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DRINKING SOLDIERS.
Pernicious Effects of Moderate Drinking
Among Officers.

Pernicious Effects of Moderate Drinking
Among Officers.
good point is scored by Mrs. Nc
Clees for American patriotism. Women
may reasonably protest when they see
the nations defenders going over to the
enemy by adopting the vices of foreign
countries
The truth is land the good of the
army and navy should not allow us to
overlook it, that United States officers
with few exceptions are so-called mod
crate drinkers and they also ape for
eign customs too much.
The name 'canteen,' for instance;
for although it may have signified in
the Spanish army more than a century
ago a cellar for the sale of liquors, with
accompaniment of music, such as was
once the case in the United States ma
Wy when the grog tub was nailed to tho
mast of the ship and the blue Jackets
were marched to their daily ration by
musical sounds, and although it might
have had the English meaning of per-
ipatetic store chest which afterwards
became permanent refreshment room
for the British army or so-called
club room for the French troops; yet
history records for us the sad conse-
quences resulting, viz, greater intoXi-
cation found within the camp limits
than without, SO that the attention Of
parliament was called to an investiga-
ton which resulted in prohibition. -
w. C., II, u, Bulletin.
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FACTS AND FINDINGS.

THE Toxic Temperance society was
organized by Miss Jessie Alderman,
March IS, 1890; it now numbers eight
hundred mem bers.-W. c. T. U. Bull
letin.
EVERYWHERE in the United States the
liquOr-dealerS are holder than ever.
They attack the legislatures with prop
ositiOns to give them greater license,
and exert an influence as powerful as
| it is subtle. In some places they say
they are in position not to ask favors,
but to make demands.
IN the British army in India are
twelve thousand total abstainers The
proportion of offenses against military
rule and order is forty times as great
among those who use strong drink as
among those who abstain from it. And
if kings, rulers, lords and generals
could be kept from using strong drink,
there would be very little need of
armies or wars.
JULES RoCHARD, noted student of
hygiene. gives these figures for the
loss, direct and indirect, entailed by
the consumption of alcohol in France:
Value of alcohol consumed exclusive
CT duty paid, l2S. POS, 3S4 francs; loss of
labor, 1910 174.5O0 francs; medical
treatment and stoppage of work, TO-
S42, 900 francs; cost of maintenance of
insane, 2,652,9l francs; suicides and
deaths from accidents, 1922, 900 francs;
cost of repression of crime due to al
cohol, S, 1914, 800 francs: total, expressed
in doll r1A
spending loss in England is estimated
at S5S4. 1926, 015.
DR. LAUDER BRUNTON, assistant ply
stefan, st. Bartholomew hospital: Il
feel very strongly that the use of alco-
hol, in any shape, is inadvisable for
healthy children or healthy youth. In
disease, even in children, it is some
times invaluable as remedy, but
think that great care is required not to
continue its use beyond the time when
it is absolutely necessary. | have
hitherto seen no reason to change the
opinion | expressed many years ago,
that healthy men, as rule. are better
without it; and this applies still more
strongly to children and youth. Jour
nal of Inebriety.
EVER since Emperor William aces
sion to the throne of Germany, it is
said, he has persistently demanded
some restriction of the liquor traffic.
For three years his ministers have been
collecting statistics and evidence con-
corning its effects: the decisions arrived
at have been embodied in bill that
has been sanctioned by the Bundesrath.
1t DEGREES the withdrawal of saloon
licenses, the filming of saloon keepers
who encourage drunkards to buy
liquor, fines for drunkards if they are
poor enough to have fines deter them
from drinking and Imprisonment if
they are rich enough not to feel the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-07-03
QUICK AS THE TELEPHONE.
The Saving Influence of a Little Child
PRAYER.

