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BEWARE Of the bul
.....

Would have been large man to-day,
with whiskers, had he not been so am
bilious to turn over new leaves. he
turned leaf after leaf, each revealing
such hidden treasure that he got ex-
cited and let his thoughts wander. he
didn't know for many days what planted
him over in the middle of the adjoining
cornfeld. His friends knew it was tas
SOUL" There, sre other instances. !
A small boy listened SO attenhyely to
his teachers remarks on the subject OF
turning new leaves that she comph.
mented him, and said she hoped he would
profit by her suggestions he went wens t9s
bis seat and turned over four neE k:SIs! Esayss
Of vulgar fractions, snd said to himself: !:
srll take it easy now till the class IS
catch SnN but when Nc undertook 70 %
explain bis Csc at class time,ls ...,o an :
work. The rest Of the fellows played
shinny that night after school, on the
ice. He didn't. Another boy was in
the tip-top of a cherry tree, well out
toward the end of a slender limb. He
was alrning leaf after leaf in search OF
fruit pretty well picked beforehand: He
was about to come down, ''hut first"
said, he "I'll turn over one more new
leaf" He reached away out beyond any
former attempt, and with the tip end OF
his finger nail managed to turn one
more leaf Nothing but his grandfather's
grindstone prevented his falling to the
ground. he struck that, and felt the
shock for many day.
These are but few of the many in
stances that 60 to prove, what has been
often asserted, that the best of rules have
their exceptions. In turning over new
leaves look out for es.-DetroH fTde
Press,
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IF HEARTS WERE ROSES.

II hearts were roses and life were spring,
bow prodigal to the earth we'd fling
Our precious prize of the white or re'-
The one for the living, the one for the dead;
We'd think 'twere folly to forbear,
When roses and spring are everywhere,
TO grudge to the world this frail, fail
thing
u hearts were roses and life were spring.
If hearts were roses, and winter life,
How iniserly from the world of strife
We'd hide our prize of the red or white
The cue for bliss and the ore for blight;
For, :sith, we'd think it were i'll to spare
Such a tender thing to the piercing air;
We'd shield it safe from the blasts full
rife
II Eee-ts were roses and winter life.
--Jslie N. Lipmann, in Travellers Record
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IN TINE OF NEED.

How many hearts will respond to the fol.
lowing simple words of DR.. J. R. Macdutf!
They are taken from little volume OF his
called Ripples IN the Twilight:
Yes, yof may % without your Bibles in
the heyday Of Prosperity; TThen the sun
shines, and the birds sing, and not q oreath
ruff1es the surface Of your gu inner sea. You
IN ~ then possibly afford to rest sati.fied
with barren theoretic views, or the chill of
skeptic creed-to regard the Sacred Oraces
as the efete record Of q by-gone economy
antiquated sophistries-some writings of
Palestine peasants and fishermen which the
superstition of an after age has palmed
upon a too credulou1 world. But
wait till the sky is c'ouded, and the wind
means, and the hurricane Of trial is let
loose; and where are you without these
discredited pages then? No poetry, no phi
the yearnings of the crushed and broken
spirit, as that Book of books has done.
When no other panacea is of any avail, it
has put courage into fainting hearts, and
peace into troubled hearts, and hope into
despairing hearts. Greece and Rome
Socrates, Cicero and Plato! You have. we
allow, served US heirs to many golden
maxims- beautiful fantasies which read
pleasingly in the sunshine, lulled by the
ripples Of the brook and the music of the
Srove-life all ecstasy and rapture.
But for the soul which, in its hour OF
bitter desolation, Graves for realities COM
mend me to the Psalms of David and the
promises of Isaiah-above all, to the living,
loving balm-words Of Him who said,
Come unto me all ye that labor, and are
heavy laden, and I will give you. rest"
Every other world oracle is a De:phic one.
1t is either dumb, or its utterances are per
testimonies are very sure" 7'The Word Of
the Lord is tried" "This is my comfort in
mine aflction, for thy Word hath quick:
ened mew "Resd, read the Bible" said
William Wilberforce on his death-bed.
Through all my perplexities and d:stresses
never read any other book, and I never
feel the want of any othe'."
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RELIGIOUS READING.
ALL THINGS NEW.

