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4 •tWB* - A aW*U»ETIt[ TOUIfI AS YCv Stt II L m rPtWTrItWnONQ AStounxDirm PUBUSH AILTHENEWSr AND I I TDUST THE EVENT TO THE JUDGMENT OF THE PEOPLE WILLIAM S. CREIGHTON Ed:;or-ln-Chlef._ THE HERALD owns a full Associated Frees franchise and publishes the complete telegraphic news report received daily by special leased wire. EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT: 221 East Fourth street. Tel-phone 156. BUSINESS OPK T CE: Bradbury Building 222 West Third street. Telephone 24,. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. By Mail. P»?able in Advance Dally and Sunday. 1 month I .50 Dsllvand Sunday. 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If the paper cannot be secured at any of the above places the publishers wit! deem it a special favor if natrons should report the same to the business office. THE HERALD Hts lhelargest Paid Circulation in Southern California Sworn Statement of Circulation Published on Classified Page. FRIDAY. DECEMBER, 4, 1806 A WORD OF WARNING Today and tomorrow should be busy d&:t with every voter who does not want to see the municipal government turnei' over to the tender mercies ot the WSter-fi«ail\vay combine. There is evi dence 4pou every hand that Martin is to be 'elected if money will elect him. The corporations are not counting the cost of victory; nor need they, for if they can elect the Martin ticket they will be reimbursed by the city a thou sand times over. The combine is not working to secure that which is right fully its own. It wants something tc which it has no legal or moral right. The combine is after the people's mon ey. It wants the people to pay it twi prices for water. It is not the purpos! of the combine to sell its water supply system to the city if it can help it. It wants its franchise extended, with ad ditional privileges, for a quatter of a century or more, but if it. should fail to do that, it wants an administration that will take Its plant, at about $2.000.f'00 more than lit can he duplicated for. It is of the utmost, importance that the taxpayers especially take a personal interest in the campaign during these two days. Nothing is being left undone by the combine to perpetuate its hold upon tlie city, and unless those who foot the bills against the municipality are willing that their taxc* shall he unreasonably high for years to come without having addnl a dollar to the value uf their property, they had better bestir themselves or the combine will certainly be able to do about as it likes. Unless the combine were after Efbme thlng which il knows it is not entitled to on the ground of tight or Justice, it would not have paid agents ransacking the slums Cur votes. It would come out openly and lay its case before the people if its purpose were honest. bu'.?knowing that its scheme contemplates a still stronger and more exacting graqp on the pocketbonks of the people, it dare not take them into its confidence. A mighty wrong will be done Los Angelet if the people permits this water-railway ring to triumph. But there are still other rrasons why Mr. Martin should be defeated. His election would serve as a notice to cap ital seeking employment in real estate Investments to avoid Los Angeles. Not because Mr. Martin is-Mr. Martin, but. because his election would mean that the municipal government was owned and controlled by the Southern Pacific railway and a water supply monopoly, and that franchises were likely to be granted to them that would enormous- ly' Increase the tax levy without bene fiting the city a farthing. Capital, un derstanding that to be the case, would make haste to pass hy on the other side of Los Angeles, as It should. Times are getting better all over the country, and money that has been in hiding for the last three years is coming out and looking about fpr localities to engage In business enterprises, and Los Angeles should not greet it with the information that it would have to pay tribute to a railway and a water monopoly without ••salving anything Uka adequate eon. pensation tn return. As a plain, com mon-sense business proposition, Los Angeles cannot afford to let it be e?.ld that her public affairs are under the control of. ar.d her legislation Is shaped by, t-liese two soulless monopolies. THE GOVERNMENT'S DUTY The field tactics which General Wey ler has been employing the past fort night ought to satisfy the president and congress that the time has come when ail neutrality treaties and agreements with Spain should be abrogated, ana substantial aid and comfort extended to the Cubans. There Is no doubt at all that public sentiment Is decidedly op posed