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Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-09-14

One OF the few things that have
gained for us our wonderful reputa.
ton for cheapness is that we sell
mems opera sewed boots for $S.25.
Lewis Bros.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-09-14

The celebrated Bavarian Felsen
beer ;s on tap at Jake Phillipp1s
saloon ct 5 cents q glass. 1t is the
best and most wholesome beer on
che Coast.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-09-14

The Great Hslf-Price Boot and
Shoe House is the only house In
California that can afford to sell
ladies' elegant high.cut lace shoes
for CSC. Lewis Bros, opposite the
Postoffice.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-09-14

The Great Half.Price Boot and
Shoe Houses grand success. We
mean that coin talks and cash is
king. Compare our prices-the
only true test. Lewis Bros.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-09-14

Visitors to the Fair should not
forget to inspect our fine exposi-
tion Of perfumeries, face powders,
toilet boxes, ETC., just received At
Preuss & Pironi's.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-09-14

See the Concolodor in his won.
derful transmutatiOn of cOlOrs at
the dyeing and securing establish.
ment, No. s Also street.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-09-14

Clothes cleaned or dyed, then
mended and pressed and warranted
to look like new, at No. 8 Aliso
atrAAt
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-09-14

Five hundred dollars worth OF
secondhand clothing wanted ut
No. 8 AlisO street.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-09-14
wAR DEPARTMENT, SIGNAL SERVICE,
q. B. ARMY.

Division Of kilograms and Reports for
the benefitof Commerce and Agriculture
Report of observations taken at Los An
SeleB, CAL, Sept. l2, 1881,
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-09-14

Remember to get your ice cold
Poca lager beer at Bob Eckerts
this hot weather.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-09-14
BUSINESS ENTERPRISE.

rHE HERALD STEAM PRINTING
House MAKES speciality Of Legal
Printing. Briefs, transcripts, etc'
printed at low rates.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-09-14

GSYWe take pleasure in announc-
ing 10 the public that our Fall Stock
of Gents and Boys Clothing is now
Complete.
@0ur stock Of Clothing is Larger,
Better. Fresher. More Stylish and
Cheaper than any ever before offered
in Los Angeles.
%We also call attention to our
new Fall Styles Of Hats and Gents
Furnishing Goods, consisting Of the
Latest New York Novelties.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-09-14
Properly Transfers.
CONVEYANCES.

REPORTED BY JUDSON, GILLETTE
d GIBsON-SEPr. IS, 1881.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-09-14

The colorist does dyeing an
,couring at No. 8 Also street.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-09-14

Inc lugouuity VI tu0 mOeG lu-
genious people in the world has
added almost nothing to these
time-honered processes. In some
of the yiney ards in Burgundy, in
deed, machine is used to separate
the stalks and the grapes, and the
pressing Of the grapes is done by
machinery, but the great growths
OF the Medoc, the Chateau Mar
gauX and the Chateau Lafitte are
the result of processes nearly as
simple as those employed by the
peasant wine growers of Southern
Europe, whose rough, red wines
are used as our laborers use beer or
cider. The differences are differ
encss in degree only, in the care
with which the grapes are picked
and green and decayed ones re-
jscted, and with which a due pro-
portion of the stalks is removed;
the attention with which the fer
menting liquid is watched and
drawn off at the right moment, the
number Of subsequent rackings,
the scrupulous cleanliness of all
the vessels used; but the processes
which | have described-and my
descriptions are not taken from
books but from personal observa-
ton In several of the wine-produc-
ing counties of Europe-are thoee
which suffice only to make wine
that Is not wanted to keep more
than O twelve-mOnth. There Is Ia
all red wine-and none other quite
deserves the name of wine, or con
tains its full cOnstituents-with one
or two exceptions which I will no.
tice presently, some element of de-
cay which, in longer Or shorter
time, brings about its destruction
In ancient times as soon as wine
had obtained any repute beyond
the district of its production, some
artificial mode of preserving 1t WA
devised. With every respect TO
the skill Of wine makers and vim
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-09-05
The White House Mail.

