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Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19
LEAVING SICK BEHIND.
Stanlcy's Column Are Obliged to Desert
Their Dying Comrades.

Stanlcy's Column Are Obliged to Desert
Their Dying Comrades.
Early next morning Stanley started off
with his company, promising to clear a
path as well as he could in order to en-
able us to carry the boat sections through
the thick underground. Stairs, Parke
and then made a careful examination
of the men and loads, and found that we
should be obliged to leave fifty-six men
and eighty-one loads behind. Many of
the men were so cowed and hopeless that
they wished only to be left to die peace
fully where they were.
But any man who was at all able to
crawl along we passed as fit to travel,
and those fifty-six men we left were near
ly all in the last stage of starvation and
sickness. At any rate, we thought that
their chances of getting food would be
better if they came with us, and nothing
could be gained by remaining where they
were.
We had great difficulty in getting the
men off with the loads, and it was past
midday before the last of the caravan
filed out of what is now known as Nell
sons starvation camp. I find the fol-
lowing words in my journal that morn
ing:
''It is truly terrible position for Mel
son to be left in; he has food only for
three days, and will have to exist on
what he can pick up in the shape of
fungi OF roots. Stairs has left him a
fish hook and line, and it is possible he
may get few small fish, but the river is
SO rapid and full of powders that he has
but a slight chance of catching any
thing.
Meantime we are going on with an
exhausted and starving column to try
and find food in trackless wilderness
Nelson is now SO crippled from ulcers
that he cannot creep far from camp, and
will have to depend entirely upon what
his two boys can manage to bring him.
"We got off about two o'clock, and
sadly said goodby to poor old Nelson,
for his position is very precarious and
our chances of relieving him small; he
has worked with us in good fellowship
all these months, and now we are prac-
tically abandoning him."-A. j. Noun
teney Jephson in Scribner's.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19
REDONDO.

A whist party given at the Redondo
hotel, last evening, was highly enjoyed
by a number of the guests.
DIR. J. Nealton, prominent physician
of Lansing, Mich, is guest of the Re-
dondo.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adolphe Roos, Masters
Leon and Robert Roos and maid are
visiting the Redondo. Mr.. Roos resides
in San Francisco, where he has one Of
the largest clothing establishments on
this coast. Other arrivals at the Redondo
include A. E. Younger, San Francisco !;
Mr.. and Mrs. Fullerton, Miss Nellie
Fullerton, J. E. Bleekman, Los Angeles !;
J. F. Muirhead, London; Mr.. and Mrs.
Julius Saul, Miss E. Saul, Miss Hattie
Saulson, Albany, N. Y.
Steamer Santa Cruz arrived from San
Francisco today, leaving 12O tons of
freight here.
Steamer Bonita arrived from San
Francisco with 100 telegraph poles. B.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19
Til. Prejudice Against Reporters.

The old time prejudice against report
ers is fast passing away. The pencil and
notebook scribe now finds little difficulty
in gaining access to any and every house
in town. This is especially the case with
women reporters. who are now chosen
from class of people who would as soon
think of moral suicide as of violating
confidence. Whatever is told them they
respect and only print that which is
actually intended for publication. Peo-
pie have found this out from experience
and they have gained confidence accord
ingly. But some of this reporting is ter
ribly exacting work and difficult to man
age. For example, Miss Reporter goes
to see Mrs. Interview about a forgery in
which her brother was implicated
actually guilty, you know, but drawn
into the case in a questionable way, possi-
bly, receiving diamonds for his wife when
the world said no diamonds were DUE
"Now, I'll tell you confdentially," be-
gins Mrs. interview.
"No, please don't tell me confdentially,
because shall want to give the newspa-
pers fair account, and can't do it if
you bind me in this way"
"Well, you can say that those jewels
were promised long ago and were given
to my sister-in-law because she was of
service to Mrs. Blank when her last baby
was born. But please don't tell that"
81 think if you let me mention that
little fact every one will understand and
bein sympathy, and it will do your broth
er's side of the story lots of good"
''Oh, mol no, indeed! But you may tell,
part of it,"
And SO the interview goes on, wearing,
out the unhappy reporter. who must get
in her ''story," and who is doing battle
between her newspaper instincts and the
betrayal of confidence. Try reporting
little while if you think you can always
tell the right thing and withhold the
wrong Just try it.-Newport News.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19
Old and Young Great Men.

