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LOS ANGELES DAILY HERALD
SWORN STATEMENT CIRCULATION.
State of California, County of Los Ange
les.—ss.
L. M. Holt, superintendent of circulation
of the Los Angeles Dally Herald, being
first duly sworn, deposes and says: That
for the five months from February 1, 1897,
to June 30. 1897 (inclusive), the total circu
lation of the said Daily Herald was 1,290,635
copies, being an average daily circulation
of 8604.
That the week-day circulation during the
above time was 1,071,567, being a daily aver
age of 8306 copies.
That the Sunday circulation during the
above time was 219,009, being an average fot
each Sunday of 10;431.
L. M. HOLT,
Superintendent of Circulation.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
19th day of July, 1597.
FRANK J. COOPER,
Notary Public in and for the County of Los
Angeles, State of California.
MONDAY, JULY a 6, 1897
THE CITY ENGINEER'S REPORT
City Engineer Dockweller has com
pleted his report on the plant of the Los
Angeles City Water company and it will
be presented to the council today. The
document is exhaustive and explicit,
covering fifty-six pages of typewritten
manuscript. The work which Mr. Dock
weiler set out to do was to make a com
plete inventory of all the tangible prop
erty of the water company and estimate
the cost of duplicating it in place. He
has made a detailed inspection and sur
vey of the works in all their ramifica
tions; estimating the cost of duplicating
the head works; measuring and calculat
ing the cost of every ditch, flume, tun
nel and reservoir; digging down to and
examining the pipes to determine their
depth, present condition and cost of
laying; examining all the hydrants;
looking into the real estate, buildings,
pumps, machinery and other parapher
nalia. The result of this examination,
summed up in figures, shows a value
of $1,190,655. This does not take into con
sideration any allowance for good will,
for water rights claimed at Crystal
springs, for real estate owned by the cor
poration, but not actually required for
the works, or for pipes not in use. The
data furnished by Mr. Dockweiler will be
invaluable for the city In pushing its
negotiations with the water company,
since we now have an unbiased and tech
nical inventory of the actual tangible
property sought to be conveyed. This
illustrates the wisdom of the policy ad
vocated by The Herald of making haste
slowly, and not getting into a fuss and
flurry while undertaking a transaction of
eueh magnitude and importance.
Circumstances have combined to make
the city engineer's estimate fall consid
erably below the actual cost of the plant
to the water company. For example,
when some of the mains were purchased
iron was worth from $44 to $70 per ton;
now it can be had for $24. The cost of
bricks, cement and other material is also
much lower now than when the greater
part of the works were constructed. All
this inures to the advantage of the city,
as calculations are based on what the
materials and labor can be supplied for
in the present market.
One point left open for adjudication
will be the matter of water rights. The
water company claims to have developed
its own water supply at Crystal springs.
Independent of any rights conveyed by
the city, and this claim, being contested,
la now in litigation. That is a matter
that the courts will have to determine.
Altogether, the matter of the purchase
of the water works le getting into a
business-like shape, and there is no rea
son why the negotiations should not pro
ceed with all proper expedition. Three
fourths of the task lies in getting a good
•tart.
DIED A'BORNIN
The president's message to congress,
recommending the creation of a special
"non-partisan" currency commission,
was laid before congress in the closing
hours of the extra session, and it was
not even given a decent burial. The
message called for a commission whose
duty it should be to make recommenda
tions of whatever changes in our bank
ing and currency laws may be found ex
pedient, to report conclusions on or be
fore the first of November next, in or
der that the same may be transmitted by
the president to congress for considera
tion at the next regular session.
No time was lost In disposing of the
message in the senate, although Senator
White in the kindness of his heart com
mented sarcastically on the efforts to
hurry a final adjournment in the face of
the fact that the president had asked
congress to act. Senator Hoar cast a
.reflection upon the sincerity of the
president by declaring that no one had
expected currency legislation at the
present session.
It was clearly evident that the message
was stabbed in the back in the house by
its friends. The body lay in state for a
few hours while the senators dined, and
then upon the motion of Pall-bearer
Cullom was burled In the dark recesses
of the finance committee, and,
"Not a drum was heard, not a funeral
note."
