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Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-10
LAUNDRIES.
NEW FRENCH LAUNDRY.

20 SOUTH MAIN STREET. Los Angeles,
90 Cal, Telephone $50. Orders promptly
executed and satisfaction guaranteed.
sepq
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-10
DYE WORKS.
PARTISAN STEAM DYElNC AND CLEAN.
ING WORKS.

Dyeing and cleaning of every description.
Ladies' dresses dyed without ripping. Kid
Gloves, Flannels, Ribbons and Blankets
made to look like new.
OFFICE-11s South Spring street.
DYE WORKS-Corner New High and
Bellevue avenue.
o2 ]. VOLLET, Proprietor.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-22

Of wood or cloth, was either store. 50
loon, gambling :ent or some place of public
resort Sidewalk, street and houses wers
alike full Of men. The "fandango' wa:
already in full blast. Here, alone, wers
seen women-dark skinned senoritas in white
dresses, some having their waists encircled
by broad bands of pure gold Riders were
momentarily coming in, some urging their
horses Mt breakneck pace through the street.
The air was filed with a medley of sounds
music, shouts, laughter, the hum of several
hundred voices gathered In so small an area,
the clink Of glasses and an occasional yell
from some miner giving vent in this way to
the emotions within him developed by whisky.
"Come," said Broener. Lets take look
at the fandango. Everybody goes there
either to dance or look on. It's not the low
dance house Of an old city. You will find
there the leading merchants Of the place
the banker, the lawyer, the judge, and all
the other present pillars Of society, in this
new world Of adventurous Society here.
you see is in a state Of effervescence, and
everybody's at the top Hence there's now
no bottom. Nor are these Mexican and Chill
eanean girls like the abandoned Of our
American or English cities They don't get
drunk, won't pick your pocket, and
though morality sits lightly on them, still
they have a certain respect for themselves
which keeps them out of cutters"
We went in. Broener was soon whirling
one of these tawny beauties about in a waltz
! followed his example. The dance over, we
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-22
CHAPTER XIII.
SURPRISE.

The play was 'Othello.n II was n farce
relative to properties and mounting. Two
wings Of the signboard style of art had to
serve all the scenic demands of the piece.
The dreadful bell" was the tocsin of the
Placer hotel borrowed for the occasion, and
its tones being recognized by some Of the
boarders drew from them the cry, Thine
for Bangs hash" The jealous Moor was
commented on as the niger and during
the entire performance was made target
from the demonstrative portion of the
audience for running fire of combined
criticism and admonition, not friendly in its
character, and evidently basel on the sec
tional preiudces of those who, coming from
the south looked with no favor on a niger
for daring u aspire to the hand of white
maiden. Their chronological research had
never Disseminated between Moor and
Ethiopian Iago was the favorite of the
house, more and more as the drama al
yanced, and as he, playing on the Moor'a
emotions. made him more and more miser-
able, one enthusiastic commentator bawlel
out as encouragement; That's right! sock
il to him"
occupied with Broener one OF the tive
dingy receSSes on either side of the stage, dig
niicl by the name OF boxes" and held at
$50 each for the night. His keen apprecia'
ton Of the part continually played by the
| audience, his b narty relish of the total failure
to impress them with aught of the serious
ness Of the play, AMI his instant detection OF
every ludcrou5 point brought about by th1
msht o. the drama relative to the time, tenn
per and choractor of nine tenth5 OF the look
ers ON, ma le his society to m, equivalent 10 a
fine comedy played simultaneously with the
| piece set before u.
! In reality many Of these rough fellow
we're critics, in their way, of no mean order,
| hough themselves entirely unaware of it.
| link that their years of isolation from the
conventional life of the oller settled local.
ties from which they originally came, and
the lack of sham and pretence i'll the life they
now lei had quickencl their minds to dis
! criminate between what was natural aud
what was artihcial-what was acted with
real emotion AMI what was merely stilted
defamation, ~ much OF the piece before u
vas on tn, part of the principa. character.
SO, when lagos wife, who, IL will he remem
bcrel is but liJtle prominent in the first "a
ton OF this drama, s'igmatiAad her schemns
husband ami wished for a whip to scourg'
such scoundrels through the word, the hous'
rose to her"
| ! had ceased TO pay much attention to the
play, being more Interested in the mo ley anc
tumultuous audience But the voice of thu
actress seemed strangely familiar.
| regarded her closely, and my though
said That girl is wonderfully like Blanchi
| Gaft,p
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-22
dared not ask he name. Broener re-