Great as have been some men who died
young, who knows how much greater
they would have been had their lives
been prolonged. Might not Marlowe
have rivaled Shakespeare? Yet possibly
Byron had already given us his best,
and Shelley and Keats might not have
surpassed their early efforts.
Had the author of ''Festus' died at 90
there would have been lamentation as
over Keats, but Bailey has lived half a
century longer without producing Sec
ond poem. Tasso, though he lived TWEEN
ty years after Jerusalem Delivered" !"
never equaled that epic, written at 81
Still there are men whose longevity
has certainly stood for much. Michael
Angelo showed astonishing precocity.
but he owes to his eighty-nine years his
great renown as painter, sculptor and
sonneteer. Voltaire's fame, again, rests
on the entirety of his writings, not on
any single work, and the literary dicta-
torship with which age invested him.
Cut off twenty years of his life, and his
fame would perceptibly shrink. Goethe,
Emerson, Carlyle, Longfellow, Tenny-
son, Hugo, Dumas-all had the advan-
tage of fullness of years, so as to be
judged by bulk as we'll as quality. Hum
boldt, too, owed to his ninety years a
portion of his reputation.
The true comparison would obviously
be between works produced at the same
age, or between men dying at about the
same age, but it is much easier to test
achievement than capacity. Perhaps the
best books Gin posse) have never been
written, and we often feel that the men
were greater than their works. Who
knows, moreover, what geniuses have
died in childhood Monthly.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19
his affairs ever get into court for settle

ment.
A number of the creditors made a
proposition to him on Friday that il he
would turn over to them the collaterals
in the way of watches, diamonds and
iewelry and.other stuff which he had
they would give him REIMBURSEMENT
Of their claims. The proposition is be-
ing considered, but it has not yet been
accepted.
1t was stated last evening by Eek
STEMS attorney that he had left the city
and gone to the Puget Sound country.
His attorney said that he had waited
here for several days to ascertain if any
of his fashionable friends for whom he
had been loaning money at 10 per cent.
a month desired to commence any pro-
ceedings against him. AS none OF them
did, he proceeded to move on to fields
green and pastures new.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19
Old Butter.

It is a matter of wonderment to many
what becomes of the tons upon tons of
dairy butter piled up year after year in
the wholesale grocery stores and COM
mission houses of our cities, and which
the average American would not allow
on his table. "The poorer the butter
the further it goes" said a large butter
dealer of this city, as he packed rolls and
prints of various colors and sizes in a
sugar barrel lined with butter cloths.
"That expresses it in more ways than
one. Good butter always finds q ready
market here at home; it never goes beg
ging for buyers at any time Of the year,
but packing grade, goes to the end of the
earth. The contents Of this barrel will
go to South America"
''Not just as it isT'
'sNo; it will undergo manipulation.
The firm to whom this is to be shipped
melt down this grade of butter and pack
it in glass jars. By the time it reaches
South American port it is of about the
same consistency as olive oil. The South
Americans use it on their bread as we
use butter. A large proportion of pack
ing stock shipped from the northwest
goes ultimately to European countries.
NORTH West Trade.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19

The skeleton of Electioneer, the fa-
nous Palo Alto trotting stallion, is to be
set up in the museum of Leland Stanford
university. Its bones are strung on sill
yer wires. The skeleton of Occident,
another of the senator's pet horses, is al
ready in place in the University museum.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19

A supply of water from the Jordan is
kept on tap at the royal palace in Berlin
in order that all the babies of the Hollen.
zollern family may be baptized in it,
After the christening of Prince Joachim,
the other day, the precious fluid was
carefully returned to the Jordan reser-
rrr,
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19