One night well-known citizen of
western city who had been walking for
some time in the downward path. came
out of his house and started down town
for a night of carousal with some old
companions he had promised to meet.
His young wife had besought him with
imploring eyes to spend the evening
with her, and had reminded him of the
time when evenings passed in her COM
pany were all too short. His little
daughter had chung about his knees
and coaxed in her pretty, willful way
for papa" to tell her some bedtime
stories; but habit was stronger than
love for child and wife, and he eluded
her tender questioning by the deceits
and excuses which are the convenient
refuge of the Incorporate, and so went
on his way.
When he was some blocks distant
from his home he found that IN chang
ing his coat he had forgotten to remove
his wallet, and he could not go on a
drinking bout without money, even
though he knew his family needed it,
and his wife was economizing every
day more and more in order to make
up his deficits; so he hurried back and
crcpt softly past the window of his
little home in order that he might steal
in and obtain it without running the
gauntlet of either questions or caresses.
But as he looked through the window
something stayed his feet; there was a
fire in the CRATE within-for the night
was chill-and it lit up the little parlor
and brought out in startling effect the
pictures on the wall. But these were
nothing to the pictures on the hearth.
There in the soft glow of the freight
knelt his child at her mothers feet, its
small hands clasped in prayer, its fair
head bowed; and, as its rosy lips
whispered each word with childish dis
tinctness, the father listened, spell
bound, to the words which he himself
had so often uttered at his own mothers
knee:
Now lay me down to sleep"
His thoughts ran back to his boy
hood hours, and as he compressed his
bearded lips he could see in memory the
face of tn at mother, long since gone to
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at far distant fort, she had proudly
borne her colonel to that position, and
had not the call of duty summoned her
there to-day?
Forward, march,
To the strains of inspiring music she
curvetted and pirouetted needless OF
Edwin's frantic tugs and shouts. To
add to her riders chagrin, one of his
priced patent-leather pumps had been
wrenched from his foot by the stirrup,
and his crimson silk hose babe fair to
follow. But how should Bess know
that? Had not the naughty colonel
been wont to goad her into backing,
and prancing, and showing off, upon
all public occasions? and, feeling her
youth revived, why should she not exc
cute all the old-time steps to-day? But
alas for the rider, who lacked the
| Workmanship of the accomplished
colonel! Such gyrations and ''tomfool-
cry were beyond Edwin, and he was
constrained to drop the bride and cling
like John Gilpin, of famous memory
to the stout neck of old Bess, or else
suffer entire defeat.
Like all performe Bess reserved
her greatest effort for the last She
had backed, swayed from right to left,
almost sat upon her launches; and
now, as the inspiring strains of March
ing Through Georgia" awoke all to en-
! thusiasm, the old horse reared straight
in the air, wheeled i'll that position, and
down went Master Edwin in the dust.
The 'rabble"hastened to pick him up out
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know'-this latter phrase with the
most correct English drawl possible.
cav, you dawn't, >" mimicked Stephen
Wood, slyly inserting q lighted fire
cracker into the coat pocket of the
dude. "Mebbe it amt good form,
neither, to yell and jump'-as Edwin
did both from the explosion of the
cracker
Hey, there" demonstrated Uncle
Lie Petit, who stood in no little awe
of this city-bred son of his rich brother,
chats no way to treat q visitor, it
amt! I'm ashamed on YEP
Edwin colGyed
"Never mind me, uncle" he replied,
loftily. They behave according to
their lights. You know the old saying
about silk purse and a-a-pig's ear.
! came down here prepared for country
rudeness."
''IIumph!' said Uncle Lie, nettled in
his turn, you come prepared, did We?
What sort of weppins did you bring?"
"A coat of mail, mcbbe," drawled
Steve, who had resented the visitors
superciliousness from the first.
w ~ NOHO VI
mented Dannie, a nephew of Uncle
Lies on his wife's side
Edwin flushed angrily, as he NUT
tered something about refinement and
good breeding.
st amt meant for rudeness, Edwin, :"
said Uncle Lie, in conciliatory way.
"They be country lads full of good,
healthy blood and high spirits, and they
nat rally don't take to skim milk or
any artificial sort O. breedin'. You Jest
fall into their ways while you're down
here, and Ill warrant you'll go back to
town with more rale grit into yer than
half dozen lads of yer size and build. ."
Thank you," retorted Edwin, dryly,
busting his patent-leather pumps with
fine cambria handkerchief. Il find
it altogether too easy to acquire grit in
the country. My silk stockings bear
testimony to that fact already
"Humphr' was the only reply which
good-natured Uncle Lie could find to
this speech, as he turned away, re-
solved not to interfere again between
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such Miss Nancy and the raillery
which he so richly deserved.
There's goin' to be parade up to
Broomville, announced Dannie on the
morning of the Fourth, land a lot of
us boys have made up our minds to
join it,
"Ya-as," said Uncle Lie, pleased at
the notion; Il belonged to the militia
when was young Teller, myself. Eff
it hadn' a been fer the squint into my
eyes I'd "a fit in the war of the rebel
lion. l would, fer fac"
Dannie coughed, inasmuch as it was
a standing joke among the neighbors
that Uncle Lie Pettitt's eyes were so
loosely constructed that he could turn
them into their respective corners at
will, and he had willed during the
period of the war, and especially dur
ing the time of drafts that they
should at intervals retreat to those cor
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SHE BANGED HER HAIR.
And There Was Silence at the Dinn
Table for Four Hours.