to further shilly-shaliying in the premises. Weyler has outraged elvilL zation itself. Modern history gives po account of another such brutal and mur derous ruler. The semblance of an ex cuse might be made for the massacre cf Armenians by Musselmen on the ground of religious prejudice, but Weyler is actuated by the lowest instincts of the human heart, and there can be found not even a thread that might ultimately lead to justification of his acts. If Weyler were seeking out and giv ing battle to armed revolutionists he might say he was fighting desperate characters and that extremely harsh methods of warfare had to be employed, but he appears to avoid men who are armed and ready to dispute his advance, and displays his military genius In murdering non-combatant men and sub jecting- unprotected women to the las civious demands of his brutal soldiers, and he destroys whatever could pos sibly give shelter or food to the "enemy," an enemy he carefully avoids meeting. In the last ten days hundreds of defense less men have been shot down In their homes and by the wayside, and scores of women have been assaulted and sub sequently murdered. No massacre of Christians in_ Turkish-Asia by Kurds in recent years would surpass Weyler's treatment of the Cuban country folk In Rendishness, brutality and in frightful consequences. Undoubtedly Captain- General Weyler is the most infamous character the nineteenth century has produced In all the Christian nations. Tt is not now so much a question of Cuban independence as it is a question of putting a stop to brutal treatment of human beings by the Madrid govern ment, for, after ail. Weyler was sent to Cuba because he was known to be a man who would cheerfully commit ativ act of cruelty that was suggested to his l.endish mind. The president and con gress should lose no time in calling upon Spain to wage a war after the custom of the nineteenth century civilization, and make armed intervention by the United States the penalty for refusing. It would be a disgrace to our flag to longer toler ate Weyler and his methods. Better have a dozen wars than countenance such brutality. It is to be hoped that be fore the holidays an envoy from the Republic of Cuba will have recognition as such by the authorities at Wash ington. r CANDIDATE MARTIN The graceful thing for Mr. Martin to do would be to publicly express sorrow to *he "drunkard makers" of Los An geles for having edited and published the "Wave." Mr. Martin owes it to the "drunkard makers" to give some evi dence of a change of heart toward them, now that he is begging for their sup rort. If he is really sincere, and has evolved a genuine affection for them, then it must be that he is in love with their vocation; but how can there be any sincerity in his expresions of admira tion for "drunkard makers" and their business when he sustains confidential relations with the Ministerial union and the Parkhurst inquisition? In his in sane ambition to be mayor of Los An geles, Mr. Martin is making a most laughable spectacle of himself. In the act of ail things to all men he is a ridic ulous failure. Try the cap and bells, Mr. Martin. But it is in beholding Mr. Martin, fresh from the holy atmosphere of tlie Parkhurst inquisition, as he reclines up on the heaving bosom of vice that makes one glad that he is alive to drink in so harmonious a mixture. There is pic turesqueness in the "Wave" editor lean ing upon "drunkard makers" for sup port, with that beautiful sentiment, "vote as you pray." sticking out of hi? toat pocket. These are object lessons, simple and complex, in the uneven cogs of the wheels of .Martin's campaign ma chinery. Only the great genius can draw Bibles and whisky and vice and prayers from the same fountain; but, then. Martin is very great, still he would spread out mighty thin as mayor of Los Angeles—so thin.indeed, that the South ern Pacific and water ring could be seen wiggling toward the city's cash box and franchise depository from any and every pcint of observation. It is in consorting with "drunkard makers." however, that Martin's Knowl edge of practical polities gives the; strongest exhibition of the man's gen ius. Only a truly gr> at man would feel secure in the company of "drunk ard makers" with his pockets more or it ss full of "vote as you pray" votes and the ghost of the "Wave" calling his companions "dealers in damnation and brothers of the evil one." But of course when a man has a soulless combine like the Southern Pacific-Water company i ing at his back, he can afford to be a trifle bold; still, he is no slouch of a r:ixer who can fetch vice, whisky, piety and heartless monopolies together and make them work