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Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-07
AForger Captured.

Ell PAso, Tex, February 6.-Ford, the
Peoria forger, was captured at Tucson
last night on the east-bound Southern
Pacific train which arrived here to-day.
A fellow-passenger, friend of an Illinois
banker. had Ford's photograph in his
nocket. and recognized him on the train:
He notified conductor Gillespie, who wired
to Tncson to have the arrest made. Ford
offered Gillespie five hundred dollars to
release him. He was travelling with a
woman. who continued on the train to
Benson, but returned to Tucson IRON
there
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-07
A Slight remblOr.

CHARLESTON, S. G., February Ga
slight earthquake shock was felt last
night in lower South Carolina. The
vibration was such as is caused by a
passing train, and was of brief duration.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-07
Cinching the "white Caps"

IND1ANAPoLIs, February 6.-The State
Senate to-day passed the "White-Cap"
bill, making it riotous conspiracy for
three or moro persons to combine for the
purpose of doing any unlawful act while
wearing white-caps, or being otherwise
disguised, and fixing the penalty at
fine of $4,000 and imprisonment in the
State prison for not more than ten, nor
less than two wears.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-07
Arbuckle Appeals

New York, February millionaire
Arbuckle took an appeal to the Court of
Appeals to-day from the decision award
ing "Bunny" Campbell $45, 900.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-07

acres in ally in San Fernando Valley, from 8 to
IL miles from the Plaza, into 5, 10. ~ and 40
acre tracts. ranging from $25 to $3.50 per acre.
and on such liberal terms that any one can own
home. fruitful soil. easily cultivated; a
healthy and delightful climate; excellent
schools and churches; two railroads: With Los
farm, these lands offer inducements to settlers
that cannot be duplicated.
Also, a Stock Range of 1880 acres, only four
Can be subdivided into two or three ranges.
For maps, prices and terms apply to
PRovIDENCIA LAND WATER AND DEvEL-
OPMENT COMPANY,
Rooms and 8, Bryson Il Bonebrake Block
jail 3m
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Robbed an d Murdered

ROME, Ga, February 6.-Joe and John
Lee, Chinese laundrymen, were fatally
wounded by burglars last evening, and
all their valuabl g taken.
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He'll Roy to be sold.

LEXINGTON, KY, February 6.-Bel
Boy has arrived from California, sount
and we'll. He is to be sold here nexl
week along with 800 others in Woodard's
combination sales.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-07

The Prohibitionists meet this morning
at 10 o'clock at Longstreet's Hall, No.
los N. Main street, in convention, to
nominate officers under the new City
Charter.
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sam Rernardino shaken Tn

SAN BERNARDINo, February Ga ee-
we're earthquake shock occurred tonight
at 8 20, the vibrations being from north
to south. Brick blocks rocked percepti.
bly, but no damage was done.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-07

last. A blizzard has prevailed all over
the upper peninsula. Traffic has been
DELAYED on some of the railway lines.
Swamps are freezing up fast, thus faciii-
tating lumber hauling.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-07
Tho ul,xzard,s Breath.

MARQUETTE, Mich, February o:-M M.
TOR has set in with terrible earnestness ~
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Ex-PRIsoNERs OF WAR.
What They are Doing Throughout the Country.