And There Was Silence at the Dinner
Table for Four Hours.
She had beautiful brown hair, and
she parted it Madonna-wise. 1t waved
over her temples and her husband loved
it. WIN he came home the other
evening he found her calmly swinging
to and !ro in low rocker, and down
over her smooth forehead hiding it com
peRtely hung Russian bang.
He said she looked like a cook. He
withheld the light of his countenance
from her for four days. The domestic
enlargement interested the boarding
house. The men upheld him in his sor-
row and anger, and the women ranged
themselves on the side of the Russian
bang.
For four days he did not speak word
at table The solemnity of the meals
became expressing. If anybody had
laughed-but nobody did-it would have
sounded hollow. The conversation was
forced and unnatural Nobody ven
tured to hint where things might end.
On the fifth day he said: Pass the
gravy" He said it in voice as sweet
as if all his life was sunshine. Six men
and three women reached for it. With
gravy, they had never associated senti-
ment, but now they all took gravy with
him. 1t was a smoking of the peace
pipe, an eating of the gravy of recon-
Citation.
"Will you take me-" she asked, ''to a
concert this evening"" Her bang was
smooth and demure. 1t knew it had
won the day. But all things come to
him who waits, and now the boarding
house is watching to see if she will let
the Madonna hair grown. y. Re-
corder.
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And then what jollity there'd be
From New Years till December.
But should these birthdays be forgot,
Our country's still we'd honor; -
We're children of one mother dear,
The country loyal hearts revere
May blessings rest upon her:
For this each year we usher in
With bell and lannon's voicing
The day that gave our country birth,
We dedicate the hours to mirth
And I'LL them with rejoicing.
The flag we love unfurls it's stars
From ocean unto ocean,
And patriotic sons attest
Thro' north and south, thro' east and west
A peoples deep devotion.
Give three times three, oh, boys and girls
Give cheers that end in laughter;
Be glad and gay-we'll make the day
So bright and glorious all shall say
None better can come after
Anna NJ Pratt, in Golden Days.
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The English Crown.

The English crown is made of dia,
monds, rubies, sapphires, pearls and
emeralds, set in silver and gold bands;
it weighs thirty-nine ounces and five
pennyweights, troy; in it are 3,452 dia-
monds, 273 pearls, 9 rubies, u sapphires
and II emeralds.
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THE CALL OF DUTY.
Cousin Edwin's Experience at the
Broomville Celebration.

URRAH for the
T o u r t h o f
JULY" and up
went Dannie's
hat as a further
expression o f
e n t h IL $ a S m.
"Why don't you
h IL + ~, too,
Cousin Edwin"
Il never ex-
press myself in
such a bolster
o Il S manner
languidly re
piled the city
lad; cts not
Good form won
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DUB couNrRY,s BIRTHDAY.

F all the birthdays
in the land
Were kept with
celebration,
We'd have our fill
of holidays,
When bells would
rim g and fire.
works blaze
T b roughout this
mighty nation.
For many thousands
every day,
If each one should
remember,
Might join 40 hold a
..l.n
Los Angeles herald., 1891-06-29

"Do you know" said a gentleman
yesterday, "there are some things gem
orally taught and accepted as truth
which do not believe? / heard an old
gentleman earnestly advising a young
man 10 always preserve his credit.
Keep your credit good at all hazards,
said the old man, and you will be all
right. Now, l don't subscribe to this.
Take the average young man; the
young lawyer. or doctor, or mechanic, or
engineer, or, in fact. any young man
working for a salary, and he would be
much better off if his credit was utterly
ruined and gone. Credit is perpetual
temptation to run into debt; than which
condition nothing can be sadder. Most
people are not capable OF that high
grade, self control one reads of in books,
and sooner or later stroll into debt if
good credit leaves the bars down. One
can find this true on all sides. Young
men have mortgaged their future for
one, two and three years and are held in
a sort of slavery of their own making in
this struggle for dead horse"
Los Angeles herald., 1891-06-29
SUMMONS.

