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Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-25
WOMEN WHO DRINK.
A Glimpse at Low Life in Engiand's Me-
tropOlis.

Glimpse at Low Life in England's Me-
tropolis.
The London Telegraph started Il contro-
versy recently regarding the liquor habit
among women. One contributor says that
Mr.. Wynne Baxter, the well known cor
orner, whose experience of the London poor
from day to day in the east end constitutes
him an authority upon the darkest phase
of the subject, in the course of converse
ton said: Generally speaking, the ques
tion of drunkenness, directly or indirectly,
enters into half the inquests which l hold.
1t is treated as a joke as a rule, for my
iuries, coming as they do from the work
ing classes, do not appear to think any
thing of it. My usual question is Was
the deceased the worse for drink?' and the
reply (given in an unconcerned tone) is,
oh, he had had a DROP as if it was the
proper thing to do.
81 believe there are numbers of hard
working men who would have good homes
if only they had good wives, but the wom-
en- are never at home to meet them, or
have anything ready for them after their
days work. In many cases we have the
fact stated that the husband quietly goes
to bed when his wife is still out of doors
drinking with her friends. Monday is es-
sentially day of drinking Many men
are totally unaware that their wives take
their husbands Sunday clothes on Monday
morning to the pawnshop, pledge them,
and spend the money thus obtained in
drink On the Saturday when the man
gets his wages the clothes are taken out
of pledge, but they are returned to the
pawnshop ON the Monday"
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-25

In the year 1874. when Vasquez was hold
ing sway with his gang of cutthroats in
the southern part of the state, he, with
seventeen others, killed a rancher and stole
eight horses in the San Gabriel canyon. in
Los Angeles county. Mr.. Bennett was
mining in the canyon Mt the time, and with
several men in his employ started in pur-
suit of Vasuuez With him were George
Bender, "Poker'' Smith, Tom Leonard,
"Bogus" Smith, William Burns, Sam Hick-
man, Dan Rickard and the two Chilson
brothers, all men of courage, who were
willing to risk their lives at any time on
slight provocation.
At the forks of San Gabriel canyon, fif-
teen miles from its mouth, the party dl-
dided, Bennett and Dan Richard following
the trail up the north fork. About
o'clock in the afternoon they came upon
the camp of the outlaws a glance showed
them that Nasquez, Chavez and Lopez
were lying on the ground, each one on the
alert, with rifle in hand They had heard
the noise made by the others approach,
but had not located the sound. Bennett
and Rickard jumped into pool of water
and found refuge behind a thick, tangled
growth of morning glory vines that hung
down the face of the cliff, over which the
water poured. The position was not gained
any too soon, for the bandits had them To-
Gated then, and a bullet whistled by Rick
ards ear. In the firing that followed
Chris Lopez fell dead. Bennett drew
bead on him and sent a rifle bullet through
his brain.
Both men stood up to their waists in ice
cold water, for the little stream was
supplied from melting snow in the noun
tains far above. After a time no move
ment on the part of the outlaws was dis
cerned, and Bennett, with his companion,
becoming benumbed, peered cautiously
through the tangle of vines. No one was
to be seen, and they started to leave their
position when bullet fired at short range
clipped a lock of hair from Benefits head.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-25

