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SUNDAY, MARCH 13, IK9K.
PLATFORM
Tho Herald believes that the city ol
ton Angeles should own and control a
complete system of waterworks.
The Herald believes that the city
Should acquire such a system at the
earliest date possible and on the most
Advantageous terms possible, consistent
With contract obligations and fair deal
ing-
The Herald believes that the con
tract with the Lm Angeles City Water
company should bo enforced to the let
ter, and that, at the conclusion of tha
•ending loaae, the plant should betaken
•ver In accordance with the provisions
4>f that contract.
A FRIEND IN NEED
Events are rapidly narrowing the dis
tance between the United States and
the "tight little island" across the sea.
The English are saying pleasant things
about us, and promising to extend sub
stantial aid to us In need. They are lit
erally dumping coals ot fire on our de
voted head.
It has not been fashionable In this
country to like the English. Our an
tipathy extends back to a remote yet
memorable tea party, and even beyond
that. We have several times since been
mad enough to fight them with guns and
swords, and we have fought them. Ever
since then we have been pouting at them,
as if not satisfied with the thrashing
;we have always given them.
But they are getting even with us now.
by returning something we have been
loath to believe they possessed, for
something we have been calling by an
other name. In other words, good for
evil.
We have Increased the height of the
fence Intended to shut out British man
ufactures.
We have declined to enter Into an
agreement for the peaceful arbitration
of all differences between the two coun
tries.
We have made pretty hard sledding for
their subjects to the north of us, upon
Several distinct lines.
We even went so far as to resent the
Interference of their minister In our do
mestic affairs.
And we read the riot act to them in
the Venezuelan matter.
However, it must be conceded that
they have, after all, been amiable only
In spots.
They have vexed us sorely in the mat
ter of preserving fur seal life in the Ber
ing sea, displaying a good deal of stub
bornness in sustaining the Canadian
contention, and considerable dilatori
ness In giving force and effect to the
Paris award.
They practically invited us into their
parlor to talk over the matter of provid
ing for an enlarged use of silver, and
scalped us with neatness and dispatch
after getting us there. By breathing
the word of promise to the ear and
breaking it to the hope, they contributed
to the miscarriage of purpose, and to the
postponement of sorely needed financial
and industrial relief, in the late na
tional elections.
They have lately faltered a little in their
faith in the stability of our institutions,
and have been unloading their American
investments, with a degree of frenzy in
dicating their fear that we were going
to leave town without paying our board
bill.
But now they are smiling upon us
again. They now declare that "any
trouble threatening the United States
Will be shared by Great Britain." They
are seriously considering the advisabil
ity, "in view of the recognized identity
of interests of all English-speaking
people," of placing the services of the
British fleet at the disposal of the United
States, in the event of "complications
with any foreign power"—not merely
with Spain, mind you, but "with any
foreign power." That sounds like
a genuine declaration nf love, a
willingness to lay down their lives for us.
Next week they are going to talk silver
again in parliament, only we don't take
much stock in their silver talk. They
have their silly season just as we do, und
talk nonsense. But this time their re
vival of the silver question will be harm
less, for we are on to their curves now.
We have seen the placard on the wall,
announcing the new rule of the game,
that the "lulu" can be played but once in
on evening.
But that aside, and we yet have abund
ant occasion for felicitation over the at
titude of our big neighbor. We are to
have his moral support in the crisis that
is approaching, and, as we have before
remarked, that is a thing not to be des
pised. It insures us a fair Held in
which to meet Spain single-handed, and
that is all we ask.
And he ls not going to quarrel with us
any more about the Alaskan boundary.
Only yesterday the news came that our
contention In that behalf has been recog
nized, that a convention has been ar
ranged, and that we are to have every
thing our own way In the northwest. The
only arbiters in tfcat contention will now
be the surveyors, and surveying is now a
fixed science.
Canadian customs officials will con
tinue to hold up our gold-seeEers at the
boundary line, but we can't complain of
that, for isn't the hold-up doctrine the
keystone of the arch of our own financial
structure?
The only friction observable at this
time Is caused by the greed of the "Eng
lish speaking" transportation corpora
tions on either side of the line in compet
ing for Klondike business, and that need
give us little concern, for with the long
and short haul clause suspended and
Canadian differentials Ignored, advant
ages are minimized.