TN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE
il of California, in and for the County of Los
Angeles.
Patience E. Mullen, plaintiff, VS.. Thomas c.
Mullen, defendant.
Action brought in the Superior Court of the
State of California, in and for the County of Los
Angeles, and the complaint filed in said County
of Los Angeles in the Office of the Clerk OF said
Superior Court.
The People of the State of California send
greeting to Thomas c.. Mullen, defendant
You are hereby required to appear in an action
brought against you by the above named plalnt-
fin the Superior Court of the State OF Califor-
mia, in and for Los Angeles County, and to an
swer the complaint filed therein, within ten
days exclusive of the day of service), after the
service on you of this summons, If served within
this county, or, if served elsewhere. within
thirty days, or judgment by default will be taken
against you according to the prayer of said COM
plaint.
The said action is brought to obtain decree
of said court dissolving the bonds of matrimony
existing between said plaintiff and defendant,
as alleged in said complaint, upon the grounds
of willful desertion of said plaintiff by said de-
children mentioned in said complaint be award
ed to said plaintiff, and for such other and fur
ther relief as may seem just and proper, and for
costs of suit Reference is had to complaint
for particulars.
appear and answer the said complaint es above
required, the said plantiffwil cause your default
to be entered and will apply to the court for
the relief demanded in the complaint
Given under my hand and the seal of the Su-
for the County of Los Angeles, this 9Th day of
May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
SEAL T. H. WARD Clerk.
BY D. e. ADAMS, Deputy Clerk
Jones & Carlton, attorneys for plaintiff.
II
Los Angeles herald., 1891-06-29

The early miner has never been truly
painted. l protest against the tiippant
stvle and eccentric rhetoric OF those
writer's who have made him terror, or
who, seizing upon case OF extreme
oddity, some drunken, brawling wretch,
have given caricature to the world as
the typical miner. The so-called litera-
ture that treats of the golden era is too
extravagant in this direction. In all my
personal experience in mining camps
from 1S49 to 1854, there was not single
case of bloodshed, robbery, theft or ac-
tual violence. l doubt if more or
derly society was ever known. How
could it be otherwise? The pioneers
were young, uncorrupted, most OF them
we'll educated and from the best fami-
lies in the east. The early miner was
ambitious, energetic and enterpris-
ing. No undertaking was too great
to daunt him. Tie pluck and re-
sources exhibited by him in attempt
ing mighty projects with nothing but
his courage and his brawny arms to
carry them out was phenomenal. His
generosity was profuse and his sympa-
thy active, knowing no distinction OF
race. His sentiment that justice is
sacred was never dulled. His services
were at command to settle differences
peaceably, or with pistol in hand to
right wrong done a stranger. His
capacity for self.government has never
been surpassed. OF a glorious epoch,
he was OF glorious race.-[Century.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-06-29
Notice of Sale of Real Estate Under
Execution.

VIZ R. BLACKMAN. PLAINTIFF, VS.. THE
w Electric Rapid Transit Company, a
corporation, d. Mcfarland, w. w Manspeaker
and F. G. Hentig, defendants.
Sheriff7s sale-No- 14,592.
By virtue of an execution issued out OF the
Superior Court of the county OF Los Angeles
State of California, wherein W. r. Blackman,
plaintiff, and The Electric Rapid Transit Com
pany corporation, ct ais, defendants, upon
Judgment rendered the 4th day of April, A. ID.
1891, for the sum of Sl.37S 10 in lawful money
of the United States, besides costs and interest,
l have this day levied upon all the right title,
claim and interest of said defendants, The
ct ais, of, in and to the following described real
estate, situate in the county of Los Angeles
State of California, and bounded and described
Lot one Q) block ten 10Y, o. W. Childs tract,
fronting on Maple avenue between Tenth and
Eleventh streets, together with its power house
Lot three 81 block one ~. of Mills subdi-
vision of lot three (3) De Cells tract, on East
Pico.
Plaza and running southerly along Los Angeles
street to Third street. thence easterly on Third
street to Wall street, thence southerly along
Wall street, thence westerly along Seventh
street to Maple avenue, thence westerly along
Maple avenue to Jefferson street, also starting
at the junction of Maple avenue and East Pico
street, thence westerly along East Pico street to
Main street and along Pico street to P1co
Public notice is hereby given, that will, on
1891, at IL O'Clock m. OF that day,
in front of the court house door OF
tion, for cash lawful money of the United
States all the right title, claim and interest of
said defendants, of, in and to the above de-
scribed property, or so much thereon as may pc
necessary to raise sufficient to satisfy said
Judgment, with interest and COSTS etc. to the
highest and best bidder
Dated this Goth day of June, 1891.
E. D. GIBSON,
Sheriff of Los Angeles County.
ByF. c. HANNoN, Deputy Sheriff.
R. H. knight, attorney for plaintiff.
% mon At
Los Angeles herald., 1891-06-29
PASADENA.
Mrs. Bartlett of Monk Hill is quite ILL.
DR.. Michener spent yesterday at Santa

