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Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-23

came 80 tired of hearing about Aristides
the Just that they incontinently ban
ished him to foreign shores. Both
Blaine and Cleveland are in danger OF
suffering from too much "damnable
iteration" A man might possibly win
large money by betting that neither will
be the candidate of either of the great
national parties in the fateful year 1892.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-23
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
wEEpNspAY. July %, 1891


Mrs Amy G Brown and Walter Brown to ]
H Men Neil-N 63 feet of lot and s 80 feet of
lot Dennis and Stewards add 6-l4O; $1,000
Estate of Ozro w Childs, deceased Order con
frming sale of lot 2 bl 10 o w Childs 200 lot
trt 6-378 to M e Hammond trustee; $1,000
Charles Hurd and Naomi Hurd to James A
Gillson-W14 of lots IL and IL bl 1873 Pomona;
$1,000
Anita Rosenheim to Philip Rosenheim-Lot
8 bl f. L A Imp Co.'S sub 7-28, lot 43 bl 8
Howe's trt 1880, lot 10 bl / Greenleaf trt
12-7O; 5000,
w H Craddock to james Goode-Lot 81 feet
on W side of Main ct by 125 feet ON N side Tur-
rer st; $4,000
Belle Pottorff to Woods Smith-Lot l9Ox
s SO # on line Jefferson st 6O6.63 ft w of sW
cor Main st: $1,000.
Belle Pottortf, guardian of est of Willie Pot
torff-Same as above; $1,000
Horace Hitler and Abbie Hitler to Mrs Lucy
AndersOn-Lot Is bl B, Moran tract, 1927;
$4,000
Burlingame and Helen Burlingame to
Chsrles Talbott-Lot 10 bl E, West Los Ange
les trt: $500.
A A Dunlap, Mrs Achsah English and Mrs
Achsah English as trustee for Persia Tyler, Jen.
ME Tyler Wat Tyler, Guy Tyler Elsie Tyler and
Achsah Tyler to Hervey Lindley, James R Lowe
and Il L Stern, trustees of Reform school for
juvenile offenders, and the state of California
Part of Ro Paso de Bartolo Viejo, also part of
sEl4 of see 20 and NWZ sec 2S T 2 S r IL W
and water; s264OO.
FM Randolph to Gideon Hull Lots and
13 Excelsior frt, 26-43; $1,000.
Mary Hull TO Same-Lots and bl Ham
ilton trt, 5-524, lot IL Excelsior trt, 26-43 all
int in deed, 215-A85; $500.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-05-06
short-Hand writing.

Through persistent push" says a
late writer, 'almost anything can be
accomplished" and the earnestness of
Peter Bales, born in 1547, is fine ex-
ample. 1t is recorded of this man that
he was one of the first to present sys-
TEN of shorthand writing, and very
certain it is that unusual skill was at
tanned by him in his special line Of
work. In 1875 he accomplished won
derful feat of handicraft, arranging
within the circle of a single penny the
Lords prayer, the Creed, Decalogue
and two brief prayers in Latin; also his
own name, a motto, the day of the
month, year of the Lord, and reign of
the queen. to whom he presented it at
Hampton court. This remarkable fa-
cility of penwork received quaint set
ting; it was encased in a ring, with
borders of gold, and was protected by a
crystal; so accurately traced was every
word as to be plainly legible. No mar.
vel that it was greatly priced by her
majesty Queen Bess, SO eminently fond
was she of rare and curious additions to
her stock of treasures; and of this Of.
fering to her royal highness by she,
humble subject" we are assured that
she expressed decided pleasure. .-Har
per's Bazaar.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-05-06
GREENLAND ICE SAILING.

