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LOS ANGELES HERALD
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The only Democratic newspar«r In
Southern California receiving the full
AMoelnted Press reports.
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soclfttpd Press, receiving It* full report,
averaging 2ri,flflo wofd» n .lv
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HATES OF*Bt;iJS(:FIIPTION WITH
SUNDAY MAGAZINE:
Dally, by currier, per month $ .fi''
Dally, by in i 11, three months 1.9S
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second-class matter.
THE HERALD IN SAN < rRANCIBCO
AND OAKLAND— Los Angrloß nivl
Southern California visitor! to Bun
Frnnclnco nnd Oakland will find The
Herald on sale nt the news stand* in the
P -iti Franclnco ferry huilillni: and on the
streets In Oakland by Wheatlcy nnd by
Amos News Co.
Population of Los Angeles. 251,364
For the first time I, m Angi 111 1 threat
ens to become a quitter.
Home more rain is threatening. L<is
Angeles, nn sin da little mor(",
Wouldn't "Thi Pli Girl" make n
great hil as a theatrical venture?
Take Wilmington, ton. hut that's no
excuse for not taking San Pedro In,
And when Fiddler SchmltS returns it
will be Up to him to plead not guilty,
too.
L .3 Angeles quits, and the Southern
Pacific wins its victory without an ef
fort
Don't weaken at the behest of the
Southern Pacific. Annex San Pedro
anyhow.
Go to the big benefit for the ex
plosion sufferers. They need the
money.
Hobsnn ought to be satisfied now;
two more powerful warships arc or
dered built.
The wonder is how Evelyn Thaw ever
had time to do anything but pose for
photographs.
Fight it out with the Southern Pa
cific. No laying down in the San Pe
dro consolidation.
"Who would have thought that T.os
Aneglos could be bluffed by the South
ern Pacific so < asily?
Los Angeles never has laid down yrt.
Will It at the Southern Pacific's orders,
and abandon San Pi Iro?
Los Angeles owes a duty to San Pe
dro which it cannot forego, even at the
orders of the Southern Pacific.
Berkeley should be content with her
university aid not try to monopolize
Sacramento's excuse for being.
Berkeley wants the capital. In case
It is moved "ill Sacramento sti'l re
main on the map. and if 5... why?
It would be folly to wait on the gas
company's aiding the victims of the
recent explosion: help them yourself.
The Cahuenga country is very nice
farming land, but as parts of Los An
geles—pause and think before voting
on it.
When the river bed franchise grab
was iii Lob Angeles didn't quit. Why
do so now. when the harbor i ; ■
menaced?
Fiddler Sehmltz will Boon return to
the ciiy h' has s.j.j out, but no pears
of welcome are heard on the bre z a
from there,
Think twice I ■ fore voting to take In
the Cahuenga valley; but think only
once, an i thai favorably, before an
nexing San Pedro,
The new i;■ i man n h hstng cheered
the kaiser vigorously. Why not? Did
not he havi thu ivlchstag n
order just for that purpo
Who h ' h nether or not San Pe
dro "•
the sup on it? Why
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Why nut tak" the capita] to Sun
Frnncli and !>.> (lone iii, it? Sun
Francisco pgi-hih to i . 1 i.-\ <- that she is
the whole siut. , nh(j no dm s tho legls
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MAY NOT DEMOCRACY HOPR ?
Amid «hout« for T.lnrnin find Ornnt
i the Tlepubllcana of Southern Cnllfornla
' mnrcti',l to Hi.- polio in November last
' under the Phrltorltiff folds of Old Glory
r ;.,, r*s; ts«lr hnllofji for every a*""*
nnd friend of the Southern Pacific
i rnilrond, from povrrnnr down.
They did this knowingly and prempdl-
II I tntodly, for never In the history of this
. state were the mnchlnntlons of the
, rallrortd machine m open, notorious And
efol
LOU Angelea RcptlbllCßTM, as a rule,
. "voted 'er atralßht," without batting an
eye, nnd yet they knew, -without 1
■ shadow of doubt, thnt In Voting for the
i iblicnn nominees for the legislature
i they v "te sending to Sacramento i
! delegation that would be compelled to
betray its trust ami deliver over to the
corporations the. dearest hopes and ln
terrMs of this great city.