Mrs. Bartlett of Monk Hill is quite i'll.
DR.. Michener spent yesterday at Santa
Monica.
Professor Kyle is arranging elaborate
stage settings for the opera Thursday
and Friday evenings.
Governor Markham and family will
arrive from Sacramento this morning
with the remains of their little daugh-
ter, Genevieve. Preparations for the
funeral have been arranged by telegraph
with the Rev. D. d. Hill, who will Off
ciate at the services, which will be held
at the family residence this afternoon at
2:30 Interment will take place at
Mountain View cemetery.
Robert Rogers spent Sunday at Re-
dondo.
Prof. Graham returned from Ingle-
wood today.
The numerous friends in this city of
Prof. and Mrs. E. T. Pierce will be
panied to learn of the sudden death at
Sacramento of their younger daughter,
who suffered a relapse from diphtheria
and died June 26th. Prof. Pierce and
family were en- route to the northern
part of the state for summer vacation.
They returned to Chico accompanied by
Prof. and Mrs. j. w. Anderson.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-06-29
ASSESSMENT NOTICE.

DIRU OIL COMPANY-LOCATIoN, PRIN-
/ cipal place of business, No. IA Arcadia
street, city of Los Angeles.
Notice is hereby given, that at meeting of
the Board of Directors held on the 10th day of
June 1891, an assessment of two dollars per
share was levied on the capital stock issued OF
the corporation, payable Immediately to the
secretary, at the Los Angeles County Bank, city
of Los Angeles, California. =.
All stock upon which this assessment shall
remain unpaid on the 22d of July, 1891, shall
become delinquent on that day, and all stock
upon which said delinquent assessment shall
not be paid on or before the Sth day of August,
1891, shall be on that day sold at 2 p. m, at
the Office of the company, or so much thereof
as necessary for the purpose of collecting the
delinquent assessment, together with cost OF
advertising and expenses of sale
By order of the Board of Directors,
CHAS II. FORBES Secretary.
Los Angeles, June 10, 1891. 6-21 I'd
Los Angeles herald., 1891-06-29
Proposals for the Purchase of Los
Angeles County Court House Bonds.

SEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED
y by the undersigned up to the 30th day of
July, 1891, for the purchase of one hundred
and ninety (I90) Los Angeles County Court
House Bonds, numbered consecutively from
one (1) to one hundred and ninety q 90) both
numbers included, of the denomination of one
thousand dollars $1,000 each, and payable on
the first day of January A. d 1910, or at any
time before that date. at the pleasure of said
county, in gold coin of the United States, with
interest thereon at the rate of five (5) per cent
per annum, payable semi-annually on the first
day of January, and on the first day of July of
each year, bonds and interest payable at the
office of the County Treasurer of said Los An
geles county.
Said bonds having been issued in conformity
with an ordinance enacted by the Board of Su-
pervisors of said Los Angeles county. dated
dated April 26th, AID. 1S90,an under authority
conferred upon said board by the provision of
an Act of the Legislature OF the State of Cali
fornia, entitled an San Act to Establish Uni
form System of County and Township Govern-
ment," approved March 14th, A. d. 1888.
None of said bonds will be sold for less than
the face value and accrued interest from July
1st 1890, nor shall any sale thereof he final or
valid until approved by the said Bo rd of Su-
pervisors, and the right is hereby expressly re-
served to reject any or all aforesaid proposals.
Mark envelopes proposals for the Purchase
of Court House Bonds"
By order of the Board OF Supervisors of said
Los Angeles County.
Dated June 22d, 1891.
]. BANBURY,
6-23 3Ot Treasurer Los Angeles County.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-06-29
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.

OFFICE OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
~ of Los Angeles county, California, June
22d, 1891.
Notice is hereby given that the Board of Su
pervisors of Los Angeles county, California
will meet on Monday, July 9th, 1891, as u
county board of equalization, to examine the
assessment books and equalize the assessment
of properties in said county and will continue
in session for that purpose from time to time
uutil said business of equalization is disposed
OF, until Monday July 9th, 1891.
T. H. WARD,
County Clerk and ex-Oficio Clerk of the Board
of Supervisors.
By HENRY s. KNAPP, Deputy Clerk. 6-23-10t