How DIR. Nansen Travelled with SIedges
and snow-shoes Over Inland Ice.
Dr. Nansen, the intrepid explorer, in
his account of his adventurous journey
across Greenland, tells how his party
carried all their stores on two light
sledges drawn by hand. Each sledge
with it's load weighed about two hun
dred pounds.
On the inland ice, when the wind was
favorable, they could, by rigging up
sails for the sledges out of the wall.
pieces and roofs of their tents, get their
loads transported without labor, and
sometimes with great swiftness.
The explorer speaks with much en-
thusiasm of the Norwegian ''skis, -
which he wore on all his snow journeys.
The s.slxi" is wooden footgear, s
feet long, 3A inches wide at it's broadest
part, curving upward toward the front
The 'skilober'' puts his toes into a
| leather receptacle like the fore part ot
a boot, and buckles strap round the
back of the heel. allowing the heel tc
rise freely.
With pair Of ''skis" he can skid over
moderately firm snow at the speed o1
seven, eight or nine miles an hour OF
level ground, and fears not to rush dowr
steep hills with amazing swiftness o,
to psrform amazing leaps.--N. Y. Jour
nal
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-05-06
help it, and try to make it feel itself
II b.

help it, and try to make it feel itself
at home amongst us.
And tried to explain it to. her, how
that as she had come first, she owed a
courtesy to the newcomer and that she
must be ready and willin' to neighbor
with her. l didn't use jest those words,
but them was my idees.
told her how blind the little creeter
was, and babe, if only out of polite
ness, must try to see for her, lead her
straight over ways she knew nothin
about, and keep her from harmin' her.
self.
How baby Snow couldn't talk for
herself at all now, and babe must talk
for her; good talk, that little Snow
could learn of her bimeby How she
couldn't walk, and babe must go ahead
o her and make good path for her to
follow when she got big enough.
told her jest how hard it was for the
little creeter to be put here in the
midst of sorrow, and trouble, and dam
gers, and how we must all of us be Jest
as good to her as we could out of pity
for the dear little lonesome creeter.
So reused up babe's pity for her.
and she was all animated about helpin'
OF her; and then [ told her the baby
had come to be great blessin' and
comfort to her, if she was only patient
and good to her
And don't you see the very fact of
babe havin' to do kindness to Snow,
havin' to do good things for her, was
the surest way of maxim her love her,
for it is great fact in our human ma
ture that you can't love 'em that you
have injured in any way And at the
same time, if you have ever been good
to anybody, you always feel softer to.
wards 'em ever afterwards, and more
mellerer.
GURUS, amt it?
| But it is fact.
And I spoze the reason of it is that
you have sort o. loaoered yourself in
your own estimation by doing mean,
unkind act, and so, in order to satisfy
your mental criticism O. yerself, to make
it right with your own soul, you lay
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-05-06
MURILLO'S MULATTO.
A Boy Artist Who Found Out by Accident
That He Had Talent.

The famous Spanish painter Murillo
had a little mulatto boy named Sebas-
tan, the son of Gomez, negro slave.
The little fellow was employed in the
workroom in which the pupils of the
master carried on their studies, and had
to grind the colors, clean the palettes
and wait on the youths, who often
treated him with ridicule, but some
thing occurred in the studio which soon
engrossed all their attention.
One morning one of the students
found part of his work completed
which he had left unfinished the
previous day; and the amazement
of the young men increased when
day after day they found ad-
dltions. and sometimes corrections,
made on their canvases. They accused
each other of tampering with their
work in their absence, but this was
strenuously denied, and matters reached
climax when one of them, who had
commenced picture of the Descent
from the Cross, on going to his work in
the morning, found the head of the Ma
donna painted in! How it got there
they could not imagine, as it was better
than they could have painted it; SO they
told the master of the mysterious Cir
cumstance, and showed him the head
He was surprised at its excellence, and
thinking Sebastian must know about
it, as he slept in the room every night,
he told the boy that unless he found
out the unknown artist by the follow
ing morning he should be severely
whipped.
The poor little mulatto was in an
agony of terror, for he himself was the
mysterious painter Having natural
genius and intense love for the art, he
had all this time been secretly studying
and practising painting on the canvases
of the students before they came in the
morning, and listening earnestly to the
master whilst he was giving them in
structions, and being but slave and in
dread of the scourge he thought that if
he confessed it were he it would only
subject him to still worse punishment
1Of MS preSumpulon, SO ne resolved TO
expunge the Madonna's head and never
paint any more.
But when he rose early in the morn
ing to carry out his intention, and
| looked at the beautiful face, he had not
the heart to rub it out, but to work
| to finish it instead. And SO absorbed
was he as the time went by that it was
| only on hearing a rustic behind him
that he turned his head and beheld the
| student, with the master himself, look
| ing on in admiration.
The poor little slave fell on his knees,
imploring pardon, but Murillo, kindly
raising him up, asked him what reward
he should give him for his skill and in,
| dustry. Sebastian only asked for his
fathers freedom, which Murillo at once
granted and giving him his own liberty
also, received him among his pupils
He soon distinguished himself and be.
came a celebrated painter, but he was
better known as Murillo's mulatttc
than by his proper name of Sebastian
Gomez He died in 1890, having sur
vived his master but a few years. His
principal works may still be seen il
Seville.-N. Y. World.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-05-06