There will be no alliance between Great
Britain and the United States, as hinted,
but the era of good feeling that has been
Inaugurated is likely to continue in
definitely, to the mutual advantage of
both nations.
BAD FOOD PRODUCTS
Germany will not be the only country
to have violent prejudices against Amer
ican meat products, if certain practices
are kept up. Sweden is falling into line.
Horse meat is a recognized article of
food in that country, and it appears that
it Is being imported In greater or less
quantities from the United States. Now,
if our Swedish or our German or our
French friends like horse meat, why,
that ls the kind of meat they like; but
they have the same prejudice against
rotten, diseased meat that has been man
ifested recently in Los Angeles sanitary
circles.
In one of the Gothenburg, Sweden,
newspapers recently appeared the report
of a Stockholm veterinary surgeon on
an importation, of American horse meat,
In which it was asserted that the meat
originated "from animals which, if they
did not die a natural death, were evi
dently at least sick and dying." The re
port goes on to say:
The muscular tissues In certain of
these pieces of meat had undergone a
change: It was of grayish-yellow color,
in some places mixed with a dirty-look
ing, yellowish-red meat juice, which
copiously oozed out. In other places It
was of a fatty consistency. Intermixed
with red spots of blood, with, In both
cases, a disagreeable smell, like that of
virulent pus. In a couple of pieces I
found partly healed abscefses. At the
microscopic examination of blood and
meat juice from the central parts of
these pieces of meat, I found that bac
teria and pus corpuscles abounded.
This is disgusting, sickening, in fact,
and The Herald publishes it only be
cause the case calls for a heroic rem
edy. If our merchants and govern
ment permit such outrages to occur it
will soon result in a material decrease
In the exportation of American food
products. It is perfectly amazing how
indifferent the American people are to
the sale of bad and adulterated food
products.
Sometimes, as in the case of Germany,
the pretext is made that retaliation is
the real policy. There have been
several such instances, but Sweden
is not attempting to indulge in tariff
retaliation against this country; nor
does the single Item of horse flesh cover
the principle involved. We have a
great deal to learn from some of the
European countries in this matter of
pure food products, and the sooner we
recognize the fact, the better it will be
for the physical and commercial health
,of our people.
CLARA BARTON, ANGEL
A composite picture of American sym
pathy for suffering humanity in Cuba,
could it be idealized, would be the soulful
face of Miss Clara Barton, ministering
angel of battlefield, bivouac and hos
pital, who has had charge of the relief
work upon the island since it was under
taken by the Red Cross society, of which
she is still the president. Her presence
there, and the work she is accomplishing,
forms the one bright spot in the fair land
given over to the swnrd and the torch,
crimsoned with the blood of tens of
thousands of victims of Spanish cruelty,
and blackened with the ruins of count
less homes lying in the tortuous path
of the destroyer.
Indispensable as General Lee has come
to be considered, as the official repre
sentative of the government in Cuba, it
is questionable if he could not better be
spared than could Miss Barton, although
each occupies a unique position at this
particular juncture, so different in scope
and character as to afford contrast
rather than comparison.
Of Miss Barton we hear but little. Her
acts are without diplomatic significance
or international import; her incomings
and outgoings are not heralded in thi
daily journals as are the movements of
war marshals and naval commanders,
and if a record is kept of the details of
her quiet yet glorious achievements, it is
probably not a human record, though
more enduring.
It may not be said of her that she ven
tures in where angels fear to tread; but
it is certain that her mission on the
island has frequently taken her where
heroes might go, if at all, in fear and
trembling. Hut the dangers Insep
arable from war—and a war that has
scarcely a counterpart in history, be
cause of its conduct outside of the recog
nized rules of civilized warfare—the dan
gers of national and race hatred, the
dangers of climate and of contact with
disease and pestilence and famine, and
of sanitary conditions unspeakable, have
no terrors for this noble Christian WO
-i man, who crosses the trochas unques
j tioned, and Hits here and there about.
LOS ANGELES HERALD* SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH S3, 1898
from Havana to Santiago and Sagua
Grande and Manzanillo, upon her er
rands of mercy—feeding the hungry,
clothing the naked, bandaging the
wounded, soothing this sick, and admin
istering comfort and consolation to the
dying. Sixty-nine years of age, and yet
the most active personage today on the
Island, wholly Indifferent to weariness
or fatigue, and scorning all suggestions
that she moderate her endeavors!