The poor message fared a little better
in the house, where, the dispatches tell
us, It was "received with applause," In
response, the Stone bill providing for an
International monetary commission was
rushed through, and sent to the senate
when it was burled side by side with the
message itself in that well filled grave
yard, the finance committee. The house
was more courteous than the senate;
yet the house knew there was no chance
whatever that the senate would take
favorable action upon the president's
message.
Now, what does the incident mean?
Two interpretations are permissible.
One is that the president was simply
making a grand stand play so that the
party stump orators In. the next cam
paign could "point with pride" to the
manner in which the Republican, party
had tried to carry out Its pledges re
garding the reform of the currency.
The other interpretation is that the
senate has administered a deliberate,
cold-blooded snub to President Mc-
Kinley; that it has resented the courte
ous suggestion of the chief executive
just as it resented the counsel, or rather
the dictation, of President Cleveland.
"Viewed in any light, the incident Is
not creditable to the Republican party.
A GOOD RIDDANCE
Congress has adjourned.,, and to the
satisfaction of the good people of the
country. It was called together osten
sibly to provide the means of meeting
the public expenditures, but the act It
has passed, in all probability, will yield
more revenue to the trusts than to the
government.
The theory of raising revenue by im
posing high duties' upon luxuries, has
been discarded, and on the whole the law
enacted puts higher duties upon the
„ a ii#„ . 1 „ i_ M
1870. It affords such advantages to
manufacturers that by combination they
will be able to monopolize the markets of
the nation. The principle of imposing
duties only high enough to make up the
difference In the cost of production In
this and in competing countries has not
been resrectedi, though it is a principle
which the majority party in congress
has advocated. Such duties equalize
conditions, and are an assurance against
monopoly, either foreign or domestic.
Duties in regard to many items are such
as will tend to reduce rather than in
crease revenue, for every intelligent per
son knows that revenue may be reduced
quite as effectively by putting duties too
high as well as too low. Nor are many
of the duties necessary to the adequate
protection of American labor, and. as
they could not have been Imposed for
revenue merely, nor for protection to
labor the object must have been to give
advantages to trusts.
The session has lasted more than four
months, and no congress ever did so little
work in the same length of time. The
house of representatives has* spent three
quarters of its time in absolute idleness.
The majority has been, a machine,
manipulated or coerced by a single
mind, and in disregard of the public in
terests. There have been no commit
tees except on ways and means, rules,
accounts and enrolled bills, they being
such committees as were necessary to do
the work which had been programed.
The rules set apart times when the
non-privileged committees are called' on
for reports and for their consideration.
The appointment of committees gener
ally would have shorn the speaker
and his committee on rules of much
of their power. Bills would have
been introduced, and their consid
eration pressed before the commit
tees. Members would have become
interested in various measures for the
general benefit or in which constit
uencies have a special Interest. Under
such circumstances it would have been
difficult to make members take the
lockstep of the machine. If committees
had been named: they could have pre
pared work for the regular session
which would have contributed to its
early termination. If the history of
congress, and parliaments, and legis
latures were ransacked nothing would
be found to parallel tne action of the
house of representatives during the ses
sion just ended, for unblushing disre
gard of the public interests or for the
tyranny of its presiding officer. It has
not been a deliberative body, but an or
ganized force without individual voli
tion.
The senate has behaved with more re
spect to the public interests and has
ihown a better disposition In regard to
rtneral legislation, but it has been in a
tvrangle over the demands of the trusts.
Many senators evinced a desire to ren
der the best possible service, but noth
ing received attention from the lower
branch except what the programists laid
jut for it. The character of the revenue
law would not have been known to the
country but for freedom of debate in the
senate.
The house ignored the demand of the
people to have something done for the
oppressed, struggling and butchered
Cubans, and it refused to Join the senate
in giving Instructions to a derelict cabi
net officer, a war secretary, who ignores I
law and refuses to do what it plainly
commands.
Extreme partisanism has been dis
played by the majority in both brasches,
and an obsequiousness in doing what
ever bosses have dictated. It Is to be
hoped the country will, never see the lik-r
again. It is unfortunate that a general
election is not to be held before congress
again convenes.