A Washington dispatch says: About one
hundred letters day are received at the White
House, addressed either to Mr.. or Mrs. Garfield.
During the earlier stages of the presidents ILL
ness the letters were mostly to him. Now they
are generally addressed to Mrs. Garfield, and
express the writer's sympathy with her. Most
of them bear evidence of being written by per-
sons of inferior attainments but at the same
time they testify to the genuine sentiment OF
the people in their distress. OF course these
letters are opened by Private Secretary Brown
or his assistants. or late the letters have been
of an advisory kind. Very frequently they
recommend the dismissal of the present corps
of physicians and the adoption of treatment
favored by the writer Many of them urge
trial of homeopathy; others advise the trial of
magnetic influences as produced by the laying
on OF hands. Some persons send charms; others
profess to have dreams about the president
and tell exactly how he can be cured. HOLY
water is sent by Roman Catholics, with the
advice that If a little of it be poured on the
wound it will be Immediately healed, and the
efficacy of this cure is vouched for from per-
sonal experience. The spirituaists have found
out great deal about the case through some of
their mysterious methods, and many of the
letters come from them. OF course, quacks and
pretenuerS are not iacking IN tnlS daily torrent
of advice, but most OF the letters are evidently
inspired by honest purpose. Long and expen-
sive cable messages are sometimes received,
and these are couched in the same tone of
admonition and advice that characterizes SIM
liar documents coming from people in this
country. All sorts of medicines, herbs and
salves, that are pronounced infallible, form a
part OF the daily cargo of useless stuff sent in
to the White House. AT any time the presi-
dent of the United States is the recipient of
many absurd letters, but at present their num-
Der is enormous. A letter received asks the
creased, as his lungs have now given way, in
addition to his former ills, and an immediate
reply is requested. This much of the curious
document was deciphered, but who the writer
is or where he writes from cannot be made out
except that he lives in Illinois. Temperance
advocates appear in force, insisting that
whiskey and other stimulants be stopped and
beef extract substituted.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-09-05
Blood Drinkers at Albany.

A reporter of the Albany Evening Journal
who has visited the abattois in that city, writes
as follows of the persons who gather there to
drink blood: Several people, as soon as the
throat was cut, with sleeves uprolled and
s-aspins si~ss, h---isa- -o~s--t e-Izz1EsinS5
carcass and holding the goblets in turn under
the ruby stream, filed their glasses. and then
drank the stesming liquid. One, middle
aged man, seemed old in the business, for he
threw the contents Of the glass off at one
draught Another threw some salt in his glass
before drinking, while another could hardly
make up his mind whether or not to drink it,
Atlast he shut his eyes and then after three or
four efforts succeeded in downing about half of
the glassful The reporter approached one Of
the butchers after he had finished dressing the
carcass ON which he was st work, and asked,
"Do the same people come every day?" 'No,
they come two or three times a week on the
average" was the reply, "Do any women ever
Gomez" eyes, there used to be one young
girl, but the last saw of her she seemed to be
getting fieshy, and has stopped coming alto
gether." One of the invalids was then ap-
preached and asked, How do you like blood
drinking?" "Well, I'll tell you. At first
when the doctor told me would have to drink
warm bullock's blood or die, told him that /
preferred the latter, but reconsicered my
thought and came up to the slaughter-housa.
thought at first could not touch it, and the
sight OF killing sckened me. But soon over
came that feeling, and when / raised the first
glass to my lips split the contents over me.
Next time shut my eyes and drank 1t down.
1t tasted like rich milk, and if kept my eyes
shut would not have known the difference"
Another one of the drinkers was asked how it
tasted. "How does it taste?" said he, ''it is
richer than the richest of cream. 1t is simply
delicious and a drink not to be compared with
any potion extant 1t is simply the elixir OF
life You can feel its strength as 1t spreads
through your veins. II it hadn't been for its
strengthening qualities 1 would have been
dead these years ago"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-09-05
[Philadelphia Record.l
Medical Absurditv.

