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All communications strictly confidential.
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DIRECTORS.
!. W. Hellman, John z. Platter
Robert Baker, ]. B. Lankershim,
L. c. Goodwin.
Term deposits will be received in sums Of
800 and over. Ordinary deposits in sums of
$40 and over
Money to loan ON frst-c class real estate.
Los Angeles, July /, 1889. ju1-tf
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PafrOlRum.
General Markets.

NEW YORK, December 4.-Spot Pennsylva-
mia petroleum closed weak January closed at
66E.
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For RedOndO Beach.

REDONDO RAILWAY TRAINS
On and after Monday, Sept. %, 1890,
Trains of this company will leave their depot
corner of Jefferson and Grand avenue, connect
ing with the Los Angeles cable railway and
the Main-street and Agricultural park street
car line, as follows:
SOUTH
Leave Arrive
Los Angeles. Redondo Beach.
$3.50 a. m. 1920 a. m.
l;3O p. m. 2:2O p. m.
5:00p. IN. $50 D. m.
NORTH
Leave Arrive
Redondo Beach. Los Angeles.
7:30 q. m. 500 a. m.
11:OO a. m. 11:5O a. M
$40 y. m. 4:3O D. m.
GEO. j. AlNsw0kTR,
President
JAS. N. SUTTON,
ies-u TrainmssteI.
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House owners should insist ON having their
painters use only the Sherwin- Williams paints,
for sale by H. Mathews, COR Second and
Main.
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s. G.V. Rapid Transit R'y.

Leave Los Angeles from No. 9 Arcadia street.
opposite Baker block, for Alhambra and
Monrovia.
Forenoon, Afternoon
7:4O IL 100 800 sos
Returning-Leave Monrovia for Alhambra and
Los Angeles,
Forenoon, Afternoon,
700 9:O5 lbs AIS
-sUNDAYS-
Leave Los Angeles for Alhambra and Monroyis
Forenoon, Afternoon,
$40 4:40
Returning-Leave Monrovia for Alhambra and
Los Angeles.
Forenoon, Afternoon,
500 400
Time between Los Angeles and Monrovia-
one hour.
INTERMEDIATE STATIONS BETWEEN TERMINAL
POINTS, BEGINNING AT Los ANGELES:
Soto Street, San Marino,
Bate, San Gabriel,
Ramona, Sunny slope,
Alhembra, Chapman,
Mayberry, Baldwin,
Lake Vineyard, Arcadia,
Wilson's Peak and Sierra Madre buses for the
above points connect at Baldwins station with
trains leaving Los Angeles at 100 a. NJ and
800 and 500 p. m.
JOHN BRYSON, SR., F. @. STORY,
a1-3m President. Gen. Manager
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+Daily. tDaily except Sunday.
ED. CHAMBERS, Ticket Agent,
First-street Depot.
CHAS. T. PARSONS, Ticket Agent
129 North Spring street,
Depot at foot of First street. f2S
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Try pride of the Family" soap.

The best place in town to get good mer-
camille lunch is at John Brink's 219 North
Spring street
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For Durability and Beauty,

EUCALYPTA for brain workers.
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EucALYprA invlgorates and STRENGTHENS.

EUCALYPTA is sparkling, refreshing and
pleasant.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-05

EUCALYPTA for brain workers.
For Durability and Beauty,
House owners should insist on having their
painters use only the Sherwin- Williams paints
for sale by H. Mathews, cor. Second and
Main.
Try "Pride of the Family" soap.
The best place in town to get good mer-
camille lunch is at John Brink's, 219 North
Spring street
EUCALYPTA is sparkling, refreshing and
pleasant.
EUCALYPTA invlgorates and strengthens.
GOrdan Bros Reopening.
New stock imported fall and winter styles
just received. Suits to order from SIS and up
wards. 11S S. Spring street.
Senour's Celebrated Floor Paint
A Scrlvey Quinn, LAG South Main street.
Frank X. Engler
Piano regulator and tuner, 119 S. Olive St.
HEATH & MILLIGAN Prepared Paint at
SERVER d Quinn, LAG S. Main street.
Drink EUCALYPTA for nervousness and insom-
mia.
EUCALYPTA purifes the breath.
Drink EUCALYPTA for headac che, sour stomach
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Pacific Coast s. s. Go.