How like a romance Is this wonderful
woman's life of self-sacrifice and devo
tion to humanity, covering more than a
third of a century of time, and connected
with the most stirring events of that pe
riod on two hemispheres! Let us
briefly epitomize it: Born at Oxford,
Massachusetts, 1830; while quite young
opened a school with six Bcholars,
and Increased it to six hundred;
'54 to '63 a clerk in the patent office; '64
appointed by General Butler to take
charge of the hospitals of the army of
the James; '65 sent to Andersonvllle to
identify and mark the graves of Union
soldiers buried there; commissioned by
Lincoln to search for missing soldiers
on southern battlefields; '66-67 lectured
on war experiences, devoting the pro
ceeds to charity; sojourned briefly in
Switzerland for her hearth; '70 assisted
the Duchess of Baden In hospital and
field work during the Franco-Prusßian
war; '71 appointed commissioner of the
French and German governments in re
lieving the distress of the poor of Stras
bourg; '72 performed a like mission among
the poor of Paris; '81 organized the Red
Cross society In the United States, and
became its first president; "84 took charge
of the relief measures for the sufferers
by the floods in the Ohio and Mississippi;
later In the same year she represented
the Red Cross society In the conference
at Geneva; '83 was appointed by Gover
nor Butler to take charge of the Massa
chusetts reformatory prison for women,
and again took a prominent part in the
Geneva conference of that year; '84
served as special commissioner for for
eign exhibits at the New Orleans exposi
tion; 'S5, upon the request of the senate
committee on foreign relations, wrote a
j history of the Red Cross society. This
was printed at the government's expense,
but we believe she has never been reim
bursed for the private fortune she ex
pended In the work of transferring the
remains of the unknown Union dead from
southern battlefields to the national
cemetery at Arlington.
IMITATIVE MAN
To a very large extent man isf an Imi
tative animal and the creature of his
environment. Boys and girls imitate
their elders, and men and women are but
"children of a larger growth."
Just now the war spirit is abroad In the
land—not a fierce, passionate desire for
hostilities against another nation, but
the spirit that considers the possibilities
of war. Take your daily walk, and you
shall see children with their wooden
swords and paper hats, drilling and
marching as earnestly as if the fate of
the nation depended upon their actions.
It is in the atmosphere. The stiff old
veteran throws back his shoulders, and
the martial spirit possesses him. He is
ready to fight again. He has consulted
neither his old wound nor his rheuma
tism. Somehow he does not have suf
ilcient faith in the younger generation.
He forgets that thirty-five years ago he
was of the young blood himself.
Next summer you may attend the
races. The racing spirit does not cease
when the last horse has crossed under
the wire. On the road from the park
you may see impromptu races; the
veriest old plugs find the atmosphere
contagious, and their drivers try to hold
the reins as they have just seen the pro
fessionals hold them.
Let a circus come to town, and the
youngsters will be breaking their necks
for the next month, imitating the acro
batic performances they have seen. If
there is a prize fight in town, you may
stand on the street corners after it 13
over and see men practicing upper cuts
and landing solar plexus hits on their
friends.
Chaplain McCabe could probably tell
you something about this imitative
spirit, this contagion that seizes at times
upon the most self-restrained of men, as
he develops it shrewdly at a church
debt-raising. Harold Frederic has
given us a sample of it in his "Theron
Ware."
Sometimes this spirit nf imitation is a
good thing, and sometimes is has a very
bad effect. The same contagion, di
rected into different channels, works for
both good and evil. It may at one
time induce a man to perform a good
deed, and the next day make him a unit
in a howling mob bent upon destruction.
A VERY IMPORTANT DECISION
When the country gets time to con
sider the matter it will discover that
Justice Harlan's decision in the Nebraska
maximum freight rate case is one of the
most important findings ever rendered
by the United States supreme court.
The courts have for years quite generally
held that the regulation of freight and
passenger rates within a state is a legis
lative rather than a judicial function.
Justice Harlan's decision appears to
change this view to the following extent:
that when a state establishes a maxi
mum freight or passenger rate a court
may examine into the matter, and if the
rate, in its opinion, does not afford a fair
margin of profit, then the court may de
clare the act unconstitutional, and for
bid its enforcement. That is to say,
when the justice of a rate is called Into
question the state legislature may not
enforce it without due process of law.