He was about twelve years old, and
very black. He was hired to work in
the garden by the day, but the moles
and frogs in the ground, the birds in
the trees, the stray cats and dogs out
side the fence, and the passing stream
Of acquaintances, offered SO many di
versions that work Jagged.
His mistress watched him in despair
Josiah, she pleaded, why don't yor
do your work? 1t wears met out hav
ing to sit here to watch you.'
He looked up, his wizeIs face expires
sionless. 'sWhy," he drawled, II could
sit roun all day an watch you work
an nevah git tired" ."-Hapeg's Raxay
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-05-06
vENEERiNG MILK WITH CREAM.
One of Life's Golden Illusions Dispeled by
Getting Up Too Early.


can never, never-no, not if | live to
the age of Methusaleh-forgive the man
who invented early rising. He has done
me irreparable injury. He has destroyed
one of the fondest illusions of my life
time.
had such good milkman. He was
one of the sealed-bottle breed. He had
the loveliest kind of a red wagon, and
he brought our lacteals in beautifully
branded glass jars, with the name of
the farm and-I was almost going to say
the hour of elivery-stamped in the
glass
How praised the fellow to my friends!
have no doubt that at times | made a
perfect nuisance of myself. Atthe din
ner table, if I had company there, |
would have Clarissa bring in a bottle Of
milk so that l could make a display of
the yellow rim of cream at the top.
This was grievous fault, own. Let
him who is without similar sin cast the
first stone at me.
At any rate, the milking stool was the
hobby bestrode, and rode it almost
to death.
But one morning was forced to get
up early in order to do piece of work
for the Herald. Alack the day! | set
the alarm clock, little thinking that it
was to ring knell to'one of my fondest
hopes. / groped my way into the
habilaments of day, and with sleepy
eyes launched forth into the frosty and
lonesome street.
Just around the corner, heard the
| musical sounds of tin implements strik-
| ing against each other-the city mans
! nearest approach to that loveliest of
| discords the Naturalization of the
cowbelrs clangor-and looking up be-
held the little red wagon of my own pet
mill1man drawn up close to the curb.
He was bending over some work, in
which he seemed to be deeply absorbed,
and as ] drew near had chance to
see what it's nature was before he
caught sight of me.
And oh, what do you think the rogue
was doing? 1t choles me so that l can
scarcely speak the sentence. He was
"topping off, milk bottles from the
cream can. He was putting that final
and convincing head of gold upon the
surface of the fluid which had been
taught to believe was bottled at the
dairy"
The same old forehead of brass and
feet of clay! ! turned aside and wept.
1t matters to me no longer what the
fluid underneath really was; whether il
ever saw COW; paid tribute to the
churn or come in the first place from the
pump or hydraut. My bottle of milk
was cream topped fraud, and had
been paying worship to false and hol
low idol.
Henceforth l forswear milk as bev,
erage, and will confne myself to worm
wood and gall.
Milkman spare that oan,
Touch not single drop;
thought had cinch,
But 1t was all on top.
| IN. Y. Herald
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-05-06