What They are Doing Throughout the Country.
Kansas.-The Southeastern Kansas Association
held its annual meeting in the Opera House in
Pittsburg April 10, at which a resolution was
passed indorsing Senate bill No. sos, which pro-
poses to give all prisoners who have served so
days or more in any Southern prison the sum
of 81 per day for each day so confined. The
territorial boundaries of the association are
limited to the Third Congressional District.
Every ex-prisoner may become member of
the association by sending his name company
and regiment, accompanied by 90 cents, the
initiation fee. The following were elected as
officers for the ensuing year President John
+. Hill, Oswego; V.-P., j. E. Brant, Parsons;
Sec. and Treas, J. n. Sweeney, Weir. The
comrades of Gen. Russell Post, No. So, this De-
partment, assisted by their wives and daugh-
tiers, who are enrolled in W.R.C. No. 50,
under the leadership of Mrs Ellen Willard, an
accomplished lady, who is serving her fourth
term in office as President, gave the members
of the association such q welcome as caused
their hearts to throb with patriotic emotion.
The Sons of Veterans were on hand, and con-
tributed their share towards making the meet
ing success. Post No. %, GA. R., secured the
magnificent new Opera House for the occasion.
splendid supper was prepared in the west
wing of the building by the ladies of the W.R.C.
After supper the immense auditorium was liter
ally packed and q most entertaining program
of music recitations, ETC., was rendered. The
next meeting of the association will be held in
0swego on the second Wednesday in Septem-
Der. 1889. Ex-Presdent George P. Hall was
elected delegate for the association at the meet
ing to be held in Milwaukee, Wis.
{ shiSS0lui.-Ihe annual meeting of the asso-
citation was held at Sedalia recently, in connec-
ton with the Department Encampment of the
GAR. The meeting was grand success and
the best of feeling prevailed. A good many
were present, and quite a number were added
to the roll of membership. The boys appeared
to be very enthusiastic in their speeches de-
handing their rights and recognition of their
service while in rebel prisons doing double
duty aud remaining loyal to the Stars and
Stripes, refusing TO take the oath to the South
and gain their liberty, but preferring rather to
suffer and die that the country Right live and
be united. They expressed themselves as hay-
ing faith that their cry would be heard in the
near future for help financially from this rich
and prosperous Government. They clai med it
must come now if it is TO do them any good at
all. The association reelected their former
President, John S. Ferguson, of Keokuk, Iowa,
with the privilege Of selecting his own Secre-
tary and Treasurer. Comrade Lewis Beneche
of Brunswick, was elected as Representative to
the National Association, aud DR. A. Van Meter,
of Lamar as Alternate. The meeting adjourn
ed subject to the call of the President All
communications will be addressed to j. S. Fer
guson, KeOkuk, Iowa, until further orders.
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GERMAN RECRUITS.
The Labor Of Transforming the Ignorant Peasant
Lads into Soldiers.
prince Kraft z,e Hoaenlohe Iags.fngen.l

prince Kraft a. Ho'tenlohc Ings,fngenl
The greater proportion of the recruits come
to the regiment raw in every respect, bodily,
morally, and mentally; no inconsiderable num-
Der of them have already been in prison. The
recruit is, as rule, neither good nor bad the
greater part of the nation is, at the age of 20
years, morally and intellectually, at the stand
ard of a child of educated parents at 10 years.
There are even some individuals who are be-
meath this. / have had recruits who found great
difficulty in prOnOunclng the number "a. 1
asked one of these to count. His scale of num-
bers went up to IL; he had heard of 13 and II,
but he did not know what they meant. This
was q German; the Slavs of the Fatherland are
still more difficult to educate, since they do not
understand German. They further aCcus-
toned to an almost incredible amount of rough
ness in their intercourse with their parents
and associates. / remember recruit who could
only speak Polish, of whom l. as a Lieutenant,
had to undertake the training, and who did not
understand single word that | said, and stood
staring vacantIy before him. / told another of
the recruits, who could speak German and Pol
ish TO translate what | was saying. This fell
low went up to him and gave him at once
tremendous box on the ears. When l reproved
him for this he met me with the startling aTgu-
ment: oh, you must let me do it, Lieutenant;
he understands much better now" The box
on the ear in their society answered the same
purpose as DO you hear?" does in Berlin, or
as the touch ON the shoulder, which many men
use to draw attention to their words. What
patience is required to make such men under
stand all that belongs to their duty in the field,
to order, and to discipline, without even once
knocking them down, he only can know whose
fOrbearanee has been thus put to practical test
From the moral point of view also many re-
cruits are as backward as a child ten years DID,
Among many of them no trace can be found Of
the feeling of duty, of religious conscience, of
patriotism, or of honor, while there is a pro-
pOrtionately small percentage of them who have
any idea of good or evil. The great mass only
know good from evil from the fact that the
latter is punished. " l will not do this or that
because if do shall be put in prison or in
the house of correction" Many recruits hear
first of duty, honor, or patriotism from their
instructor after they have Joined the army.
Many of them, even from parts of the country
where German is spoken, know nothing of the
history of their Fatherland. There is a sort of
figure of speech which we use when some one
has said something which everybody knows:
Yes old Fritz is dead" By means of this
discovered that many of my men had never
heard of Frederick the Great l asked one of
them once and ne answered: "Yes, heard
that he had died yesterday"
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Edwin 3. Lor-the rrareIsr.s Friend.