ALL THINGS NEW.
Old sorrows that sit at the hearts sealed
gate,
Like sentinels grim and sad,
While ont in the night-damp, weary and
late,
The King with gift divinely great,
Is waiting to make us glad.
Old fears that hang like changing cloud
Over sunless day;
Old burdens that keep the spirit bowed,
Old wrongs that rankle and clamor loud,
Shall pass like dream away.
In the world without aad the world within
He maketh the old things new;
The touch Of sorrow. the stain of sin,
Shall flee from the gate when the King
comes in,
From the chill nights damp and dew.
Anew in the heavens the sweet stars shine,
On earth new blossoms spring;
The old life lost in the life divine.
"Thy will be mine. my will be thine,
Is the song which the new hearts sing.
-Mary Lore Dickinson, in Union Signal.
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Tennis in the Far West.

81 am suffering great deal of anxiety
for our fence up in Virginia City during
all these terrible storms" said the Col
onel to San Francisco Examiner man.
"What fence2" asked the Major.
"Our lawn-tennis fence" explained the
Colonel. "You see, we have fine court
up on A street and there's fence thirty
feet high on the west side of it,"
"What in the name of reason do you
want such fence as that fora Why, it's
as high as the one out at Woodward's 8
Gardens"
"Higher. at first 1t was only five feet
high, but there was no protection in that
at all. The boys would sit few feet
away on the side of Mount Davidson and
guy us in our leggings and blazers and
flannel shirts and things. Then we raised
her five feet, and the boys resented that.
They retired up the mountain side a
little to commanding position and be-
gan to peg rocks at US. We called in the
police and that put the reporters onto US,
and when we turned out next time in all
our glory there were 3OO men up on the
hill to help the boys make our lives
miserable.
$50 we kept sticking FIVE feet,at time
on to that fence till we drove the boys
practically out of range. It is only oc-
casionally now that a rock hits US, and
that must be thrown by man. The
thing got so hot at one time that the
Grand Jury threatened to indict the whole
tennis club"
"What for2'
"For conduct calculated to excite riot
and tumult. There's prejudice against
refined amuSements on the Comstock."
"Well," said Major Whiting, slt's
lucky for you, Colonel, that you didn't
open such a game as that down in my
town of Tombstone. You wouldn't have
got off with rocks. You'd have been
hunted with guns like jack-rabbits."
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APPALLING STATISTICS.

statistics may not be interesting but they
are sometimes serious"-appalling are these
from recent paper by G. S. Gritfeth, Presi-
dent of the Marylan Prisoners Aid Society
During the past ten years I have kept an
accurate account of the number of serious
fights, riots, MURDERS suicides, ETC., as re-
ported in our daily press, and it shows that
out Of 400 cases 1876 were caused by drunken.
ness. But the wrecks of sin, made haggard
and hideous by this vice, are not confined to
men. In our city Jail were received during
the year 1887, 1920 female prisoners. of whom
1870 were committed for assault and larceny,
and 1880 for drunkenness and disorderly
conduct. The arrests in Baltimore in 1888
numbered go, TS9. Of these Is, 949 were for
intoxication and disorderly conduct"
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THE ATOSEMESr.

DR.. Joseph Parker of the City Temple,
liyerance of his views concerning the Atone
ment. We quote from the British Weekly
II have no theory of the atonemeut- mo
mere philosophy ofit-no narrow sectarian
conception. l only feel that I need it all. I
have sinned enough to need the whole cross.
No fine character in history can help me.
My case goes infinitely beyond the reach of
mere ethical example, how sublime soeyer
it may be. I need my Savior. I need his
precious blood. If had sinned less, I
might have nee led it less. But my soul has
wholly lost itself in sin, and therefore it cries
out for more than an examplar, more than
q teacher more than a sympathizer; it cries
in bitterest distress for One who did some
thing for me which l could never
shall be able to discuss all
these subjects in their own sacred and tender
spirit. Soul slrnrld speak to soul in the con-
fdence of truesl love. We should speak one
to another so that the Lord Himself Nigh
hearken and hear, and love US the more be-
cause Of our reverence and teachableness.
Calvary will be to us what We are to Calvary.
cannot but feel that personal testimony
should occupy a place in every large discus
sion of the work of Christ. I have given
mine. Christ could never be to me what He
is rs teacher, were He not first what He is
az a Saviour. His example, lived within q
short period. and intlosei by peculiar con-
ditions would be pointIess would, indeed,
be mockery of human weakness-but for
the eternity which surrounds it, gllorities it,
and makes it unique in aspect and IN lnspl'
ration.
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A Queer Sheep.

