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The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-01-08
What'Pays.


The question of the day is, Does it pay?
If man is in line of business that gives
him sufficient returns to enable him to keep
his family in moderate circumstances, eight
out of ten would say that it was not paying
him. Men in business seem to want to
emulate Wall street and pile up wealth with
lightning-like rapidity or bust. Many a
man doing business that paid from twelve
to fifteen hundred year has complained
that 1t did not pay, and has branched out
and enlarged. with view to making money
more rapidly, only to meet failure in the
end. Millions of dollars are lying idle,
waiting investment in something that pays.
and the feverish manner in which people 20
from one investment to another looking for
something that pays, shows the universal
quest for the sign board pointing to the
rapid road to wealth. 1.-THE quick quarter
10 better than the slow dollar" may be in
some instances good MOTTO but the ele-
meHt of risk in many of the present day
transactions that put it into practice is Ger.
tainly considerable. ''SlOw but sure' is
just as true to- day as ever The old darkey
hit it about right when he said: ut amt
de boss what makes de most dust fly, nor
de turkle dat don't make any fly, but de
'pOssum dat gifts dare. Texas Siftings.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-01-08

their whole. tendency 10 to degrade the prisoner
and make him more dangerous to the public when
released than before he was confned7 He often
goes for years without . friendly word or look
from any one. "Put yourself in his place" 10 q
good suggestion to any one who would see the
end from the beginning of this sort of thing
Some object to educating the convict or doing
anything for him other than what is absolutely
necessary to sustain life and keep him in physi.
cal condition for "hard labor" on the ground
that the state does not owe it to him. But does
not the state it to itself to reform the crimi.
nal if possible, before giving him his freedom and
thus not only save to itself the probable cost of
further crime and expense of criminal prosscu.
ton. but save to his family and the community q
man who may be useful. Not a few Of the best
mon of this country are giving to this subject of
prison reform their time and efforts and the char
acter Of prison buildings. prison management and
prison discipline in many of the states has been
and is being much improved.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-01-08

In ancient times. the operation of shaw
ing consumed much longer time than it
docs now. as the ancients shaved the head,
the beard. and the feet. and spent much
time amounting their heads; but the lather
used in Olden times was what caused so
much time to be consumed. Instead of a
soap lather, such as we use now. they took
the roots of a tender plant. ground it to a
fine powder, mixed it with the juice of wild
fruits, and stirred it into soft paste. This
they spread on the face with a wooden
blade and left it to dry. When sufficiently
hardened. they shaved it off, leaving the
face soft and clean.-Selected.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-01-08
Electric Sparks.

system has been invented BY which stringsd
musical instruments can be operated BY electric.
ity.
patent has been taken out in France for an
electric furnace for the rapid incneration Of hu-
man remains.
Electricity has been applied to the Keeling,
weighing. and making up into balls of silk and
similar woven fabrics.
Utilizing scrap steel rod by welding it and draw.
ing itinto fence wire is of the recent successes
Of electric welding.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1891-01-08

Great Cesar crossed the Rubicon,
A river small, though wet;
Great Cesar now is dead and gone.
The Rubicon's there yet.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14

THE health of Mr.. Blaine is again be-
coming a subject OF discussion. Col
Alexander X. Mcclure has been inter
viewed in New York, and he says that
the campaign would kill the man from
Maine in sixty days. The colonel ad
mits that this is in direct contraventior
to the talk of the physicians, but claims
to know whereof he speaks. The two
men are of opposite politics, but are
warm personal friends. In fact, the
colonel's outgivings are of an alarmist
character, and he intimates that if Blaine
knew how serious his case really was he
would break down completely and at
once. 1t strikes US that the great Phila-
delphia newspaper man is taking a very
excellent way to arouse the Plumed
Knights Anxiety. The result of the
whole situation will be. adds Mcclure,
that Blaine, the strongest man in the
Republican ranks, will be pushed out oil
the way and the nomination will gravi-
tate to Harrison, its weakest man. We
shall see.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14