In harmony for hie good. Is Martin doing all that? In his mind, yes, but In fact, it is a mere Punch and Judy show. In trying to conceal himself behind tricks Martin resembles tbe ostrich whan It hides In a bunch nf LOS ANGELES HERALD: FRIDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 4, 1896. grass. He leaves some of him exposed to sight. If any one has a douDt as to how the bosses and the employes of the water ring stand on the election question, just let him ask them who they think should be elected mayor. The name "Martin" will be sung as if by one voice, so unani mous is "public s(#tlment" for Martin in and about the ring's quarters. Senator Quay of Pennsylvania advises against an extra session of congress to tinker with the tariff. He is afraid an extra session would sentl the country back into the arms of the Democracy. Martin was too bitter a dose for the Times man. so he skipped the town to avoid the necessity of voting for him. which party loyalty would oblige him to do were he here on election day. Our export trade in manufactured goods is growing rapidly, but it will grow the other way after the McKinley idea gets under a full head of steam. If the district attorney is disposed to do his duty he will have "Kite* "Pricein dicted by the grand jury. Which Is now in session, for a felony which he has con fessed to have committed. Perhaps it Is true that Snyder is not up in spelling, but he can read his title clear to the mayoralty three days before the election. A featherless brood of chickens has been discovered In New York. Per haps Palmer and Buckner know some thing of them. Martin should get up a "drunkard makers" parade. But that is the fact, they ate "liquor merchants" —until after election. Tax-payers should be up and doing iS they do not want to support the water ring in princely style all the days of their life. If owners of vacant lots want to be made to pay for the use op water when they use none, they shoud vote for Mar tin. Major McKinley has formally offered the treasury portfolio to Hanna, but Hanna w ants time to think about it. Of coures. Tom Watson has a perfect right to enter the lecture field, but that Is no reason why he should do so. Martin should not think of throwing up the nomination. Let him stand up and take his beating like a man. It is mean of the underlings on the Republican ticket to want Martin to get down and out. HANNA HAD J16.000.000. Various stories afloat relative to the recent Republican campaign fund have created amusement tn political circles, because the sums alleged to have been furnished Mr. Hanna are so far short of the actual cash amounts contribut ed. Repuorts from the same source dif fer, one stating that the Republican national committee had $1,600,000 to ex pend, another raising these figures by a million. As a matter of fact, Mr. Hanna's com mittee had upward of $16,000,000 at its disposal, if reports of Republicans and Republican organs are to be credited. This is only lour times the sum usually spent by the national committee during a presidential election, and not partic ularly large when it is considered that all the financial institutions, railroad companies, mercantile establishments, protected industries and wealth in gen eral were opposed to the Democratic ticket and anxious for the success of the Republicans. Chairman Hanna. who is intensely practical, and has frequently said that he conducted the McKinley campaign as he would a business, suggested thai assessments be levied upon slates. The a see,! s in the various states were in structed lo divide prospective contribu tions into tdasses. In this way a perfect system of taxation was secured. The institutions asked for contribu tions were national banks, state banks, savings banks, trust companies, railroad companies, firms representing foreign financial interests, and all kinds of man ufacturing concerns having an interest in high tariff legislation. Divided by states, the list of Republi can contributions looks something like this: New York $ 3,000,000 Pennsylvania 2,500.000 Connecticut 1.e00.000 Massachusetts 1,500.000 Maine. New Hampshire and Vermont 500,000 New Jersey 1,000,000 Illinois 1.000,000 Ohio 1,000.000 Southern States 2.000,?00 Western States 2,500,000 Total $10,000,000 These figure;-', while large to the ordi nary citizen, are trivial in view of th" great object to be accomplished, and represent probably three-fourths of thr sums actually collected. In Now York, where all financial and mercantile business centers, tbe Hi pub lican rational committee secured con tributions from most of the trusts and foreign barkers, aggregatine about 12, 000,000. Here'ie a list