dared not ask The name. Broener re
sumed after pause:
THAT girl puzzles me. can't make hei
out. Probably If I could should not be SC
much attracted 10 her. find that mine is .
oature always demanding TO fa-hom-se'
through--women, and ceasing to worship
them when seen through"
felt then a CLEAN Of comfort. II II wa,
Blanche Seton, more than hoped that Broe
ner had no shallow depth to fathom. Yet
still feared him. He was to me deep, diaboli
cally deep, and powerful, too
perhaps you've met your match at last,
ventured to say.
"Well, hope have. I media match
Excuse me-" he added ~ detest puns and
punsters. This was an accident. She's a
strong characteristic poised. self reliant, i'm
passioned on the outside with boiling depths
below, which no one has ever yet brought tc
the surface-at least, judge so. She's miles
beyond the people she's travelling with. They
see and know Of her only as much as she
chooses to show-a tenth, perhaps only a
twentieth-only what they're able to see and
appreciate or what she allows them to see
Good Judgment, that No use In showing any
more cards than you want to use-in any
game"
"Do you call hers game, toor ! asked
GAS look on life and people-yes. Yet
possibly with her, thus far. an unconscious
one as to motive What some call nobility
of character is so well expressed with her
that am content to admire it without too
deeply Analysing it."
"You fear, then, you might find the bass
metal underneath the gliding"
'My boy don't care to put myself on
that train Of thought. II | pursue an illu-
sion. want il ever to remain one"
forbore from asking II he knew her real
name. Broener's indefinable manner said to
me, plain as words, Hands off,
II shall 60 TO Marysville next week." ho
said after pause. 1.-The company play
there on the Goth"
Swell" thought to myself, as crept into
my blankets, "Marysville, love and mystery
on one side. Pratt, hatred and more mys-
terry for Bull Bar on the other | seem to
he Il fulcrum for events to teeter on"
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we call gold | wonder, now, of what i'm
portance poor Pratt, il he had his senses
would consider that biggest star alongside OF
"A pan full of dust Pratt would trade Venus
for quartz claim
STARS speculation, Immortality, etc" said
Brooncr rs we rode ON. The three seem to
go together; or, at all events, stars always
start one on those topics. | wonder what we
are, anyway-who we are, where we came
from, and all the rest | am a certain amount
of life and Intelligence in a body. Body's
only a garment, II wrap, n machine, Hit a
part Of the body hard enough, just one
blow, and in one second lifes all gone, and
with it the sumption I've been storing up
for years Hit ii not quite rs hard, like the
crack poor Pratt gave himself. and the intel
lgcnce STAYS but goes to tlmdcrs-all hurlv-
iurlv. Problem when you bore IA hole with
n bullet through "A mans head does all his
intellect go out through that hole, and, if so,
where does il 30 TO! and might there not b.
some way of putting "a bucket or basin under
such a mans hcai when he's dying, and
collecting his intelligence, his quicn sahc
for ones own use. just rs they tap
trees for maple sugar Well, one things
certain: we're here. anyway, and | put
it up that the host plan Is to get all the
fun we can out cf it -holv. soul, mind. spirit.
aud any other little addition the theologianS.
philosophers and metaphysicians can tack on
US
We rode into the scamp" In the language
of the tirle, it was "bilin" The theatre
company had brought in miners from far and
near IL was a single straight street. From
| every door and winlo on either side poured
II Good oi light. for every house % the street,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-22
ITO be Continue6.i
Ii, II. Cromwell & Co. Chicago's

Leading Fine Furriers, have just opened
in connection with their large Fur busl,
ness, 1Gl State street (near the Palmer
House, Chicago, the largest and finest line
of Imported Millinery ever shown West
Our lady readers should give them a call
as they can always rely upon strictly first
class goods at Popular Prices"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-22
Seton.