NOSE.
,a asu anon she drew one little arm up
,nsN la my neck, and anon the other one,
s;ot! I looked down deep into her eyes,
rs., am INTO the little true soul, and that
ae ~ 'rue soul saw the truth in mine.
- ao,,'s couldn't have convinced babe
= oseil as that look that she had learnt
% depend on.
ba;. 'e mas language that though may
r,as liant be exactly parsed and anal
sss @ yet 1t can be understood exactly,
liz. understood, and babe see that
loved her.
swaas,.n ,nen was the time that that
kissss kses little creeter put up her arms and
In. Ssea me, and l says, sort O. low like,
'as very tender:
noeb Sbsestheart, : you know jest how
ana a ! love You, don't you?"
in .uu a then l kissed her several times
on ,oas places on her face. every one
and en us sweet places. And then went on
he naSe ,aiSed dretful good to babe about
BE-, as" as oabs. l contided in her, told
oma aoout how the little new soul had
nes, unknown to itself. here into a
sss strange world. how helpless Il
4oW weak, and how we must all
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-05-06

hold and bring up all the faults you can
of that person, to justify your own act.
And so you keep on that mental nag
GIN at 'em; that uncomfortable sort of
feelin' towards 'em makes you rest
less and uneasy, and you feel glad and
relieved every time you stand justified
to your consciousness by ketchin' 'em
| in bad act Hain't it so? Now, hon.
estly, hain't it?
Why, I know it is, and SO l made
sure that babe should begin right.
For if you do good, helpful thing
for person, your hull soul feels COM
Portable, and you bring up unconscious
mental reasonin's why you did it; it
was because they were so good, SC
smart, etc, etc.
And so you keep on feelin' good
and comfortable, and you keep on
provin' up to your own self, till you
get fairly in love with 'em. Bless you
if you don't!
A very GURUS thing. But the way
do, when get holt of strange fact OF
truth, 1 don't expect to explain 1T full
to myself before act ont.
No, l grasp holt of it and use it fol
nv own then, and afterwards wonder
at it to my hearts content.
SO babe got to thinkin' she was nee
essary to little Shows happiness, and
that tickled her little self-esteem, jest
es if she was older child, only accord
in to her weight.
She got to thinkin' she must watch
over her or she would get hurt, which
called out all the good protectors moth
erly impulses of her little soul which
was in her-still accordin' to he,
weight, forty pounds more or less
And day by day babes love for the
little creeter grew till it was fairly
beautiful to see 'em together, and sc
Josiah said, and Thomas j. said so, anc
Tirzeh Ann and Maggie and Whit
field.
And as for Miss Pixley, l thought tt
myself, disappointments or not, l have
got to give her talkin to, and the
very next time see her.
She had gone when babe and went
out of the parlor--the babe with hap
py, bright eyes, and l with kinder
thoughtful, plying ones, and all fou
on EN- kinder wet.
But the next time see Miss PixleJ
alone, l tackled her, and she as good az
promised me that she wouldn't ever say
to any woman's child what she had sale
to babe.
And | don't believe she will either
for she's got good in her.
She haint such a bad creeter aftel
all, and good land! what can you ex
pect?-seven, right along, one after tn
other?-Josia Aliens Wife, in Ladies
Home Journal.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-05-06

