
ing for demagogues and his inveterate
hostility to the government were par
tially forgotten, his name, bleached by
becoming obscurity, would be much less
malodorous than it now is. Clark is
merely an illustration, an object lesson,
"There are others."
Though this al has no bearing on any
printed work, I plead guilty to the terri
ble charge of being "occasionally seen
on our streets with very long, heavy,
curly locks, and white, luxuriant, Pop
ulistic whiskers," and I also confess to
an abiding sympathy with strikers
against the Pullmans and Carnegles.
And while it is news to myself and the
general public that the grand Jury has
designs upon me at the time of the
strike, I will say here and now that I
am still talking, writing and singing
along the same line, that my "senility"
shall be waived and that I can be found
by the authorities any time that I am
wanted; and also that "there are others"
—in fact, so many of us all over the nation
that it might be somewhat embarrass
ing on the part of officers to arrest us,
and still more to find accommodations
for us all, unless they should turn us
loose ln the palaces of the Vanderbllts,
Astors, Whitneys and Rockefellers, as
the charitable and penal Institutions are
already overcrowded with the victims of
our English financial system.
I am sorry on Mr. MeKinley's account
that the Times' writer referred to my
financial affairs, as It Invites unfavor
able comparisons. I earn a moderate liv-
LOS ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 8, 1596.
Ing—all 1 aspire to—with my pen, and am
out ot debt, while the Ohio statesman,
"with quite average opportunity for dis
playing genius ln the management of
affairs," is under $118,000 bondage to the
man who rescued him from more dis
astrous mismanagement than I was ever
guilty of. Hut we will let that pass with
other equally Interesting statements in
a production that is evidently a very
loose compilation of worn-out epithets
and phrases selected at random from
recent Republican speeches and edi
torials, and how to prove great mtnds
sometimes differ in their estimate of the
same subject. 1 will quote portions of let
ters such as I am occasionally receiving
from all parts of the English,speaking
world touching my work In the ileld of
reform.
The first is from an "anarchist" who
occupies and honors "the chair of ap
plied Christianity" in the lowa college:
GRINNELL. la., March 14, 1880.
Prof. James Q, Clark, Pasadena. Cal. —
My Dear Mr. Clark: I accept the dedi
cation of your poem (The Living Christ)
with the greatest gratitude, not only be
cause I know I shall highly value the
poem for itself, but for the beautiful
sincerity with which yon do this. I
always read your poems with great de
light, because they seem to be so full of
the prophecy of the better day that Is
breaking.
You know how to prophesy against
wrong and to hold up the ideal of the
right, and yet do all this with the gen
tleness of Christ. So your songs are all
songs of his spirit. Then this means all
the more to me because of your abiding
and frank sympathy with the mission
which I am trying to fulfill. I feel Hint
the storms that are past are as nothing
compared with the storms and stress to
come, for which I must get ready, etc.
Faithfully and affectionately yours,
GEORGE D. HBRRON.
The following Is from another "an
archist," well known as tlie "millionaire
congressman of Pennsylvania," who,
with William J. Bryan.led the free silver
forces of the lower house from 1592 to
1894:
FRANKLIN, Venango County, Pa.,
January 17, 1896.
Mr. James G. Clark. Pasadena. Cal.—
My Dear Mr. Clark: I beg to thank you
for the pleasure which came to me
through receiving, with your autograph,
Mr. Flower's pamphlet commenting on
your poems. Some of these poems I
had never seen, while others of your
production I have occasionally quoted
ln my speeches, and they have voiced
in language tho sentiments that have
been a thousand times in my heart. I
would not for the world Hatter you, but
I do not know when I have ever exerl
enced more profound pleasure than ln
the reading of your poems. James Rus
sell Lowell has for many years been my
favorite poet. A great many of his
poems are committed to memory. He
wrote for human freedom, and my Judg
ment is will be the contemporary of all
ages. You have done the same. You be
long to the "immortals," and I believe
so long as the true spirit of the Master Is
comprehended by humanity none who
have caught the keynote of the life which
he lived, who have rightly comprehend
ed his mission to Calvary's cross, will
fail to find In your poems the true teach
ings of the Christ life, and you will speak
to such all through the ages. That
strength of body and mind may be given
you for many years to come that other
words of warning and prophecy may be
given is my ardent wish Every blessing
which a bountiful Father has In his gift
for his most favored children I shall hope
he may give you.