Impossible' | looked, after that but at
that one figure. The pose and bearing were
those of Blanche IN standing, Blanche's at
titude always gave one the impression that
he alone owned the ground she then stood
nver In speaking, or when spoken to, she
seemed TO turn her whole mind in the direc-
ton of the subject of the moment, and never
seemed in mind to stray or waver from that
subject
So did this actress But the makeup pun
zled me. Hair, eyebrows, complexion were
different The voice was pitch,si in higher
key than ever La! heard from Blanche.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-22

Ii your neighborhood is damp and
marshy, and Chills and Fever prevail, use
Nichols Bark and Iron; it is a never fail
ing antidote to all Atmospheric or Malarial
Poisons, and 1t is at enc and the same time
a corrective stimulans and tonic.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-22

"treated" our partners at the bar, as Gus
tomary, To harmless soda, the only Leverage
they took, made pretence Of drinking our
selves and left for the theatre.
As we were entering the theatre Broener
said: "You must go home alone tonight.
shall not return till some time tomorrow"
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-22

A Pukwana, d. T., hotel advertises a:
among its attractions Cyclone cellar
with an easy slide into it in case of danger
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-22
BANK OF CALIFORNIA.
sY PRENTICE MULFORD.

e..,r,a,oarsp py ruK Arruoh ALL iaoHrs m
SERVED
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CHAPTER XII.
SUSPICION.

Bending over Pratt l put to him the usual
SSsotic question under such circumstances;
~tPratu are you aliveT
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-29

Referring to the damages by the recent
freezing in Florida, the Jacksonville Times
Union says: From the reports received. Au.
thenlicated by personal investigation OF an
expert who has travelled all through the state
where the bulk OF the orange crop is raised
IT appears: FIRST, that the actual money
value to the growers Of oranges rendered un-
marketable by reason Of being frozen on the
trees is about $1,000, 900, estimating the
original crop ut 900, 900 boxes, which is quite
low enough. Second, that young nursery
stock in the northern part OF the state is bad.
ly damaged by being top killed, but that it
will by no means be total loss. Third, that
bearing orange and lemon trees nearly down
TO the line of the Southern Florida railroad
are injured to the extent Of losing a large
part Of the fall growth, on which the bloom
comes so that the crop Of 1886 will be large
ly reduced in that region. Fourth, that
pneapples in the same region, together with
guavas and other tender tropical fruits, are
killed to the roots and will require q year to
recuperate. Fifth, that early vegetables
have been badly damaged, but can be replac-
ed, the principal loss on them being the time
and expense of planting and the loss OF the
extra prices Of an early market. Sixth, that
the whole spot money damsge to the fruit
and farm interests Of the state will not ex.
coed - 2.0O0,OO0 The trees are showing
great T, cuperative power, aud the loss being
widely distributed, will be comparatively
tasy to bear. Experienced growers are not
discouraged.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-29
The U.e Of Natural &c. a, PI,,.burr.

The Use Of Natural Gas at Pittsburg.
The discovery of natural gas at Pittsburg
Pa, Is one Of the wonders of the age. II is
used in the foundries, manufactures aud
glass works in that city, and for domestic
purposes, heating and cooking, as substi-
tute for coal.
1t has not yet been made available for illu.
minating purposes, it being but about eight
candle power and giving a blue flame, and
all attempts to use It by enrichment have
failed. The gas companies have made sever
al attempts to use it in connection with coal
gas, AZ it would very much cheaper the cost
of their product, but the gas sent out was Of
so poor a quality that they we're compelled to
give up its use besides as the gas is odor.
less il is not deemed safe to introduce Il into
dwellings by means Of pipes and fixtures as
a leak cannot be discovered, an the danger
from explosion would be very great. 1t is
utilized for cooking and heating by carrying
the pipes through the chimney iues aud US.
ing 1t in the freplaces, where, in case Of a
leak the gas would escape through the chin
ney. As 1t is so abundant and the price 10
low, leak Of gas IN the fues is not often
searched for, but allowed to run to waste.
Meters are not in general use, but where used
the price Is ten cents per thousand feet.
Gene rally housekeepers bargain with the
companies at fixed price for all they want
S75 per year is the maximum price for all
the gas that may be- wanted TO warm the
house and for ordinary purposes, and no coal
is USED in the house small houses are fur
nished at much less prices a poor family
may obtain all the fuel necessary for about
SO or Sl5 per annum.
In the city Of Pittsburg the use of natural
gas has displaced the use Of 10000 tons of
coal per day, or 3, $50, 600 tons per snnum, and
the city, instead Of being envelOped in smoke,
is as bright and sunshiny ~ any city ia the
country. There are now 800 miles of pipe
laid in and around Pittsburg TO conduct this
gas to the dwellings and manufactures. We
have only to imagine il we can, a great city
with all its wealth centered in its manufac-
turing establishments, many of them gigsn-
tic in their proportions and all, or nearly ALL
of these immense establishments employing
natural gas for fuel where formerly coal
alone was used, aud we may form some idea
of the magnitude OF the revolution in heat.
ing methods.
There is a single company. only few
months old, engaged in distributing this gas,
whose capital is 81, j,0OO OO0 and whose sg.
gregste sales are 81, 900, 900, even at the low
price OF ten cents per thousand feet or 20
times the output Of the b oston gas company,
aud this is the busint ~ OF one company on.
ly.
Natural gas has been discovered in many
of the states aud territories and in Canada.
The supply around PIttsburg seems to be in.
exhaustible, but time can only solve this
problem such, however, il the faith of the
western capitalists, that q company is being
organized with capital Of ten millions to
carry it to Cincinnati, and the project is seri-
ously being discussed Of carryin it to New
York
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-29