An institution Of wonderful popularity has
grown up in New York city of late years Every
one who has gone abroad knows the difficulty
in settling the question of what steamer TO
take, what price 70 pay, how 70 get she best
room at the lowest rate, aud various other mat
ters. especially perplexing 70 one making bis
trip across the ocean. To meet all these diff
eulties Mr.. Edwin III. Low established the Up
town Steamship Exchange, and began the busi-
ness of selling tickets on all steamers. and above
all relieving travellers of every yexation aud
annoyance incident TO a trip abroad.
Another beauty of his business is that he
represents all the lines. He mas no interest TO
send a passenger by one steamer rather than
another
His tickets are good on all Again, he sells
them just rs cheap rs the respective steamship
companies. He takes charge Of baggage from
the time it reaches the city Till it is safely
slowed aboard ships. That means a great deal.
His agents meet ladies and children sc the
depot IN New York city, and they are under
his personal care till the ship leaves the dock.
Another agent Of this ubiquitous friend OF the
traveller stands ready at she wharf when the
steamer lands on the other side Of the Atlantic
TO attend to all the wants of those whom ha
has shipped. In London he has another otfee,
where mail is received and the same accommO-
dations furnished Us in New York
In addition 20 ali this he changes the trav-
eler's money into anything from sOgereigns to
yens. gives letters Of exchange, and, in short Is
a general CONSIDER Of al griels and alieViator
Of travellers pains.
This Uptown Steamship Exchange is on
Broadway, New York city. near the corner o.
Twenty third street.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
David AckersOns Description of the First President
in 1911.
Albany Express

Washington had large thick nose, and it
was very red that day, giving me the impression
that he was not so moderate in the use OF liquors
as he was supposed to be. / found afterward
that this was a popularity. His nose was apt
to turn scarlet in a cold wind. He was stand
ing near a small campfire, evidently lost in
thought, and making no effort to keep warm.
He seemed six feet and a half in hight, was as
erect as an Indian, and did not for moment
relax from a military attitude
Washingtons exact hight was six feet two
inches in his boots He was then little lame
from striking his knee against tree. His eye
was so gray that it looked almost white, and he
had a troubled look on his colorless face. He
had a piece of WOODEN tied around his throat,
and was quite hoarse. Perhaps the throat
trouble from which he finally died had its
origin about then.
Washingtons boots were enormous They
were No. Is. His ordinary walking-shoes were
No. IL. His hands were large in proportion,
and he could not buy glove to fit him, and
had to have his gloves made to order. His
mouth was his strong feature, the lips being
always tightly compressed. That day they
were compressed so tightly as to be painful to
look at.
AT that time he weighed 200 pounds, and
there was no surplus flesh about him. He was
tremendously muscled, and the fame of his
great strength was everywhere. His large tent
Nueu Wfappeu up WIN tlo pol6S, WAS 50 HeaSy
that it required two mon to place it in the camp
wagon Washington would lift it with one
hand and throw it in the wagon as easily as if
it were pair of saddle-hags. He could hold a
musket with one hand and shoot with precision
as easily as other men did with horse-pist
His lungs were his weak point, and his voice
was never strong.
He was at that time in the prime of life. His
hair was a chestnut brown, his checks We're
prominent, and his head was not large in con-
trast to every other part of his body, which
seemed large and bony at all points. His finger
joints and wrists were so large as to be genuine
curosites. As to his habits at that period found
out much that might be interesting. He was
an enormous eater, but was content with bread
and meat, if he had plenty of it. But hunger
seemed to put him in rage. 1t was his custom
to take drink of rum or whisky on awakening
in the morning.
Of course all this was changed when he grew
old. / saw him at Alexandria year before he
died. His hair was very gray and his form was
slightly bent. His chest was very thin. He
had false teeth which did not fit, and pushed
his under lip outward.
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Killing Cody.
Killing WnMAN.