I think you and I belong to the came
church, if not according to ecclesiastical
nomenclature, yet nevertheless the
same. I have recently been speaking on
a topic which might be termed the Po
litical Economy of the Man of Galilee.
I have earnestly sought to apprehend
his teachings, and I have been forced to
the belief that the churches as today
constituted fall to catch tho master
spirit of this marvelous man. As you so
beautifully express it in your poem:
"While Christ the God is crowned in song
And Christ the man is crucified."
I know of no one, prince or potentate,
no matter In what realm of human intel
lect and action he may be truly a sov
ereign, whom to greet and converse with
ln familiar interchange for a few hours
would afford me the intense gratification
that it would to meet you. Should it
never occur that ln this mundane ex
istence our hands shall meet, neverthe
less I am firm in the belief that in some
future and higher sphere ol action I
shall meet you with those other good and
true who have labored to make the
burdens of life He lighter on the backs of
their struggling brothers. I have put
the little pamphlet on my table, and I
do not fall, when opportunity offers, to
read those poems to some of my friends.
Had Isaiah prophesied sweeter things
to the people of old" they probably
would have appreciated him more in his
day. And were your views not so ad
vanced your work would be better un
derstood now. Tile present generation
will not know you us you will be known
fifty years from now. The columns of
the reviews are filled with praises of
your songs. Many of the public are ig
norant of them today, but many even
now treasure them In their hearts, and
millions more will sing them through the
coming years.
Permit me with great respect and pro
found admiration to have the honor to
sign myself, your sincere friend,
JOEPH C. SIBLEY.
I have reproduced these three testi
monials —beginning with the one from
the Times —not in self-defense, but to
satisfy some of my more sensitive
friends. And in conclusion, I wiil say
to my many friends in Southern Califor
nia, that while I greatly enjoy appre
ciation and social intercourse of the gen
uine sort, and on tlie only satisfactory
and enduring basis, I am in no sense a
seeker of office, or a candidate for popu
lar favor and applause, or for "society
honors." If I were all these, I could eas
ily win by selling myself for a news
paper consideration. Infinitely more re
munerative that than earned or received
by any of my few and far-between tra
dueers for resorting to literary and j
moral protitutlon. The class of writers '
who are doing their utmost to establish
a motal "gold standard" guage for hu
manity, through which men and women
are measured, not by actual worth and
moral utility, but by the amount of
material wealth with which they suc
ceed, either through inheritance or self
ish effort, in decorating or encumbering
the image of God, are guilty of the worst
form of prostitution possible, as much
more vicious and deplorable than the
physical sort as mind, soul and spirit are
higher than the fleshly form which they
temporarily occupy. They are identical
with the same class that 1900 years ago
crowned with thorns the Son of Man,
spit in his face and helped crucify him
for driving usurers and pawnbrokers out
of the Temple, caling "scribes, Pharisees
and hypocrites" by the right name, and
—worst of all—for failing to own a
"competency" or even permanent lodg
ing place.
SANTA FE SUITS.
Litigation Resulting From Quarrels
Among the Stockholders.
TOPEKA, Kas., Nov. 7.—Charles F.
Johnson, who was appointed receiver of
the Santa Fe property in Kansas by
Judge Myers of the state district court
on Thursday last, at Oskaloosa, will
qualify as receiver on Monday and it is
supposed he will then serve notice on
the Santa Fe officials here and demand
possession of the property.
The officials of the railroad will re
fuse to recognize him as receiver and the
attorneys of the corporation will go at
once to Oskaloosa and file a motion with
Judge Myers to vacate the order. This
course was decided upon at a conference
of Santa Fe officials held today.
Should Judge Myers refuse to vacate
his order, as he probably will do, Judge
Foster of the United States circuit court
will be appealed to for a writ prohibit
ing the state court from Interfering with
the property of the company. It Is
maintained by the Santa Fe people that
the United States court under the former
receivership proceedings still has suf
ficient hold upon the Santa Fe to war
rant its interference In the present pro
ceedings in the state court. Some of the
debts contracted under the recent feder
al receivership are stjjl ln the federal
courts for adjudication, and for this rea
son it will be claimed that the property
has not absolutely passed from the con
trol of the United States circuit court.
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
Tendered the Champion of the Cause of
Free Coinage.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 7.—Charles
D. Lane, part owner of the Utica gold
mine, today announced that he will give
William J. Bryan financial support in his
advocacy of bimetallism. The Califor
nian will see to it that Mr. Bryan's trav
eling expenses are paid and that the
living expenses of himself and family
are paid during the campaign of educa
tion which he proposes to conduct dur
ing the next four years.