They knew, long In advance, that the
Owens river enterprise and the prob
able annexation of Ban Pedro would be
nmong the most Important questions
thai would be submitted to the general
assembly. They knew that In voting
the Republican ticket they were vot
ing for the representatives of the very
noles that are sleeplessly fighting
the public Interests of Los Angeles.
ln one or two noteworthy Instances,
where the corporations were apprehen
sive of the non-partisan strength, al
leged Democrats were put up by tho
Southern Pacific railroad and the Re
publicans rallied to them, just the
line.
Today the poopi> of Los Angeles are
reaping the consequences.
Honorable citizens who were sent to
Sacramento to present bills looking to
the merger with San Pedro have been
met with Insults by the Southern Pa
cific's assembly nnd driven out of the
state capital by the agents of the rail
roads.
President S. A. Butler of the consoli
dation commission, himself a leading
Republican, paints this picture:
•A» die matter Nttinil* no nrr helpless
ln Hie power of the Southern Pacific,
What we lire koliiiv to do ationt It. I
(lnii't lino«. We nrc .-ill to blame for
this deplorable condition. We Hit Idly
by while the rullronil lunch I niiiit
lii!itc« men for office :in<l then wo enn't
hurry too flint to the poll* to roie for
• lu-iii. I an illawiiNtcil nml mil fiHhnineil
of Hi.- preilkanicnt (he people of ( oll
forntn ore In."
Ah. ye.= : And The Herald warned
and pleaded with our people — to no
avail:
We have been driven by the Southern
Pacific railroad and Us assembly to the
point of abandoning one of the great
est hopes of Los Angeles— the annexa
tion of San Pedro.
We have been driven by the Southern
Pacific railroad to accept an Increased
tax nf $100,000 ■' year on the building of
our Owens river water aqueduct by a
law Increasing the pay of day laborers
to that of skilled mechanics.
We are now in the shadow of a com
ing law to put al' harbors under a state
commission that will be appointed by
the Southern Pacific railroad.
We are driven by the Southern Pa
cific railroad's assembly to help pay the
city of San Francisco a state appro
priation of $3,000,000 for an alleged
world's fair that may never happen.
And every enterprise in which Los
Angeles Is interested has been or is to
bc strangled at Sacramento, at the be
hest of the Southern Pacific railroad,
which seeks to still further own and
enslave this goodly land.
We are even threatened with a law
suspending the city charter of Los An-
los until tho corporations can es
tablish all i>: ■ tracks and franchises
they want and cannot now receive
without a measure of adequate com
pensation,
Even the Sacramento Union, a Re
publlcan organ at the state capital,
confesses tho shame of the situation
in an editorial headed "Make Call'
fornlu r
"For forty yenrN rullfornln him been
ii poll tli-til <lrg>i-iiil<-iu-v of (he Southern
l I'M. Hl.' l-oiiipniiy. II In mi hi ill. II
iilioulil not be no, ml I here In un ne<>cn-
Nlty for ItN lii-liik nil It is miii in ■.
Miry, i mm to Hi.- protection of the large
ini.risis ulilcli tin- Southern I'nclOc
1-Ollipiin)I I-Ollipiin) re|iroHt>nlN, that It mlioiili! hr I
mi. The Ihliiu needful la to drive to the
ini.pli- aw ii whole an opportunity iii ex
i,n-.si ,n-.s llivlr vlotvN mill to make Ihoav
linn <-IVI-<llve."
Which is all absolutely true, hut
which tho Union fiercely helped to make
Any old ticket ha has the Repub
lican md can be stamped with Old
Glory l>y tho Southern Pacific railroad
and many lU'l'Ulilli-unn fall over them
stives voting ii Into placu and power, If
Walter I'arker hart been nominated for
Governor .ii ihi lust state Itepubllcan
convention all the probabllltk'B would
have been favorable to his election by
a large majority.
i 'un'i wo think -a llttlo hli? Milßt
wo go on foruver handing over to i tic
Southern Pacific rullroud and its allied
tlio great ttute of California, to bo gov
..
orned and directed by tS, 11. Harrlinun
from New York city? Have we no more
siati i I ■
Now ■ t'l bu I il'iit a moment and
think Ii over.
LOS ANGEI.ES HERALD: WEDNESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 20. 1907.
ANOTHF.R PROMISING RFSOURC.fi
AA A now departure by rortnin railway
companion rail! attention to a great
undeveloped resource, of Southern Call
fornln. Tnnt Is the growth of trees
suitable for railway ties. It Is shown
by statistics that the available timber
suitable for ties will bo exhausted In
the not far distant future, and there
appears to be no hope of finding a
fit substitute for wood.