that represents the lead ins: New Vnrk donations: nof'd family $ 50,000 Lazard Freres and foreign houses 50,000 Brown Brothers & Co., and foreign houses 50,000 Heidielbach, Ickelltelmer & Co. and foreign houses 5,000 Belmont banking house and connections 50,000 R. P. Flower banking house connei lions 25.000 J. Pjerporjt Morgan & Co. and conni ctions 100,000 Vanderbilt family 250,000 Vermllye & Co. and connec tions 50,000 Morton, Bliss & Co. and con nections 50.000 Presidents of insurance com panies 1.000.000 In considering lists it may bo recalled that the states contributed through some trusted agents, and that the firms mentioned acted as collecting agents for Mr. Hanna. There is some controversy as to the Vanderbilt contribution. «>ne authority say- William K. Vanderbilt gave $100,000 and Treasurer Bliss denied tho state ment, hut it is generally accepted the family gave the sum credited—l2so,ooo, Relative to Connecticut, ex-Governor Morgan O. Burkley declared, prior to the election, that he had obtained the $1,000. --000 he was expected to collect. His state ment was printed in Connecticut news papers at the time. New Jersey gave liberally and did il through t Jan et A. Hobart. who. as a member of the coal trust, had unusuai facilities for securing contributions. Pennsylvania had for Its collecting agents such successful managers as Senator Quay, Andrew Carnegie and H. C. Frick. The venerable Cnllis P. Hunt ington acted for many of the western states, while Mr. Hanna himself looked out for Ohio, and Henry Cabot Lodge for Massachusetts and the rest of New England. The Immense sum thus collected has not all been expended. There is a sur plus of about $2,000,000. It is because of this surplus that the national committee Annttmiaa- He n.rmin»nt hcadnua rtero with an expensive staff. It is the first national committee that ever wound up the campaign with something left over, and for the reason that there was no way to spend it all. Aside from the innumerable expen>es of the two headquarters and the regular campaign work throughout the coun try. It Is notorious that In Illinois. Indi ana. Michigan, the Dakotas, Missouri, Nebraska and lowa, the sum of $7.',,000 : was given for "special work" in each congressional district. That amount was also sent into ex-Kepresentutive Tonne's district in Minnesota and ex- Representative Sibley':- district in Pern j sylvania. Mr. Hanna was particularly anxious to beat Towne. Sibley and Rich ard P. Bland, because of their interest in the silver cause. How will all those heavy donations be receipted for? The presumption Ji that the distinguished contributors will re ceive appointments helpful In a soda! way. For Mr. James P. Van -Men was appointed minister to Italy, and he only gave $40,000 four years ago.—New York I Journal. SLUMMING IN BOSTON. The latest Boston fad is a slumming expedition, as it were, to the Boston public library to see a semi-intoxicated ! young woman with a child in her arms I capering about and w earing upon her ! bronze features a joyful invitation to I "have another." That venerable organ - I Isation of white hair nnd broadcloth. the Congregational club, has indulged I in this frivolous pastime, not In a frlv | olous spirit but in the interests of high morality. The club's report bus a min uteness of detail which Indicates that the self-sacrificing moralists lingered long over the hated task of Inspecting the Bacchante's wicked loveliness. They neither admit nor deny that they were pleased. But they do say vigor ously that the young woman should lie taken in charge and shut away from public view. They find that she "glor ifies intoxication. The eyes are not bloodshot nor the hair dishevelled. The joyousness of intoxication is set forth. This mask upon the hideous features of the drink fiend only adds a reason against it." There are other objections, "the modeling of the back." for in stance, but the light-hearted way l# which the young woman "carries her jag" is the real clincher. Reading this report ar.d the account of the vast crowds that watch the antics of this perpei ual "drunk antl disorderly," one can but wonder what the Boston po lice are about. Suppose that Mr. Roose velt were to find a young woman insuf ficiently clad with a child in her arms disporting herself In a public place and tlrawing a crowd to watch her (fo a skirtless skirt dance, can there be any doubt as to what he would do? "Within a few minutes the mother would be in a station-house and the child would hi sobbing upon tbe broad, warm bosom of Mr. Gerry.