Mr. Lane is a very wealthy mine own
er and is amply able to take care of Mr.
Rryan and his family. He has abiding
faith In the Democratic candidate for
president, and realizing Mr. Bryan's In
come Is limited thinks It is not fair for
him to bear the expenses of a campaign
in the interest of silver.
COURTS MUST BE CAREFUL.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 7.—The su
preme court today again cautioned trial
courts regarding instructions of "reas
onable doubt" to a jury, and ordering a
new trial in a criminal case where the
court had departed from a well-founded
rule. W. E. Paulsell was convicted of
robbery, and appealed upon the ground
that the trial Judge had refused: to give
the Jury Instructions as to reasonable
doubt. The court cautions the trial
judges to use the instruction under pen
alty of reversal.
DRIED UP ON A DESERT ISLAND.
Four Sailors on a Desert Island Were
Cremated by Natural Heat.
Uncle Robert William Qulmby of Lew
iston says that he has traveled in all the
warm countries of the globe and that he
has been in the coldest latitudes. He
does not think that we have such very
hot weather. If people would make pro
vision for the hot days as they do ln In
dia, he thinks we should not notice it
so much.
"But," says he, ."the warmest weather
that I ever experienced was on a small
Island called John's Biscuit, off Cape
Gracias, ln Honduras. The Elisabeth
Jennings, on which I sailed in 1870 from
Portland, stopped there for water, and
a boat's crew went ashore for it. It was
a little volcanic island and awful dry
and hot. We didn't know whether there
would be any water there or not, but we
did find a spring with a stream as large
as a broom handle pouring out all the
time. And do you believe me! the water
was dried up and soaked up before it
had run four feet in the sand. The place
was covered with dried trees and a little
distance away was what looked like a
hut—a habitation for men. We went In
and found the shrunken remains of four
men, sailors probably, who had died In
one night, to Judge from appearances.
One was leaning against the wall ln a
sitting position. There was dry food on
the table, dry meat in a box and every
thing was burning dry.
"A letter In the pocket of one man was
dated Liverpool. 1846, and on the table
was a bottle with a note in it, evidently
Intended to bo rnst adrift. It said there
were four English seamen, marooned by
the captain, left to die. The note was
dated 1846. and I suppose they had been
there dead in that hut for over thirty
years, and they must have died of heat
in one day and dried right up. We left
them where we found them."—Lewiston
Journal.
CLEVER CHINESE CONJURERS.
Tricks They Perform Which Puzzle the
MostT Expert Europeans.
The court jugglers in the time of Kub
lai Kahn made it appear to those who
looked on as if dishes from the table
actually flew through the air. One of
the travelers who visited the regions
of which Marco gives us some account
•says: "And jugglers cause cups of
Hold to fly through the air and offer
themselves to all who list to drirk."
And Ibn Batuta. a Moor who visited
Cathay a century after, gives this ac
count of a similar incident:
"That same night a juggler, who was
one of the khan's slaves, made his ap
pearanos, and the amir said to him:
•Come and show us some of your mar
vels.' Upon this he took a wooden ball
with several holes through it through
which long thongs were passed, nnd,
laying hold of one of these, slung it In
the air. It went so hlah that we lost
sight of it altogether. It was the hot
test season of the year and we were out
side in the middle of the palace court.
There now remained only a little of the
end of a thong in the conjurer's hand,
and he desired one of the boys who as
sisted him to lay hold of It and mount.
He did so, climbing by tlie thong, and
we lost sight of him also! The conjurer
then called to him three times, but get
ting no answer, he snatched up a knife
as if in a great rage, laitl hold of the
thong, and disappeared also! By and
by he threw down one of the boy's
hands, then a foot, then the other hand,
and then the other foot, then the trunk,
and, last of all, the head! Then he
came down himself, all puffing and
panting, and. with his clothes all bloody,
kissed the ground before the amir and
said something to him in Chinese. The
amir gave some order in reply, nod our
friend then took the lad's limb-, laid
them together In their places, and gave
a kick, when, presto! there was the
boy, who got up and stood before us!
All this astonished me beyond measure
and I had an attack of palpitation like
that which ovtrcame me once before in
the presence of the sultan of India,
when he showed me something of the
same kind. The Kazi Afkharrudin was
next to me, and quoth he: Wallah!