Dean Stanley bad great respect for pres.
ence of mind, and used with great delight to
tell a story Of presence Of mind by which be
had liberated himself from dangerous
visitor. Since he was willing to see almost
any one who asked for him, he once told his
servant to usher luto his study a gentleman
who had called, and " ho happened to bear
name that WAS familiar to him. When the
gentleman appeared, he proved 10 be an en-.
Tire stranger. 1t was evident there had been
som mistake. This became still more evi.
dent, when, approaching with an air of great
excitement, the gentleman exclaimed, "Sir,
| have a message to the Queen from the Most
High. l beg that you will deliver it instant.
ly.' I'm that case said the dean, taking
up his hat, there is not moment to be lost.
Let US go at once" They went down stairs
into the hall, and opening the door, the dean
requested his visitor 10 step out No sooner
had he done 80 than the dean shut the door
be hind the lunstic.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-29
NO. 5.

The Sunday on which she came out bride
they we're late at church but late as II was,
curious people were lingering by the steps to
watch them. What would they do Would
Marcus Woodman enter that church door
which his awful will had guarded for him 80
long2
They walked slowly up the steps between
the watching people. When they came 10
the place where he was accustomed TO sit,
Marcus stopped short and looked down at his
wife with an agonized face.
"Oh. Esther, Tve-got-to STOP"
'Well, we'll both cit down here then"
"You?"
"Yes I'm willing"
mo you go in."
mo, Marcus sit with you on our we'd
ding Sunday"
Her sharp middle aged face az she looked
at him was fairly heroic. This was oil that
sue could do her last weapon was used. II
this failed she would accept the chances with
which she had married, and before the eyes
of all these tittering people she would sit
down at his side on these church steps, She
was determined, and she would not weaken.
He stood for moment staring into her
face. He trembled so that the by-standers
noticed it. He actually leaned over toward
bis old seat as If wire ropes we're pulling him
down upon it. Then be stood up straight,
like q man, and walked through the church
door with his wife.
The people followed. Not one Of them
even smiled. They had felt the pathos in
the comedy.
The siiters in the pews watched Marcus
wonderingly as he went up the aisle with
Esther. He looked strange to them hs had
almost the grand mien of a conqueror.
Mary b. Wilkins in February Harper's.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-29

Crater Lake is thus described in petition
that is being numerously signed in Oregon
to make national reservation Of the won.
der The surface of the lake is 300 feet
above sea level, aud is about miles long and
miles wide. 1t contains a circular island
600 feet high, on which is found an extinct
crater which is 30 feet deep and 475 feet in
diameter. In another portion Of the lake is
found a conical. shaped rock, which is per-
pendicular and rises to an altitude OF 3,2O0
feet above the waters surface. Other rocks
OF remarkable form and elevation tower high
above the lake. The lake walls are nearly
perpendicular, and vary in altitude from
l 900 TO 2 900 feet"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-29
A National Disgrace,