COODALL, PERKINS & CO., GENERAL
W Agents, San Francisco. Northern routes
embrace lines for Portland, Ore.; Victoria B
points
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No interest paid on deposits.
DIRECTORS.
DR.. W. G. Cochran, H. II. Markham,
Perry NJ. Green, John Bryson, Sr.
DR.. H. Sinsabaugh, F. C. Howes,
George H. Bonebrake. Warren Gillelen.
No interest paid on deposits.
Exchange for sale on all the principal cities
of the United States and Europe m8
THE NATIONAL BANK OF CALIFORNIA,
Corner of Spring and Second streets,
LOS ANGELES, CAL.
CAIllAL. '.....-.'.' ................., @AoO.OVo
OFFICERS:
]. M. G. MARBLE, President;
OWEN Fl. CHURCHILL, Vice-President;
w. G. HUGHES, Cashier;
PERRY WILDMAN, Asst. Cashier.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
owen H. Churchill Thos X. Bard.
Gen'l NJ. H. sherman. DR.. w. L. Graves.
Capt. George E. Lemon. 4. f. G. Klokke.
Dan Mcfarland. Fred Eaton.
Perry WildmGn. w. G. Hughes.
j. M. G. Marble. 1881
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Southern California R'y CO.
Arrive.

"SANTA FE ROUTE"
IN EFFECT SUNDAY, NOV. %, 1890.
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DIRECTORS.
w. T. Childress Poindexter Dunn.
J. j. Schallert, E. E. Crandall,
John S. Park, r. G. LINT,
A. D. Childress
General banking. Fire and burglar proof safe
deposit boxes rented at from SO to 500 per an
num- ma 12m
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THE UNIVERSITY BANK OF Los ANGELEs,
i No. 3l7 New High street.
Capital stock fully paid up............. 800 900
Surplus ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $1,000
r. NJ. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. President
GEO. l.. ARNOLD. LD.......................C Cashier
DIRECTORS.
R. NJ. Widney, D. o. Miltimore, S. w. Little. G.
M.Wells, L. H. Titus, CA. Warner, L. P. Morrill,.
General banking business, and loans on first
class real estate solicited. Buy and sell first
class stocks, bonds and warrants. Parties wish
ing 70 invest in frst-elass securities 90 either
long or short time can be accommodated.
lI-11-12m
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ARE NOT CANNIBALS,

Rut Have Keen Delight In the Taking of
Human Life.-.A Strange Tribe I'm the
Interior of Africa Which Has Many Gu
rious and Hloeous CustOms-Queer Way
of Settling Quarrels.
Herbert Ward, in the interesting Sc
ries of African articles now appearing
in the New York Ledger, says:
Situated about six hundred miles in
the interior from the mouth of the Con-
go, is fra, fertile country, we'll
wooded and watered, where every kind
OF game to be found in this latitude of
Western Africa abounds. Elephants,
1, huffaloes, hippopotami, antelopes, wild
pigs and guinea fowls, red-legged part
ridges and quail among the birds, are
to be met with in abundance on the
grassy plains or among the forested hills
Of this district, which is known as Bo-
lobo, and is populated by "a large and
influential tribe of keen traders. These
people, although not actually canni-
balls, are beyond doubt one of the most
cruel races met with in this part of Cen
tral Africa.
They seem to take the keenest delight
in the sacrifice of human life, and the
execution of their slaves is considered
an advertisement of their wealth. AS
this is thickly-peopled country, some
dark deed of barbarism is taking place
almost every day, in connection with
their inhuman ceremonies. Sometimes
slaves are decapitated upon the death
nta chief, so that their spirits may ac-
fSsa pAny' that of the deceased potentate
into the other world, to add prestige in
the form of spiritual retinue. At
other times slave is brutally
slaughtered by an enraged master for
some slight act of disobedience. In
that case the offender is bounced upon,
hurled to the ground and his head
hacked from his body.
One of their most cruel ceremonies is
that in connection with the settlement
of long standing disagreements. 1t
often happens that two sections of
tribe for some family reason entertain
bitter grudge against each other.
This bitterness lasts until perhaps one
or more of the influential members die,
when the rest of the community, weary
of the feud, decide amongst themselves
to come to settlement. A council of
inquiry is accordingly held, and the
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RAT DETERMINATION.
Simple Method for Destroying Large
Colonies of the Rodents.