Michael Eyraud, the strangler, whose
head was cut off in Paris, had his life in
sured for 0,000, but the companies re-
fuse to pay on the strength of a clause in
every policy relieving the company Of
liability if the insured meets his death
while violating the laws of the country.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19

Berlin university faculties will offer to
the 5000 students enrolled for the sum-
mer term TIC courses of lectures to choose
from. Forty-six Of these courses are
theological, " legal, 237 medical $50
philosophical. Professors Koch and
Mommsen will not read.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19

Senator Manderson, the new president
pro tenn. of the United States senate, is
fifty-three years old. He served through
the war in the Union armies, reaching
the rank of brevet brigadier general Of
volunteers in 1866.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19
OFF TO SEATTLE.
William D. Eckstein Makes Hurried
Departure.

The facts concerning the failure of
William D. Eckstein, the 10 per cent. a
month loan broker, which were printed
in the HERALD on Friday morning, Gre
ated quite a sensation.
Eckstein's petition in insolvency was
not filed with the county clerk yesterday.
1t is all prepared ready to file, but prob
ably will not be. This is due to the
fact that large number of Eckstein's g
fashionable creditors are willing to set
tie with him. In this way they will
avoid having their connection with him
made public, which will surely result il
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19
HawIey, King & Company

Have just received another carload of stylish
vehicles, consisting Of English dog carts, pony
carts and wagons, triple buckboards, finished
handsome
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19

Use Angostura Bitters to stimulate the appe-
tite and keep the digestive organs in order.
DR.. J. G. B. Siegert & Sons, sole manufacturers
At all druggists.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19
Word Shadows,

Under this title a writer in. The At
lantic Monthly discourses upon the fanci-
fnl and grotesque dialect of the southern
negro. In the plantation patois" are
many expressions which display genuine
humor and happy knack at picturesque
statement, as, for example, when an un-
productive piece of ground is called
''failery LAM" and an obedient and
tractable servant an ''orderly GAL"
The favorite and indispensable bread
of the field hand-that made of corn
MEALS "John Constant, while wheaton
bread is ''Billy SELDOM" Our word sac
cuse" becomes "'scuse" in the negro's
mouth. There are few of his race, alas,
other, "'scuse of cow" "'scuse of "a
pig" 'scuse of par shoes" and so on
down the scale.
A half starved calf is .''calf dat's
been whipped wild de churn dasher"
To keep down grass is to eight wild
Genial Green" A matter well accom-
plished is essentially DONE" as, for
instance, "When she cooks, she des es-
sentially cooks good" A proud person
is an ''umptious somebody"
To live easily and happily is to live
''jolly and wild pleadjure." To be i'll is
to ''have a misery" To be quite well is
to be ''des sorter tollerble." Entertain
ing conversation is "mockin bird talk"
Lively tunes are ''sinner songs" or
''reels," or "corn-hollers," "jump up
songs" or 'chunes dat skip wild de
banjo" Religious songs are "member
songs" or ''hymn chunes."
Not to be church member is to be
''settin on the sinner seat" ''still in de
open fieF, :" ''drinkin' de cup of damna-
tion," and many other such phrases. To
enter the church is to .'jine de band, !" to
stake up de cup er salvation" to "git a
seat wild de members" to be "gethered
in," to put on shine line gyarment, y
and SO on indefinitely.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19
We Give Two Pounds

Granulated or cube sugar free with every
coffee. Discount Tea Co.. 25O s. Main ST..
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19

stout no longer; she is plump. She is
stiff no longer; she is grace itself.
From pouter pigeon sort of figure she
becomes very Venus in form--viola
tout. NINE. LIE VANwAY.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19
Drop . Postal

Horse blanket and buggy robes at Foy's sad
dlery house, 315 N. Los Angeles street.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19

Buck Beer.
Anheuser- Busch st. Louis Buck beer at John
Henbergers, Spring street, between Fourth ana
Fifth Buck beer will be on tap for three days
only .---4s--+4---
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19
Removal.