morists took it for granted that woman
was not clubable, and when the now
famous Sorosis was first projected the
photographers made merry over it, but
how women's clubs are well estab-
lished institution.
The Manhattan, Union, Knickerbock-
er and few other New York clubs are
known of all readers, and the Union
league on one side and the famous Iro-
quois club of Chicago on the other are
powers in politics. In fact, this is the
clubbing age. So numerous are clubs
that the ordinary nomenclature is ex-
hausted, and when new one is organ
lied the choice of a'title is recognized as
the task of the most learned and versa
tile member. There is, for instance, the
Whitechapel club of Chicago, whose
name suggests the CHASTITY, and whose
performances, if reports lie not, are
worthy of it's name.
There is also the Argonaut club of
Chicago, with its quarters on boat that
was never launched. In New York city,
in addition to those well known, are the
Catholic, the University, the Tender
loin, the Vaudeville, the Hoot, the Thir-
teen and the Glover clubs, the Colonial,
the Eccentric, the Federal, the Down
Town, the Clergy, the Snowshoe, the
Triple Alliance and many others of
social or literary nature, besides long
array of those composed of the foreign
born, each bearing name designating
the nation.
The Thirteen club has for its avowed
object Ito combat injurious supersti-
tons" The Eccentric is much the same,
and membership is limited by the merci-
less restrictions, 1.-The abolition of myth
and substitution therefor of science and
reason, the possession of ideas and origi-
hal thought, and the faculty of express
ing the same orally or in writing in
prose or verse" Evidently such club
is to be very select, and has entered on
work which bids fair to last it some
thousands of wears.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-25

latter consist largely of railroad men.
Two years ago this club was organized
and obtained possession of landing
place at the end of the Illinois Central
railways pier.
Far out in the lake, at the end of the
long wharf, stands their peculiar club
house called the Argo. 1t is club
house in n ship which could be laupched,
but probably never will be. AS the
club is the Argonant and the clubhouse
the Argo, so the membership is limited
to ffty-one, the number assigned by
Greek mythology to the famous crew
which made the often sung voyage in
search of the golden fleece. Since
June L, 1901, the Argo has stood at the
piers end looking as if just ready to be
launched-a two storied structure with
a roomy deck, where the Chicago
Argonauts enjoy themselves and keep
cool in the hottest weather.
No, other club in Chicago will be so
handsomely housed as the Lakeside,
which was organized in 1884 and now
has 256 members, when its new place is
finished. 1t stands at the southwest
corner of Grand boulevard and Forty
second street and V Ill have five high
stories and an apex / Of, the whole max
ing it nearly the equivalent of an ordi-
nary ten story structure. The whole bou-
levard front will be occupied by its hand
some parlors, and it will havea banquet
ing hall 81 by 90 feet, and an assembly
hall 70 by 121 feet exclusive of the large
stage, besides many other rooms for club
use. The structure will be chiefly of
buff Bedford stone and will rank among
the finest buildings in Chicago.
Still another Chicago institution wor-
thy Of note is the Gaelic club, composed
originally of Irishmen, but now contain
ing Scotchmen also, and all devoted to
the study and culture of the Gaelic Ian
guage and literature. This club owes
its origin to the election of Hon. John
F. Finerty to congress. All the world
knows his intensely Irish feeling, and
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-25
Possibly a Double Suicide.

On recent Tuesday morning Joseph
Hounder, prosperous farmer at ST. Hen
ry, Mimi, died suddenly, supposedly of
heart disease. Wednesday his sister-in-
law, Miss Bhear aged twenty-six, died in
the same manner. A letter written by the
woman was found Thursday, in which she
gave directions that she be buried by
Hounder's side and showing that she con-
templated suicide. Hounder formerly kept
company with Miss Bhear, but while in
Minneapolis last August married her sis
ter The sudden and mysterious death of
both, followed by the finding of the letter,
leads to the belief that tragedy has been
enacted
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-25
THE AMERICAN ABROAD
How He Is Caricatured and
Written Of.
IDEAS ERRONEOUS, BUT NATURAL

The Berlinese Have Not Yet Heard That
Polygamy Has Been Stamped Out and
That Six Cards Are Not Allowable in
Hand at Poker.
The European seems still to have about
the same idea of America and Americans
that Dickens had when he wrote his
"Notes." The illustrations here given are
reproduced from Berlin paper, and, to
use familiar term, ''speak for them
selves" The mormon and His Wives" is
a caricature that might have been appro
pirate twenty years ago, but has no aptness
now since the passage of the Edmunds law
and it's subsequent enforcement.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-25
Peru's Financial Affairs.