a Simple MeUnOu LOT destroying LArSe
Colonies of the Rodents.
The best course to take, when the ex-
termination of colony of rats becopes
a necessity, is to make them help to de-
stroy one another in the following man
ner:A number of tubs, proportionate to
the quantity of rats in the place which
it is desired to rid of them, should be
placed about, the middle of each occu-
pied by brick standing on end. The
bottom of these tubs should be covered
with water to such a depth that about,
an inch of the brick projects above it.
The top of the tub should be covered
with stout brown paper, upon which a.
dainty meal of bacon rind and other
scraps dear to the rat palate figures-a
sloping board giving the rodents facili-
ties for partaking of it. The feast
should be renewed for several nights, so
that all the rats in The neighboorhood
may get to know of the good food which
is placed within such easy reach. When
it is judged that this policy has been
pursued long enough, the center of the
brown paper should be cut in such
manner that any rat venturing upon it,
will be precipitated into the cold water.
1t might be thought that the result of
this would be to capture rat, or at the
most two, for every tub prepaEed; but
no such meager reward for the trouble
that has been taken need be feared.
The first rat to find his trust abused
and himself struggling in the water at.
the bottom of tub soon RECEIVERS suf-
ficently from the shock to ascertain that
there is little island of refuge, on to
which he chambers and squeals his loud
est for help. Now, the squeal of a rat.
in trouble attracts every one of his kind
within hearing, and very few moments
will elapse before the victim of mis-.
placed confidence is joined by one of his
friends. The newcomer is as quick to,
discover the chance of escape from a.
watery grave that the brick offers as
was the original victim, but when he
attempts to avail himself of its presence,
it becomes apparent that there is not
room for more than one upon it. The
first conner resists with tooth and nail
the efforts of his companion in trouble
to dispossess him of his coign of vantage,
and the squeals which form an accom-
paniment to the fight for a footing upon
the brick attracts more rats to the scene
of the tragedy. The conflict wakes more
and more furious as rat after rat topples
into the water, and by morning be-
draggled corpses in plenty will gladden.
the eyes of the man whose losses at the
teeth of rats have induced him to adopt
this means of thinning their numbers.
Some years ago the plan described above
was tried in city warehouse, with the
result that more than three thousand
rats were destroyed in d single night
Cornhill Magazine.
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Many marvellous accounts are related
in works on pharmacy and organic
chemistry, with regard to the extra
ordinary duration of the scent of musk,
and the extremely small loss of sub
stance which grain or two of this SUBJ
stance, exposed to the air, has been
found to undergo in the course of sever.
al months, or even years. But an in
stance of this endurance of the musk
odor has come under our personal OBJ
servation in the following manner. In
1850, at Brussels, three small volumes
were presented to us. They were bound
in red cloth, and inclosed in green
cardboard case. In this case very
minute quantity of musk mixture, from
q sachet, was placed in order to scent
the volumes. Since the year 1850, these
three little red volumes, IN their green
cardboard case, have been constantly
exposed to the air, on the shelves of a
