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MONDAY, FERRCART 14, IS»S.
PLATFORM
The Herald believes that the city of
Lou Angeles should own and control a
complete system of waterworks.
The Herald believes that the city
should acquire euch a eyitem at the
•arllest date poselble and on the most
advantageous term* possible, consistent
with oontrant obligations and fair deal-
In*.
The Herald bellevee that the con
tract with the Los Angeles City Water
company should he enforced to the let
tor, and that, at the conclnelon of the
pending lease, the plant should be taken
over ln accordance with the provisions
tO l that contract.
MR. TOWNE'S SPEECH
Copies of last Sunday's Herald,
containing a full stenographic report
of Hon. Chas. A. Towne's great speech
at Hazard's pavilion, can be had at the
office of The Herald. Friends of the
cause should send them where they
will do the most good. Wrapped, ready
for mailing, 5 cents per copy.
HOME TO ROOST
How doth distance lend enchantment
to the view! A few months ago a grave
scandal occurred In the Los Angeles
board of education. Certain of its mem
bers were charged with blackmail and
extortion. One of the accused members
confessed his guilt, the other did not.
The San Francisco Call, 500 miles
away, for some occult reason, cham
pioned the cause of the member who did
not confess, and charged the newspapers
of this city with persecuting him. In
conducting its compaign it descended
to malicious misrepresentation and low
ecullduggery under the plea of "giving
the other side a hearing."
Just now the boot is on the other foot.
Ban Francisco has a board cf education
scandal of the same nature as that in
Los Angeles. How suddenly virtuous
Is the Call become! Listen to its wail:
What is the country coming to when
men seek office for the purpose of so
liciting bribes? And this question gives
place to another: Is it not about time,
now that It is reasonably certain that
we are being ruled by thieves, for the
people to cast about for an anchorage?
Surely things cannot go on this way
very long.
The Call is late In making its discov
ery. The people can have no faith in its
assertions; they cannot hold it above
suspicion after the shameful course it
has pursued in seeking to defeat the
ends of good government in Los An
geles. Suppose that a supervisor or a
school director in San Francisco who is
charged with blackmail and extortion
should tell the Call that he "could not
obtain a fair hearing," what then?
Would its virtue withstand the pressure ?
The people are obliged to judge the sit
uation in San Francisco by the record in
Los Angeles, so far as board of educa
tion scandals and the Call are concerned.
THE LOCAL SCREW AT FAULT
You must add J45.000.000 per annum
to the circulating nieJium to keep pace
with the natural (jrowth of the United
States, shouted Bryan in 1896. And you
can only accomplish this result by free
coinage of silver, yelled Bryan in 1595.
ln ISOT the money of the country was
increxscd (96,011,882, $7ti,025.4!» of which
was gold coin, receivable at its face
value the world over. Will Mr. Bryan
or The Los Angeles Herald explain
which particular srrov, was loose in
Mr. Bryan's wheels.—Exchange.
The statement of Mr. Bryan that
$45,000,000 must be added to the circu
lating medium annually, to keep pace
with the natural growth of population
ln the United States and maintain the
per capita ot available money in the
hands of the people, Is based upon a
mathematical calculation. Mr. Carlisle,
in his last annual report as secre
tary of the treasury, conceded the neces
sity, as well as the correctness of the
estimate.
Mr. Bryan believes It better and safer
to maintain the per capita circulation
by the coinage of gold and silver, of
which we produce scarcely more than
Is sufficient for ihe purpose, than by
the issue of more "promises to pay"
money, upon whatever scheme or basis
of redemption. The decreasing sil
ver product, if all were converted
into dollars, would not he suffi
cient for the purpose. Mr. Bry
an wants all of the silver and all
of the gold, save only what Is essential
for use in the arts, converted Into a
full debt-paying money, and If this
should result In an Increase of the per
capita circulation, it is difficult to see
who would suffer thereby. The great
est philosophers and sages of all times
have maintained that the countries pro
ducing the largest quantities of the
precious metals are ever the strongest,
most enlightened and prosperous.
