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Los Angeles herald., 1891-08-03
SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.

not only speaks
for itself, but has
thousands of peo-
Los Angeles herald., 1891-08-03
Los Angeles Terminal Railway Co.

Leave Los Angeles for Leave Pasadena for
Pasadena. Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-08-03

+Daily tDaily except Sunday. 2Sundays only.
Ed. CHAMBERS, Ticket Agent, :
First-street Depot.
CHAG. 7. PARSONS, Ticket Agent
129 North Spring street,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-15
RAILWAY FORECLOSURES.

SIMON STERNE is New York law
yer who, in addition to his regular pro-
fessional work, has been prolific in
many important suggestions as to
needed public measures. He has for
example been prominent advocate OF
reforms in the method of fOreclosing cor
porate mortgages. There is not more
magnificent species of extravaganza in
the world than that which accompanies
the reorganization of insolvent compa-
MES of the railroad type. A large part
of The waste grows out of persistence on
the part of the courts in the foolish no.
ton that mortgage covering the real
and personal property of corporation
in active operation ought to be treated
in case of default like an ordinary mort
gage on land. Such course leads to
endless confusion and prepoSterous ex-
pendltures. Mr.. STERNE'S theory of
remedy involves radical reforms. He
would arrange the owners of railway
into classes. The owners of the stock
would constitute one class. The own
ers of the first mortgage bonds would
constitute>a second class; the owners
of the second mortgage bonds third
class, and so on in order of liens. He
would leave the management of the cor
poration in the hands of the first class
as long as it operated it so as to
pay the returns due the other classes
on their investments. If at any time it
failed to do this he would have the con-
troll pass automatically, without sale or
legal proceedings, to the next lowest
class under, precautions and safeguards
to be prescribed by law. In case of its
failure, he would instate the class above
it, and so on until the holders of the
first mortgage bonds were reached.
When the property passed to them
he would leave them in posses
sion and apply any surplus over
what their reimbursement demanded to
those subsequent to them in their legal
order. The active application of the
scheme would be matter of great de-
tail, but it suggests an avenue of es-
cape from what everybody recognizes as
one of the most serious financial evils
of modern times.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-15
THE STORM SEASON.

It is claimed that the officials who
look after the weather have been doing
better work of late than in former
times. Perhaps the coming transfer of
the business to the agricultural depart
ment may have something to do with it.
The even courses of atmospheric affairs
possibly has made the task lighter.
There have been few of the violent
manifestations of the possibilities in
any quarter. Iowa, Kansas and the
other cyclonic regions have had fewer
OF their terrifying visitors than in most
recent seasons. 1t may be that the dis
the politics of those sections. The
atmospheric conservatism, however,
has not been in accord with
the programmes of the unofficial,
long range prophets. They had
mostly concurred in anticipating a
season of unusual electrical displays.
Perhaps they did not take into account
the absorption Of electric forces in the
mechanical uses. 1t is question for
the scientists whether the multiplying
means of transit for electric currents
will have effect upon the aggregations
that appear in the upper atmosphere,
and oscillate about, alarming people.
The progress being made in manipulate
ing the currents and putting them in
harness may lead to some method of
capturing the electricity in storms or
cyclones and directing it harmlessly
into the ground or storing it for use IN
batteries or mechanical ways. Be that
as it may, the lightning and cyclone
alarm people on very small basis of
actual harm. In the average of the
country not more than three or four
people in million are ever killed by
lightning or in a cyclone. More are hurt
by railroad travel, or on the street cars.
Hundreds are drowned at the lakes or
in bathing to one who is made victim
by the lightning. Perhaps the party
was not much out of the way whose
philosophy led him to believe that most
people would rather be killed than
scared to DEATH" The dispatches a few
days ago reported the case of lady
who was so badly frightened by light
ming that committed suicide by hang
ing. She did not mean to be terrified in
that way again. 1t is difficult to per-
suade people to count the chances of
their escape from elementary peril.
The racket and menacing features
cause them to lose their heads. 1t is
not likely to be a bad season for storms,
whatever the prophets proclaim.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-15
POINTERS FOR THE BOYS.