George sevingle, of stoverton, Ohio, is
the owner of a rare specimen of the
sheep kind. It has the nose and feet of
a dog, but is in all other respects
sheep. Instead of having the ordinary
teeth of the sheep species the animals
mouth, both upper and lower jaws, is
filled with long and sharp wolf-like
fangs, rendering it extremely difficult for
it to pick grass like other sheep. Itgets
it's chief subsistence from twigs and
young shrubs, the bark and tender wood
of which it devours greedily.-&. Louis
Republic.
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AN EyER-PREsEST SAVIOR.

10! am with you Away, even unto the
end of the world, !" said the Master, in the
the sight of His grieving disciples. The
promise has been ever since in daily process
offulflment. To hundreds and thousands
of His dear children and servants Jesus is
more really present every day than he could
be were He in the flesh, domiciled in some
great city or palace of the world, or dwelling
in some temple flaming with precious stones
or gold.
This is rot difficult to understand. It is a
fact OF our conscious experience. and it is
paralleled by experiences in and upon the
lower atmospheres and planes of human
friendships. Often human friend is as
present with us in absence, by memory, by
letters, and by the potential influence Of
his character, as are those who sit with us at
the family table.
Let us try to realize in the coming year
more vividly than ever the presence Of the
Lord.
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TENNYsoN wrote not long ago in q
letter, sent on the occasion of the sud
den death of o Methodist minister on
his way to chapel in the Isle of Wight
II cannot but look upon his death as
happy one-sudden, painless, while he
was on his way to his chapel to render
thanks and praise to his Maker. Ou,
liturgy prays against sudden death
but I myself could pray for such a
death as Isaac Porter's."
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An Impr0mptu.

A Miss Wise having married Mr..
Young, there was born to the couple
son whose resemblance to his mother was
thus, says Rarper's Monthly, immortalized
in rhyme:
You have your mothers bonny face,
A joy to all beholders;
lh, yours should be winning pace
Who've Wise head on Young shoulders.
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The more nervous the temperament

The more nervous the temperament
the more sleep is required. Sleep is
better than any stimulant. If all those
who work mentally would take time in
the middle of the day, say for half an
hour, and would accustom themselves
to go to sleep, they would find that
they would wear better, last longer
and do their work much better. Sleep
is remedial agent. Brain workers
require more sleep than physical work
ers. They should go to sleep at ten
o'clock atnight and should have their
breakfast at EIGHT.
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HLOOKING UNTO JESUS"

We shall never find happiness by looking
at our prayers. our doings, or our feelings;
it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that
gives rest to the soul If we would at once
overcome Satan ard have peace with God,
it must be by looking unto Jesus" Keep
thine eye simply on Him !; let His death, His
sufferings. His merits, Hi, glories, His in
tercessions be fresh upon thy mind; when
thou wakest in the morning, look to Him ;
when thou liest down at night. look to Him.
Oh! let not thy homes or fears come between
thee and Jesus; follow hard after Him, and
He will never fail thee.-Spurgeon.
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SENSIBLE WORDS.

The best antidote to all dangerous places
and pleasures is to find safe ones. Where
and what are theyp A wholesome home, Of
course, stands first. As long as you are
tethered there, you may live in happy ignor-
ance of manifold things which pure heart
should not wish to know; for blessed is the
youth who does not know too much. No
matter how plain or cheap your boarding
quarters may be, my young friend, if you
have plenty of good books, you may spend
many an evening in company fit for king.
Secure ticket in a public library, and
then bring to your room such Authors
as you can afford to be intimate with.
Shun every book that stirs lewd passion, or
that shakes your faith in your mothers
God, as you would shun a rattlesnake.
Some Of the best educated men--Horace
Greeley, for examp!e-never went to col.
lege; but they had eyes in their head, and
books well stud ed brought a university up
into their scantily furnished rooms. Don't
ask to be ever'astingly amused, it is the
mark of a baby mind when a young man
cares for nothing but fun and frolic.-Dr. T.
L. Ctvler.
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On Turning New Leaves.