The money of all kinds in circulation
on the Ist of last January did not show
an increase of $96 , 041,882, as stated by
our esteemed contemporary, but did
show an increase of $70,800,000. as com
pared with the same period of the pre
vious year. And how was this Increase
made up? Nearly two-thirds of it came
from the addition of silver to the coin
age, the issue of silver certificates
against silver coin in the treasury, the
coinage of the seigniorage and sub
sidiary silver. To be exact: Increase in
silver dollars, $2,900,000; subsidiary sil
ver, $3,600,000; silver certificates, $20,000,
--000: treasury notes of IS9O, $19,200,000.
Money in the treasury fluctuates wide
ly, and whereas, the per capita cir
culation upon the Ist of January last
showed a decided increase over the per
capita circulation one year previous, in
less than a month it was decreased ft
cents a head by reason of the fluctua
tions noted.
Our esteemed contemporary will
scarcely contend that the country is
suffering from the increase in per capita
circulation, or that '-. would be hazard
ous to still further increase it to the
French limit.
ALREADY FIGHTING IT
The campaign against the primary
election law has already begun, before
the opportunity is afforded of putting it
into practice. It Is a little significant,
too, that the oppesltion to the law is be
ing manifested by those who are hand in
glove with the Push and Pull element of
the several political parties.
Thomas V. Cator, for instance, a self
assumed leader of the Populist party in
San Francisco, who trained with the
Rainey crowd ln the recent freeholders'
election, is engaged in litigation before
the supreme court, in an effort to have
the law declared unconstitutional.
Now comes the San Francisco Post,
which espoused the cause of the Solid
Six in the Los Angeles board of educa
tion scandal, and says:
If we are to judge by experience. It
Is safe to say that nobody except the
political classes will participate at the
primaries established by the law. The
selection of delegates, therefore, will
be left entirely to the political bosses,
and inasmuch as the law provides that
no candidate can go upon the official
ballot with a party designation unless
he has been nominated by a convention
created according to law, the power to
control party labels and party nomina
tions is thus confided entirely to the
political bosses. The new primary law,
moreover, Is contradictory and confus
ing. No one but a traditional Philadel
phia lawyer will ever be able to tell
exactly what it means. But if it Is ca
pable of practical operation, it can. In
our judgment, have but one result, and
that is the almost complete destruction
of the Independent system of voting set
up by the Australian ballot.
As the law has never been tried, no
body can be cocksure as to its effect.
The fact that it is so vigorously con
demned by the Post, tends to throw sus
picion upon the character of the oppo
sition, and to convey the impression that
the corruptionists and the bosses in pol
itics are afraid of it. It will be recalled
that The Herald recently called atten
tion to the experience of Colorado a few
years ago. There a law was passed to
insure clean, honestly conducted pri
maries; it worked so well that the Push
and the Pull secured its repeal at th-?
very next legislative session.
The new law may be a failure; but let
us not condemn it until it shall have been
proved to be so.
SHOULD BE MODIFIED
A congressional measure that is at
tracting considerable attention just
now, especially in view ot Germany's
retaliatory course, is a bill introduced
by Representative Barlow, ordered
printed and sent to the committee on
agriculture.
The bill provides rules and regulations
governing the importation of nursery
I
stock, and regulations for the inspection j
of nursery stock grown within the
United States which becomes subject to
interstate commerce or transportation.
It requires that all plants, trees, shrubs, j
vines, grafts, cuttings and buds offered I
for entry at any port in the United
States shall be accompanied by a cer
tificate of inspection by officials of the
government from which the exporta
tion was made, which certificate shall
be made in a manner and form pre
scribed by the secretary of agriculture.
All nursery stock imported in accord
ance with such regulations to be free
from ail inspection, quarantine or re
strictions in interstate commerce. The
secretary of agriculture is empowered to
establish quarantine against any sus
pected nursery stock sent from abroad.
All nursery stock grown in the United
States subject to interstate commerce
must be inspected by a qualified ento
mologist under the direction of the sec
retary of agriculture, the inspection to
be made prior to September 1 of each
year, the certificate of inspection to re
lease such stock from further quaran
tine or restriction.
The bill is undoubtedly intended to be
in the interests of the fruit growers of
this country, but the manner in which
the desired end is sought to be achieved
is open to criticism. Inspection by the
officials of a foreign country that is na
turally interested In securing as large
exports as possible would be more in the
nature of a farce than anything else,
and would not secure the protection de
sired. After the stock had once passed
LOS ANGELES HERALD: MONDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 14,1898
foreign Inspection the people of tfiis
country would be powerless, no matte;
how badly Infected it might be.