ciety and organized government; that
hey were in the habit of carrying
elections by fraud Of buying votes by
the wholesale; of perverting the ballot
by the violence of hired "heelers;" of
bribing legislatures to defeat wholesome
bills; OF using money to pave
the way OF men of wealth to
political power; of scaling down the tax
assessments Of the rich aud increasing
the public burdens of the poor. He
would see the respectable criminal class
in politics robbing the people in a
thousand ways, and he would find that
whenever strong effort was made by the
community to rid itself by regular means
of this great incubus and bring it to
punishment, that the laws were not
made for such purpose-that they were
made not to protect the people, but to
prevent the people from furnishing
the malefactors of respectable"
standing who thrive on doodle. "
He would find the courts constantly
straining their facilities to construe the
law in favor OF the criminal and against
the people, and seeing loop-holes where
the strongest lens could hardly detect a
hy-speck and the wise and disguised
houy would sum up the whole
situation by saying that the courts, the
lawyers and all the legal machinery
were ranged on the side OF the depreda-
tors upon society, whilst the people
were left helpless in the hands Of the
pirates. AS the wise equine retired
from our country, indignant at
the greatness of our pretentions
and the rank rottenness of our system
IN practice, he would say: "What bet
ter could be expected from these peo-
Pile? To be sure they are more cultured,
and have slightly thicker veneering OF
polish than those of their race in my
dominion; but, when we strip them of
the outside coating of refinement they
assume, we find, that they are nothing
but yahoos. after ALI"
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14
THE SILVER LINING IN THE STORM
CLOUD.

This valley has rarely been visited by
wind storm of such sweeping strength
as the one that passed over it Friday
morning That of 1887 was sharper and
stronger, but failed to take in its path
so wide stretch of orange growing
country. 1t Rugged the Sierra Madre
mountains closer and only skirted the
most productive portions of the valley.
We are liable at this season to heavy
wind storms accompanied by rain, but
their velocity is generally mitigated by
the fall of water from the clouds. A
wind storm at this season of moderate
or even abnormal strength is not always
to be considered as calamitous to the
orange crop. Indeed we are OF the
opinion that these violent blows as
a rule are of more benefit than injury,
for only the poorest fruit yields to
their severity, and the trees, relieved OF
culls that are unsaleable, have more
nutrment to distribute amongst the
healthy oranges that are firmly enough
fixed on their stems to withstand the
storm.
1t is possible, perhaps probable, that
the recent blow has rather overdone the
business, and effected greater amount
OF damage than the increased develop
ment of the fruit lett will compensate
for. Yet, we believe that when the ac-
counts are balanced at the end OF the
season it will be found that the aggre-
gate loss has been much less than it
now seems to be.
We have heard the criticism from
many fruit men that our orange-growers
permit their trees to be overwelghted
with fruit This is shown in the fact
that hardly any Of the trees are strong
enough to support the great weight OF
oranges they are permitted to bear, and
have to be artifcially propped. 1t
allowed to carry more fruit than their
limbs will bear, that they are overtaxed
to bring the oranges to the best maturity
OF which they are capable. The sap is
only sufficient to nourish the number OF
oranges that the tree is able to support,
and all over that number detract from
the size and juiciness of the whole, or
result in greater amount OF dwarfed
and impoverished fruit than ought to be
permitted to grow. We shall be de-
ceived if the oranges that were strong
enough to weather the recent storm do
not prove to be larger and choicer than
if there had been no windfalls. and con-
sequently will command higher prices
than they otherwise would.
In this view of the effects OF the re-
cent storm en- our orchards, it may turn
out to be less of an affection than was
at first supposed. The damage done to
buildings and fences. however, is an alb
solute loss for which there is no COM
penaation. 1t is one OF the few blanks
that must be drawn in our extensive
lottery OF rich and valuable prizes-a
little bit OF lean to cur immense
amount OF fat.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14

that journal. prince" Russell found
it convenient to disavow having
had anything to do. with them.
His paper has got back to its old
work, however. In its last issue it con-
tains cartoon representing Blaine as
Hamlet, declalming the famous ITO be
or not to be" soliloquy. In convenient
proximity to the introversive statesman
is bust OF Henry Clay. This is a
polite way OF reminding Blaine that,
like the great Kentuckian, he would be
beaten if nominated. This is doubtless
all very true, but it comes with bad
grace from Judge under the circum-
stances of its ownership. Ii Blaine
would be beaten, what in thunder
would become of Harrison if he should
venture the race?
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14
THE COURTS A BARRIER TO JUSTICE.