The wall paper store of w. B. Stewart has re-
moved to 23S South Spring street.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19
CnrbOnic Acid Gas,
Qcavening powcr.)

Reports onea per stronger than the highest
ammonated baking powder fifteen per stronger than
the next highest pass powder and forywo
cent stronger than the highest alum powder
to
powders what their strength are to
be avoided, will iniurc the health.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19
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A New Departure.

The Anheuser- Bush saloon, on North Main
street, opposite Wells Fargo's office, have en-
gagged first-cla ladies' orchestra, which. will
dispense music nightly. Mr.. E.. L. Sienwieke
the manager, promises the public fine pro
gramme.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19

To the California Wine Company, 222 8. Spring
st., for the finest wines and liquors.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19
Says He Has Found q New Metal.

George A. Clarke, an experienced iron
worker of Boston, claims to have dis
covered an ore in the Rocky mountains
which he believes is new to the world.
He says of it:
II took specimens of the ore to as
sayers in Cincinnati, Chicago and Boston,
and no one Of them could tell me the
name of the mineral Then l began
here series Of experiments myself, mix
ing it with molten iron. 1t combined
perfectly with the iron, and l found
that only small quantity was necessary
to increase the fuidity of the metal. 1t
rendered the iron ductile, and in low
grades acted as apuri6er. The product
Of the alloy was homogeneous metal
of very fine pores, capable of higher
finish than before. The Stag expelled
by its Use contained no metal, and was
very light. In the treatment of iron
with only one per cent. of this new ore
the formers tensile strength was in
creased from 10 to 25 per cent.
Using only half of one per cent, Of
this or in mixture with copper, found
that it gave the metal greater density
and great increase-from 60 to 100 per
cent. of tensile strength. The result
ing metal, too, is capable of high polish.
In word, | found that the ore increased
the tensile strength and tho fnidity
under heat of both these metals and
makes them both of finer grain. 1t is
non-corrosive."
Mr.. Clarke produced a handful of the
ore-a substance that looked like fine
sandstone, save that it was black, and
many pieces Of it presented highly pol
ished surfaces as smooth as bit of glass.
of the field, which, he said, was exposed
over the space of an acre, as he is trying
to get control of it first. Chicago
Tribune
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19

Pabst's Blue Ribbon Beer
Is the finest brewed. Nothing better as tonic
California Wine Company, Sole Agent.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19

Boots of suede matching the gown are
to be the rage, but it takes purse of
Midas to wear them. That is something
decidedly in their favor, however, to
some people.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19
Baking Powders.

Ohio Food ComEnlsstOm.. ......
n. j. Dairy Conn. (average).. &.
Canadian Government Report
u. 8. Governments Report ......,
Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-19

Peacocks are said to be unlucky. 1t
would take very superstitious woman
to reject peacock gown, however, for if
ever there was pretty gown, although
a bizarre, it is one made to initiate the
plumage of the bird of evil omen. The
feathers are embroidered feathers, to be
sure, but they're beautifully real Then
there's Marguerite gown, all embroid.
cred with the dainty flowers which
trusting women love. Gray is the back
ground, or dark blue, just as fancy die
tates.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-24
a SPIPITUAI ISTS vii [

ROCHESTER, n. Y, July 23-Rochester,
the birthplace of spiritualism, now
promises to be the scene of a test of the
spook philosophy through will contest
which came up in the Surrogate's court
yesterday. Leonard B Field died some
time ago in Danville, Livingston county,
leaving an estate valued at about $25, 900.
By his Will he left his real estate, consist
ing of farm near Danville, to Thomas
and Joseph Mckay, in fulfilment of a
contract made during his lifetime and sub
ject to an annuity of 5000 payable to Mary
Roberts, his housekeeper. The residue of
his estate, consisting of 5000 to $4,000 in
personal property, he devised to his house
keeper. The relatives of the deceased man
and his only heirs-at-law were utterly
ignored in the VIII. Arguments for the
probate of the will were heard, and when
the attorneys for the relatives who filed
objections came to state the ground of
their objections it caused a sensation.
These grounds were that the deceased man
was a spiritualist, and was, therefore, of
unsound mind. Witnesses were sworn to
prove that Field was a spritualist. When
the case had gone this far, and the attor-
neys for the executors saw they had con-
test on their hands, an adjournment was
secured to Sept. 10.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-24
CAN'T YOu CATCH ON