THE ADMINISTRATION'S MONE
TARY PROGRAM
Mr. Stone of Pennsylvania Intro
duced a bill in the house providing for
the appointment of eleven, commission
ers to take into consideration so much,
of our money system as relates to the
currency or the government and na
tional bank notes. It is-stated that the
bill is a reflection! of the ideas of the ad
ministration. The bill passed the house
but went to the finance committee of the
senate as is now gathered to its fathers
through adjournment. Still, It is worthy
of consideration as giving an indication
of the administration's policy.
The bill confines the commission to
the consideration of the paper money or
our system, and is an indication that the
metallic feature is not to be investi
gated. Our money system Is dual in
that we have notes or paper money and
coin, the latter being the foundation on
which the paper superstructure rests.
It would seem to be sensible to first in-
vestigate the extent and solidity of the
foundation before the plan of the super-
structure is made. The theory which the
administration and its supporters hold
is that paper money is merely repre-
semtative and is good for nothing unless
it Is exchangeable for coin at the option
of the holder. It would seem to be nec
essary to first find out how much coin
there Is available for redemption pur
poses in- order that it may be deter
mined how much the banking or other
note issuing institution will be able to
float. A commission should endeavor to
formulate a plan, that will supply an ad
equate volume of circulation In addi
tion to one that will assure soundness.
It is curious that there are men—sound
money advocates—who have no con.fi
-1 dence in treasury notes, but who put
the utmost faith in paper money issued
by bar.ks, whose resources arc-immense
ly inferior to those of the government.
What does It mean, except that they
want to place the country more com
pletely In the hands of the money pow
er? They are quite willing that bank?
shall issue five times more paper than
there is goldi in the country, and not
withstanding the bulk of it would be
credit money, yet their confidence re
mains unshaken. They call sliver token.
of the government and by command of
law will pay debts. No doubt such men
would recommend that bank notes be
made legal tender, for, if not made so,
it is quite probable that there would be
refusal to take them, and'that confusion,
ar.d disaster would follow.
The wise course to pursue would be to
establish some plan by which an ade
quate volume of circulation will be as
sured., and if the metallic base is too
narrow the plan should provide the
means for widening It. Such a course
would assure both soundness and ade
quacy. It is impossible to devise a proper
money system without considering both
features. The work of a commission
with such limited power as Mr. Stone's
bill contemplates would be of no value-,
nor would any action taken by it have
any weight with those who entertain
views which embrace the welfare of the
masses. Let the administration form
its own plans and. be responsible, and
not attempt to get behind a commission
composed of persons "specially fitted by
experience, training and study."
A PROPER DISTINCTION
The big dailies print column after
column of advice to their readers not to
go to the Clondyke mines, and deplore
the fever that has come over everybody
to seek their fortune in that far-off land
of ice and snow. The same papers pub
lish pages of matter about these same
mines that fire the mind of the gullible
and add fuel to the fire of greed that
is responsible for the exodus to Alaska.
With this inflammatory matter left out
there would be little need of repeated
warnings for poor people to stay at
home.—San Pedro American.
The American takes a wrong view of
the matter. The newspapers are pub
lished for the purpose of furnishing the
news to the public. What they have
printed in their news columns about the
Clondyke region is what has been said
and what has been done by those who
have been there. But not even the news
columns have deliberately fired the
hearts of those who are greedy for gold.
They have simply printed the facts as the
reporters have found them. There
never before has been a great gold dis
covery where the stories told have been
so substantially backed up by the actual,
visible product as has the tale of the
Clondyke region.
Editorially the newspapers have been
very conservative. They have sifted the
gold from the dross, so to speak, and
warned the people not to lose sight of the
latter while gazing greedily at the for
mer. They have set forth the hardships
and dangers of a Journey to the Alaskan
gold fields as prominently as they have
pictured the great wealth that undoubt
edly exists there. They have shown
that only a small proportion of those
who go can realize their dreams and
their ambition.
Nor have the words of warning been
confined to the editorial pages of enter
prising newspapers. The stories
that the American condemns/ as Inflam
matory abound In wise counsel from the
LOS ANGELES HERALDt MONDAY MORNING, JULY 26, J897
lips of those who know from experience
what the dangers and hardships are. If
the dreams of wealth shall loom large in
the minds of the would-be argonaut*
while the dangers shall dwindle by com
parison, that is not the fault of the news
papers.