1t is no eXaggeratiou to characterize the
condition of the United States prison at Fort
Smith, Arkansas, as descrbed by Miss Anna
L. Dawes in the January number of the new
magazine, Lend Hand, as a national dis
grace. The United States court which is 10
Gated at Fort Smith has jurisdiction over a
section OF country POO miles wide aud ex
tending westward 100 miles. Whenever any
arrest for any off sncr, grave or trajng, is
made in this region the offender is couhued
in the all at Fort Smith. The court is al.
ways Oyerburdentd with work, and cases
must often wait ks and months for trial
The average number in confinement is IS
but in June of last year it had risen to 100
For the accommodation and safe keeping of
this large number of criminals, this govern.
ment provides two rooms in the cellar of the
government building, with no light except
what comes from underground windows aud
no outside ventilation. There is absolut 8ly
no division of the prison except the partition
wall which supports the upper stories. With.
in these dark, damp, uuventllated rOoms
each of them 80 feet long and 30 feet bro td
are kept, day and night, without employ-
ment these hundred or more prisoners
young lads and men who are under arrest on
ly under the suspicion Of crime being sub
jscted to the same treatment and mingling
on equal terms with the most abandoned ruff
fans wild Indians from the plains and CON
demned murderers. Last June niue of the
inmates were accused of murder, and two of
them convicted of that crime. The only op
portunity which these men have for washing
is single sink in each cell their rations are
pushed through slide in the door their ex.
ercise is limited to marching about the room
the sick and wounded are confined in the
same place aud from the date of their in
oarceration the inmates see no ray of sun
light and breathe no outside air, That such
barbarties can exist under a great, enlight-
ened and prosperous government like ours
would seem almost incredible. At least, it
would be- thought that the condition of At
fairs would ouly have to be known to be
Immediately reolided. But the marshal of
that district, in his report to the department
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-29

The widow Larkin says the reason why so
many men have family trouble is that they
marry miss.
THANK heaven" exclaimed fond father,
as he paced the floor at midnight with his
bowling heir, 'thank heaven you are not
twins"
Bill Nye knows an Indian squaw whose
name translated into our tongue means The
swift-daughter-of-the prairie blizzard that
gathers the huckleberry on 81 the run and
don't-you forget.it
In a speech at Kilmarnook, Lord Roseber-
ry told story about his little girl. She had
been told by her nurse that if she didn't
think so much by day, she would dream less
at night. but can't help thinking" she
told her father. For you know, she added
pathetioally, ~ cannot make my brains sit
down"
~ understand, Mr.. Softley," says Miss
Muffin, THAT you play the violin" "Well,
yes, Miss Muffin, I-a-try to play the vio-
lin" That's what l heard. You see, Mr..
Softley, We are going to have little sOciable
at our house next Thursday evening. want
ed to invite you, but ma-she is very anxious
not to give anybody any troublo-was afraid
that" "Oh, no trouble at ALL at all, l as
sure you, Miss Mufin," eagerly interposed
Softley. "It will be a positive pleasure to
me to bring my violin" "Y .e-s-that's what
ma was afraid Of"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-29

As young man aud his wife OF Elmira,
N. Y, were preparing to retire one night last
volver, which he supposed was empty. and
playfully snapped it at his wife. There was
an unexpected discharge, and the bullet
pierced her abdomen. She died In two days
The husband, clerk in leading dry goods
house, il frantic with grief, and would have
ended his own life had he not been placed un-
der guard. The accident seems worse from
the fact that when he took up the pistol his
wife screamed aud besought him to put IL
away, so frightened was she at the mere sight
Of the weapon. They had been married only
six months
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-01-29

stone was unearthed during excavations
for a church at Cork Hill, and transcription
of some lines on it's surface Sin med val
Latin" were sent to the Dublin Mail, as fol.
lows:
81 Sabill Hares Ago
Fortibus' es in, arO
Nosces' mari thebe 'trux
Volts innem' pes an duK."
Disclaiming any profound knowledge Of
antiquarian lore, the Freeman's Journal Of
fers the following as translation that will 81
the bill
81 say Billy, here's go,
Forty buses In a row;
No, says Mary, they be trucks,
What is in emf Peas RBd Ducks"