The railroads were given quite a set
back in the decision of the United States
supreme court against pooling, but gi
gantic consolidation schemes and a few
such decisions as that in the Nebraska
case will give them all the power they
need. It would not be surprising, in
deed, if the anti-pooling decision were
reconsidered In one way or another. A
regular newspaper and circular pooling
propaganda has been at work for sev
eral months trying to manufacture pub
lic opinion in favor of pooling.
The Interstate commerce law has long
been a farce as an institution. The Ne
braska decision administers a knock-out
blow to legislative railroad rate powers,
and to state railroad commissioners. The
Huntlngtons and the Plerpont Morgans
are still in the saddle!
The cabinet is said to be considering a
plan of intervention in Cuban affairs
which shall be in the nature of a compro
mise, reserving to Spain the authority
which England exercises over her colo
nies. If Spain had ever been known to
exercise authority in that way, or if any
faith could be placed In her doing so in
the case of Cuba, the proposition might
be worth considering. As it is nego
tiations upon that basis will fail, and for
the reason that neither the people of
Cuba nor of the United States will now
consent to it. Cuba will have independ
ence or nothing. The stock-jo'bblng
scheme may as well be abandoned. The
dogs of war are growling at It already.
Los Angeles shows an increase In bank
clearings for the week of 54.3 per cent,
exceeded only by the three sound cities
and Salt Lake. The Increase at Salt
Lake ls abnormal, while that of the sound
cities ls due wholly to the Klondike
trade. But for these exceptional cir
cumstances, Los Angeles clearings would
be greater than those of any other place
In the country.
William ls reported to have declared
that so long as he is emperor the Yan
kees shall not take possession of Cuba.
But a companion advice from Berlin is
to the effect that the foreign office has
instructed the inspired press to deny
emphatically that Germany will aid
Spain in case of a foreign war with the
United States, which. It is added, "is a
good friend of Germany." And there you
are.
Polo is an ancient game, played on
horseback, probably the game of tennis
of the "Arabian Nights." It is also the
game of hockey, played on ice, pro
verbially slippery. It is also a Spanish
gypsy dance. And it is, as well, the
name of the new Spanish minister.
There's nothing In a name, but remark
able coincidences are ever suggestive.
Senor Moret ls almost as bellicose as
our own Senator Mason. In a recent
after-dinner speech he declared that If
there should arise a supreme moment,
the sons of Spain will be asked to rally
In the road of duty, and "show all for
eigners that they are not strong enough
to usurp our rights." We will meet our
middle-of-the-road friend at Phillppl.
The new Spanish minister announces
his purpose of immediately taking up
the negotiations with our government
for a commercial treaty with Spain. He
should move with celerity. He may be
very busy before another fortnight has
passed. In packing up his own personal
commodity holdings.
The prevailing opinion in London In
that war cannot be averted. The wish
that it may be Inclines Americans to the
opposite view. But is peace possible,
save upon the hypothesis that Spain will
give up Cuba without a struggle? And
is not that a very slender thread to base
our hopes upon?
The women of Los Angeles, profiting
by the advice of Director Davis, pro
pose to organize a movement having for
its object the taking of school direction
out of politics. It ls a commendable en
deavor, and one that will be seconded
by all who have the Interests of educa
tion at heart.
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So the fear of free silver is to force the
administration Into a declaration of
war! Well, we shall not take exceptions
to the unpatriotic subterfuge. But will
not a protracted war be pretty certain to
force open the doors of the mints? It
looks that way to us.
The battleship Oregon has been or
dered to patrol the Pacific coast line.
After taking on fifty tons of ammuni
tion, she will sail southward. 'An op
portunity of viewing the magnificent
vessel will doubtless be afforded our
people this week.
Imparcial wants to "put some pieces
of crape on America's obnoxious flag."
There is a growing conviction that Im
parcial's people have already done that.
It may also prove to be the most expen
sive bit of decorating Spain ever at
tempted.
There are three cogent reasons why
the Cuban trouble will not be settled
upon the basis of autonomy. One is that
the revolutionary patriots will not accept
it, and the other two are that the people
of this country are unutterably opposed.
Business failures In the United States
last week showed an Increase of fifteen
over the week previous, and of twenty
over the corresponding period last year.
The advance agent seems to have
stubbed his toe.
The Spanish-American citizens of
Los Angeles propose to renew their al
legiance to Old Glory at a meeting in the
plaza next Wednesday evening. They
will Incidentally cheer Cuba Libre at the
same time.