Turning new leaves is not always at
tended with the happy results so often
read of. The boy who was poking
around after hickory nuts, unmindfu OF
the sign
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and would keep it longer if could, but as
must give it up take it, and much good may
it do youm Nov we begin to understand the
text: Better is living dog tnan a dead
lion"
Who would attempt to write the obituary
of the dead lions of commerce, the dead
lions of law, the dead lions Of medicine, the
dead lions Of social influence? Vast capacity
had they, and mighty range, and other men
in their presence were as powerless as the an
te.ops or heifer or giraffe when from the
jingle Numidian lion springs upon its
prey. But they get through with life. They
lay down in their magnificent lair. They
have made their last sharp bargain. They
have spoken their last hard word. TheJ
have committed their last mean act. When
a tawny inhabitant of the desert rolls owe"
helpless, the lioness and whelps fills the air
with shrieks and howls, and lash themselves
into lamentation, and it is a genuine grief for
the poor things. But when this dead lion OF
monstrous uselessness expires, there is moth
ing but dramatized woe. for Better is liv-
ing dog than dead lion"
My text also means that an opportunity OF
the living present is better than great op-
portunity passed. We spend much Of our
time in saying. .'If only had" We can
all look back and see some occasion where
we might have done great deed, or might
have effected an important rescue, or we
might have dealt q stroke that would have
accomplished vast result Through stupid.
ity or lack Of appreciation of the crisis, or
through procrastination, we let the chance
go by. How much time We have wasted in
thinking of what we might have said or
might have donel We spend hours and days
and years in walking around that
dead lion. We cannot resuscitate it. It
will never open its eyes again. There will
never be another spring in its paw. Dead as
any feline terror of South Africa, through
whose heart thirty years ago Gordon Cum
ming sent the slug. Don't let US give any
more time to the deploring Of the dead past.
There are other great opportunities remain
ing. They may not be as great, but they are
worthy our attention. Small opportunities
all around, opportunities for the saying Of
kind words and doing of kind deeds. Help
lessness to be helped. Disheartened ones to
be encouraged. Lost ones to be found.
Though the present may be insignificant as
compared with the past Better is living
dog than dead lion.
The most useless and painful feeling is the
one of regret. Repent of lost opportunities
we must and get pardon we may, but re-
grets weaken, dishearten and cripple for fu-
ture work. If sea Captain who once had
charge of White Star steamer across the
Atlantic Ocean, one foggy night runs on a
rock off Newfoundland, and passengers and
ship perish, shall he refuse to take command
Of small boat up the North River, and soy:
Los Angeles herald., 1890-04-28
StanfOrd's Original Scheme.

Apropos of the billrecently introduced
by Senator Stanford. authorizing the
Government to loan money on mortgage,
one OF the Kansas statesmen in Con
gress, whose name, at his own request,
will not be used, stated today that he
felt quite certain that if delegates to a
national convention were to be chosen
in Kansas six weeks from now, and
Stanford continued working his boom
in the meantime, as he has dur
ing the past month, he would be
reasonably certain of having an in
structed delegation in the national con-
vention from Kansas. Stanford is try
ing to capture the farmers associations,
the Knights of Labor, and other labor
organizations, and of course will stand in
well with the corporations. His scheme
is decidedly unique and original, but ii
is safe to say that when he gets through
with it he will not be as rich as he is
now, and he may find himself in an asy-
lum for the insane instead of in the
United States Senate or the White
House.-[St. Louis Republic.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-04-28

name of Ignocus, his son, J. F. Kenealy
"Carinus," his nephew, E. Ganahl ;
"Proculus," his steward, H. Dunnigan
"Eusebius'' Greed after second act) R.
Thorpe; 'Bibulus, slave, j. S. Glass
"Davus, slave, j. Rimpau; ''Uriulus, :"
slave, D. Pryor; 'Verna," a slave, B.
Rimpau; "Gannio," beggar, R. Dill
lon; Imperial chamberlain" A. Cum
mings; "Officer," H. Reilly.
ssThe Bostonians'' Tonight.
Tonight will be great occasion at the
Grand The Bostonians will appear in
Don Quirote, an opera new in this city.
1t will be gorgeously staged and cos
tuned, and the music given with the
entire strength of the, Bostonian Com
pany, The sale of seats has been large,
and it being ''first night" with such
splendid attraction, a full house is as
sured.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-04-28
NEWS NOTES.