A few months ago the Santa Fe
railway company bought ■ large tract
of land In San Diego county for use
ln growing eucalyptus trees from which
to make railway ties. The purpose Is
to l'l.'ii-t a. large acreage every year,
and the work already is In progress.
Tlio Pennsylvania Railway company,
as announced, Is preparing to go ex
tensively into tree planting ns a means
of providing ties for the future, and
other railway companies are likely to
follow (lie example.
Nowhere hi the United States nro
conditions so favorable for the growth
of trees suitable for ties as ttiey are
In southern California, Thla because
certain varieties of the eucalyptus tret,
which make ideal railway tics, grtrff
here with aStonllhlng rapidity and in
ground that is worthless for other pur«
pose?.
The eucalyptus, for which we aro
Ind. bted to Australia, Is quite "at
homo" In this climate. The varieties
that have been tested here I
hardy, thriving from the sc.-.i. and re
quiring no artificial Irrigation or other
special .are after the first year. The
long and dry summer of this region
does not affect them injuriously, as
their roots extend downward in tho
earth a doei n feel or more In seeking
moisture.
An obvious need In Southern I'allfor
nla cultivation is greater variety of
products. The growing of citrus fruits
has been so attractive nnd so profit*
able within recent y.ars that other
lines of land production have been
generally overlooked, To use a familiar
country saying, our farmers arc "put
ting too many eggs in one basket."
As an evidence of the prodigious
present demand for railway ties, and of
the vastly greater future requirement,
it is stated that the railways of this
country use 110,000,000 new ties every
year, it is said that the Pennsylvania
Railroad company alone pays more
than $5,000,000 per year for ties.
VISITING
True art always Impresses one that
the artist didn't do as well as he might.
His creation, as beautiful nnd Inspiring
as it is, still gives witness of a force
that Is not yet expressed. The beholder
or listener is perfectly satisti.'rl because,
if absolute perfection were attained, he
wouldn't enjoy it; he couldn't. This
rule holds true in the ordinary experi
ence of entertaining a friend. There is
a lack of extravagance that means sin
cerity, and there is the moderation of
hospitality that means a genuine wel
come. A guest who Is Inundated with
good things — really an excess of. them—
knows they are no part of the friend's
life which he comes to share.
He would no more appreciate the
ability of his friend to do more than he
is dolni than he would the actual dis
play of that ability, for If he has sense,
and it is of such people we speak, lie
will appreciate the fact that his host
does not depend upon ostentation and
superfluity to make his guest's visit
agreeable, but upon the simplicity of
the welcome and thfe good taste with
which it is adorned. We are led to
these thoughts by a little remark In a
newspaper In these words. "Remember
that when you i;,, visiting you become
a problem." If there were any prob
lem about It. it would be well that tho
visitor stayed at home, and If, per
chance, ii should evolve, which one
should not be too suspicious about, it
would be well If he folded Ins tent.
Bui real visits are like going out into
the garden and making a bouquet; it is
a harmony of color, form an 1 fra
grance, and everybody likes }h,- bou
quet, especially people who love and
are sincere.— Ohio state journal.
&/?e Younger Generation
WOMAN UK K.
Neighbor's Boy— Mister Thompson, pop
Rays won't you lend him your morning
paper?
Mr. Thompson— Tell your pop that
after my wife has cut out all the bar
lfuln mis. there la only about h:ilf a pugs
of It li-ft.
l'lllio Mauiuuts can 1 so to Mamie
Bmltn's party tomorrow?
Urit. Weeda-iiardly. Vuu know you r»
wuriiiu mourning.
Ttllle— Well, mamma, her party Is go
4U* tU to k tU» UiMUIUg.
INCORPORATIONS
Howies urn*, company— Directors: W.
R . Howies, F. A. Howies, It. H. Howies.
Capital stork, $75,000, of which $300 has
been subscribed.
The Kltt« Press— Directors: V. H.
Kltts, .1. A. Kltts, N. a. Andrews.
Capital stock, 120,000, of whtrh $15,020
has been subscribed.