If this country were visited by one OF
the wise houyhnhnms that rule the
island where Dean Swift landed the
shipwrecked Gulliver, in one OF his re-
markable voyages, he would find many
and striking reasons for deriding our
Wanted civilization. He would be
amazed at some OF our laws, and won
der how people, pretending TO intelli-
gence and having the power OF the ballot,
could permit policy to become engraft-
ed upon their institutions by which
% 900 citizens could become possessed of
try. This wise houyhnhnm, however,
might reason that this strange anomaly
| might have been the result OF a sudden
revolution in the power of production
created by the inventive genius OF the
age, and that few OF the sharpest aud
most INSCRIPTIONS had taken advantage
of it and been thus enabled to over
reach their equal fellow-citizens; but
that the stern lessons of experience
would soon teach the majority broader
and wider knowledge of the true princi-
pies of political economy and bring
them to realizing sense of the danger
that confronts them. He would per-
haps say: "This is great evil, but tits
one that time will rectify."
But what would this wise and observ-
ant stranger say when he came to look
at our courts and the perversion OF JUS
tice which obtains in the admlnistra-
ton of our laws? Taking broad and
expansive view of our whole legal sys-
tenn and its practical results, he would
see, in effect, that the people are OPP
pressed by the most heinous crimes,
and are impotent to punish them. He
would find that murder could be com
mitted by men who had wealth and
standing, and that the law could be
successfully warped by court practi-
TONERS and the machinery of the tri-
bunals to secure their acquittal. lie
might also, in the plenitude of his
generosity, say that it is beyond the
power of the human mind to create
system OF Jurisprudence or a plan OF
government that cannot be occasionally
abused.
But he would look again, and he
would see men who stand high in the
community, to whom the hat OF defer
ence is raised in the streets, and who
move in the best circles. He might
then find that these same men were
guilty of the worst offenses against 60
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14

Owing to the fact tina the undersigned are
about 10 subdivide th9ir ranch into ten-scre
tracts owing TO it's adaptabiity for fruit-grow-
ing and the rsisiug of vegetables, it being in
the frostless belt line, an also in settling the
estate of the late Henry Han mel, we will sell
the following live stock. The catalogue en-
braces rs fine lot of graded Holstein and Dur
ham COWS and hefers as can be SEE on any
ranch in the state.
Fifty head of family cows, fresh, or will be
in ten to fifteen days
100 head of lovely heifers, gentle and all
large mixers
Our horse stock is also exceptionally fine for
orchard work, as they are low and very heavy
set, weighing from 1000 to 1150 pounds; 20
head of this class; also by our Hambletonian
horse, lot of young brood mares, colts and
FLIES, roadsters and family buggy hor' es. Also
two 16-foot headers, Buckeye moving ma
chimes, threshing machines, and, in fact, all
kinds of agricultural implem enls. special
invitation is extended to all to inspect the
land ana select their choice, as the land will
positively be sold az soon as the stock is sold
Direction to the Ranch-Take the Temple
sta eet road, the Plco street or Sixth street. by
Westlake pork Either will take parties to the
ranch, which is situated between Santa Monica
and Los Angeles. All information can be had
at the ranch, or at the office of Hammel &
Denker. liz Requena street.
12-7-7t Il. w. MOVES, Auctioneer.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14
IN SOCIETY.

The HERALD's Eagle Rock cores
pondent sends the following account of
a wedding at Eagle Rock: Weddings
in this vicinity have not been very
numerous recently. So when invita-
tions were sent out to about one hun
dred and fifty of the friends of Mrs.
William Prosser and Mics Kate Isbell
announcing that they would be united
in marriage at the Congregational
church ON December Sd, all determined
to make it the society event OF the sea-
son, and they succeeded admirably.
The ladies OF the WC.T.U. decor
ated the church, and such decora-
tions were never seen here before.
The walls were almost. hidden with
palms and rosebuds. The ladies of the
w. G. 4. u, of which the bride is an
active member. superintendent the sup
per. Los Angeles was represented by
several carriage loads, and many friends
OF the bride from her old home, Aurora,
H., were present. Mr.. Prosser is one
of our most highly esteemed young
farmers. The bride was attired
in o beautiful cream colored
dress, with silk lace trimmings, while
the groom wore the conventional black.
Miss Irene Amet, the bridesmaid, was
dressed in light blue. Mr.. Chas. Pow
ers acted as best man. The wedding
party entered the church keeping step
to Mendessohn's wedding march and
took their places between floral curtains
under double heart of pink and white
rose buds and smilax. The Rev. Long
fellow tied the knot in most impress
sive manner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Prosser will reside at
Eagle Rock. E. G.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14
A NarrnW Escape.