A true friend is like the best steak
rare.-New York Herald.
God loves to see man pay his honest
debts.-Ram's Horn.
A fool and his winter underwear are
soon parted.-Elmira Gazette.
SWeetheartS and wives are entirely
different women.-Detroit Free Press.
The poorest man is one who has no
God.-Ram's Horn.
Drum majors are born not made.-In-
dianapolis journal.
Every man knows good use to which
some other man might put his MONEY!
Atchison Globe.
A man who gets the mitten is apt to
be guilty of contempt of court.-Texas
Siftings.
Some people never pray until they get
into close quarterS.-Ram's Horn.
Consider the man who is always
punctual-how much time he wastes
waiting for other people.-Elmira Ga
Zette.
For every man who knows more than
he tells, there are fifty that tell more
than they know.-Atchison Globe.
Strange to say, when the fireman is at
work he is often only playing.
mercial Bulletin.
HumoristS-Lamps that burn out in
making light for others.-Fun.
Many college graduates are excellent
oarsmen, yet do not know how to paddle
their own canoes when they go out into
the world.-New York Herald.
Always aim little higher than the
mark" says a philosopher. What!
Kiss a girl on the nose? Neyer!-Adri-
an Daily Times.
Show US home where the return of a
husband and father is the supreme
moment of the day. and there is no need
to look for any further assurance that it
is happy one.-Illustrated American
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-15
A PARLIAMENTARY BAR.

Another idea of Mr.. STE RNE's is the
organization of parliamentary bar to
take in charge the promotion OF defeat
of laws introduced into legislatures.
This notion has been suggested before
many times, but he enters the lists of adj
vocates with great energy and with many
effective arguments. 1t is not to be ex-
pected that the average senator or rep
reSentatiye will have the expert knowl-
edge necessary for the proper treatment
of the thousand and one subjects that
come before him for consideration.
Every interest has right to be heard
before measures are enacted which
may affect it adversely. As things are
managed at present these interests en-
ploy lobbyists, who. having free ae-
cess to committee rooms and legis-
Iative halls, persuade whom they can
and bride these they must. A trained
body of lawyers of high standing, regu-
larly engaged for this work, would rob
such men of their profession. A legis-
lator under such a system would be
like a juryman who uses his own
personal information in conjunc-
ton with the arguments of coun-
sci and evidence regularly introduced
before him. Mr.. STERNE's theory is
that results of higher grade would be
obtained, were our legislatures guided
by agencies of this sort, than ever can
be when haphazard and corruption are
the most powerful agencies at work.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-15
THoMpsoN's FAMOUS TRIP.
How He Went From Gold Hill to
DOwnieyiiIe on Foot.

ibid you ever hear of Kettle-belly
Thonpson's famous trip from Gold Hill
to Downieville?" asked an old-timer at
the Grand hotel of a San Francisco Call
reporter.
Never did, eh? Why, John Gilpin
and Gen Sheridan were not in it with
Thompson, and the latter still lives to
relate his story. 1t was back in the
sos that Thompson, with two compan-
ions, started on an intensely cold winter
day to walk over the divide from Gold
Hill to Downieville. A few days previ
Gus there had been heavy fall of snow,
which lay in some places to the dept of
four or five feet, and this rendered
travelling extremely difficult. The jour
ney up the eastern slope of the noun
tains was hard one, and when about
half the ascent had been made one of
Thompson'S companions became eX
hausted and could proceed no further.
In this dilemma hole was dug in the
snow, and the exhausted man was
placed in it to keep from freezing until
relief party could reach him.
"a couple of miles further on a sec
ond one gave ont and Thompson cached
! him in the snow, as he had done at first.
Then he struggled Oh alone in order to
reach his destination as soon as posi-
bic to secure aid. Thompson was very
stout and the exertion soon began to tell
on him. He succeeded in reaching the
summit of the divide, however, and
there his strength deserted him COM
pletely. The cold became more intense,
and, to avoid freezing, he decided to
bury himself in the snow. Finding
soft place in the snow he sprang into it,
drawing himself together as he did so,
and when he struck the surface instead
of sinking from sight he began to roll.
Faster and faster down the mountain he
went, the snow aceumulatlng like
huge ball about him. The people of
Downieville were alarmed when they
saw the huge snow ball flying down
upon them, but when it struck miners
snanty it burst in two and Thompson
stepped out unhurt.
"a relief expedition was formed and
his two companions rescued that night"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-15