—New York World A FLOATING POSTOFFICE Uncle Sam has at last decided to have a floating postofflce in New York harbor to expedite the handling of the ocean mall, and next year the government at Washington will equip a fast steamer for the service. The new postofflce steamer will be the outgrowth of the experiments begun last August, with Postmaster Dayton's approval, to ex pedite the delivery of foreign mail des tined for points outside of New York city. The proposition to establish such a service was submitted to the postal authorities at Washington many weeks ago. The postmaster has just received word from Washington that the project has been indorsed by the postofflce de partment, and that a steamer will bo fitted up upon the plan of one of the branch postofiices of the city to carry on the work. The steamer will be manned by clerks, who will sort the mail, pack it in bags while the postal steamer is on its- way from quarantine to this city, and have it ready for delivery to mail wagons on arrival in the city. The new steamer will be ready at all times to answer the cal! of tbe railway mail officers. Congress will be asked to make an appropriation of $40,000 to carry on the work.—New York Sun. CLEVELAND AT PRINCETON President Cleveland has wisely chosen Princeton, N. J.. for bis home after his retirement from official life, and, accord ing to published reports, soon after the expiration of his term of office he will take up his residence within the shadow of "Old Nassau" and in an atmosphere of learning, refinement and Christian fellowship he will no doubt find that tranquillity which is the tit reward of his capable and patriotic service to his country. Princeton is an ideal town for the home of a student and philosopher. Within easy reach of New York. Phila delphia and the seaside resorts of the Atlantic coast, it is a quaint and quiet old town, in which peace and plenty have always had a habitation. With the matchless library and magnificent tra ditions of the college, the president will find congenial employment for his well earned leisure. Princeton is a becoming retreat for an ex-president, yet in the prime of life, whose ambition is to serve his country by wise counsel after he has amply served it by arduous labor. SENATORS ON CUBA. Senator Lodge has Anally come to the conclusion that a recognition of Cuba's belligerent rights "would be a direct help to Spain." and he is quite willing to let the matter go over to Mr. Mc- Kinley's administration. Senateir Preio tor says "much will depend upon fu ture events." Senator Carter questions the wisdom of action hy thir country. Senator Mitchell of Wisconsin says we "ought not to take steps which may lead to a war with Spain without first looking up the possible consequences." Senator Vest is undecided; Senator Faulkner opposes haste: Senator Per kins advises against rash action. Of course the fire-ealers. like Chandler and Blackburn. Insist upon "prompt Inter ference." hut the better balanced men on both sides of the senate treat tiie question as a matter of executive Initia tive and are determined to wait for a recommendation from the president, and not attempt to force his hand by a per emptory joint resolution. — Chicago Timer-Herald. M'KINLEY'S NIECE AND BRYAN'S COUSIN. Echoes from the recent stirring cam paign are still vibrating. Party feeling at the various colleges for women ran high, and at Mount Holyoke there was unusual excitement this year by the fact that the class of IHOO contained Miss Mc- Kinley. a niece of our new president elect, and Miss Bryan, who Is a cousin of the Lincoln gentleman whom last week's vote decided would not enter the White House next March. Both young women, eif course, belonged to one or tbe other of the campaign undergraduate eluhs. but both' declined either to hold office therein or to speak on party Issues. Mies Bryan, however, did consent to write two songs for the free sliver organiza tion, one of which was sung lustily on the eve of the election, to the tune of Paradise Alley. Although repeatedly the subject of at tempts, mischievous and sincere-, to de clare In public for their respective rela tives and candidates, neither girl was provoked to give her opinions through the canvass. —New York Times. THE ONLY WAY. In the three states where women voted for president the aggregate majority for Bryan and the Chicago platform is not less than 140,000. This is the record woman suffrage has made for itself in the presidential election of 1896, and up in whioh it will be-litany Judged when a further extension Is asked for.