The Sin Prrnnndn Nnneri pomp*ny
i Mr., ton i,. c. Brand, i. t wiismi,
C 1> Mnbl. nd. X 11. 11111, \V. .1 Mum.
k. k. Btraber, J. R Hay. ion. capital
Storfc, $88,000, of which Jisnn hn» been
pubscrlbed,
PRISONER GIVES
WOMAN DIAMONDS
VALUABLE GEMS FOUND IN
PACKAGE
Police Believe They Were Stolen and
Will Try to Determine
Where They Came
From
Through B small package handed to n
discharged woman prisoner by a man
still confined In the city jail, the po
lice have gained what they consider A
i lew to the pi !]'■■ rators of one and
perhaps mote of lira recent robberies
in Los Angeles,
Joe Markhnm was arrested several
days ago In company with a woman.
Hazel Bailey. Both were book, il on a
charge of vagrancy, When searched
.it the police station a fine diamond
ring was found In Markham's pocket.
Yesterday the Bailey woman was re
leased. When she was leaving the sta
tion Markham asked permission to
give the woman a package. Ills re
quesi was granted and a small paper
bundle was handed her. When the
Bailey woman reached the corridor
she was stopped by detectives and the
package opened. In it was found live
diamond rings of a total value of about
$160. The rings were turned over to the
property clerk and the detectives are
now endeavoring to learn where Mnrk
ham obtained th. in, it is thought they
maj be part of the loot obtained In
some house robbery,
HARRIMAN'S IMPERIALISM
Never before, even In all the litera
ture of the Standard Oil, has there
ever been spread upon the records such
an amazing exhjbit of financial con
centration HS was made in the two-day
proceedings at this Inquiry. Various
forms of legal procedure were gone
through with, but the autocrat was
Mr. Harriman, and the board of di
rectors and even the executive com
mittee simply recorded what he willed.
Mr. Harrlman's will was shown by a
sch f Imperial railroad expansion
covering the whole country. Bast and
west the creation of a vast continental
system reaching from the Atlantic to
the Pacific, both north and south.
Morover, it appears that among the
extraordinary stock investments made
by the Union Pacific were a number of
large purchases from Mr. Harriman,
Mr. Rogers and Mr. Stlllman, all three
directors of the company. Those gen
tlemen, indeed, did not vote In the
board Of directors on the question of
those purchases from themselves, and
yet in a true sense the "dual" tran
saction Was again brought to the front,
:is it was In the insurance investiga
tion, the "dual" transaction consisting
of the directors in control acting at the
same time as buyers and sellers.
The Union Pacific was chartered as
an operating company, and it has suc
cessively served the purposes of a hold
ing company and a bank, as well as a
transportation concern. Apparently It
has now disposed of it-; Immense cash
surplus and is In the position of an In
vestment company. It owns the stocks.
and the capitalists who sold them now
have tho cash. Now nil this Is not
necessarily Illegal. But it will Inevita
bly leave a bad taste In the public
mouth, It will giv.' aid and encour
agement to the agitation of govern
ment ownership of railroads, of which
HV. J. Bryan is the most distinguished
exponent -Wall Sin el Journal.
GEO. O. BAKER
N O FRKK LIBRARY ABOUT HIM.
Harry -Kay pop. give me a nickel to
buy a story book,
Pop Do I look like Andrew Carnegie?
IISTOKICAI. JtOMANCKS.
Johnny— Papa, did Columbua reaily Uu
cover America?
Pupa— Johnny, I'm afraid your* tak-
Lu* liiuw* bUtoriol ouvuiit too wtrtoualjr.
SHAKEUP DUE IN
PUBLIC LIBRARY
MAYOR HARPER CONFERS WITH
MISS GLEASON
Recent Pocket Veto of Finance Secre
tary's Report Regarded as Evi
dence of Faction Politics
Among Employes
Miss Pearl Oleason, secretary to the
board of dire lots of the public library
in. l principal of the flnan 1.-partmen'
of the library, had an hour's conference
With Mayor Harper yesterday.
This move Is but another In the long
pending controversy In the library,
With the nomtng of Directors Dock
welter and O'Melveny by Mayor Harpwr
the situation was changed somewhat,
I Mre, tor TrueWOrthy having been rated
as siding with the Lummls administra
tion, of which Dookweiler is also ■
strenuous supporter.
Miss Qleason, It Is said, has incurred
the enmity .•;' some of the Dockweller
appointees In the library, which enmity
has shown Itself in efforts to hamper
her work. The most recent example has
been the Shifting of blame for the pay
ment twice of an order for books to a
San Francisco man through an allegod
faulty system of accounting.