yond the means of any farmer or
possible combination of farmers. Re-
publican papers have already dis
covered this fact, and are calling for
the invention of some simple, cheap de-
vice, but they will call III vain. The
tendency is the other way. To get the
bounty, the farmer must not only raise
the beetS, but he must convert them
into sugar. 1t is here that the cat be-
gins to be visible. Under this pretense
of giving something to the farmer hides
the favorite policy of giving something
to the manufacturer 1t is only the
producer of sugar" who ''shall re-
celve bounty of 2 cents ponnd' for
sugar made which tests not less
80 degrees by the polariscope, and
Of ~ cents pound if not
less than so degrees: and it is
onty the large manufacturer who
can produce this. 1t is this that makes
the GLOBE believe that it is not the in
tention of the government to ''pay the
farmers for their industry in addition to
the market price of their products and
which convnces it that Uncle JERRY
II
warrants the conclusion that the Re-
publicans are only trying to catch farm
er votes for the g. o. p. with sugar.
But back of this aspect of the bounty
policy lie far more important consid-
eratiOnS. Where does this money come
from out of which this twelve to fifteen
million dollars is to be paid to the men
who ''raise" sugar? What is this ''gov-
ernment'' that is gong ''to pay farmers
for their indu stry, in addition to the
market value of their products? Does
it own mines, from which, without cost,
1t gets gold and silver for coinage? Is it
engaged in any business yielding enor-
nous profits, out OF which it doles It's
charities? Is it some weird magician,
some alchemiSt, able to make some
thing out of nothing? Can it put dirt
into It's alembic aud produce gold?
Where but from the earnings of labor
does this money come? How, unless by
the tax gatherer we never see and those
whom we do see, is this money col
lecIed? The government is only all of
US. Its money is that OF all of us, taken
from all of us. Is it right to take from
the earnings of all of us to give to
bounty over and above the natural value
of the products of their industry to some
of us.
And can the farmers afford to accept
this bride, even if it is not apples of the
Dead sea that turn to ashes on the
lips"? For century they have borne
periodically if consciously, stupidity if
ignorantly, the burden of protecting.
either directly or incidentally, the
manufacturers. They are i'll revolt
against the policy of protection. They
denounce it as class legislation, which
should have DO place in the policy of a
republic. They say it shocks justice to
tax all for the benefit of a class. Will
they consent to this denial of justice
and right because this party now says it
will tax all for their welfare? Will they
pocket their principles and the bribe ?
Will they declare that what is wrong is
right if only they get the gift? Or will
they show that the American farmer is
man incapable of being bought to do
what he believes to be wrong ? The
farmers of the Northwest are put on
trial by this test, and as they stand it
will they be judged
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-15
THE BOOM IN FARM LANDS.

Everybody who knows anything about
it agrees that there is boom in Min
nesota farm lands at hand, and this can
therefore be put down among the things
which are settled. The phenomenal
growth of st. Paul and Minneapolis
during the six Or seven years
beginning with 1850 drained into
city property all the capital avail
able for investments of this char
acter. The agricultural districts suf-
tered some set-backs, not because they
could not earn good interest on fair
price, but because the attention of pur-
chaserS was turned III another direction
where immediate and large profits
awaited them. With small demand farms
could be had for ngures much below
their real value. There is always more
or less of everything for sale, no mat
ter how good it Island if no one has the
means or inclination to buy it, it will go
at sacrifice. Farmers die, and their
property comes into the market through
the probate court, or stories of great
richness elsewhere tempt them to the
hazard of new fortunes. in the quiet
which has prevailed for some years,
those who have been alert have
found great many bargains in
this class of investments. Now they
are about to reap their reward. City
real estate is inactive in most parts of
Minnesota, and there is no immediate
prospect of much speculation. The
vast hordes of people VINO poured out
to the Pacific coast during the excite
ment there are coming back in consld-
cradle numbers. The season has been
TO this point as promising as could be
desired. There will be big crop. and
good prices will prevail. AT the recent
sales of state lands in North Da-
kota $50 and $25 an acre was
freely offered in the richer and
more accessible counties. Dealers in
Minnesota farm lands report a vigorous
demand at large figures. God, who
sends the sunshine and the showers, is
about to wipe away from the brains of
the farmers the economic cobwebS
which have been growing there during
the dull, hard years. Prosperity brings
sense as no agitation or reasoning can
hope to.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-15
A BoARDER,s JOKE.
he Fires or the monograph at
the Lady With Whom He Feeds.
lew York Herald.