To known means of overcoming that OBJ
stinate disorder constipation? OF course
you can. Then why don't you? ASK those
who have tried it, and they will tell that
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is a match
less laxative, etfectual without violence
thoroughly Alternative, but perfectly relia-
BILE. 1t invigorates, too, no less than it
regulates the SYSTEM and it is chiefly to
this first quality that it owes the per
manency of it's regulating effects, since, if
vigor is lacking in the region of the bow
els, the stomach or the liver. healthful ac-
tivity in those organs is suspended De-
obstruents and cathartics in general are
simply that and nothing more; they relax
the bowels merely without invigoratiEg
them, and as their laxative action is usu-
ally abrupt and violent, they really tend
TO weaken the organs. Use the Btters,
also, for rmalaria, rheumatism, indigestion,
debility and kidney trouble.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-24
THE INDIANAPOLIS CONVENTION.

WASHINGTON, July 22-The national
executive board of the Farmers Alliance
has about determined upon indianapolis
as the place for the national convention.
The 18th of November was fixed at Ocala
but the selection of the place was left TO
the executive board. One of the chief
reasons for the choice of indianapolis is
that the Farmers Mutual Benefit associa-
ton, which is very strong in Illinois and
Indiana, will meet in that city at the same
time, 1t is the hope of the Alliance lead
ers to absorb the Farmers Mutual Benefit
association at the indianapolis conven-
tion. Politics will be kept out of consid-
Grafton as far as possible The main busi-
ness before the convention will be the sub
treasury issue. The majority of the ex-
ecutlve board believe that the Ocala plat
form, including the sub-treasury idea, will
be readopted at indianapolis.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-24

MoNONGAHELA, Pa, July 23.-This city
is greatly excited over prize fight that
turned into murder. Harry Boyd and
John Myford, living at Black Diamond. a
mining town just outside of the city linn
its, had a quarrel over some trivial affair
Today they decided to fight 1t out accord
ing to prize ring rules. Both were almost
equally matched. Three terrific rounds
were fought, at the end of which both were
bleeding profusely. In the fourth round
both came up grimly, and it was evident
that they intended each other all possible
harm. After a few preliminary blows,
Boyd, seeing an opening, rushed in and
delivereed tremendous blow on Myford's 5
neck just over the jugular. Myford stag
gered back few steps aud fell TO the
ground insensible. He never recovered
consciousness, and expired an hour later.
Boyd surrendered himself to the authori-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-24
An Oarsman Tells How to Win Ra


When am in training get up at 6 or
half past G, walk one mile, running per
haps 200 yards at a stiff speed, sufficiently
to get my wind Then / return and take n
light shower bath, after which my man
rubs me down with flesh gloves, rubbing
in all directions. Afterward he goes over
me- with his hands and then fans me dry
with towel. | then rest for twenty min
utes before sitting down TO breakfast. |
eat for this meal some fruit and small
steak, and drink glass Of milk and cream.
After sitting around for an hour, 20 for a
two or three miles walk. Then 20 TO my
boathouse and am rubbed down. After
this | take a spin over the course, rowing
from twenty-six to thirty-two strokes
minute.
This Is simply an exercise row. The rub
bing process is gone over again when | re-
turn. For dinner | have roast beef or NUT
ton, sometimes fowl. with vegetables. /
rest until half-past ?, take q walk, and
then go for another exercise row. Once or
twice week | take ''speeder' over the
course. One thing amateurs should bear
In mind: Never leave your race on the
riyer-that Is, never row six races a week
before the day Of the race comes. II stands
to reason that no man can row az hard as
he is able each day, and be in better condi-
ton the day OF the race than when he BE-
gan training. Edward Hanlan In Ladies'
Home journal.