The proposed plan of inspection for
American nursery stock is fully as ob
jectionable. All the states are not
equally Interested In the same kinds of
stock. Each naturally desires the sole
authority to say what shall or shall not
be admitted. One state may be con
cerned about a species of infection re
garding which another cares nothing.
The several states have their own quar
antine regulations in other matters, like
cattle or swine disease, and are equally
competent to act in the matter of nurs
ery stock infection.
In brief, the inspection of foreign
nursery stock should be made in this
country by American inspectors; and
the several states should control, each
for itself, the inspection of American
nursery - stock sent from one common
wealth to another by interstate com
merce.
M'KINLEY AND GREENBACKS
that the whole power of the McKinley
administration is to be enlisted in the
warfare upon greenbacks. The order
has gone forth from the money centers,
and the president dare not disobey. It
was distinctively the money power that
elected McKinley, and he is now no more
than its bond slave. Lombard street
demands and Wall street re-echoes the
demand that the paper money issued on
the credit of the United States must be
destroyed if there is strength enough in
the successful party to accomplish it.
This is, by all odds, the most important
question now before the American peo
ple. The Cuban and Hawaiian ques
tions are but trifling in comparison.
The amount of greenbacks outstand
ing, including all that have been lost and
destroyed, and all that are on deposit in
the treasury and elsewhere, is a trifle be
low $347,000,000. These constitute a
portion of the national debt, since they
were issued by the government, as so
much money in its ordinary business
transactions. But while evidences of
indebtedness, the greenbacks bear no in
terest. They are, therefore, no burden
to the public, but, on the contrary, a
great public convenience, inasmuch as
they serve the very necessary purpose of
a like quantity of money. They are even
better than an equivalent amount of
gold or silver coin, since they are more
easily handled, and are not subject to
loss by abrasion.
To dispense with so large a portion of
the circulating medium of the country
without substituting other money for it
would, of course, produce great strin
gency in the money market, and
create a panic. But it Is not proposed
to substitute other money for the green
backs, but to merely confer upon the
national banks the privilege to issue
bank paper when they may see fit to do
so, and not otherwise. But the banks,
as is well known, always haul in their
money in times of stringency or panic,
and let it out only with a liberality when
the demand for it is slack.
The shallow pretext for this movement
of the money power against green
backs is that the government, in pro
viding and issuing this kind of money,
is engaging in the banking business;
and this, they say, the government
ought not to engage in, but should leave
to the national banks the issuance of all
paper money. The advocates of this
theory hold that the government, in the
matter of providing money for the peo
ple, should restrict itself to the opera
tions of the mints; but they fail to show
wherein the providing of paper money is
any more of a banking business than the
providing of gold, or silver, or nickel, or
copper coins, of which the government
holds a complete monopoly. It is argued
by them that, because the constitution
declares that: "No state shall make
anything but gold and silver coin a
tender in payment of debts," therefore
the United States can make money only
out of gold and silver —a most lame and
impotent conclusion. As well might it
be maintained that the federal govern-
ment can make no treaty nor levy a tax
on imports, because the several states
are forbidden to do these things. A
much more consistent interpretation
would be that the general government,
having assumed the exclusive preroga
tive of manufacturing the circulating
medium, has prohibited the states from
doing that thing. This view is well
sustained by the further constitutional
provision that: "Congress shall have
power to provide for the punishment of
counterfeiting the securities and cur
rent coin of the United States." Here
Is a clear recognition of the authority
of the general government to create
these greenback securities. If their is
suance were unauthorized, it would
hardly be proper to punish their coun
terfeiting. Their issuance, therefore,
by the federal government is strictly
constitutional.
Rank bimetalllsts, popularly known
as "silver cranks," have been given the
postoffices ln the two leading cities of
Colorado, Denver and Pueblo, by Presi
dent .McKinley. This Is not because he
loves silver men more or hates Demo
crats less, but because of the al
most complete failure of the crop of ad
ministration Republicans ;;ince the re
turn of the Wolcott commission.
"Bryan, No One But Bryan," is the
stereotyped heading now used by the
New York journal for its department of
political correspondence. The acclaim
Is so unanimous as to render the com
munications monotonous. Arthur Mc-
Ewen should be given another assign
ment.