'TIS my opinion there has been neither
'going up nor coming down, neither mar
ring nor mending; 'tis all hocus-pocus!' "
—St. Nicholas.
GETTING INTO PRINT.
If people who write would bring their
soaring minds down to a plain recogni
tion of these hard and grovelling and
unedifying facts, a good share of their
grievances would be turned away from
the guilty editors toward the Scheme of
Things in general. Some of them
seem to think that when they decide to
enter upon "a literary career," that ,s
a phenomenon, a fact of interest to
the world at large. Not at all, unless
they have unusual ability—which is
rarely the case. "I have heard that you
are kind to young wrltei*s," they say.
"I am a young writer. Of course you
will print this, and encourage me." Bles-s
you, there are too many of you by far.
3
What you anfl-TtW'frttetyroauce ■•llllfl
All several daily- pSPOM Htfa lasM
eight-columned page* assail type, fMg
ii.. |.c nir. v ..r v.l vertistmeV—; u>ats|fa
you would have to furnjshlbe plant Stt l
the running expenses, for few beside*) J
yourselves and your adffllring friSjJMlB
families would buy the- papers. Tka)3
woods are full of your sisters and broth- J
ers of a more or less literary turn. Doe> 1|
othea's cummenoement speech has ells- 3
ited such delighted comthebje that she m
knows that this is her Vocation; AM- U
Jah's verses in the Way-hack Qaattta ?
haw won him local repute, and now lit %
wants a wider field; Jane and WilllajSl -
are urged by friends not to hide their -'j
light under a bushel, but to let It shtM
fur the benefit or the public and of pos- -
terlty. •>• W !»Miia . t
Do these beginners dream of the eon- %
ditions of the race, of the competition! -
tin y must encounter? This Is not an- age ;
of darkness; it takes ' some special
knowledge or ability to enlighten. It In !
any degree worth mentioning. Tke> %
schoolmaster has been abroad to a con
siderable extent. Thousands an* thous- |
amis nt persona of both sexes and all ?
ages are trying to write for the maga- V
zincs and reviews. Most tt them (not %
oil) can spell pretty fairly and construot f
a grammatical sentence. Many of them i
have been to the high school, and soma ta> I
college. Quite, a number have a more or .' *
I'-ss extended acquaintance with lltera- i
lure aud life; not a few are practiced >M
nrd competent writers. Amid thla ?M
multitude, what has any chance of real fjjj
distinction, except striking talent or |i
special attainments with at least good Wk
ability? How can any one hope to get -Wl
into tiie magazines, except by having ..\
something to say. and' shying it accepts- ''*J
biy, on some topic of presumably gen- ;jH
oral interest, and one that has not been M
already done to death?— Frederick M. M
Bird in Lipplncott's.
INVESTIGATING HEATERS. I
The German Hygienic association of- '§§
fers a prize of $1200 (or a research essay
i.n the efficiency of electric heaters, j
The program is as follows: "The heat ,
given out in heating installations by
heaters In their various forms and i
modes of use Is to be ascertained. The
investigations are to be described ln 8
detail ln respect to the arrangement of M
the heaters, the nature of the heating a
agents and the observations made."— W
Boston Evening Transcript.
A WALL OP WATER SEVEN FEET J
HIGH.
The big distributing reservoir of the
Oakland. Cal., water company broke its
walls Tuesday morning and 2,000,000*
gallons of water were let loose with a
rush.
A wall of water seven feet high tore
down Oakland avenue, but beyond flood
ing the streets in the vicinity, no great
damage was done. The officials of the ii
water company contend that the walls :'s
of the reservoir were blown up by dyna
mite by malicious persons.—Chicago ;
Tribune.
AT THE COUNTY JAIL
Arrivals at the county Jail last night ■ j
were Arthur Ashmead and George Wil
son from La Ballona under a charge of
chicken stealing, and, Wiliam Pickering, |
sent down from Pasadena to serve sen
tence for disturbing the peace.
FRESNO, Nov. 7.—Fresno was ablaze
with Republican enthusiasm tonight. |
Citizens gathered from the town and
surrounding country in large numbers to
express their happiness over the elec- !
tion of McKinley. At the conclusion of
the parade several short speeches were
delivered by local Republicans from the
balcony of the Grand Central hotel.
There are undelivered telegrams at
the Western Union Telegraph company's
office for the following parties: Mr.
Harry Ayers, Mrs. W. S. Brasher.