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Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-04-04

@. A. SUMMER & CO.,
Real Estate and Insurance Agents and Auc-
tiOneers 54 North Main St. f17tf
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-30

"We owe you something. Here are free passes
for the State for your wife,"
''I took the blamed things home and gave
them to her. They began to burn the pock-
etbook right away. Next morning she
said, 4 guess I'll go to San Jose on my
free passes All right I said, sit won't
cost me anything No. she said,' isn't
it lovely not to have to pay any fareF
Beautiful said I. Now, dear, I want
you to give me twenty-five dellars. really
must buy some clothes to go to San Jose i'm
Twenty FIVE dollarsp YES. You wouldn't
like to have your wife travelling without any
style, won1d you?' 'Well,' 1 said, SIS it
quite necessary for you to go to San JOSEF
NO; but might as well. I don't need to
pay anything on the train And at the
first break that free pass cost me twenty-five
dollars. Well, she started off to San Jose,
and she concluded she would go on the broad
gauge road. When the conductor came along
she pulled out her pass. 1t was the marrow
gauge road pass. She had to pay her fare.
When she started to come back she conclud-
ed she'd take the narrow gauge to San
Francisco, and she forgets she had narrow
gauge pass and bought her tickets. Yes,
the free pass is very economical thing for
woman
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-30
ESaU1mABx NuAsKS.
AIeutian Women Wear Funny Faces
on Their Fingers.

AIeuliam Women Wear Funny Faces
on Their Fingers.
The curious people known as Esquimaux
are very fond of dancing and song, strange
as it may seem says st. Louis Globe writer:
But their song consists solely of doleful,
monotonous chant, and their only musical
instrument is drum. When the Esquimaux
give concert there is but one singer, the en-
tire audience and attendance composing the
chorus. The singer describes some event of
hunting, fighting Or some legend, of which
this northern tribe have great numbers,
while the spectators respond in chorus. The
singer is always masked, and the Esquimau
mask is double; the front, apparently plain,
being composed of two little doors, which at
certain points in the song are thrown open by
springs managed by the performer, when
hideous face is disclosed within, the pre-
sentation of which is a signal for a
unanimous shout or yell from the spectators.
These masks were often crowned with feath-
ers, which waved with the wearer's motions.
The Aleutians have bird-bill masks, both
mandibles being movable, and the bill being
provided with a tongue of wood, which rat
ties loudly within the jaws the wearer
jumps up and down in the vigorous dancing
delighted in by those savages. But the
great dance among the Aleutians is the
whale dance, when a whale is taken or acci-
dentally driven on shore. All the masks of
every kind are brought forth on this occasion
and a grand religious ceremonial precedes
the coming up of the giant animal, for the
Aleutians consider the prodigious supply of
flesh the gift of their gods and to be received
with thankfulness.
Perhaps the most curious description of
mask known to the museums is the finger
mask, of which several specimens are found
in the Smithsonian Institution in Washing
ton. 1t is tiny face, carved in wood, and
surrounded by feathers, or the fur from
deer's throat; the whole being fastened to
pocket somewhat resembling the finger of
glove, the purpose being to wear the mask
on the end of the forednger. This mask is
worn by the Aleutian women in certain dances
women general thing not wearing face
masks, being forced to content themselves
| with these finger masks. The face is gene
rally full and round, and bears the nearest
| approach to eomicalitY of any Indian repre-
sentation of the human countenance. In
| several specimens one eye is represented as
/ widely open, the other either as entirely
| closed or half shut, as though the attempt of
| the artist were to depict wink on the coun-
tenance. In dances participated in by both
/ sexes the women wore these masks upon
| their fingers, and at certain points in the
| dance each woman thrust the forefnger
| wearing the mask into the face of her part
| ner, whereat g general shout or yell ensued
Presumably this was an Aleutian joke. At
| all events it bears that Interpretation, and is
perhaps the nearest approach to practical
| jest the Indians are capable of.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-30
Friday, March 80. 1855.
PROGRESS OF A GREAT REFORM