Ex-Senator Dubois has already begun
the work of organizing the silver forces
for effective work in the next campaign,
operating in conjunction with other
champions of the cause from the Wash
ington standpoint. He, of course, places
the highest importance upon a close
fusion in the general congressional cam
palgn of next fall, and specifically In the
elections for United States senators la
the states of California, Utah and Ne
braska. Fortunately for the cause he
advocates, since It serves to facilitate
his plans, It Is desirable to secure the re
turn from those commonwealths of a
Democrat, a Silver Republican and a
Populist, in the persons of Senators
White, Cannon and Allen. The re-elec
tion of these three senators, so essential
to the silver cause, would of course be
endangered ln the event of a division in
their states. No less imperative Is It
that blmetalllsts should stand together
and subordinate all other questions to
the main Issue in the congressional elec
tions of this fall, and to the organization
of them into one compact body of voters
Mr. Dubois proposes to direct his best
energies.
As foreshadowed by this journal the
other day, the reorganization committee
of the Kansas Pacific road will bid It
In at the forthcoming sale at the upset
price fixed by the government. This
will be disappointing only to those who
hoped the United States would come
into forced possession of the road and
have an opportunity of putting to test
the ability of the government to Suc
cessfully operate it. But the people gen
erally, wholly independent of this con
sideration will be disposed to felicitate
the country upon being at last rid of a
gigantic problem that for twenty-five
years has vexed the souls of statesmen.
The striking Colorado coal miners
have been vindicated by the state board
of arbitration, to which they agreed to
submit their grievances. Every demand
of the men was justified. They could
hardly have expected to secure so much
by a prolongation of the strike. It In
deed threatened to cost them the whole
thing. The outcome is another splen
did victory for the principle of peaceful
arbitration.
The Consummate Idiot, who, upon the
slightest pretext raises an alarm of fire
in theaters, attended the Orpheum yes
terday afternoon. Two boys got to
scuffling In the upper part of the house,
and of course the Idiot began to yell
"Fire! Fire!" at the top of his voice. A
panic was averted, but that was not the
fault of the Idiot. There ought to be a
way to prosecute and punish such cat
tle.
It is now announced that unless Spain
sends over a bundle of regrets that De
Lome accidentally crowded so much
truth into a single letter the president
Will not be satisfied. The country will
much deplore a break in the heretofore
chummy relations existing between
Madrid and Washington.
If Luetgert is kept in prison until his
wife puts in an appearance Justice will
doubtless be measurably satisfied.
LA TABLE D'HOTE
Of all that gastronomic art has done.
Both recent and remote,
No greater plague it sent to man
Than that called table d'hote.
Its courses long and mixtures vile.
Too numerous to note.
Have indigestion brought to me—
This horrid table d'hote.
I've traveled far o'er land and sea,
By rail, by stage and boat.
And still I find where'er I roam,
That same old table d'hote.
In northern lands or sunny climes.
Round Capri's Isle I float.
And still it comes—that phantom fiend—
The ghostly table d'hote.
I walked on board the Paris' deck,
"I've 'scaped him now." I tho't:
The captain smiled and said to me:
"Come, let's have table d'hote."
In dreams I scaled the walls of heaven,
But scarce had crossed the moat;
St. Peter said: "You're just ln time,
We're taking table d'hote."
I fled through space, a fiend pursued
And grasped me by the throat;
"And who are you?" I gasped In fear;
He screamed: "I'm table d'hote."
And now. dear captain, list' to me,
A moment's time devote;
I'm fond of you and all your crew.
But damn your table d'hote!
—Charles Gilbert Davis In Chicago Times-
Herald.