New orR Herald.
Theodore Edmond. who is recorded
as an occupant of the boarding house of
Mrs. Margaret Dusen, widow, of Bank
street, Newark, n. j., was allowed to 90
OH his own recOgnIZance in Judge Blau-
velt's court recently to answer to
charge of conspiracy and defamation of
character. The complaint was perhaps
one of the most novel which has ever
been brought into court.
Edmond, who is a clerk in a notion
house, is addicted to practical joking.
Becoming tired of the class of fare set
out at Mrs. Dusen's establishment En-
mOnd resolved upon teaching his land
lady lesson in generosity.
Securing a monograph he placed it
in the kitchen and brIbed the cook to
operate it when ner mistress came in
to talk business. On Sunday, and in
the presence of the other boarders, he
called Mrs. Dusen into the dining room,
and explaining that the instrument on
the table was musical machine, wished
her to turn the crank.
Mrs. DUsen consented, and this is
what she heard: MARY, you don't
want to pay over eight cents pound
for meat, anyhow; it is good enough for
them, and you can get it on Mulberry
street for that. You are giving too big
pieces of steak, | notice, too. Let 'em
eat more vegetables. Yesterday you
bought fresh pie. How often have |
told you to save five cents OH 'em by
getting them stale and warming them
up? Here on this bill is % cents a
pound for coffee; 10 cents will do here
after. I've got enought trouble without
feeding three men on s. week on pOr-
terhousesteak."
Mrs. Dusen smiled at first, then be-
came angry, and darted from Ihe room.
while the boarders were conYulsed with
laughter.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-15
HE GOT HIS DOLLAR.

A Swapping young man sat in the
Ellie depot. across the Hudson, the other
day, waiting for his train, writes NJ.
Quad. He had twelve scythestones in
bundle, on his right hand, and a
cuckoo clock in box on his
left. As he was looking around
the waiting room he gave
sudden start. Then he started some
more. Then he rose up and walked
over to a fashily dressed man about
forty years old, whom any one would
have spotted as fakir, and asked:
Don't you travel around with a
tooth powder?'
NO, SIR" was the sharp reply.
Wasn't you up i'll Elizabeth last
fall?"
mo, sir!'
Eyes you was, and I'll bet on it, You
are the same burned teller, and 1 know
"Sir! What does this meant" de-
manded the other.
ut means that | was in Elizabeth last
fall and bought a box of your tooth
powder. \ Oh changed a fiYe-doliar bill,
and darn my hide if you didn't horn
swaggle me out of dollarm
STRIP
mo use, old fellow! Iknowed we the
mint got eye on We. Same big dia
mond pin-same red necktie-same
nose, bumped up in the middle like a
circus camel! / want that dollar."
"This is outrageous I'll call police
mani" shouted the fakir.
Call and be burned to We, but I'll
lick We firstl YoI either come down
with that dollar or rll wallop We till ye
can't hollerw
Look here!' replied the other in
much milder tones, you are mistaken.
1t was my cousin who was lit Elizabeth.
He is dead now"
Then I'll take it out of your
"He is dead, as remarked, and rather
than have any blot resting on his fair
escutcheOn ! will pay you the dollar
That's all right! | don't know any
thing about 'scutcheOns, but Pye got to
have that dollar or pull hairl I've bin
loOkin' for your hump-backed nose all
over the face of the earth. And Pve
laid awake nights thinkin' how ia
make ye holer like an Injun if ever
got my paws on ye."
He was given dollar, ana the fakir
disappeared at once, and the young
man explained to those about him:
Pm almost sorry he give up so soon.
| was just achin' clean down to my
toes 10 lick him all over a fOrty-acre
lot 30
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-15
VIEWS OF STATE EDITORS.