PROGRESS OF A GREAT REFORM
The testimony of William Dudley Foulke,
president of the Civil Service Reform asso-
citation of Indiana, before the Senate special
committee appointed to investigate the man
ner in which Civil Service ideas are being en-
forced is instructive. Mr.. Foulke's state
ment was the result of a personal examina-
ton which be made into the workings of the
Civil Service in Indiana and some other
places.
To 209 postmasters who had been re-
moved, 1913 in Indiana and the rest elsewhere,
Mr.. FouIke addressed letters inquiring if
charges had been made or an opportunity
given to answer the charges. These brought
158 replies, which showed that in 101 re-
movals in Indiana and 35 removals elsewhere
no notice of charges had been given nor was
there ever any investigation as far as the
persons removed knew. In only two in
stances did the replies show that investiga-
tions had been made. Most of the officials
had their first notice of removal through a
newspaper, the item stating that successor
had been appointed. Eleven of the Indiana
postmasters and 10 elsewhere had requested
that the charges brought against them be
communicated to them, and been refused in
formation as to the cause of removal. Mr..
Foulke presented a list of Republican editors
who had been removed to have their places
filed by Democratic editors. 4 list was also
submitted of those who had been removed
through congressional influence.
After Mr. Foulke had finished his investi-
CATION he decided to call on President Cleve-
land and ascertain If he knew what was GO
ing on. Accordingly he laid the matter be-
fore the President and learned from him that
he was fully aware of the course pursued. He
told Mr.. Foulke that it would be impossible
to have an investigation in each case and in
form the official of the charges, as that
would involve judicial examination in each
instance. The President was sorry Mr.. Foulke
had made the Investigations and hoped he
would go slowly, for as the President ex-
pressed it: sit was difficult to bring his
party up to his standard and Indiana was
particularly bad in this respect"
This, and the rest of the testimony given
by Mr.. Foulke, shows in a striking way that
public Office is public trust, but that the
There have been few such ghastly humbugs
in the politics of this country as President
Cleveland's Civil Service Reform. 1t ought
to be and will be fully understood before the
next election. There are facts enough. and
they will of course be laid before the public.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-30
A CORPSE WANTED.
Warrington Hackmen ON the Hunt
for Practical Joker.

fer O PRACTICAL 0keFs
Washington Letter in New York Herald.l
On Wednesday evening last a dudish
young man, wearing an English tweed suit
with an abnormally short oyercoat, made his
appearance among the cabmen at the corner
of Fourteenth street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue. at Washington. He informed them
that wedding party out at Brightwood
had missed the train and te1ephoned for a
number of carriages to convey them to the
city.
Chow many carriages do you wantr'
queried half dozen hackmen in concert.
ssOhl a dozen or so,' was the reply.
"There are probably forty people to be ae-
commodated."
One OF the hackmen opened the door of
his carriage. The young man entered. The
driver whipped up his horses and started
off at a rAttling gait, followed by every vehi-
Gle on the stand. The procession included
herdics, herdic cabs, hansoms and coupes
The crazy looking vehicles were drawn, for
the most part, by half starved, raw boned
animals, which required constant urging to
keep them in motion. AS they passed up
Fourteenth street the procession was Joined at
intervals by such other cabmen as fell in its
way. sharp thirty minutes drive brought
them to Brightwood. Not light was visible
in the entire village.
"If dar's weddin' heah, de folks must be
celebratin' it in de cellar" said burly negro
driver, refining in his painting steeds and eaz-
ing suspiciously about him.
'Whar's de gemmen what brought US out
heahl" queried the speaker, addressing the
driver of the carriage in which the young
man had made the journey. The latter
jumped from his box and opened the door.
The carriage was empty. The occupant
had alighted at some point en- route and was
evidently at that moment chuckling over
the success of his practical joke. Amid q
confusion of blood curdling oaths beyond
anything the village had ever heard, the
procession reformed and returned to the city.
Since that time every cabman in Wash
ington has been looking for young man
wearing an English tweed suit and an alb
normally short overcoat. If found, they as
sert, there will be a first class funeral and
the aforesaid young man will ride in the
front carriage
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-30