•Written on board the steamship City of
Paris while returning from a trip to Eu
rope
He Has Fasted For Twenty Years
There Is a Jew, a native of Lltsk, Russia,
living in the East end of London, who has
tasted for twenty years, his sole daily diet
during that time consisting of six pints of
milk, three pints of beer and a half pound
of Demerara sugar. His name Is Morris
Fox. He Is an excellent Talmudlcal
scholar, and, In spite of his frugal meals,
he is the most healthy, Intelligent and
wide-awake person ln his quarter. He Is
now over 40. At the age of 17, it appears,
he caught some lingering fever, which
shattered his constitution and entirely de-
stroyed his digestive organs. He took
many kinds of treatment from many phy
sicians, until his stomach became Inured
to all medicine. At the Kieff hospital they
vainly tried to cure him by sponging and
electrolysis; at Vienna his physicians In
cluded the well-known Drs. Albert and
Northnagel. His treatment at Carlsbad
was a failure; then he traveled to Kodlgs-
berg, when the physicians decided that he
must live on sugar, milk and beer. He
adopted their prescription, and soon re
gained normal health. For twenty years
no solid food has passed his mouth.-rNew
York Times.
The Silk Hat Epoch
Mrs. Greathead—"l want a silk hat for
my husband and one for my son."
Hatter—"l didn't know they wore them."
Mrs. Greathead—"They haven't hereto
fore, but now my son is growing his first
mustache and my husband Is taking an
Interest in polities."—Philadelphia Record.
Too Spry
"Jinks Is the meanest man on earth."
"Why?"
"I told him a good story on the way out
to a dinner, and when we got there he
worked it off before I had a chance."—
Chicago Record.
Cologne Used in Viands
It is no secret that the French culinary
expert employs eau de cologne to produce
with other essences that subtle, mysterious
but delicious flavor so often tasted in fruit
salads and other cookery confections. In
the genuine cologne there Is a compressed
extract of rosemary and lemon thyme.
Detective —A combination of shadow and
substance—Chicago News. •
EPIGRAMS BY
CHARLES A. TOWNE
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t ~. ♦
4 The campaign of 1900 began the day 4
♦ after Bryan's nomination ln 1896. and 4
4 It will go on until the day of his elec- 4
4 tlon ln 1900. +
4O O >
4 The single gold standard Is the 4
♦ greatest trust and monopoly In all 4
4- this world, and comprises all others. 4
TO O 4
4- The Republican party said In 1892 4
♦ that nine-tenths of the American peo- 4
4 pie were blmetalllsts. They told the 4
4 truth. It was true in 1892; it was true ♦
4 ln 1896; it Is true today, and It will be 4
4 true ln 1900. +
4o o +
4 There is absolutely no excuse for 4
4 any man who declares under any clr- 4
4 cumstances for the free coinage of 4
4 silver to put up with the maintenance 4
4 of the gold standard. 4
4O o 4
4 The gold standard has been Indicted 4
4 ever since It was mistakenly en- 4
4 throned ln the world for high crimes 4
4 and misdemeanors, and has pleaded 4
4 gallty at the bar of public Justice for 4
4 four and twenty years. 4
♦o o 4
4 An appeal to the mercy, to the gen- 4
4 tility of the robber, is always In vain. 4
4 You must assert your own rights, or 4
4 you will not have any. 4
4 The senate of the United States is 4
4 today the bulwark of the safety of 4
4 these United States. The house Is no 4
4longer a representative body. 4
♦O O 4
4 The people of the country have 4
4 learned that psychological prosperity 4
4 Is a myth and an Impossibility. 4
♦o o 4
4 In the United States today there are 4
4 until this great question is settled, 4
4 only two political parties, those who 4
4 are for the gold standard, the trusts 4
4 and the monopolies, and those who 4
4 are against them. 4
TO O 4
4 It is the boast of our opponents that 4
4 they are united. It is their hope of 4
4 success that they may divide us, in 4
4 order that they may conquer. Let us 4
4 take wisdom from our enemies. 4
TO O 4
4 Hon. Stephen M. White is one of the 4
4 acknowledged lenders of the United 4
4 States senate. He Is a man of very 4
4 great ability ns a lawyer, as a par- 4
4 liamentarian and ns a debater in the 4
4 councils of the senate; a man who 4
4 stands absolutely true, absolutely In- 4
4 corruptible, absolutely fearless ln this 4
4 great cause now waging before the 4
4 people of the country, and who en- 4
4 Joys the confidence of all the men fol- 4
4 lowing that common banner. . 4
4O O 4
4 When they say gold has intrinsic 4
4 value, we retort that intrinsic value 4
4ls intrinsic nonsense. We say that 4
4 value Is simply the ratio between the 4
4 demand for a thing and the supply 4
4 of it. 4
4o o 4
4 The demand for money is equlvn- 4
4 lent to the demand for all other 4
4 things. It Is the all-powerful finger 4
4 of the law which gives us the right to 4
4 use a metal as money. 4
4O O 4
4 What France was able to do from 4
4 1803 to 1873, the United States of 4
4 America can do from IS9B until the end 4
4 of the world. 4
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"Consistency, Thou Art a Jewel"
Editorial In San | Kditorinl ln San
FranclscoCall. Feb- Francisco Call, Feb
ruary 12, IS9S. j ruary 12, IS9B.