The great black war cloud that onily a
few weeks ago obscured the whole Euro
pean sky, and from which the civilized
world expected to see at any time the
thunderbolts of a great continental war
emerge, has dwindled away into the
nothingness of the blue above. Turkey
has once more assumed its chronic role
of the sick man of Europe; its troops
are evacuating Thessaly; Greece must
pay the price of its temerity and of the
cowardice and mismanagement of its
military captains and its statesmen.
Crete will not be free; Armenian mas
sacres will doubtless be resumed at the
bloody pleasure of the Turk; and, when
we say these things, we say that the
dove of peace Is once more winging its
unrrightened way over the map of
Europe.
There were two great primary causes
that governed the concert of the powers.
One was the balance of power, the bogy
man that has scared the warlike rulers
of Europe into being good children for
near a score and a half of years. The
other was the commercial spirit, the
money power, that In these modern days
has come to control not only the brains
but the swords of Europe. And back of
them both was Russia, patiently wait
ing.
It has been said that "peace hath its
victories no less than war." But the
victories of peace, in the relations of the
great powers, have cast a blot upon their
records that time cannot efface. The
blot is red. It is the blood of the mas
sacred to the Armenians.
That the policy of the powers, particu
larly with respect to that of Great Brit
ain, was dictated by the money power,
cannot be doubted. Money was more
powerful than honor, greater than the
spirit of Christianity, stronger than the
combined armies and navies of Europe.
It pemitted the bankrupt Turk to shake
his bloody sword, reeking with the blood
of over 50,000 Christian victims, defiant
ly in the face of the civilized world. It
averted the contingency of war, not bo
cause war is bloody, because it might be
wrong, or because it would sacrifice hu
man life, but because war would injure,
possibly overthrow, itself. It throttles
the spirit of national honor and dictates
the policies of nations. What will be
the end if this condition of affairs, which
is yearly growing worse, is to continue
without let or hindrance? Is not the
cloud' of plutocracy infinitely more dan.
gerous than the cloud of war?
The city council is to be commended
for its expressed determination to keep
the expenses of the city within the avail
able appropriation. Now let it stick to
wen.' , l'rTe"'tenri'Vn\ij--?ii trorjHC'VjvpyhJ-,-
tures is toward a deficit rather than
toward a surplus, and only eternal vig
ilance and rigid economy can make the
balance come on the right side of the
ledger.
The California newspapers having got
back the breath that was knocked out of
them by the Clondyke discoveries, are
calling attention to the palpable truth
that we have gold and plenty of it right
here at home. It ill becomes the people
of the* largest gold producing state in
the Union to turn their backs upon the
fact.
The San Diego Union is greatly exer
cised over the announcement that a
steamer will ply between Ensenada and
Los Angeles. It wants to know at what
street corner in this city the vessel will
dock. How did you find out that we were
going to build a ship canal between Los
Angeles and the coast?
The Los Alamltos beet sugar factory
is congratulated, upon its initial produc
tion of granulated sugar, which, accord
ing to all accounts, was up to the highest
standard. All of the material and all of
the machinery in this factory are of
American manufacture, which Is an
other pleasing phase of the new Indus
try.
Governor Pingree denounces the new
tariff law, and can't see where the pros
perity Is going to come in.- It is now in
order for some protection organ to rise
up and declare that Governor Pingree
is no longer a Republican.
A majority of the coal operators have
consented to try arbitration. But will
they agree to abide by the decision of
the arbitrators. The difficulty hasalways
been not in securing arbitration, but In
enforcing it.
President Andrews of Brown univer
sity has tendered his resignation, which,
of course, will be accepted by the mer
cenary, small-souled trustees of that in
stitution. Another victory for sound
money!
"Los Angeles Is about extending an
invitation to President McKinley to
visit that city. Let San Diego do
likewise.—San Diego Tribune.
Have you consulted Judge Kinney
about the matter?
An advertiser in the San Pedro Amer
ican says that the Alger man has taken
the place of the bogy man in San Pedro.
Now, whose place does Mr. Huntington
occupy?
Is not the importation of the Mongo
lian pheasant a violation of the Chinese
exclusion law?
"Did you see what that girl ordered
for her iuncheon?"
"No; what was It?"