This question of professional etiquette is one
of the absurd traditions that hedge about the
medical profession. The idea would be scout
ed as ridiculous that man should not employ
a tailor or shoemaker of his choice because he
had previously employed another man in the
same trade who did not suit him. Why, in
the name of all that is senseless, should not a
man who has been attended by DR.. Smith and
finds that he has not grown better but worse,
call in DIR. Brown or DIR. Jones, and il neith-
er of them benefit him, then DR.. Robinson?
And why should any system of ethics preclude
either from taking the case? The recognition
of the right of patient or his friends to en-
ploy any physician they choose, regardless of
whom they first employed, would have pre-
vented the unseemly quarreling among them
selves which disgraced some of the doctors
who attend, and others who wished to attend
the President. Another absurdity which must
occur to the average citizen, is the laborious
dragging into the bulletins designed for the IN
formation of the people generally, OF abstruse
technical and scientific terms to de-
scribe the well known and familiar operations
or parts of the body. "The discharge of an
abcess through the right ear, which every one
can understand, becomes "the voluntary es-
CAPE of pus from the right external auditory
meatus," which not one person ia ten who has
not had an anatomical education can compre-
hend Secretary Blaine's cable dispatches to
Minister Lowell, have been commercially
terse, accurate, and phrased in good, plain
English. Why could not the surgeons have
dealt in the same way with the public? In
this respect and in the Withholding of impor-
tant symptoms, the surgeons have treated the
American people as if they were children who
ceuld not be trusted with the whole truth, and
the veil of technicality must be employed to
cover the meaning of the discouraging facts
More common sense, plain English and less
professional ethics would have made the Pres
ident's surgeons stand better before the coun-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-09-05
What Causes the Relapses.
rUtica Herald. i

LUblca Herald
Looking back over the past three weeks
with their constantly recurring complications,
it does not seem difficult to assign rational
explanation for the unexpected turn the case
has twice taken in that time. Eleven days
ago the surgeons announced in one of their
bulletins, the sloughing off of tissue which
had acted as valve in the channel of the
wound, preventing its thorough cleansing be-
yond its point of resistance and impeding the
discharge of pus. When that valve finally
broke loose, the surgeons found themselves un-
expectedly able to explore the wound to the
distance Of twelve and half inches, much of
which distance they have the right to assume
the wound was healing, on account of the
scanty flow of pus that continued healthy. It
seems to be certain that this poisonous matter,
thus locked up in the wound, found its way
into the system and was responsible, frst for
the disturbance Of the stomach which resulted
in the first relapse and second, for the intiam-
nation of the parotid gland, to which is direct
ly due the crisis of last week. But for that un-
seen and unexpected impediment the Presi-
dent would doubtless have been ere this long
distance on the road to recovery. That the
poison which entered his system is being sue
cessfully thrown off by the natural resistance
of the body is evident from the course of
events. The stomach has recovered from its
paralysis, and is now discharging its functions
with healthy and increasing efficiency The
gland is so acting that it will carry off from
the system the poisonous matter it had ab-
sorbed, without penetrating to more vital
parts. When we understand the cause OF the
Presidents relapaes, they cease to be incom-
prehensible, and therefore they cease to furnish
occasion for anxiety lest other unknown and
unexpected complications are to follow fast in
their wake. There is no reason why anything
of the kind should occur again; and therefore
it seams antiralg reasonable to haliaua that thu
President will recover
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-09-05
Trying on the Bonnet.
New Haven Register.