We Incline to the | Throughout the
opinion that Mr. | state the stirring of
Towne will iind j the people on pollt
more pleasure ln ] leal Issues is already
ghls weatherless, | noted. Certain
winterless land, and | groups of men are
in contemplation of | considering the se
the green things | lection of candidates
growing, than he I for governor, others
will In politics. He | are seeking repre
wlll observe that : sentntives ln con
our people do all j gress. and. generally
things in season | speaking, all are glv-
While the politi- j ing thought to the
cians who are look- i choice of their par
ing for office may j ties In making nom
feel the quickening j Inations for local of
of ambition in Feb- | flees,
ruary. the people | The eager Interest
are busy with the | felt by the people in
pruning hook and | the coming cam
plow. In fact, Mr. | paign so early In the
Towne comes In the ; year Is a good sign,
close season for pol-; It Is an evidence
itles. and while his that the voters ln
audlences will chill j tend to direct the
and fever by turns i contest from start to
as he "views with j finish,
alarm" or "points |
with pride," their |
minds are on their |
wheat fields and ral- |
sin plantations and |
orange groves.
Millions For Charity
The Rev. C. T. Ward of the Sheltering
Arms has prepared comparative tables
showing the amount of money left for
charily or benevolent purposes by testators
throughout the United States during the
last three years. He Amis that these be
quests for 1897 are $1,000,000 ln excess of
those for 1596. In the bequests amount
ed to $9,401,500. In 1896 to $13,112,300, and In
1897 to 514.374.500. Of the more than four
teen millions bequeathed last year $6,204,
--600 was designated for charitable purposes,
$2.575.000 for missionary purposes, and
$5,292,200 for educational purposes.
The following table shows the amount to
be devoted to church and missionary pur
i according to religious dcnomlna
, tion:
1895. 1896. 1897.
! Episcopal $795,000 $737,200 $1,026,600
; Congregational ... 247.000 284.500 451.800
j Baptist 101.500 216,800 312.200
Presbyterian 83,700 1 83.400 265,100
Roman Catholic .. 56.000 200.000 214,300
Methodist 177,900 132,200 87.100
Reformed 30.000 67.500 77,000
Unitarian 59,800 63.500 17,200
Lutheran 13.700 17,200 73,500
New Jerusalem ... M,OOO 20.000 13,600
Christian 3,000 6,500 9,500
Univcrsalist 47.000 6.000 11,000
Friends 6.500 6.0C0 7,000
Hebrew „i 2,800 4.000 2,000
—New York Times.
Russian Gold Product
Russia holds the third place among gold
•produclng countries. Gold Is only found
ln large quantity ln the Ural mountains
and East and West Siberia; the very lim
ited output of washed gold in Finland Is
not of any importance. It Is only natural
that the Russian government should do
all ln its power to advance the gold mining
industry. Its plan is to train up a staff of
mining engineers and to let these experts
visit North America, South Africa and
Australasia. It is also proposed to attempt
a second extraction of gold from some of
the vast quantities of residue, etc.. ln the
various mining districts.—Philadelphia
Record.
Did What He Promised
"How about that bill you promised to
introduce?" inquired the constituent.
"I kept my promise." replied the mem
ber of congress. "I introduced It, but no
body appeared to desire its further ac
quaintance."—Washington Star.
No Need
"Do you know, I don't think much of
Mawson ?"
"You don't have to. You can size Maw
son up in two seconds,"—Harlem Life.
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CALIFORNIA OPINION
Greater Los Angeles
The rivalry between Oakland and Los
Angeles has been quite marked ln the past.
For years the former city took rank ns
second clt ln the state in point of popula
tion, but with later years our southern me
tropolis has outstripped her ln the race.