The new Spanish minister, "resplend
ent,in gold lace," was presented to the
president yesterday morning. Por the
former's opinion of Mr. McKinley, see
his private and confidential correspond
ence.
In the military redistrlcting of the
country, the order for which was pro
mulgated yesterday, the department of
California is not disturbed.
Secretary Alger ls convalescing, and
but for those Lapland reindeer would be
measurably happy. He sees 'em In his
sleep.
For president in 1900, William Jennings
Bryan of Nebraska. For vice president,
Fitzhugh Lee of Virginia.
"Peace with honor, or war." This is
official, final and irrevocable.
THE HERALD'S MUSE
Tha Slaking of the Maine
O'er frowning Moro Castle
The mists of evening lay,
When black-robed Night with fearful gase
Surveyed Havana bay,
And saw a darker figure.
With hellish gleaming eyes,
From near the foot of Moro's wall
With stealthy steps arise.
It had a dark and Spanish face,
Its glittering teeth were bare.
Its cruel brow receded back
From long and matted hair;
Its nostrils were extended wide
In hate and fear profound:
But hate prevailed, and—Oh, Great God!
What caused that dreadful sound?
Ah, me, that Spanish devil
Has blown a fiery breath;
The Maine is lost—her sleeping crew
Are In the throes of death;
And headless corpse and shattered limb
Are floating on the deep,
For full three hundred gallant men
Are murdered in their sleep.
Their blood cries loud for vengeance,
Shall we unheed the cry?
Ten thousand times ten thousand mon
Demand a quick reply
From those they placed in power.
McKinley, heed the call;
Declare at once that Cuba's free.
Or answer not at all.
But by the shades of Seward,
Of Lincoln and of Chase,
Of Sherman, Grant and Sheridan,
And their historic race.
Of Lee and Stonewall Jackson,
Of Adams and Monroe;
Whate'er you say, Havana Bay
Shall own no Spanish foe. ,
Oh. maids of Zaragossa,
What recks the tears you shed?
Oh, weeping wives of Cuenca,
You can't recall your dead!
The plains of Manzinares
Is now the field of Mars;
Thy wheat and rye, Jumara,
Is reaped by Yankee tars.
The streets of fair Toledo,
Loved City of the Cid.
The royal squares of Ferdinand,
In ancient, proud Madrid,
Shall hear the tramp of armed men
From o'er the western main,
The Stars and Stripes shall float above
The gonfalons of Spain.
"Remember the Vlrglnlus!"
Shall be a battle cry;
The blood now shed on Cuban soli.
Shall moisten many an eye
Of walling, weeping widows.
Who wall and weep In vain;
For the return of those they mourn
Who fought and fell for Spain.
Thy black-eyed maids. Coruna,
Shall wring their hands and weep,
For lovers slain on Cuba's plain.
Or sunk beneath the deep;
Our orphan children's tearful cry
Shall not appeal In vain.
For vtngeance on the miscreants
Whose hand destroyed the "Maine."
Canovas sent us Weyler,
Who warred with dirk and knife.
Whose cruel, brutish soldiers,
Spared neither maid nor wife;
Sagasta sent us Blanco,
To coax and fret and foem,
And both retained at Washington,
The fawning, false De Lome.
Ho! Sons of Saratoga!
Ye heirs of past renown.
Whose veins throb quick with patriot
blood.
From hamlet, thorp and town.
Rise up as rose your sires,
All armed to conquer peace,
And tell brave Cuba's tyrants.
Their butcheries must cease.
Oh, freemen of America,
How can you silent stand.
And see poor Cuba throttled,
By Spain's relentless hand?
That hand all red with patriot blood.
Proud, tyrannous and vain,
That In the darkness ot the night,
Destroyed the glorious "Maine."
That sent to their untimely graves
The bravest of our land:
Not killed in honest warfare;
Hut by the assassin's hand;
I'pon their peaceful slumbers
The awful bolt was sped,
And thrice a hundred murdered men
Are numbered with the dead.
Oh, for that cruel murder,
Proud Spain shall bend her knees;
Our boats shall hold her harbors.
Our guns the Pyrenees,
And every proud walled city.
From HeueSca to Seveel,
Shall ope its gates to Yankee guns.
And gleaming Yankee steel.
Woe, woe to Barcelona,
And to its rose-wreathed bowers!