One of the last official acts of retir
ing President Trueworthy was t.> sup
press a report which showed that Miss
Qleason was no) responsible for this
error, the blame being divided between
tWO other persons who happened to be
adherents of the Lununis administra
tion.
Miss Qleason as secretary made tl<M
report which suffered a pocket veto, and
Information having reached the mayor
to i his effect he sent for the young
woman yesterday to learn the facts first
hand.
Mayor Harper has notified bonds of
departments thai efficient service is e X .
peeted from all city employes, and b
severe policy of dealing with former
favorites may result in this and similar
cases where the public's interest suf
fers.
JOURNALISTS MADE TO ORDER
They are talking about founding a
college of Journalism in Missouri and
Cornell university pretends to graduate
journalists every year. Mr. Joseph
Pulitzer gave some millions that were
to establish a school of journalism In
New York. I" you can turn out "jour
nalists" like gloves and grubbing hoes,
slate pencils, trace chains, jack knives
and other articles necessary to domes
tic economy. It la a great thing for tho
noblest of professions. Hut you can no
more make a journalist by hand than
you can make a poet by hand. Francis
Jeffrey, editor of the Edinburgh Re
view, and autocrat of Knglish letters In
his day, wrote a most entertaining and,
very plausible essay, in which he took
the position that Benjamin Franklin 1
would have been a very ordinary man
if he had been licked into shape at
Harvard college, and we do not be
lieve that Horace Oreeley would have
been half the journalist he was had he
been bred to the craft in a school of
journalism.
The place to teach and to learn jour
nalism is in a newspaper office. It
may be a little old country weekly or a
groat big city daily, and then the man
must be born a journalist or tho job
will be hopelessly botched. Love your
job or leave it. Unless the newspaper
man love 3 printer's ink; unless he loves
the music of the case: unless he loves
the music of the press as it turns out
the history of yesterday, all the. col
logos In tho world will never make a
journalist of that man. Wishes do not
fill the Amo nor turn plums into
oranges, to borrow a thought from
George Eliot, and neither will a man ln
t. tided for a blacksmith or a tailor move
opinion like Swift and Hazlitt. Ritchie
and Oreeley, or gather news like the
elder Bennett or Joseph Mi dill, or Jo
seph B. McCullaugh, — Washington Post.
"My dear wife, I am ruined."
"Oh, Carlo, how terrible! But could
you not have waited to announce It
until the dressmaker had given mo my
dress?"— ll Motto per Rldere.
Willie— Say, pop. what's tact?
Ilia Pop- Tact is what a man lack*
wheii he Blurts to talk about tiia mother's
fine cooking Just alter his wife turn
picked up the stove lifter by the hot
•ad.
lib: WAS Wish..
Mrs. J!i;naon -Now, Tommy, If Mr*.
W lkkhoi) glv*« you a piece of cake be
•ure to say "Thank you. ma'am."
Tommy— What's the u»eT Hint uever
give* you Mijr mat,
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Many entirely new designs in unison's crepe
paper napkins at 25c a hundred; sold nearly
everywhere at 45c. Dcnnison's crepe paper lunch
sets— l dozen napkins, a dozen doylies and a
42x72-lnch table cover for 25c.
Stationery Department, Facing Elevators
IJnderpriced Redding
In This store Blankets are sold for what they real-
ly are — no cotton- mixed goods sold as all wool.
Heavy fleeced white blankets, J Fine White Wool Blankets,
German finished soft and fluf- ! soft and thick, with red, blue
fy; eleven-quarter size; special- ! or pink borders, ten-quarter
ly priced at $3.00 a pair. \ size, $4.50 a pair — a dollar un-
Ten-quarter white blankets, \- der actual worth.
95 per cent wool, in pink or ; Eleven-quarter blankets of
blue borders, reduced from $ extra heavy white wool, with
to $3.95 a pair. pink or blue borders ; $6.50 val-
Heavy soft white wool blan- , ues> now $5 a pair,
kets in eleven-quarter size, with ,
double stitched silk binding, , /2x78-inch lambswool corn-
cut from $6 to $4.50. forts - Sllk on one Slde - sateen on
72x78-inch comforters made the other, $10.50; really $12.50
of one sheet of fine white cot- and $ 15 values; pink, blue, red
ton, covered with pretty floral j or y ellow -
printed silkolines with 6-inch Down-filled comforters, cov-
silk facing, specially priced at ! ered with best French sateen,
$4.00. ] $5, $6, $7. —Third Floor
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U"." 7 (Vo"i',h 5c -complete set of attachments, that
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«™ SUC day $1.00
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COUNCIL SESSION LIVELY
Pasadena City Fathers Struggle with
Displeasure of Property
Owners
By Associated Press.