Now Oakland will make a grand effort to
regain the coveted place. A fine scheme
has been concocted whereby the following
will bo united in one city urid county:
Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Emeryville,
Piedmont, Claremont, Frultvale, Melrose,
Fltchburg, Elmhurst and San Lenndro.
This would give Oakland a greater popula
tion than the city of Los Angeles and a
much greater assessed valuation. Oakland
would then.be the second city on the coast
and the present system of double legisla
tion would be unnecessary. Now, Los An
geles, wake up! Give us La Fiesta again!
Push the harbor work, increase your pop
ulation, extend your city limits. We can
beat them fellows up north on climate,
fruit—almost anything—so don't let them
get by this time. We've got the climate
and the fruit, and just as soon as our two
big sugar factories begin to operate
we'll have a big population. So then, why
not keep up our heads and show those fel
lows up there a thing or two ?—Ventura
Democrat.
Anxiety Aroused
A dispatch from Pomona to the Los An
geles Herald by special leased wire says:
"Twenty-two Indies arc organising an ex
pedition to Dawson City." This is news.
Indeed. Can it be that there Is being or
ganized in Pomona a maiden ladles' expe
dition to Klondike ln quest of husbands?
Impossible! The unmarried Pomona ladles
are too young and winsome to go on any
such expedition.—Pomona Progress.
Go Slow
It isn't everybody who can aspire to be
a Tod Sloan. Editors, lawyers, physicians,
preachers and others who are not bow
legged and who are working In humble ca
pacities Bhould remember this and not
make the mistake of endeavoring to reach
out beyond their capabllities.-San Jose
Mercury.
An After Thought
After having confessed the truth in refer
ence to killing his brother and sister by
poison, it occurs to Frank Belew that ho Is
very, very insane.—Santa Rosa Press-
Democrat.
The Foolish Virgins
The demand for garden seeds furnished
the Callfornlan for distribution has Bet In
with a grand swing. The seeds, however,
are all gone.—Bakersfleld Callfornlan.
An Unusual Case of Honesty
In the mall received by A. S. Woolf yes
terday was a letter from London. England.
In the letter was a postal note for $2.60. And
ln the $2.50 Is a story. It Is an unusually
honest story, or rather a story of unusual
honesty.
Nine years ago a banker ln Denver
bought a bill of furnishing goods from
Woolf Bros. The bill amounted to $97, but
the banker was cheerfully given credit
Just because he was a banker.
But in a few months the bank failed and
all efforts to collect the bill were fruitless.
The firm traced the banker to Japan.
There It lost track of him. Five years
passed and the bill was outlawed. The
$97 was placed to the firm's loss.
The letter which Mr. Woolf received from
London yesterday came from the ex
hanker. He said hard luck had followed
him. Now he was getting on his feet once
more, and he enclosed $2.50. which, though
a small sum, would make the bill col
lectible again. As soon as he was able
he would send the rest of the money. He
did not know Just when that would be.
But he would send it.—Kansas City Star.
Russia's Budget for This Tear
Another important document of the sea
son is M. Wltte's financial estimate for
1898. Briefly, the budget Is balanced with
a total of 1.474,094,923 rubles, with a surplus
of 14,000,000 rubles ordinary revenue, and
a deficit of 106,000.000 rubles extraordinary
income. The total extraordlnaryexpend,
ture amounts to nearly 124^'°°? f r "^ s '
all of which, with the exception of 11.000 -
000 is for railway construction. A deficit
™; V e l«0».0» rubles 1. to be covered
by "the available resources of the treas
ury " which some critics interpret as In
dicating a new loan. M. Wltte's explana
tion as usual, Is too voluminous to deal
with by telegram. He elucidates at length
the transformation of the paper currency
and sliver standard Into gold coinage, and
touches upon the bad harvest last sum
mer which is likely to reduce the Income
of the peasant and land taxes by some
7 000 000 rubles. In the present report the
economical well-being ot Russia Is not
represented In tbe same favorable light as
in the budgets of the last few years.—
London Times.
His Part
Little Katie— Papa, what did you say to
mamma when you made up your mind you
wanted to marry her?
Mr. Meeker (visibly reluctant)—l said
.".yes," dear.—Chicago Tribune,
NOTES OF THE DAY
Tho graphophone Is being utilized by the
bureau of ethnology to preserve a record
of songs and languages that are likely to
soon become extinct.
