Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-06-09
or lack of gracef All honor to him fer
lit, and "honor to whom honor is DUE"
REFORM IT ALTOGETHER.

alWeyS.
REFORM IT ALTOGETHER.
1t is to be hoped, in the change OF
editors, the Union Bee will improve in
| its general tone. 1t has been in times
past very prone to indulge in obscure
iokes-so obscure that the wit in them
consisted principally in finding the wit
out and many time and oft it should
have issued a supplement as key, even
as the KEY which school arithmetics used
10 be accom- panied with, and which we
urchins 20 liked to get hold of to help ue
out in our problems. Then, too, it had
fashion of working little items, whether
of fact or fancy, up in sort OF jingle,
that was as annoying as Mark Twain's
punch, brothers, punch with care,
Punch In the presence of the passengaire,"
And you felt like starting on the warpath
with an old-fashioned water elm club, to
| kill the perpetrator of such vile stuff.
We hope. most fondly, all this will be
| amended under the new regime.
CITY GOVERNMENT.
Since my last writing our city dads
appear to be getting along little more
smoothly. Things have simmered down
| to some extent, and the troubles between
| OuT MAY Ln6 SOuuCll dIO hOU pN
| prominent as they were. l should judge
that in Los Angeles, too, you were get
| ting along little better. If l mistake
not you have not remodeled your police
force for two or three days. Surely this
is hopeful sign, and one may take cour.
age in both cities. Who knows what
our representative men" may
yet do in the future. While
| g He -. hnnu NJ
that maxim is as old as the hills, and as
dignity did not sit easily on our men in
authority. They may have been FESTIVE
and chafed under the new habiliments
and hardly knew wha: made them feel sc
bad; but now that they are growing usec
to them we may expect better things.
"sHE DO MOVE"
The world, 1 mean, as we'll as our city
government. Think of it Germany
made every concession that could have
been reasonably asked in the settlement
of the Samoan difficulties; McGarigl'
came back voluntarily from Canada, gav'
himself up and took his medicine like {
little man, and the great Sullivan, tn,
only John L., has kept sober for over {
month. Let the question, then, no longe
be asked whether or not the worlt
moves; or, if asked, let it be answered
without hesitation and most emphat
ically, "She do move"
THUNDER AND LIGHTNING
Don't thinA by that that am indulgini
ina sort OF soda water swear. No, meal
that is what We had few lights, goot
land right nice pile of it." "Fron
every cloud leaped the live thunder" ant
the flashes were vivid and binding, fol
lowed by crashes that would have done
your soul good to hear. "Yours Truly
got out of bed en- dishabille, as ou
Frenchmen say, and enjoyed it; and thu
"big rain came dancing to thu
EARTH" too, in way tina
made old mother rejoice, and the
morning after to look as bright and frest
as though she were young again, anc
lust budding into womanhood. Did yor
have any thun 9erstorm up your way?
not, We are that much al cad, and hav
another thing to congratulate ourselve
with, besides steamships from the East
But il 1 scribble Oh at this rate, you vii
give me thunder, fear, so, to forestall s,
fearful calamity, will close.
VAQUERo.
| San Diego, June z, 1889.