periments conducted by DR.. Luys, well
known hypnotist. siHsseH glass tubes, con-
tanning various drugs in solution On in pow
der, were employed, aad it Is not denied that
the external application of ths phials pro-
duced more or less marked effects-mnscnlar
contractions, congsstive symptoms, impaired
respiration and the emotional manifestations
But the committee failed TO trace any CORE
lation in the majority of the cases between
the phenomena superinducsd and the estah-
lished thsrspeutical properties of the sub
stances used. More than this, perfectly
empty tube was found to be as potsRt in de-
termining the manifestations as any of those
previously employed.
Since 1886 there have been two new med
ical colleges established in the United States
and two have ceased TO exist. There are now
ia colleges which exact an educational re-
quirement of intending matriculates, as
against As formerly, there being no change in
this respect from the previous year; 43 col
1eges now exact attendance upon three or
more courses Of lectures, as against % for
merly-being gain Of two over 1SS6-and
81 others make provision for three or four
years. graded course. Hygiene is now taught
in ia and medical jurisprudence in 112 col
1eges, as against 4s and 81 respectively prior
to 1888. There is an increase in the average
of lecture terms from 23.5 to 24.9 weeks dur
ing this period; and ia colleges now have
terms of five months or over, and 63 have
terms of six months or over, as compared
with 101 and 40 respectively. There is only
one medical college that has a course less
than twenty weeks, the Medical College of
Georgia. In 1928, out of every 1000
matricnlates 322 were graduated, taking both
the United States and Canada and all schools
of practice into the account In 1SS6-97 only
294 out of every 1000 matriculates were
graduated. In the United States alone, in
1882 SO, out of every 1000 matriculates 331
were graduated, while in 1896-s7 only 305
out of every 1000 matriculates were grad
uated
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-30
The Stripes.

These are up in popular estimation. Some
new styles are very rich in design, coloring
and finish. On dark ground are stripes in
cid gold, fawn, mouse color, garnet and tur-
quoise. None are loud, but all very neat and
modest. These are in sacks, round and
square cornered, and in 1-button, 3-button
and 4-button cutaway frocks. In all respects
our selections are better than any offered
formerly in this city. Prices $3.50 to s25.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-30
EASTER SUITS.

Tte Easter demand has begun. If new
bright Suit be appreciated more at one time
than another, it is on Easter-Day. New life
comes then, new hopes, new aspirations, and
blooming spring bonnets.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-30
THE CHECKS AND MIXTURES.

In this department are patterns new and
novel and very attractive. New combinations
and new shades of colors happily blended.
Very light, medium and dark. All the styles
of Sacks and Frocks. Prices &c. so to $25.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-30
A Costly Railroad Pass.

I IA
ST thought it was economy" said man
very mournfully, the other day, 'sfor she
was bent on seeing the State, and thought
it would save railroad fares, but she is SIM
ply running me since she got free pass all
over the place. You see, Il did some little SER
vice to the railroad people, and I happened
to mention that my wife was going down
South
s'Hsre you are,a said the railroad man.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-30
miscellaneous.
Three Essential THINGS
to Be Considered.
STYLE,
QUALITY,
PRICE.

We have placed on our coun-
tiers the finest line of new Spring
Overcoats ever displayed in this
city, at prices ranging from
$3.50 to $2S. Some made from
Cheviots, some from Ccssi-
meres, some from Meltons and
some from Covert Cloths; silk
lined and silk-faced.
New fresh goods, made in
the latest style, best Of trim
mings, and every garment guar
anteed. They are what we are
building our reputation on.
In Spring Suits for Men,
Young Men, Boys and Chill
dren we are offering Wonderful
Bargains and Extremely Low
Prices. Why? Because we
are manufacturers, and there are
no middle-men between us and
consumer. We save you one
Smart Profit.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-30

1t has now been discovered in this town
that even n ''soab" has some rights. This
discovery ought to prove beneficial to those
who needed to have it made
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-30
Boys Suits.

The new cloths and designs are represented
in all sizes of suits. Splendid opportunity to
secure short trouser suits of great excellence
at very low prices. We have exceptionally
fine suits for older boys of imported fabrics.
All prices, $3.50 to $50.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-30
MCINTYRE, ,MAGUIRE 6 GO.
ss7 Chapel Street, New Haven, Conn.
mediCa1.
CLAIRVOYANCE,

MRS. ]. ]. CLARK. Business, Test and Healing
Medium, ees CROWN STREET, convinces, all who
visit Ter that she is genuine cairvoyant. Do not
fail to her even if you have been disappointed
with others Hours to f2 a. m, 2 to p m. and
evenings Diagnosing by lock of hair by letter
O.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-30

Powderly is out with some more good ad'
vice. He was always quite free with good
advice when he thought it would help his
reputation.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-30
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Springfield Union wants to know il
anyone can point out a woman suffrage wo-
man who has large family of small chill
dran
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-30
The 9nnrma1 amd Gumrier.