Women In France hnve Just secured a
slight addition to their legal rights. They
may henceforth be valid witnesses to reg
istrations of births, marriages and deaths,
and to the signatures ln legal documents.
During 1897 the sum total of losses paid
in Kansas by all the life Insurance com
panies doing business there was $413,900.
Luring the same time $539,262 was paid by
one fraternal society, the A. O. U. W.
The Delaware and Hudson railroad hae
adopted a competitive system ln dealing
with employes, with the view of enhancing
efficiency, eliminating favoritism and
making merit the reason for promotion.
Twenty-two business men who acted ac
the coroner's Jury In the Investigation of
the recent great tire In London and served
for fourteen working days received 4
pence (2 cents) each as compensation.
A shoe dealer ln New York says that on
account of the newspaper ridicule women
have almost entirely discontinued the
practice of sending- slippers to their pas
tors at Christmas.
Five 1b the sacred number of the Chi
nese, who have five planets, five cardinal
points, five virtues, five tastes) live
musical tones, five ranks of nobility and
Aye colors.
Two glasses of a temperance drink served
to a London doctor by a teetotal family
contained so much alcohol that the dootor
was unable to walk straight across the
room. He Is now lecturing against ginger
ale and root beer as Intoxicants.
A European has been sentenced at Bulu
wayo to six years' Imprisonment with hard
labor for defrauding the natives of their
cattle. He pretended to be a government
Inspector and seized the cattle for sup
posed violations of law.
A paper read before the British associa
tion at Bath ln praise of corsets, declared
that "reasonably tight" lacing Increased
mental nnd physical activity by causing
a more liberal supply of blood to the brain,
muscles and nerves.
In a report to the state department
United States Consul Monohan, at Chem
nitz, shows that workmen wounded by ac
cident ln Germany have been paid ln the
last eleven years over and above their
wages nearly $120,000,000.
Arrangements are being made ln England
for cenelbntlng the bicentenary of tho So
ciety for Promoting Christian Knowledge
on Tuesday, March Bth, the anniversary
of the day on which the society was
founded ln 1693.
The women of Seattle, Wash., have in
stituted a Society of Klondike Widows.
The lists are exclusive, being restricted to
those whose claims to "Klondike widow
hood" are indisputable. Only the wives
and sweethearts of men off to the gold
fields are eligible and no others need apply.
Somewhat After Aesop
A chrysanthemum and a cabbage met
by chance at the door of a house where
they had been left by a florist and a gro
cer, respectively.
"What part of the mansion are you
about to visit?" asked the cabbage.
"The parlor," replied the chrysanthe
mum. "And you?"
"Alas, fair cousin," rejoined the cab
bage, "I fear I am on my way to the cel
lar."
"Call me not cousin, said the other ar
rogantly. "We are not related at all. The
cellar Is a good enough place for such as
you."
The humble cabbage said no more; but.
a few days later, they met again, by aecl
dent, for one brief moment. The cab
bage reposed ln the center of a large plat
ter. The chrysanthemum was In a coal
bucket.
"Whither are you going?" feebly asked
the chrysanthemum.
"To the dinner table," answered the cab
bage. "And you?"
"Alas." responded the other, "I am on
my way to the garbage box."
Concerning this Incident It may be re
marked that pride still goeth before a
fall, even as It did of old.—Youth's Com
panion.
Had His Troubles
Seedy Individual—Can't you give a dime
to a poor homeless wanderer?
Well-dressed Individual—No home?
Why, man, you're ln luck. I've got a bill
in my pocket for $200 taxes on mine, six;
months overdue, that I can't pay.—Somer*
vllle, Mass., Journal.
The Queen's English
"Englishman—l say, ye knaw, what's
the bookage to Boston?
Railroad Ticket Clerk—The whatage?
Englishman—The bookage, ye knaw-.
the tariff. Whet's the tariff?
Ticket Clerk—l haven't time to talk pot«
ltlcs.—New York Weekly.
To Be Put Out
Trying to prevent smoking at the city,
hall offices under penalty ot dismissal !■
an Illustration of the theory that wher«]
there's smoke there's Hie—Philadelphia
k Times.