"Iced tea, ice water and ice cream."
—Chicago Record.
A VANISHED WAR CLOUD
Summer Diet
ON THE STREET
There is one time In the week when
you will never find the people of Los An
geles at home, and that is Saturday
evening. But, go down on Broadway,
Spring or Main, particularly Spring, any
time between 7 and 9 p. m., and you will
find your friends and all the rest of the
world there. Spring street is a cosmo
politan promenade between those hours
on Saturday night. People comedown
town to market, to walk about and.geta
little fresh air, and to see the other peo-
pie doing the same thing. The crowds
remind one of Broadway in New York
on a busy day. "Why, you surely mus
have more than. 100,000 people here,'
exclaimed a little maid from Boston las
night, as she almost vainly strove to
pick her way through the crowds oi
Spring street. "This is as bad as it is
on our own Washington street." Which
the maid evidently meant for a grea
compliment.
♦ ♦ +
Another noticeable thing about the
Saturday night crowds is that every
body buys fruit. One of the leading
dealers tells me that he sells three times
as much fruit on Saturday as on any
other day, and no doubt the same is true
of the others. The Angelenoshave prop
erly got into the habit of eating fruit
and there is no reason on earth why
they should not. It is plentiful, cheap
and of manifold variety. There is no
need of killing one's self by eating green
or overripe fruit in Los Angeles. If one
kind is not ripe another is, and it is
worse than useless to display poor fruit
for sale in this city.
♦ -f
Speaking of fruit, Elvira and I drove
over to Pasadena last Sundayafternoon.
Elvira took it into her head, that she
wanted some fruit,and we drove over the
whole blessed city without being able to
find a fruit stand open for business.
They are either awfully good or very un
enterprising in. Pasadena.
♦ ♦ ♦
All the world loves a lover, and this
tender sympathy has added a personal
Interest to the leading members of the
Lyceum opera company, who have been
delighting large audiences at the Los
Angeles theater the last four nights.
James K. Hackett and Mary Mannering
assuredly make as handsome a pair as
eyes may wish to look upon, and their
many admirers here will wish them a
long and happy run In the drama of real
life.
+ ♦ +
Can anyone explain why the west side
of Spring street is so much more popular
than the east side? As far as fine
buildings are concerned, the latter side
has distinctly the advantage. Andi yet
aa an ordinary sunny afternoon you
may stand at the corner of Second and
Spring and count twenty pedestrairs
pass you on the west side to one on the
Dther. If you are looking for a friend
you are much more likely to find him on
the west side, and there are many more
retreats for liquid refreshme-nt on this
<Ide also.
+ ♦
scores of men I meet every day who are
•tricken wit.h the Clondyke craze and
have got it bad. There is talk on the
street of a Los Angeles expedition being
itted up but if the moving spirits are
wise they won't set sail till the spring.
Within the last two or three days I have
heard the following remarks from at
least two score men: "Ah, if I were an
unmarried man and had no ties
and could lay hold of a few
hundred dollars, I would be off
to the new Eldorado p. d. q." And
the strange part of it is that the women
want to go, too.
+ ♦ ♦
We have not heard much of that anti
expectoratlon-on-the-pavement ordi
nance lately, but every day you can dis
cover plenty of evidences of its violation
without looking very far either.
+ ♦ ♦
Louis Vetter is bound to make a for
tune and without going to Clondyke
either. Although the Home Telephone
company, by the grace of the supreme
court, has had to retire into its own shell
and possess its soul in patience, Vetter's
assiduous study of the intricacies of the
telephone business has not been, without
profit, at least the promise of it. He has
got hold of an invention, with the pat
ent locked up in his safe, of a really good
thing. Vetter calls It an "antiseptic
diaphragm," but it is not as might be
expected any safeguard for the epicure
It is a very neat and simple contrivance
to make telephoning cleaner and less
dangerous. We can never tell what
germs the last man who used the tele
phone has transmitted Into the receiver.
Weschcke's "Antiseptic Telephone Dia
phragm," Just slipped over the mouth of
the receiver, prevents any such un
pleasant possibilities. Vetter intends
taking his good thing with him to Chi
cago shortly and will undoubtedly lay
the foundation of his fortune forthwith.
BYSTANDER.