A New Haven gentleman, whose business
keeps him up late at night, was persuaded to
do millinery errand for his wife the other
night and as a result stumbled up the front
stairs about o'clock in the morning with a
brand new bonnet held carefully under his
arm in tissue paper. AS soon as he turned
on the gas, his better half rubbed open her
eyes and drowsily inquired:
''You-forgot- my bonnet didn't you?"
''No, 1 didn't. Here's the business"
"Oh, is it'll" and that woman sprang up and
ripped the wrappings off in a iiffy and, Stating
her nightcap into the corner, adjusted the new
purchase carefully on her head. "How do
you like it? It's becoming, isn't it?"
Madame" responded the husband, "the
bounet certainly is becoming, but somehow,
the remainder of your costume don't libe.
Your dress, if l can call it such, has too much
Hamburg edging and not enough overskirt. l
think you need little knife pleating aud a
couple of extra ruffles."
"Oh, you horrid-"
''And then, too, that bonnet has too much
color for the rest of the tout ensemble, II may
borrow from the French"
''You hateful, I'll throw the thing out of the
window II you don't tell me just how it looks,
so there"
That's what I'm trying to do, my dear.
The bonnet looks immense In your present
costume you couldn't fail to make hit on the
street, and Just as like as not land in the po-
lice station. / should think some milltner had
hired the statue of Queen Zencbia for dunn
my to show off her goods.
"Dummy, dummy, did you say? I'll let
you know I'm no dummy" and she sat on the
edge OF the bed and lectured, and lectured,
until the deluded man had been hummed to
sleep by the monotony of her voice. But she
didn't take that bonnet off. She went and
rugged herself up in the best duds she had,
and when he awoke in the morning she was
promenading about the room trying the effect
by posing attitudes before the mirror.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-09-05
Boston Trayeller.l
His Fight for Life.

The Presidents long fight for life has been
blessing Of incalculable value to every inter-
est that is bound up with the preservation Of
the assassin's pistol first startled US, the waves
of political passion we're running dangerously
high, and public feeling was distraught with
the animosities of factional struggle that is
now happily over and half forgotten The
people have had time to take calmer views Of
the situation in all its aspects, whether OF
constitutional, personal or partisan character.
If the President must die there is now no fear
of perilous demonstrations of factional spirit OF
of any violent opposition to the ordinary
course of constitutional procedure in such
emergencies In spite of the efforts of spscu-
lators gambling on the nations afliction,
there is no real ground for apprehending any
disturbance of the business prosperity of the
country from the sad event which now seems
imminent. The shrewdest and most expert
enced business men of this city express them
selves in the most emphatic terms on this
point, The situation is sorrowful enough with
cut any efforts to exaggerate the evil conse-
quences that may flow from it. The founda-
tions of our government are laid too broad and
deep to be shaken by the death of any one
man, however exalted his abilities or his sta
ton. 1t Is in such crises as these that the vast
reserve strength of the Republican instit utions
as established in this country is made mani
fest. The like event happening in Europe
and America affords, in a moment by vivid
contrast of consciences, the clearest evide nee
we could have of the wisdom of the fathers of
this government. An Emperor is shot, and
all is consternation. Gaurds are doubled and
trebled, the family Of the stricken ruler takes
refuge in flight to some secluded town, es-
corted by small army, troops swarm in all
9 great centres OF population, and the world
that's for weeks before it is quite sure that the
wovernment has not perished with its execu-
give. In a word, it is instantly confessed that
the government is man, AMI not the people.
Here on the contrary, murderous attack up
on a President, shocking as it is to every pat
riotic instinct causes no feeling of alarm as to
tn Q perpetuity of the government. The sovcr-
eigns of this country can never be assassinated; /;
there are too many of them. Their represen-
tativa, as the official head of the republic may
be killed, but the indes tructible Union lives
on. 1t is an excellent thing to remember at
this time that the government of the United
States of America does not stand on its head.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-09-05
Nora Perry's Boston Correspondence of the Provi
dence PreSs.1
A Woman's View of Man