Persons subject TO cramps will be in
terested in the experience of j. NJ. Miles
Wesley, Venango Co., Pa. He was
taken very severely and called in two
doctors, who prescribed for him, but
failed to give him relief. A druggist OF
Butler, Pa, then gave him double
dose OF Chamberlain Collie. Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy, and in twenty
minutes he was all right, and is en-
thuslastic in his praise OF the remedy.
25 and so cent bottles for sale by G. +.
Heinzeman, 222 N. Main street, drug
pist
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14
MONDAY, DECEMBER ii, 1891
THE ILLUSTRATED HERALD.

For some days past canvassers have
been out soliciting advertisements Tor
the ILLUSTRATED HERALD ANNUAL. This
will be the twelfth issue of this invalua-
BILE publication, which has done go much
to develop Los Angeles and Southern
California. Our agents have met most
gratifying success, and they will remain
in the field until it is time to put the
work to press.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14
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The DR.. Liebig Co. are the oldest, most reli-
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Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14

Mr.. RUSSELL 3. HARRISON, a son of
the president, is a part owner of the
Judge, publication which aims to rival
Puck in it's political cartoons. About
the time Harrison pere was travelling
around the country and visiting the
Pacific coast, some highly indecent
caricatures of Mr.. Blaine appeared in
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14

A shaft in the Agycroft collery, near
Manchester, England. became filled
with choke damp yesterday, and the
thirty miners made rush tor place OF
safety. Six were overcome, but two oil
the number were rescued. The remain.
ing four were suffocated.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14

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mouth, and Headache. With each bottle there
cessful treatment of these complaints without
extra charge. Price soc. Sold wholesale by
Haas, Baruch & Co., and all retail druggists.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14
Whoouiug Cough.

There is no danger from whooping
cough when Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy is freely given. 1t keeps the
cough loose and makes expectoration
easy. % and so cent bottles for sale by
G. L. Heinzeman, 222 N. Main street,
druggist.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14

The Brazilian government has decided
to retain its legation at the City of Mex
leo, and President Peixotto has ordered
Senior Alvin to remain at his post.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14
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Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14
ADJUSTMENTS.

A benefit was given last night at
Turner hall for Los Angeles Tribe No.
252, United Order Red Men. Die Leider
des Musikanten, fve-act drama by
Rudolf Kneisel, was given by the fol-
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14

Why do so many people we see around us
seem to prefer to suffer aud be made miserable
by Indigestion, Constipation, Dizziness Loss
OF Appetite, Coming up Of the Food, Yellow
Skin, when for 75c we will sell them Shiloh's
Vitalizer. guaranteed to cure them. Sold
Wholesale by Haas, Baruch & Co, and all re-
tail druggists
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14

Whom do you consider the greatest man in
the United States?" asked newspaper report er
of Sitting Bull 'Pale face who max ee Bulls
Cough Syrup" was answered.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14
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Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14

Nobody can have dyspepsia if they take Sim
mons Liver Regulator.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14

Read about Mullen, Bluett & CO.'S show win
dow in this issue.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14
Trumed Sardines

Geta ticket of admission to the grand concert
next Friday from ullen, Bluett & Co.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14

Gorgonzola Sage and English Dairy
Cheese
At H. Jevne's 1876 and 1873 n. Spring.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14

To counteract the desire for strong drink take
Simmons Liver Regulator.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14

Call on Mullen. Bluett & Co. for ticket to
grand concert next Friday
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14
FOR THE HOLIDAYS.

made suitable
Christmas namely Pattern Suits sutngs and every
Umbrellas and thousand and other sensible and
making selections will certainly to look through special
n holiday
"Stamping Done Free with all Purchases"
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14

Drink DELBEcK CHAMPAGNE. Fl. J. Woolla.
colt agent.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14

Read about Mullen Bluett & Co.'s show win
dow in this issue.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14
Demerara Syrup.
Answer This Ouestion,

You can buy it at FL. Jevne's, 1876 and 1873 n
Snrnp
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14

At H. Jevne's, 1s6 and 1873 N. Spring
Los Angeles herald., 1891-12-14
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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-20
Miscellaneous.

"OUSEH0LDERS HAVING SPARE ROOMS
IL can soonest obtain tenants by advertising in
the Dispatch on Mondays aud Thursdays. the
special rent DAYS. iao0-II1t