1t is said by many who claim to know
that Brother Heatwole is himself in
cliped to accept the senatorship now
held by c. K. Davis. Senator Davis has
taken very high position in the senate,
both for his mastery of facts and prin-
ciples and for his mastery way of pre-
Senting them i'll reports and speeches.
1t would be well to improve our grade.
ii poSsible-we do not know but the
editor of the Mortified News would be
such nproyement.-Red Wing Re-
publican.
The gaming law of last winter has
few devoted friends, especially that part
making men liable who fire on prairie
hens previous to Sept. 1. Consisting of
farmers as did the majority of the last
legislature the wonder is that they conld
make such law with any intention of
keeping 1t. Why, as late as that date,
everything wearing feathers and run
ming wild will be too gamey to capture.
Granite Falls Tribune.
-
The Heron Lake News takes no stock
in the story that Gov. Merriam is laying
his wires to lay out G. K. Davis. Neither
do we. He has got through with the
them.-St. Peter Tribune.
~<
All the Merriam organs howl in
chorus that it is too early to discuss the
question of Senator Davis candidacy.
and it is too early for Merriam's good.
but Senator Davis friends must see to
it that he is not forgotten for moment
or Merriam's coup d. etat will win.-
FairmOnt News,
The Washington correspondent of the
Pioneer Press, sends in a column of
Minnesota politics, manufactured in
maryland, my Maryland" which in
dlcates sterling energy OH the part of
the 2. p. scribe, but which makes the
Minnesota politician chuckle in his
sleeve clear up to the elbow. IncUbat-
ing Minnesota politics in Washington is
akin to making soap bubbles with clay
pipe-the bubble is beautiful to look
upon but yaniSheth Oh short notice.
Mankato Free Press.
-
There appears to be determined eff
fort on the part of some people to push
ex-Gov. McGiil for the governorship in
1892. Mr.. McGill has just been inter
viewed in Washington OH the subject.
and, of course, he is Willing.-Duluth
Post.
Suppose Gov. Merriam is candidate
for United States senator. what of it?
Hasn't he as much right to aspire to the
high position as any one? This crying
down man because he isn't county
charge" shows spirit of anarchiSm.-
Heron Lake News.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-15
THESE ARE GREAT MEN.

Senator Sherman will not begin work
on his new house in Washington until
next spring, when all the political frost
is out of the ground.
-
President Harrison, with party of
friends, will go to Mount bIcGregOr dur
ing the summer for the purpose OF visit
ing the cottage in which Gen. Grant
died.
A distinguished party of foreigners,
who are making tour of the world, are
now in Philadelphia. They are Countess
Rechteren, of Haag; FIR. Rusche,
Madgeburg; b. Ehrler. Beyreuth; E.
Preuss, Berlin; Baron o. Won Leowen-
stern, Ri ga.
Rev. Sam Jones, after preaching two
hours and fifteen minutes in Cbatta-
nooga one warm night recently, asked
permission to take off his coat, which
was readily granted. The noted evan
geliSt then finished his discourse in his
shirt sleeves.
Although the Blaines some time ago
denied the rumor of the engagement of
Miss Hattie Blaine to TruxtOn BeaIe,
the engagement is now announced, and
the marriage is to take place in the fall.
Mr.. Beale'S appointment as minister TO
Persia opens up pleasant honeymoon
programme.
The venerable portrait painter, G. P
A. Healy, now eighty-three years of age
still plies the brush with skill and en-
thusiasm in Chicago. He has recently
completed a portrait of the Duke d'Au-
male, third son of Louis Philippe, for
the Crear library, for which the artist
made study at Chantiily.
~
Ex-President Cleveland has secured 4
lease, with purchase option, of what
is known as the "Joe Jefferson place"
in Saddle river valley, near the line that
divides New York and New Jersey.
The estate comprises about fifty acres.
The large stone house upon it. which
the eX-president will use as summer
home. is long and low, beng built in
the Dutch style.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-15
OUCH.

The piough-boy whistled behind his ploueb
For his lungs were sound and he had no
cough;
He guided his team with plant bough
And watered 1t well at wayside trough.
The toll was hard, for the land was rough
1t lay on the shores or an Irish Tough
But his welI-fed team was stout and Ioupb
And he piled his bough to flank and hough.
lie tolled all day, and the crow and enough
Flew around his head, though he off cried
.'Shoughr'
SUIT his plough at eve struck q hidden sough
With force that sent the share clear
through.
The frightened team ran off with the plough.
With the speed Of the wind from the
plough-boy, though
He shouted .'Whoaw And into slough
Il plunged, where the mud was as soft as
dough.
George Russell 1asaisezs iRQuerssa