the most striking feature of the city, and their
bright costumes, their fine, straight forms and
their various types command your constant adj
miration and wonder. Here is sleek Parsee
merchant from Bombay. He has rich olive
skin, and his fine features, together with his
black clothes, make you think him preacher
He wears great hat like an inverted coal
scuttle, and he ts6ne of the shrewdest traders
of the East Behind him stands Bengalee
tailor, dressed fin gong white coat or gown
reaching almost to his bare ankles, which are
jus1tOuched by pair of white drawers which
shotY out below it. Here arc turbaned Mo
hanimedans with Indian features, and black
Hindoo traders, with high straw caps woven in
many colors, and here amohg the constant
workers at all kinds of hard manual labor are
the Killings of Southern India. These are as
black as coal and as straight as pine trees. They
wear while at work little else than a white
turban and white cloth about the loins, aud
their lean, well-made, graceful frames shine
like oiled jet under the rays of the bright sun.
They have regular features, and their lips are
as thin, their foreheads as high and their
black hair as straight as yours They are a
proud race, and they scowl rather than smile
as you leok at them.
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For Serriea Pension

More than 400 old soldiers of Cambridge O..
joined in a Campfire last month, and passed
resolutions asking the speedy enactment of
just pension legislation; especially of a service
pension bill. A committee was appointed to
cooperate with similar committees from each
County in the State, to urge upon the next
Republican and Democratic State Conventions
to pass resolution demanding of Congress the
passage of properly adjusted service pension
bill, for the benefit of all honorably- discharged
soldiers of the war.
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regard. Their only garment is made of one
long wide strip of cotton of white or bright
red. This is about u yards long, but it is so
draped about the person that it covers them as
though it had been put on by tailor 1t leaves
one arm and oneshoulder bare, crosses the bust,
and is so fastened at the waist that it falls in
graceful folds TO neatly turned ankle. The
hair is eombed well back behind the ears, and
is long. black and thick. The ears are one
mass of rings, so fastened into the ear from lobe
to tip that they appear to have been driven
through and fastened with a screw at the other
side. Some of them have great holes in the
Iobes of the ear so big that cigar can be thrust
through them, and others have rings in their
noses. All these rings are of gold, and in addi-
ton to these l have seen gold bracelets and
anklets, and upon one stately dame / beheld a
silver ring on the second toe of her little black
foot.
These Indians are the cart drivers of Singa-
PORE and the beast of burden here is the sacred
COW of India. You see them by the hundreds
harnessed, or rather yoked, to carts, carving
goods through the city, hauling dirt and doing
the other kinds Of work that we leave to Nor
man horses or oxen. They are fine-looking
beasts, and they do their work in proud way.
as though they objected to their degradation.
They are larger than the ordinary American
OK, have a beautiful white or fawn color,
straight horns. which are often painted red,
brown or blue by their drivers, and great
hump of fat just over their shoulders They
work well, and move faster than our American
cattle. FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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A Boys Revenge.
m n.

A boy of 10 was recently logged by his
father for fault. He determined to wreak
vengeance. He has a little brother IA months
old, whose natural propensity to sleep at night
is assisted by a nursng-bottle filed with milk.
The boy is commonly sent down stairs about s
o'clock to get it from the servant. Burning
with his stripes, on this occasion he surrepti-
tiously halffiled the bottle with cold coffee
and then added the milk till the bottle was
full The babe was the more wakeful the
more it drank, and the father walked the floor
all night
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clothes not unlike the Japanese, and the better
classes have adopted the picturesque mantilla
The men wear the surong, which is bag-like
skirt reaching from the waist to below the
knees, and which is of the same width at the
top and bottom. The Malay steps into this,
lifts the top up to his waist and, tightening it
by peculiar twist, fastens it there in knot
If he is poor man and at work, or at his or
binary loafing, he wears nothing else. If
he be rich, he Will:perhaps put the surong
on over suit of white duok linen of European
make, but he Go7er goes without it; it is the
55adge of his nationality.
The Malay men are very naughty and proud
They stand very straight, and their walk is
graceful. They are of about the same size as
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THE late Dr. Austin Flint, professor in Bel
levue Hospital Medical College, Fellow of the
New York Academy of Medicine member of
the State medical societies of New York. Vir-
ginia, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, ETC., SAYS
in speaking of advanced kidney disease Tor
Bright's): "Fatal termination is many times
due to pericarditis (heart disease), apoplexy,
difficult breathing, dropsy." The foregoing
are but symptoms of diseases. That being the
case there is nothing absurd in the claim made
by the proprietors of Warmers Safe Cure that
they prevent apopexy and cure heart disease,
ETC., with Warmers Safe Cure. Why? Because
it removes the cause of disease, and when the
cause is removed the symptom called disease
is cured.
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Why George swore.
INorriSfolpn HernId. /