with her big, blue-Sray eyes a shlnin :,
AVID her golden-yellow hair a-fallln'
hack from her little, eager, happy, up
turned face
When all of sudden the kitchen
door opened and Miss Pixley came in,
and before she had been there some
fine, she says to babe, a-winkin to me
at the same time: .
"your nose is broke now, young LADY,
Babe put her little fingers up to her
nose and felt of it. And | winked to
Miss Pixley to not say no more, for l
tnew what she meant; | knew she
meant that Thomas cJefferson's little
now baby would crowd babe, our Tir-
,eh AIMS little daughter, out OF our
hearts.
But Miss Pixley went right on. She
isan old maiden, and has had five dis
anpointments, and some say seven, and
thew have embittered her. And says
she to babe:
Little Snow, the new baby will take
your place now, in grandma's heart.
Babe looked troubled; on her smooth
little brow | could see fall the first
faint shadow of that great black shape
that We call jealousy. Her big, sweet
ewes looked as if they was cloudin' up
nicely for tears.
And wunk severer and more vigel-
eut winks than I had wunk before at
Miss Pixlcy to stop! If ever a wink
spoke. them did, to stop immegidly!
But she kept right on. Poor creeter,
Ispozc them disappointments was the
the cause ont. She KEEP right on, and
ses she:
"You won't be g'andma's baby any
more now: she has got somebody else
TO love now"
And then the cloud did break into a
rainfall of tears. Babe jest bust out a
Gyin', and snuggled down into my arms,
and laid her wet checks on my bosom,
through the force of old custom, and,
anon! (how much like human creeters
aceordin' to her size), she drew her
head away as if sayin':
~ can't lay my head there any more;
Il the love has gone out of the heart it
won't rest me nor comfort me no more
tolay there"
And pride woke up in her; she was
too proud to make a fuss, or beg for
love. How much, how much like big
children! So she sot up kinder straight
inmy lap, with her pretty lips culver
in, an the tears a-runnin' down hel
cheeks
And riz right up with babe in my
arms and went out of the room pretty
quick, but not vigelent.
Josiah was there. wouldn't misuse
Miss Pixley OWN to the six or seven
things mentioned by me prior and be,
fore this. But felt that / must make
fright with babe that very minute.
knew how she felt-wounded love
and pride, and jealousy, etc, etc, etc
knew that few syllables of abou
the hardest lessons of life had come t.
Oabe' and must help her spell 'em;
must help her with her lesson.
so l took her right into the parlo1
and set down with her in the big chair
and never said word for minute o.
TWO, only held her clost to me, anc
Kissed the shinin' hair that lay III
against my cheek.
she a-strugglin' at first, jealousy ant
pr'oe a-naggin' her, and she at first a
not no, oein' <, able to hsar any voices only
Jest IIs them of jealousy and pride-jes
IKE older children exactly.
but after awhile held her so warn
sla M study, with my cheek a-layin' OF
ne pretty head, the stiddy, firm clasl
ana contact sort O calmed her, ant
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-05-06
The Decadence Of the Roman Empire.


The idea of absolute individual prop
erty in land, which modern civilization
derived from Rome, reached it's full de-
velopment there in historic times.
When the future mistress of the world
first looms up, each citizen had his
little homestead plot, which was in
alienable, and the general domain
''the cortland which was of public
right"--was subject to common use,
doubtless under regulations or customs
which secured equality, as in the Teu-
tonic mark and Swiss allmend 1t was
from this public domain, constantly ex-
tended by conquest, that the patrician
families succeeded in carving their
great estates. These great estates by
the power with which the great at
tracts the less, in spite Of temporary
checks by legal limitation and recur-
ring divisions, finally crushed out all
the small proprietors, adding their lit
tie patrimonies to the latifundia of the
enormously rich, while they themselves
were forced into the slave gangs, be-
came rent-paying colonii, or else
were driven into the freshly conquered
foreign provinces, where land was given
to the veterans of the legions; or to the
metropolis, to swell the ranks of the
proletariat who had nothing to sell but
| their votes.-Progress and Poverty.
The Louisiana Democrat., 1891-05-06
sQUEAks LIKE SHRlEKs.
The Appalling Groans of Wooden-Axle
Bullock Carts in the Azores.


Bullock Carts in the Azores.
Passing through the villages in the
harvest time is frequently matter of
picking ones way daintily among large
linen sheets spread with the maize grain
Or beans which it is the habit of the cot
tagers to dry out in front of their.
houses, writes bicyclist Osbert How
arth, describing his trip to the Azores.
The task is further complicated by the
presence of stray babies, fowls and dogs
ad infinitum.
In the midst of his efforts to steer
clear of all these, the riders ears will
be greeted now and again with the ap-
palling shrieks and groans of some bull
lock cart loaded to the skies with rip
ened maize. Huge wooden axles run
ming in wooden bearings without lubri-
cation, create din which is often audi
BILE for miles, and at close quarters is
absolutely stunning.
l inquired into this theory of friction
with some curiosity, and was informed
that the familiar tune is so soothing to
the bovine ear that the animals would
decline to work without it. Neverthe-
less, it is suppressed by law in passing
through the towns where grease is de
rigueur.
The bullocks are harnessed with a
frightfully burdensome yoke of timbe,
on the neck, and are commonly driven
four-in-hand, if one can use the term
where the steering apparatus consists o1
rope round the horn of the leader
A very brief experience shows thai
abundant time must be given to effect
safe passage of such team in narrow
quarters, for the bullock mot to men
ton his driver) will commonly stare
with mute surprise until ones pilo
wheel is under his nose before it occur
| to him to make way.-Outing.