PASADENA, Feb. 19.— city coun
ceilccil session was livened up a bit this ,
morning by a debate between the prop- |
erty owners on Los Robles avenue and |
the councilman, and another debate be- i
tween the property owners on Oakland j
avenue and the lame body. Tho for
mer Were pulling for paving of their
thoroughfare and the latter were like- |
wise doing the same. The former won ;
and the latter lost.
Protestants to Los Robles paving oh- 1
peeted to narrowing their street to
pave, or to paving a portion or all until j
all water pipes were laid. The objec- |
tion was Interposed In the form of a |
petition signed by a hundred names, i
The object was sustained. The city •
engineer was given the protest to cer- ;
tify If the frontage signed was a ma
jority, and if found to be such the work ,
on the avenue will bo delayed for six .
months. j
The Oakland avenue matter came In I
the form of a protest to letting bids
for the work on the avenue, and the!
protest was overruled. Four bids wore ,
opened and the contract was awarded, j
Andrew Hollowny receiving the award I
On a bid of $14,812.60. I
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NOTES OF INTEREST
FROM CANAL CITY
VENICE, Feb. 19.— Encouraged by '
the success attending their road repair
lngI Ing activities of last Wednesday, tbei
ladles who constituted the workers will:
tomorrow morning return to the scene '
of their labors and resume tho work of ' ,
lmprovement.I Improvement. A score or more recruits j
have been added to the original party!
and among these are Included many of j
the most prominently Identified women
of this section. The start will be made
from the Abbot Klnney compnny's office J ,
on windward avenue at 9 o'clock with
automobiles and vehicles of other de
scription to bo furnlHhed by local busi
ness men. ■■} ,
«-m»
Lady's Maid— What do you say to my !
mistress' portrait?
Footman— H'm! Not content with i
painting herself, she also lets herself r
bc painted by others.— Wiener Kleiner
wiUblatt.
RIDES PEDALLESS WHEEL
FOR LONG DISTANCE
Speolnl to Tho Herald.
VENICE, Fob. 19.— Sitting astrldo of
B pedalleas bicycle which he propelled
! by running ;i few steps after after
1 which he would lift up hla foet and
coast, W. W. Ferguson, 79 years old
and an Inmate of the Boldlers' home,
attracted considerable attention on
Wind wind avenue this morning where
be Stopped to rest after having navi
gated his steed in tho manner de
scribed from Bawtelle, a distance of al
mosl seven miles, Ferguson, coatless
and covered with perspiration, was im
mediately the center of an amused and
Interested crowd to whom he readily
explained the meaning of hU strange
manner of locomotion, He had, he said,
been a sufferer from complicated rheu
: matlsm that affected him most se
verely in the lower part of tho body
and for years had been unable to bend
his knees, which necessitated bis hav
ing to use CrUtOhei 111 getting about.
He said this way of traveling was 100
slow to suit him and besides was wear
ing: on his arms, which caused him to
resort to every means he could avail
bimsef of to find snmo substitute tot
: the crutches, eventually resulting In a
comrade suggesting the pedalless bloy
i I. , which on trial proved Just the trlok.
Ferguson served during the clvl! war
with the Sixteenth New York regulars
He— Arfl you fond of college sports?
Sho— Not very. I really like the
steady students best.— Hoston Tran
mTlpt.
In It* advanced and chronic form
Nasal Catarrh Is the recognized source
of other diseases. Having stood the
test of continued suoottuiful use, Ely's
Cream Balm is recognized aa v specific
for membranal diseases In the nasal
passages. It Ih not drying, ( l oeM not
produce sneezing. Price, BO cents at
druggists or by mall. Ely Brothers. 66
Warren street. New York.
Give up prejudice and try It.
Messrs. Ely Brothers— have been
afflicted with catarrh for twenty years
It made me »o weak I thought I had
consumption. I got one bottle of Ely*
Cream Balm and In three days the dis-
charge stopped, It ls the beat medi-
cine I have used for catarrh.
FRANK B. KINDUCSPWa
t'rutiL-rtu, CaL