DELIVERED By CARRIERS IN THE CRY, 10
GENTS WEEK, 80 CENTS MONTH, $500
FOR SIX MONTHS, 5000 YEAR. TIE SAME
TERMS Rv Matt
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-30

emma ls queer country, Dub tneI6 are
some things in it which remind the Ameri-
can who happens to be there of home. Thus
the Ichang Tattler prints the following: We
regret TO say that our worthy pastor, the Rev.
G. Cockburn, has been suffering severe pains
in his digestive regions. Under the combined
skill of Drs. Henry and Mcdonald he once
more is able to grace us with his bodily pres
encs.
The great copper speculation doesn't seem
to be prospering. And in view of the fact
that the total visible supply of copper at the
present time is larger than that of a year ago,
that the worlds production is greater and
that the consumption has been curtailed, it
may well be questioned whether those who
are carrying this load will be able to stand
up under it for any great length of time.
"Corners" may after awhile not be as popu-
lar as they have been.
1t is curious fact that while the annual
supply of quinine for the whole world is about
G, 600, 900 ounces the consumption of this drug
in the United States is more than 8. 100, 900
ounces, or nearly one-half the entire product.
The price of quinine has been so low for the
three or four years that large plantations of
cinchona trees have been uprooted in Ceylon,
and the tea plant is substituted. Ceylon
produces very large share of all the bark that
is marketed and the exports from that island
declined more than one-third between 1885
and 1887.
The Philadelphia papers print list of
some three hundred couples resident in that
city who have been married in the last two
years by deposed clergyman of the Episco
pal church, whose authority to solemnize q
marriage is held to be no better than that of
the legality of all the weddings conducted by
him is affected and unless public aeknowl-
elgment shall have been made of the bans
the marriages under the law are all null and
void. Doubtless some of the couples wish
| they were.
Some of the French hypnotic specialists
have claimed to be able to produce all the
effects which follow the administration of
any given drug by simply placing a phial
containing preparation of 1t in contact with
the skin of the hypnotized subject. The
French Academy of Medicine has just de-
melished this pretension, which, if well
| founded, would involve as a necessary corol-
larry the possibility of causing death by poi
son without leaving any trace of the toxic
agent in the organism. A committee of its
members, specially appointed for the purpose,
recently attended to witness series of ex-
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-30
MAGNETIC Treatment.

DIR. E. W. CLARK, the gifted magnetic healer
and electric physician, successfully treats diseases
of every name and nature with his magnetic heal
ing power. Rheumatism and nervous diseases
specially. Electricity scientifically applied. Of
fee hours to 12 q. m, 2 to p.
mS6 22S GROWN STR EEF.
PUT YOUR HANDIN WISE
turn it until you bear the pain longer; that
describes RHEUM ATISM.
Put your hand in your pocket, take so cents, buy
a bottle of
Bakers Great American specific,
and that viii cure It. Give the wise more turn,
and that describes the tortures of
NEURALGIA.
Bakers Great American Specific
will relieve that torture 1t will do it quickly too,
How your bones ache in rheumatism How pain
full the slightest movement is Bakers Great
American Specific drives away the pain and gives
you freedom Of action without suffering It drives
away the almost uncomfortable pangs of Neuralgia,
and for this alone is worth is weight in gold This
is the season for these troubles this is this time
to get the only sure remedy,
Bakers Great American specific,
sold by all dealers in medicines. Prepared only by
Maurice, Baker & Co., Portland, Me. Doolfttle &
Smith, "A and 20 fremont street, Boston, Selling
Agents.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-30

DIR. j. w. Cummings.
FLECTRO- Therapeutic physician. Electricity
ID when properly applied has all the elements
necessary to cure acute, nervous and chronic dis
ELECTRICITY
Cures rheumatism and Spinal Complaints.
ELECTRICITY
Cures Bronchitis. Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint.
ELECTRECITY
Cures Bright's Disease and Kidney Diseases gener-
ally. Also all Uterine Diseases.
ELECTRECITY
Cures Lung and Throat Complaints. Do not fail
to visit DR.. Cummings and make use Of this potent
remedy.
No. 4 Church Street.
mar2e
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-30
REMOVAL.
MADAM CLARK of Hartford,

An0 GuteU M0SnSllc heaieF,
Business and Test medium,
has removed to IS HIGH STREET. Madam Clark's
remarkable magnetic powers have won for her the
unqualified approval of the press and public wher-
ever she has been located. Office hours to II
TO and to Q p m. Terms ST. Magnetic treat
nent So mario If
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-30
Dress Goods Department

SO Robes Combination dresses) at So each.
This is small lot of handsome goods worth
$3.50 dress.
Dress Goods at 20, 3s, AZ and SOC. At
these popular prices we offer great assort-
ment.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-30
Cloak Department.