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. That is to say, the right to exercise \ the franchise should be determined by i the wa> folks vote. If wome-jt vote for gold they are splendidly qualified to cast : a ballot; but If they vote for silver they i are not qualified even a little bit. This logic would % most qualify the disfran chisement of t iie 5,000,000 men who voted for Bryan. Now, the only way to satis fy people who talk this way Is to stop popular elections altogether.—Spring field (Mo.) Republican. A TRUE WOMAN. It can be said to the credit of Mrs. Scott-Sldrions, w ho died a few days ago in Paris, that she did not stoop to win as an actress and reader by cultivating nn unsavory repulsion. Mrs. Langtry has beauty and a clouded reputation to 'depend upon—and these have luadu her moderately successful with but indiffer ent histrionic abilities. Mrs. Scott-Sid dons was also beautiful, and might have been spared retiring to obscurity so early if she had kept up a continual (low of gossip. She lived and died a true wo man, the greatest epitaph which could be written.—Nashville (Term.) Ameri can. RUSSIA AND GOLD. Russia has decided to introduce the gold standard. There Will be no agita tion by tlie "overedueated farmers" or the anarchists of the Russian work shops, and the formality of voting on the proposition w ill be dispensed with. The manner in which Russia slides on to the gold basis will be sure to challenge the admiration of the gentlemen who re i ently subscribed so liberally to the fund to perpetuate the reign of the gold ring in this country.—New York Journal. THE SUGAR TRUST. The enormously wealthy sugar trust, which enjoys the protection of a dif ferential duty, is criticised because it has thrown 4000 men out of employment for a fortnight just as cold weather has come. But it is part of the business of trusts to throw men out of employment. There is in St. Louis a great building, once used as a sugar refinery, which tes tifies eloquently to this mela.ncholy fact. —St. Louis Post Dispatch. "IN THE WOODS" I walked 1 alone in the depth of autumn woods; The ruthless wind's had left the maple bare: Tlie fern was withered, and the sweet briar's breath No lunger gave its fragrance to the air, Tlie barberry strung its coral beads no more: The thistledown on gauzy wings had flown; And myriad- leaves, on which the summer wrote Her blushing farewell, at my feet were strown. , A loneliness pervaded every spot: A gloem of which my musing soul par took; "All nature mourns." I said 1 : "November wild Hath torn the fairest pages from her book/ Hut suddenly a wild bird overheard- Poured' forth a strain so strangely clear and sweet. It seemed 1 to bring me back the skies of May. And: wake tlie sleeping violets at my feet. TJiep long T pondered'o'er the poet's words. "The loss of beauty Is not always loss." Till like the voice of love they soothed my pain. And gave me strength to bear again my cross. O murmuring heart! thy pleasures may decay, Thy faith grow cold, thy golden dreams take wing: SI ill in the realm nfffart'ed youth and joy. Heaven klnauy leaves some bird of hope to ttur. —Albeit Laighton in New York Times. IN THE PUBLIC EYE. George Frederick Watts has sent in his resignation as royal academician. One of the Duke of Wellington's post boys has just died at the age of S9 years. D. L. Moody, the evangelist, is to be gin t series of revival meetings in Boston en January 1. A boy born to Mr. and Mrs. Prescott during the ringing of the curfew, at To peka, Kan., the other evening, has been named Charles Curfe-w Prescott. Barney Lloyd of Charlestown, W. Va., is the la°t surviving member of the grand Jury which in 18H9 indicted John Brown for invasion and inciting insur rection. Dr. Nansen will lecture in Londe.n. Edinburgh, Glasgow. Dundee, Aber deen, Newcastle, Liverpool. Manches ter, Birmingham, Belfast, Dublin and Swansea. Governor-elect Robert L. Taylor, of Tennessee, is going to take the lecture platform again and give his musically interspersed lecture, "The Fool's Para dise. " More than thirty members of the Chi cago bar are negroes. The first negro to be admitted to the bar In the state of Illnois was Lloyd G. Wheeler, who was admitted in 186 ft. Ruskin has spent in good deeds a for tune of more tnan $750,000, and his pres ent income depends almost wholly on the l oyalties ot a recent popular edition of his works. There are 10 newspaper editors in the house of commons, 4 tailors. 3 stationers. 2 butchers. If hotel keeper". 