library, as we'll as to daylight. They
have been in constant, almost daily use
flor they are standard works of refer
ence), and they have travelled with the
writer to Ostend, to Paris, to Frankfort,
to Scotland, to the South of England, to
various seaside resorts, to London, and
many other places; yet, at the present
moment, after period of forty years,
and being exposed to many kinds of cli-
mates, these little books retain their
odor of musk, which is as powerful, es.
pecially on warm days, as it was in 1850
when the volumes were received.
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concerning Senators they began to push
and crowd and chatter all at once. The
atmosphere was full of opinions. Had
| been fourteen stenographers with a
full complement of ears could not have
heard and preserved all that they told
me. Every one of them talked louder
and faster than all the rest and each
tugged at some portion of my apparel
to attract my attention to what he had
to say. The frankness of these boys,
their willingness to declare an honest
eagerness to talk for publication, set
the unaffected little fellows far above
some men of note whom ! have known
men who, while manifestly no less
eager, surround themselves with sham
barriers and sit behind them sorely dis
appointed If the interview er does not
see the sham and knock the barriers
pantalooned Poloniuses who can
not play upon the pipe, yet seek to play
upon the journalist.
Out of the clamor | managed to snatch
few facts-frst, the gen eral fact that
good feeling prevails be tween the SEN
ators and their pages, and then some
specifications as to individuals. Sena-
tor Stanford was unanimo usly declared
to be an able statesman and great man
because each year he gives them all an
entertainment at his house, where he
distributes presents, and then because
he gives bright crisp So bill to each
page every year. But as the chatter
went on this was found to be q compli-
mentary ballot. Senators Henderson,
Vance, Reagan, German and Davis
seemed really to be the m ost general
favorites of the boys, and Senators
Ransom, Dixon, Moody, Butler and
Henderson were declared to be the
handsomest men in the Senate. They
give also to Senator Butler the credit of
being the most polite and elegant gen.
tleman in the chamber. Senator Cor
man is liked because he once was page
himself and has not forgotten it.
HE is always good natured," said one
of the little fellows, land often tells us
stories about what he used to do when
he was page. guess he was ripper,
too" This last remark was intended
to be sort of cap for a climax of COM
pliment-
Senator Vest is not generally favor
lite with the boys. Indeed, the young
sters passed unmistakable censure upon
the very vigorous language he some
times uses toward them, and they as
sert openly that they would rather be
doing something else when he snaps
his fingers for page. One of the boys,
however, thinks Senator Vest is pref
ty good sort of man. Mckee Coch-
rane was one day rushing at breakneck
speed to do the bidding of some other
Senator, when, darling out of the cham
Der, he pumped squarely into Senator
Vest and knocked breath enough out CT
him to make raw material for half doz-
en- Fourth of July orations. The Sena-
tor saved just enough to supply the sur
rounding ambience with deep blue
tint and an odor of sulphur. The boy,
who thought his hour had come "tor
surely" this time, skunk back under
Captain Bassett's protecting arm and
tremblingly awaited to hear his doom
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GCoPYRIGHT, 1901