Ladies' Jersey and Cloth Jackets in black,
mahogany, goblin blues, checks, stripes, ETC.,
with or without hoods. Special Bargains
for this sale at $3.50, $3.50, $3.9S, $4.25,
$4. 80, So, $3.50 and Sc.
Raglans and Newmarkets from $3.50 to
$15.
Beaded, Cloth and Silk Wraps from $3.50
to $25.
Children's and Misses Cloaks and Jackets
from So so up.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-30
Howe & StGtSOD
BARGAINS
EASTER WEEK,
GLOVE DEPARTMENT.

We are offering in this department large
assortment of our well known reliable Kid
Gloves from SOC to $3.50 per pair; extra val
ues at $500, 75c, 81, $1.10, $1.25 and $1.4S
per pair.
Agents for the celebrated Foster Kids
every pair warranted.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-30

SPECIAL NOTICE.
Friday, March 80, being Holiday we shall
shall hold our BARGAIN SALE Thursday,
March 30, for this week. The bargains that
will be found on every counter will be first
class seasonable goods.
Don't Miss this Sale.
Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-30
gr1e gnmrma1 and Courier

The Oldest Daily Paper Pub
lished i'm Connecticut.
The Washington critic., 1888-04-14

see him on the Washington nine. Such
thing, of course, is ont Of the ques.
ton. As to what he is worth. thi is
a matter of supply and demand. II
another club will pay him 5000 u
year heis worth IL. Merely because
President Day says that the New
York management cannot pay hun.
that does not prove Ward Ia not
worth IL. The assertion, too, that if
Ward were paid that amount, Con-
ner. Ewing, Richardson and Welch
would demand the same. does not
affect the justice Of Wards claim.
IL anyone Of them can get that
much from any club he is worth il.
There is no law (beyond the limit
rule, which is a dead letter., that de-
clares a player shall be paid such.
and such an amount, or that de-
clares n certain salary reasonable and
another extrayagant. What player
can get is his value. That the re-
serve rule steps in and permits the
manager TO pay a certain salary and
prevents the player from making
another engagement, is an injustice
which the Ward case has made so APP
parent that il would not be surprising
IL every member of the Ball Players
Brotherhood perceived his own in
terests involved in the dispute in
question and rallied around Ward in
the course of a few seasons and de-
clared their independence.
The Washington critic., 1888-04-14
WheeImen ANA thc prama

During the past winter the Capital
Bicycle Club has given series of enter
tainments at its clubhouse, to which a
limited number of guests have been in
vited. The characteristic nature Of these
affairs has aroused considerable curiosity
concerning them, and this has led the
club to attemptlts first public entertain
ment. Among the principal features of
thepTogfainme will be the operetta, "a
New Years Reception by Hubbard L.
Smith, the popular composer of "The
Debutante." This will be performed en-
tirely by members of the club, who will
attempt to demonstrate that q prima
donna need not necessarily be woman.
The "Ghost SoeneN from "H0miet,N
while astanderd attraction in its original
form, has been greatly revised and i'm
proved without sacrificing the sublrmity
and splendor OF Shakspeare's tragic
masterpiece.
#. NJ. Botelers Tidow Bedoh must be
seen to be appreciated, and the same may
be said Of the "four Tramps.n The
clubs conception Of the tragedy OF
"Pyramus and Thisbe'' is pronounced
superior to that Of Days company by all
who have not seen the latter. Among
those taking, part will be Hubbard Il.
Smith, j. j. Chickering, James q. Rice, r.
NJ. Boteler, A. p. Smith. II. II, Olds, g.
A. Burnett, j. NJ. Borden, Dr. G. f.
Johnston, Andrew Miller, @. r.. Rice, II. H.
o. Edmonds, w. G. Prentiss, q. G. Allen,
@. IT, Bacon and l.. w. SCely
The Washington critic., 1888-04-14

Next week the London Speciality
Company, with fine olio Of specially
talent, win grace the boards of Ker-
mans and furnish fun and interest for
the many patrons of the house.
Among the cards are Lester and Will
liams, the "dandy nigs;" Wood and
Sheppard, musical kings; the Gilbert
family; Dan. Mason, German COM
ique; the great Vanola, equilibrist;
Sheridan and Shannon, lightweight
Knockers; Roach and Castleton, prize
sketch team; Inman sisters, song and
dance queens; Louise Dempsey, em-
press OF burlesque, and a lot more, the
bill ending with the funny German
comedy, Wrinkles Fix"