6 tenant farmers, 1 coal merchant at I 1 cab pro prietor. Kaiser Wilhelm is extending his idea of artistic collaboration. He is now said fo be at work on a historical drama, which a young poet of Wiesbaden will put into German verse for him. Queen Victoria, when she leave- Windsor for Balmoral, is provided with about a dozen copies of a sort of way bill of her Journey, which contains a list cf all the people in the train, and the com partments in which they are. Frederick Nansen will receive a special gold medal from the Royal Geo graphical society w hen he goes to Lon don, as he has already received the sn e-iety's highest award, the gold medal, for his explorations in Greenland. They say W. D. Hnwells orders "clip pings on a phase of life," and uses in cidents thus obtained for the foundation of his story. Here he walks in the footsteps of Charles Rende, who ex plained his methods of work in that much abused novel. "A Terrible Temp tation." ' The famous Kelmseott Press, at Ham mersmith, on which the late William Morris expended such constant care and personal attention, is about to be closed, no one having been found to carry on bis work. When the few books now in hand are worked oft ho more will be executed. Fifty-six of tiie seventy-two British army survivors of Balaklava were en tertained recently at the Old Royal ho tel, Birmingham. A prominent feature of the gathering was the head, in a glass case, upon which Lord Cardigan was mounted ill the daring charge. It is stated that the languages used by the czar and czarina in their private intercourse are English and German- — French and Italian being seldom spoken by their majesties when alone. Tlie czar ina did not learn Russian till after her betrothal, but. though she as yet speaks it very slow ly, it is with a good accent and great distinctness. Gen. E. W. Pettus, who has been elect ed a United States senator from Ala bama, to succeed senator Pugh, has been identified with the state of Alabama for fifty years. He was born in Limestone county, Alabama, in 1821. In 1840 he be gan the practice of law and became prominent In politics. He took a con spicuous part In the rebellion, being at Its close a confederate brigadier-gen eral. 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X ♦ Four Fringed and Figured Chenille Covers; , C(\ r X Z Quarter each uvv ♦ X Titan Silk Damask Throws, heavily iringeJ; 75C ♦ Dainty Gold Embroidered Pillow Backs; QQ J J Fotl * Oriental Figured Tapestry Covers; <fc | AA Z » Quarter etch <)I«VV ♦ ♦ **ix _ _ Turkish Effects, heavy covers; fljl CA ♦ j Quarter each ♦ ♦ Fight _ Table Covers, Golf Blues and Roses; 41 7 C Z Z Quarter each sJJI.IsJ I : $4.00 to $5.00 : S Fonr_ Velours Table Art Sqt a'es; <£i AA J J Quarter each »Pt.W J Heavy Gold Embossed Velours Pinn cCo/ers; QQ * :* Four Gold Embossed, extra choice tlfl Aft * w Quarter each spIVeWJ J ♦ ♦ I Turkish and Armenia Silk Curtains ' | » Armenian Striped Curtains; JQ ♦ ♦ Turkish Designs, bright colors; $300 * ♦ Extra wide and long, enis figured; QQ ♦ I Double-sided Silk Damask; $4.50 f t .... ODD PHIRS .... $ ♦ Light and heavy weight Silk and Derby Curtains, very cheap to close. ♦ J ...«*•>•». .««»••.X I Until further notice our Store will be kept open Saturday | 1 Evenings until 9 p. m. J $ S. Nordlinger $ J and Silversmith J No. 109 South Spring Street gt) 4 Under Nadeau Hotel Established 1869 No Mystery /f 5 That we can make such little prices on first- W *P class goods comes about in the most natural %9 0 way. We buy in very large quantities—that ftp counts; we buy for cash, and the importers 5 and manufacturers are anxious to do business J W with us—that counts. It isn't a matter of sac- *T S rifice or anybody's ruin; just a straightforward, 0 £ legitimate business at a gait that we can keep ts» £ up. Every part of our store is in harmony J and on the highest level. \ t S. Nordlinger * $100 in Gold Given Away m GUGSS AQdTBSS --- - - - -;" "/V/,V^-U!/t* will be cat Christmas Evelnoiir show window, before th . commute.of pre.l, ..d d.c..r.d •»f»™ W leave tlie Window. ,„„ „-,,,„ aid |, straight ami without deception In any war. Oell Thin Is »" lv " r, m ; :, ',w r ,h S.V- nt ■ r'sto >k •«« ear. "How a., you .10?" w.can dress yed and see our window "J'l English clay Blagoaat to enter, like a prince tot fit to order; int. * ■ ■ _ „ south Broadway, Uiest Wholesale Tailors R||ffalO WOOletl CO. Near Third Street to ths People Aniel ,, Ber>w . TUsy High-class family hotel. Centrally located, Abbottsfprd Corner Eighth " 11 and Hope Streets Inn 2 I Los Angeles, Cal. i i Dr. Liebig & Co/s World Dispensary SOUTH IvtßlN STHBII Sim NOT A DOLLAR NEED BE PAID UNTIL CURED mrkMS jMSli&frjttetf t' AT Amtll n ■-. Inltr. SVe euro 111. worst .-ai-i in iwn or tbiei nmntlis special i v-n San Franct. in coa- stant ultcmlnntii inniln aion with including nnalr.l. Ttio poor trctilpr] irte from 10 to 12 Krtdaya private mw« »111 A KS ll.tl I ;•. I'KHTAIN O I*' v No nianerwhat yonrtro ible it. cm... end talk with v.. you wIU A MAGIC ISLAND »«d W » SANTA 51 CATA LIN A