errands for them. 1t seemed to him, he
said, that such strike would stop the
wheels of Government; and so 1T might
if there were no means of filling the
places of the strikers, for presumably
very few of the Senators would know
where to go or what to do to procure
the documents, ETC., for which they
keep the pages running. But about the
Capitol and in the several departments
OF public life in Washington there are
enough men of National renown who
began their political careers as pages to
fill the places of all these boys; So
What if the Senate pages should
strike?
The Government would go right on.
The number of famous men who once
were pages seems to warrant the pre-
sumption that embryonic greatness is
now scampering about the Capitol in
knickerbockers, running errands, per-
haps, for men not fit to bear its shoes.
Surely this is excuse enough for devot-
ing a little consideration to the pages
of the Senate.
Four years is the lon gest term boy
may serve as page, since he is eligible
to the Office only between the ages of
twelve and sixteen. In tho Senate
there are fourteen of these boys, under
the immediate direction of Alonzo II.
Stewart, young man of nearly twenty
years, who four years ago closed his
career as page and is now attached
to the Sergeant-at-Arms under the title
of Messenger on the Floor of the Sen
ate. But this chief page and all his
assistants are under the supervision of
Captain Isaac Bassett, the venerable
assistant door-keeper, who has served
continuously as an attache of the Sem
ate since he was appointed a page,
fifty-seven years ago, by Daniel Web
sters request. Captain Bassett, with his
long white hair and beard, is the most
striking figure on the Senate floor,
and if any man is indispensable
there it is he. In the matter of cere-
mon1als he is the authority on whom
Vice-President, Presidents pro tempore
of the Senate and all the officers
and members of that august body have
to rely. For more than half q century
he has kept a memorandum book at
which were likely to be useful as prec-
edents. When death strikes Senator
down, or any thing else of an unusual
character happens, the presiding officer
of the Senate turns to Captain Bassett
who sits on his left, and is informed as
to what is the conventional mode of
procedure under the circumstances. 1t
is said that Captain Bassett has, during
all these years of service in the Senate,
kept close memoranda of such speeches
and acts as have marked events in our
country's history He can tell the pre-
else spot where Webster stood when he
made any one of his famous arguments;
where Sumner sat when he received the
blow which helped the cause of emanci-
patton along; where every word was
said and every act performed which has
had direct bearing on the great events
of this last half century. But he is as
uncommunicative as the Sphinx, and as
for his memorandum books, he would
10 more let newspaper correspondent
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pear in the park on one Of these crowd
ed occasions clad in attire worse than
any of your most dreadful correspon.
dents suggested.
1t was my duty, therefore, to see
these clothes. l found them being
made at one of those establishments to
which l have at last become habituated
"a ladies' tailor, near Bond street.
My feelings were shocked at the outset
of my inquiries by finding that in the
habit-ftting room the usual side-saddle
upon the hobby-horse had been removed
and mans saddle had taken it's place.
The garments were brought down by a
male tailor, who proceeded to exhibit
them to me, and shortly afterward a
young person connected with the shop
entered wearing them.
She wore a coat fashioned exactly
after the manner of my nephew's frock
coat. 1t fitted her very closely to the
waist, opening at the neck over a shirt
and tie. The basqUes or skirt of the
coat were somewhat longer and moro
ample than in the case of q gentleman's
garment, but assure you that that was
tn1 only compromise in the matter.
The breeches-I believe that is the
dreadful name that the other garments
go by-were tight to the limbs and but
toned at the knee. High boots and
spurs and tall hat completed the attire,
which can only regard as shockingly
correct copy of what would be worn by
one of the other sex. In fact, at little
distance do not see how you could tell
brother and sister apart.
Now, sir, venture to predict that the
British public, who are strong admirers
of my views at heart, will resent this
innovation strongly. l used, in COM
mon, to believe with most people, to
imagine that it constituted misde-
woman to change the clothing assigned
by conventionality to their sex for that
of the other. My nephew, learned
barrister, assures me that such is not
strictly the case, but as any person or
persons wearing the garments of tho
other sex is practically certain to be
followed by rightly surprised people, he
or she is liable to immediate arrest as
"a disorderly person" and to be charged
with the otfense of causing crowd to
assemble. l need not point out the SEN
sation that ladies thus habited would
cause in the park. This would be, in
deed, an undignified end to the move
ment. l remain, sir, yours obediently,
AMELIA GRUMPY.
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most influential chiefs Of the surround
ing country are invited to attend, and
the representatives of the two parties at
variance have then the opportunity Of
stating their case, and receiving YER
ssSct at the hands of the assembled
lEliefs, who decide which party is
guilty, and inflict fine according to
tie nature of the case. And when this
has been satisfactorily concluded, some
incident is required by both parties to
remind them of the covenant. Very
often, on these occasions, slave is
purchased: the bones of his arms and
legs are broken; he is carried to some
open, well-known road, generally a
cross-road; a hole is dug, and he is
placed in it, the earth being filled in
and we'll trodden down around him, so
as just to leave his head above the sur
face. Amy person found giving hiA
either food or water is liable to be
served in the same way, and so he is
left to die lingering, painful death.