The talk between two young ladies and one
young man, the other day, on the deck OF an
outgoing seaside steamer, upon the last Round
Robin, or. as literary folk say, the last R. r.,
was sufficiently amusing and character-betray-
ing.
II thought it was written by woman until
came to the man--the hero-that Tom Put
nam-then l knew it was written by mani
said the younger of the two young ladies', with
emphasis.
young man of the party interestedly.
"Well, because-because no woman would
ever paint such domlneering fellow"
mo, / suppose not" returned the young
man, with flavor Of sarcasm; ''women's heroes
on paper can be made to order. 1t doesn t
make any difference, L suppose, If they are not
true to life?"
"Oh, WE'LL" retorted my young lady, scorn-
fully, ''if you want to say that every man in
real life is arbitrary and domineering and i'm
polite, and that to be otherwise is not to be true
to life, I'm sure I've no objection"
"But Tom Putnam wasn't arbitrary and DOM
ineering. He was simply mans man, not q
womans man, and very good fellow. L
think, answered the young man, ignoring the
scorn of his companion. Then turning sud-
denly to the other young lady, "What do you
think?"
"Oh, / was quite in love with Tom Putnam
hate mush of concessions; but all the same
should like to have taken him down little" /"
A general laugh here. Then from the lat
ter-"But it is the reflections of the author, not
the characters so much, that betray the sex"
And forth with the volume of "Patty's Per-
versities" was opened, and those betraying
reflections read aloud:
"'Women demand from the men they love
their utmost. A man having in some pas
sionate moment shown his capability for utter
devotion, his lady feels vague terror when he
falls below this high-wrought mood, as he in
evitably must. Perhaps it is the hereditary
instinct of a sex that has found men too apt to
reach a crisis of passion only to fall away from
it fatally and forever. 1t is difficult for women
to understand love which flows silently in an
underground channel
Now, no woman ever wrote that" declared
the reader, decisively, "and there are just such
marks all through the book"
So the speculations go on outside the camp,
and in the mean time nobody has found out the
secret of "The lesson in Love" and "The
GeorgianS."
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-09-05

OF the fund for Mrs. Garfeld's benefit,
New York subscribed $113,274, Philadel-
phia $12,2s4, Chicago s11,5OO, London,
Eng, $4,000, Washington $3.50, and other
cities and villages lesser sums-Newport, R.
l., giving 50, and Columbus, O., $1,000.
The United States trust company has pur-
chased and now holds for this fund, $685.
900 of United States four per cent registered
bonds, on which the interest is $1,000 per
annum, which will be paid to Mrs. Garfield
during her life, and at her death the princi-
pal will be divided among the surviving chill
dren of James A. Garfield. The amount
paid blythe United States trust company
for the above S125, 900 bonds was s145, Psi.
25, and there is now balance of cash with
the trust company of Sc, 6,47640.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-09-05

probably never ascertain the true character of
the man, although he has been for twenty
eight memorable years the head Of all Jesuits,
fighting Catholics and Protestants, prelates
and politicians, and being generally victorious.
1t was the idea of Beckx to place the Vatican
in harmony with the Jesuits, and to make
proselytes among the Protestant aristocracy.
In both instances his intentions were fully re-
allied, and one hesitates which to think more
difficult, the deliberate assault upon fashiona-
be Protestants or the systematic Impeachment
OF every Catholic prelate who did not obey
the Vatican implicitly. When he became
general, the Jesuits were comparatively impo-
tent, while to-day they are strong army, ever
ready to carry out implicitly what their chiefs
may order. Beckx seems to have preferred
obedient men to men of superior talents, for
the literary doings OF the order are in no
sense equal to its practical work. He found
his order a herd of timid foxes; he leaves 1t
horde Of hungry wolves.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-09-05

The Boston Herald thinks that "the
hopefulness of DR.. Bliss has undoubtedly
worked good to the President all through
shis confinement" and the Springfield Union
says: ''It is the common experience Of
physicians that CHEEKY face and a hopeful
word are worth as much as medicine to a
despairing patient" The Buffalo Express
saws: ''There is something magnificent in
DIR. Bliss's endurance, fidelity, courage and
hope. The attempt to injure him in the
estimation of the anxious people is followed
by reaction which makes him one of the
most admired men of the day."
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-09-05

IT appears to be thought by shrewd calcu-
lators in New York, Chicago and San Fran
cisco that for many years to come the
American states may be relied upon to pro-
duce an annual wheat crop of four hundred
millions of bushels, after making due allow
ances for failures of local character.
This estimate is based upon the enormous
increase of the area of wheat cultivation in
the1new west, which is quite sufficient to
make up for all allowances for short crops
in particular states.