Woe, woe to the Escurlal,
And all Its cloistered towers,
When Young Columbia makes demand
On old, decrepit Spain,
For those brave lives that were destroyed,
When she destroyed the "Maine."
Woe, woe to Moro Castle,
Woe to Havana Bay!
When they see the light of the "Squadron
White,"
Advance In proud array.
I see its flashing banners,
I hear Its martial drum;
Shout, shout, ye Concentradoes,
Deliverance has come!
No more your wives and daughter!
Shall shudder when they hear
That Pando's reckless Spanish troops
Are plundering In the rear;
No more within your starving lines
Shall children weep for brea3.
Our freighted ships shall bring you food;
We'll give the Spaniard lead.
Throw up your hats for Gomez,
And all his patriot bands;
Shout "Liberty for Cuba!"
For, 10, behind you stands
The genius of America,
That tyranny still hates,
The first-born child of Liberty,
The grand United States.
Shed no vain tears for Martl's,
Nor for Maceo's fall.
But when In might you rush to fight,
Their glorious deeds recall,
But when your freedom's surely won,
Above each patriot's grave
Let pillared monuments arise.
And living irfbrels wave.
And teach your free-born children
When near his grave they're by
To drop a tear upon the bier
Of Gallant Captain Frye,
And when sweet Peace shall smile once
more
O'er fair Cipango's plain.
Your shafts should rise and pierce the
skies
In honor of the Maine.
P. C. TONNER.
Pomona, March 8, 1898.
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I'm the out an' outest hobo In the land;
An' the wintry ways I shun, for my blanket
Is the sun.
So every fall I seek a southern clime;
If you are poor or rich, by the Irrigating
ditch,
I will strike you for a nickel or a dime.
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An' the orange picker packs his ladder
round,
In the shadow of a palm, Oh, I feel so good
and calm.
A shotgun couldn't scare me off the
ground;
The sun is up on high, like a pumpkin In
the sky.
An' my belly's got a bulge with Christ
mas cheer;
An' my lips with beer are wet, an' I light a
cigarette,
An' I guess I'll put the winter In right
here.
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Oh, a first class bum's all right; In a five
cent doss at night,
I can sleep the sleep that nothing can
annoy;
If I'm lousy, taint a patch on my happi
ness, a scratch
Is a luxury the rich man don't enjoy;
An' so long as I can chew, an' I'se got no
chores to do,
I can laugh and grow fat oven with the
best;
With now and then a Jag, I'm a free an'
easy vag;
I«Jlve today—the devil take the rest.
4
But Jes" now as things Is slow, an' a hobo's
got a show,
'Less he's foxy, ter git landed In the pen.
I draws upon my wit, an' my sinful ways
I quit,
An' I gits converted every now an' then:
In a crowd of gospel guys, I gits up an'
testifies—
On the pious cranksl plays It off all right;
For to holier out a hymn, there Is none like
Pittsburg Slim—
I'm a hallelujah hobo every night.
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So, boys, let's make a pool, an' call for
something cool,
This Christmas day at ninety In tho
shade;
Ere we reel honie to bed, sure we'll drink
In "dago red"
To every hustlln' hobo at the trade;
Here's to three square meals a day, an'
the trustful guys that pay
An' the way they've bin our bankers In
the past;
May they long be free In glvln', may we
batten for our livln',
An' be merry-hearted hobos to the last.
SIL RIVERS.
The Mirage
'Tis what it is, but 'tis not what It seems:
Broad-margined by the desert, of man's
fate
A startling imago when, with hope elate,
He stakes his all to follow after dreams.
When, In the night, In the moon's ghostly
beams.
The soul a world of beauty does create,
And fancies, fondly, at no distant date
Those bright ethereal forms with which it
teems
Shall be of stuff Impervious to decay,
There comes a thought—a Jarring of the
heart—
A dissolution of her fancied day-
Then all those airy visitors depart
Into the dumb, blank darkness from her
sight,
And leave her hopeless, wrapt In starless
night.
CHARLES A. MILLER.
March 8,1898.
The Hush Before the Storm
Old Nations stare; see, gray with age.
Fate leans to turn another page!
The air hangs heavy, close and warm;
It ls the hush before the storm.
Religion hides her head; ere long
She'll do her pretty part among
The living fragments of the brave;
But now—stand back! no power can save!
Too much we've borne for sake of peace;
We stand betrayed to littleness.