MY OWL-EYED TROUSERS
I have suffer'd a deal In this troublous
world.
Though most of my grief now seems mild;
Yet I'd rather have died than have my hair
curled
As per force It was curled when a child.
But nothing so ground me, so bitterly
stung,
So filled my proud soul with annoy,
As—my pen shakes with rath and I daren't
trust my tongue—
My old owl-eyed tro'isers when a boy.
Did I start off to aehool with a feigned
serene face.
Mine eyes meekly bent on the ground,
A voice from the rear would soon alter the
case:
"Your goin' the wrong way; turn
around.'
"Whatoh you doln', walkln' backwards?
they'd say.
I can hear all these Jeers to this day.
And while pleasures enough have since
brightened my years,
Sad memory pours in alloy
When I think of those days overflowing
with tears
And my owl-eyed trousers when a boy.
One patch was light red, the other was
green.
On a blackboard of Jeans, silver gray;
Though my hands were expansive '.hose
"eyes" could be seen
Full a mile'tween my fingers, they say.
Whew! If ever I should gain the reward
of the Just
And mount to the kingdom of Joy,
3hould I see them, I'd simply get up and
dust;
My old owl-eyed trousers when a boy.
—New York Bun.
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Thin man, 7 feet high, just passed out of our
store. We couldn't fit him on the $1.75
Suits, and he went "shopping."
He Didn't Read
Because we have been talking about Suits
for Boys from ? to 15 years.
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Did For Boys' Suits
I Mo 1? years, value J] \fQ
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CALIFORNIA OPINION
The Menace of Trusts
The Star.idard. Oil company has com
menced, to crush a local oil company in
Los Angeles, which refused to sell out to
the trust. That the Standard Oil com
pany will win there can be no doubt,
for, with its millions of profits, it can af
ford to sell oil In Los Angeles at a figure
that in time will certainly bankrupt tihe
local concern. The way to avoid such
proceedings would be to pass a law pro
hibiting a growing monopoly from sell
ing its product any cheaper in one mar
ket than another, plus, of course, the
cost of freight from the point of dis
tribution.—Sacramento Bee.
ttw. m ti ; — .„i „ Htj«i \m
sertion that the long association oi a uoj
and a wheel will produce a bicycle spine,
a bicycle eye and a bicycle face. Is it not
reasonable to conclude that the same
combination has developed the bicycle
brain? Something ails the youths who
twist themselves into colicky positions
and scorch through the crowded streets
like maniacs—Orange County Herald.
What Might Have Been
Our Republican contemporaries re
joice in the rise in the. price of wheat. So
do we. Our rejoicing would be much
sweeter, however, had this rise been
brought about healthfully and. naturally
by the free coinage of sliver instead of
by short crops and by famine, which
cruelly slew eight millions of men,
women and children In other wheat
growing countries.
Puncturing a Conspiracy
The Fresno Expositor, perhaps the
leading Democratic paper of the San
Joaquin valley, has inserted' Its horn
handled knife in between the ribs of what
it terms the Examiner-Budd-Magulre
combination and given it a few vigorous
twists. —Pasadena Star.
Mostly Good People
The orator at Coronado July Bth con
cluded that, Inasmuch as out of seventy
three million people there are only about
one million lawyers, "the most 1 of "our
citizens are good people."—Oceanslde
Blade.
Love's Labor Lost
It begins to look as if) the task of
picking the mud from between our toes
after the Reed parade was love's labor
lost. —San Pedro American.
The Best Must Walk
The trusts are now in the saddle se
curely. The rest of us must be content
to walk.—Visalia Times.
Trainmen and Liquor
There is a fairly good prospect of a
lively boycotting war between the At
lantic and Pacific and Santa Fe rail
roads and the California Liquor Dealers'
Protective association, says the Elsinore
Press. Recently, according to advices
received by the latter body, the Santa Fe
Railroad company issued an order pro
hibiting Its employes from entering sa
loons when either on or off duty. This
order was promptly taken up by the
board of trustees representing the liquor
dealers of this state, and at a meeting
held at the rooms of the association,
resolutions were adopted requesting the
Santa Fe to modify its order, which,
they claim, Is a discrimination against
many of the larger interests of the state.