The Iroquois Club will meet tomorrow
evening and nominations for officers will
be made for the ensuing term.
The City Council will meet this morn
ing at 10 O'Clock. Several important
matters will come up for discussion.
The pictures on exhibition at the pa
Nvtlion will be at the disposal of their
owners between l and O'Clock today.
They will be sent to them.
The Woman's Annex of the Chamber
of Commerce will meet at O'Clock this
afternoon The meeting will be i'm
portant, as an election is to take place.
At 3 O'Clock yesterday afternoon J. j..
Cannon, laborer in the employ OF the
Redondo Beach Company, was wrest-
ling in fun with man named Nieland
on the corner of Ann and San Fernando
streets, when he was thrown heavily to
the ground by his companion. As he
appeared to be unable to rise, his friends
picked him up and it was found that he
had sustained fracture of the right
fbula close to the ankle. He was sub
sequently conveyed to the county hospi-
tai in the ambulance for medical treat
ment.
A musical was given Saturday even
ing at the house of Prof Loeb,
1114 w. Tenth street by Miss
Estella Meyer, Miss Lea Hellman, Mas
ter H. Meyer and Mr.. Ed Germain,
assisted by Prof. Loeb. Compositions OF
Chopin, Mozart, also duets for piano, and
overtures of Faust and Martha were
rendered. Those present were Mrs. G.
Smith, Mrs. S. Meyer, Miss Camilla
Hellman, Miss Esther Meyer, Messrs. l.
w. Hellman, G. Smith, H. Burr, H.
Meyer, Misses Rosa Meyer, Tillie Loeb,
Geneve Smith.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-04-28
ADJUSTMENTS.

HaIlen s. Hart in ssLater On" at
the Los Angeles.
A very good Sunday night house
for Los Angeles assembled at
the Los Angeles last night to
welcome back Hallen & Hart in
their musical farce-comedy of Later On.
The piece is very much improved in all
respects since it was here before, land the
fun created by the production last night
was laughter-compelling in a high de-
gree. There is good deal OF very good
dancing. of both the grotesque and
fancy type, and many of the songs are
funny in the extreme. The play is on
for five nights.
The st. Vincent Boys.
The Grand was packed last night to
witness production of The Hidden Gem,
drama by Cardinal Wiseman, by the
young gentlemen of st. Vincent's col
lege. The affair was opened by an ad-
dress by Master w. v. Ponet, in which
the young gentleman acquitted himself
remarkably well. The drama was well
acted by the following cast:
"Euphemianus," Roman patrician,
A. j. Mesmer; "Alexius," under the
Los Angeles herald., 1890-04-28
PERSONAL,

]. Gallman is down from Newhall fol
a day or two.
William Barclay was up from Comp
ton yesterday.
Mr.. j. H. McIlwain, of St. Louis, is a
guest of the Nadeau.
Mr.. T. R. Howard, of Louisville, KY,
is guest of the Nadeau.
Mrs. E. R. Tillinar, of New York, is a
recent visitor to the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. P. Spileman came
up from San Diego yesterday.
]. Shurman and ]. B. Rice came up
from San Diego yesterday.
]. H. Mccullough, well-known resi-
dent of Downey is in the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. J. Urquhart came
down from Mojave yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Barber, of San
Diego, are sojourning at the Nadeau.
DIR. Andrew Imrie OF Detroit, Michi-
gan, is in Los Angeles for few weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. n. Van Slyke, of
San Francisco, are guests of the Nadeau.
E. Klingman of Port Townsend,
Washington, is spending few days
here.
Mr.. E. V. Clergue, of New York, also
J. H. Clergue, OF Bangor, are stopping at
the Nadeau.
A. Cameron came in from La Puente
yesterday and reports business booming
in that vicinity.
Mrs. M. B. Atkinson and J. B. Atkin-
son of Jackson, Miss, are visiting South
ern California.
William Hood, chief engineer of the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company, was
in the city yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. E. Beaver of King
man, A. T., are visiting Los Angeles.
They are accompanied by their daugh-
ter.
Major Hildebrandt and sister, of
Woodstock, ILL.,, are passing through
this part of the State leisurely, visiting
all the points of interest.
Among the recent visitors to the city
were Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Satic, of Lath-
rop. They have decided to remove to
Los Angeles this summer.
Judge J. K. Atkinson, of Elmira, N.
Y, is visiting Los Angeles. He is ac-
companied by his wife and daughter,
and says he will probably make his
home in this part of the country.