William Livingston Hammersley, a New
York millionaire, claims to have in his pos
session the razor with which George Wash
ington shaved himself at Valley Forge A
man who has seen the razor says he can now
understand why George swore while at Valley
Forge. There was, much more suffering at
that historic spot than the pages of history
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Easily Explained.
[London -. Va "a

Cross Examining Counsel-Now, Mr. Brown,
you say this Louis C. Brown is distant rela-
tive of yours2
MIR. Brownies.
Cross Examining Counsel-What relation is
he?
Mr.. Brown-My brother.
Gross Examining Counsel-But you Just told
us he was q distant relative.
Mr.. Brown-So he is. At present he is in
China
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near Boston or New
York. The town itself
looks not unlike Ha-
yana in Cuba. It's wide
streets are lined with
low, two-story build
ings, painted bright
blue or yellow, and
having arcades running
along their lower story
in front of the stores.
The stores are all small,
and they open like
booths directly into
these arcade-like pas
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OOCOANUT TREE saSSS. 1ou can thus
walk through the streets without getting into
the sun.
The people are of all coors and are of all the
nations of the East Only the half OF the popu-
lation of Malaysia are Malays, and that MALT is
the poorest Of the whole. The rest OF the peo-
pie are Chinese, Hiudoos, Killings, and inImi-
grants from the islands of Java, Borneo and
CeylOn, and the Europeans though the ruling
class. are only about 1000 in all. There are
nearly as many Chinese as Malaysi and these,
with the 10000 natives of India. do the bust
ness of this country. John Chinaman has been
emigrating TO these islands of the Pacific for
years. and thousands are coming from China
TO Singapore annually. The finest private
gardens IN the East are owned by Chinanlan
at Singapore, and the Chinese have fine estates
throughout Malaysia. / met one in coming
from Singapore 10 Penang who | am told is
worth two millions of dollars, aud the best car
riages aud horses l saw in my drives about
Singapore were occupied by Cinnamon and
driven by Malay cOaehmen. The emigTating
Chinaman never takes his wife with him, and
there are few English ladies in the East. In
Singapore ! am told there are Is men TO one
woman, and the morals of the Chinese are
those of Sodom before the great fire. The Eng
lish look upon the Chinese as good workmen,
and they say that they are a necessity to the i'm
proyement Of any of the South Pacific countries
where the land lies in the tropics. But at the
same time they are here experiencing the same
difficulty that we find with our Chinese in
California. The Chinese secret societies are
strong. and they govern the Chinese rather
than the laws. At present the English fear
them, and an effort is being made to increase
the armament at Singapore, as in case of war
with China the Chinese of the settlement might
rise up against the English.
In the Straits settlements belonging to the
English the Chinese and the Malays are equally
divided and there are 174,000 of each The
Malays, who for years were the dominant power
ia ali this region, are not the aboriginal ma
tives. They come originally from the Island
Of Sumatrs, and have SO ousted the original
savagcs that they are looked upon by many as
natives. They are not far from savage them
selves and are the drones Of their country.
.eThev wilIn sid the Sultan Of Johore to me
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A Base SANDER.
TPtrllnnf Hernl1 7

A New York lady won the prize for furnish
ing the best recipe by which dinner could bs
prepared for 81. As soon as her husband found
this out he borrowed the dollar and took his
dinner down town.
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