Copies were sent to each member of the
organization and to H. C. Bush, general
freight and passenger agent of the road.
Macedoine of Mixed Fruits
Take a sufficient quantity of mixed
raw fruits, as, for Instance, grapes,
bananas, strawberries, cherries or or
anges, If obtainable, and a couple of
apples. Peel andi slice the apples, ba
nanas and orariges, stone- the cherries
and pick and divide the strawberries.
Place altogether In a deep fancy bowl,
and sprinkle over them about two ounces
of sifted sugar, add a wineglassful of
cooking brandy and a tablespoonful of
any kind of syrup preferred, set in a
cool place until needed and serve with
or without whipped cream, handled sepa
rately.—London Telegraph.
CHAMPION SNAKE STORY
How a Glass Snake Managed to Get
His Sundered Parts Together
"During my early boyhood I heard a
great many stories about the glass
snaite," said Trafflo Manager J. G.
Schriever of the Southern Pacifio com
pany a day or two ago, "but It was a
good many years Before I placed any
credence in the fact that the glass snake
ever exinsted. It happened in an odd
sort of a way (my belief in the fact) and
the existence of the creature was made
manifest during a most delightful outing
spent some years ago in Western Texas.
I company with a number of friends I
was camping on the banks of a small
stream in the hill section and it was dur
iwr.a iftnn-t nlnnjr thaVmnVo nf m
in the sun upon the top of a smooth rock
by the creek. I took up a stick to kill
the snake, but before the stick reached It
it suddenly went to pieces, just for all the
world as If it had been in sections, the
several joints remaining upon the rock,
the head excepted, which dropped over
the sidle of tihe rock into the grass. There
was no blood spilled and the joints look
ed as if they had been smeared on the
ends with sealing wax. To say that I
was surprised would express It mildly. I
had never seen anything like it before.
"I concluded to take away a section of
the glass snake, for this my compan
ions termed It, for a memento. I wrapped
a joint in a piece of paper and took It to
camp. That evening I unrolled it and
after a good look, tied It about the mid
dle with a stout piece of string andi sus
pended it from a low branch near the
tent. Then we all went to sleep. In
the morning before we had drunk our
coffee I thought to take a look at the sec
tion, and to my unbounded astonish
ment, instead of a joint I had a whole
snake. I was paralyzed with astonish
ment. I did not see how in the deuce a
snake could grow from a single section,
even if it was a glass snake, but the solu
tion of the problem was even more re
markable than my first conjecture.
The head and tail of the snake had set
out on a still hunt for the missing joint
and, having found it, had managed to
reach it as it swung at the end of the
string. And not caring to again be
come separated' from so important a
portion of its bone and sinew, had pre
ferred to dangle In midair, possibly hop
ing by some unlooked for circumstance
to regain its liberty. Touched by so
remarkable an exhibition of snake sa
gacity, we untied the string and the glass
snake glided into the verdant fastnesses
of the forest. I have never seen another
reptile of the sort."—New Orleans Times-
Democrat.
The Jubilee in Kinetoscope
The diamond jubilee will not be de
barred from Americans who did not
make a European trip this year. Early
yesterday, as I took a ride along the
whole route, I caught sight of a lot of
American bunting festooned over a
wood/ere fence. The fence surrounded a
tree in the middle of the road near Hyde
Park corner. Up in the tree were a series
of odd-shaped boxes that looked like
pigeon houses. But they were not. They
were a range of kinetoscopes ready for
the procession. The man who owned
them was an American and told me he
had extensive orders for films from the
other side as well as throughout the
British empire.—London Letter to the
New York Journal.
He Swamped Chicago's Violet Market
The original "AUegretti" ice cream
man Is now living in Chicago at the
age of 70. Ignazlo AUegretti left Italy
in 1860 for political reasons, and went
to the United States. In are early seven
ties he sought San Francisco and made
money as a confectioner.
Five years ago he shipped 1,000,000
violets from California to Chicago in a
refrigerator car, and, placing them on
sale in the Masonic temple, offered! them
at prices that broke the market there.
In 1895 he went to Chicago and opened
a little candy store in State street. The
first day he made 15 cents. Now he occu
pies an entire building and has- a large
corps of clerks to attend to his busl
,ness.—London Sun.