Columbia her brave sons shall send
The Nation's honor to defend.
Hail to the war cloud's heavy pall!
Hall, and away at our country's call!
Again we watch the cloud-rack form;
It ls the hush before the storm.
CLOUDSELEY JOHNS.
Harold, Cal.
The Hope of Immortality
We could hot seek for diamonds, '
Nor strive to reach a star, «*
Knew we not that there are diamonds-
Knew we not that planets arc!
Dear Hope! Doubt that removes It
Serves but to make this plain:
The soul that seeks It proves It,
And shall not seek In vain!
SADIE BOWMAN METCALFE.
Surest Route to Publicity
A clever Cleveland girl claims to have
discovered the secret of perpetual life and
offers to disclose it to ten men. If she
wants to scatter the Information around
she ought to tell It in confidence to one
woman.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
IN THE PUBLIC EYE
The queen's bodyguard for Scotland, tha
royal company of Archers, contains the
pink of Scottish nobility, whose estates are
in the Lothinns or on the borders.
The duke of Norfolk, who 1b an ardent
Roman Catholic, in a recent letter said:
"Thank God. two of my sisters are nuns,
and, thank God, one of my wife's last acts
was to found a convent."
In the French racing season, Just closed,
the largest winner, Including both flat races
and steeplechases, was Mr. Menier, who,
with 200 horses In training, has about $180,
--000 to his credit, which represents a very
small proportion of his expenses.
Miss Ellen Terry can never sleep during
the dny unless she ls read aloud to, and
her girl friends take turns at this every
afternoon during her long engagement, in
order that her health may not suffer from
' the nerve fatigue occasioned by the work.
Mrs. Olive B. I.cc, a Texas woman who is
a candidate for the Dallas postmastershlp.
Is Indorsed by ex-President Harrison, Gov
ernor Tanner of Illinois, Governor Culber
son of Texas, Governor Taylor of Tennes
see and a number of senators and represen
tatives.
Reflections of a Bachelor
Cain probably killed Abel because he
smoked cubeb cigarettes.
Every married man knows a lot about
women that he dares tell to any woman
but his wife.
The meeker a man Is naturally the more
ha likes his wife to believe he ls a lot
too quick-tempered for his own good.
Babies are about half monkeys and half
people, and it's the monkey half that makes
women think they ore Just too sweet.
Love and marriage may belong together,
but that doesn't prove anything. Just be
cause you've got the lump ls no sign that
you've got the mosquito.
When a man argues he sometimes bites
off more than he can chew; when a woman
argues she most always starts to chew
more than she can bite off.—New York
Press.
Remedy for Taxation Frauds
If people could only feel that they were
getting value received for their taxes they
would be much more ready to pay them.
Unfortunately, they cannot feel this.
American city governments are notorious
ly Inefficient and corrupt. The remedy is
in the hands of the people. They can have
honest government If they really want It
badly enough to work to get It, and we be
lieve that In time the appeal to the con
science of the American people, and If
not that, certainly the appeal to their
fears, will have a marked effect in de
creasing tho tax frauds.—lndianapolis
News.
The Very Sword
A Scotsman, on a recent visit to Dublin,
went to sco a private museum, which was
advertised to contain the oldest and queer
est antiquities In the world.
The Irish showman brought out a large
sword and said:
"This ls the sword that Balaam slew his
ass with."
The Scotsman, being well up In Bl" '
tory, here Interrupted and said:
' "Balaam did not slay his ass; 1
wished for a sword to slay It."
"Oh!" returned Pat; "then this
very sword he wished for."—Spa
ments.
Seizing the Oportunity
"What," asked the dreamer, "wo
do If you could be a king for a day?
"Me?" answered the practical mi
borrow enough money to live on
rest of my life."—lndianapolis Joui
Discouraged
"We gave up having a coat of an
"Why?"
"My husband said my griflin Tl
look well dragging his ancestral ml
on."—Chicago Record.
Keeping Up the Jingo Tal
The galleries always applaud tl
speakers In congress and the s
brings on more Jingo talk. It Is a
endless chain arrangement. — £
American.
Ben Tillman Right
Ben Tillman ls against Hawa
nexation. For once the South
senator has turned his pltchfor
right direction.—Manchester (N. H
A Restaurant Idyl
Mary had a little lamb,
But she thought it was tmmei
With new green peas and other t
It cost ber ninety cents.
—Chicag'