The customs receipts of Peru for 1891,
officially reported at $5,735, ,949, show a
decrease as compared with those of the
previous year, but the total revenue Of
the republic exhibits comparative in
crease. The revenues derived from all
sources amounted to $8,80S, ,042, against
an expenditure of $S,179,9 1881, which left
a surplus of $42s,061. The Peruvian
legislature has under consideration
bill for reforming the customs which,
if passed, 7yill put,an end to government
warehouses and substitute private ware
houses instead. 1t is also proposed to
introduce the warrant system into Peru.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-25
sHAw-wA-Nos-so-wAY CLUBHOUSE,

SHAw-wA-NOS-SO-W CLUBHOUSE.
when compelled to leave his paper, The
Citizen, and go to Washington he put
the scholarly T. O'Neill Russell, of New
York, in charge. Mr.. Russell is an en-
thusiast on the Gaelic, which he speaks
and reads with musical fuency, and soon
got other hishrhen interested, and so the
club was formed, with Mr.. Russell pres
ident and Maurice Cream secretary.
With class of 1S0 intelligent Irish
men and Scotchmen such rapid progress
was made in the study that in few
months Gaelic was the vernacular of
the club. They declare with one voice
that it is a language very easily ac-
quired, though it certainly does not look
it in print. Two ladies Of the class,
teachers in the Chicago high se'sools,
testify that in eight months they earned
it sufficiently to translate English into
Gaelic at sight. No club in the country
has more enthusiastic membership
than the Gaelic.
Last on this list of Chicago clubs must
be the Shaw -wa-nos- -so-way, SO named
from the Indians who once ranged
around Lake Shawano in Wisconsin.
The name has no particular bearing as
to the nature of the club, as it is almost
purely a social affair, and will study In
dian antiquities only when it has no
livelier amusement. 1t will make a
speciality of hunting up good clubable
fellows from other cities who may visit
the Worlds fair, especially members of
prominent clubs, and will try to make
Chicago like home to them.
AS the ladies began late they have
not yet developed so great a variety in
clubs as the gentlemen, but the Woman's
Columbian club, recently organized at
Louisville, deserves special mention. As
its name implies it IS an organization to
aid in representing Kentucky at the
Worlds fair, and very appropriately its
active president is Miss Ida E. Symmes,
granddaughter of the famous John
Clevis Symmes. This gentleman was
not only brave soldier in the wars of
the border and that with England, from
1902 to 1916, and a pioneer of Newport,
where he died, but also puzzled the sci
entists with q plausible theory that the
earth is hollow and open at the poles.
"Symmes' hole had long run among
the semiscientific jokers.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-25

slant associate of his daughters, and as
Miss Lee Hardy loved an open air life
she early became his chief companion on
his plantation, though a native of
Charleston. She married her second
cousin, Mr.. j. D. Hardy, son of Cap
tain l.. G. Hardy, U. S. N, and they re-
sided in Galveston till 1870.
There she began to contribute to the
press, and her article on christmas Be
fore the War" attracted much attention.
After brief residence in Houston they
removed to New York city. Her his
tory of the German colony in Texas
caused her election as member of the
American Historical association. She
is also member of Sorosis. Her poetry
is of the sentimental order, dealing al
most entirely with the affections as
illustrated in her lines of rejoicing en-
titled ''My Boy" After an exquisite
detail of the toys and garments seen in
dream and presented to her in casket
by cupids she tells of finding in the
casket a being of this sort:
Oh, his skin was like pearl and his eyes dark
ly brown,
w nlle his lips See1leu with stTaWDeFrltS leu.
His soft hair loosely curled and like vine ten
drills clung,
But the shade-would you think it?-was red.
Yet his smile was SO sweet my heart melted
with love,
And called him my life and my pride,
While Graded him soft in my covetous arms
d. And nestled him close by my side.
Mrs. Edith Sessions Tupper is a dsy gh-
ter of the Hon. Walter Loren Sessions.
ex-member of congress and prominent
in New York politics, and was born at
his home in Chautauqua county, N. Y,
about the beginning of the civil war.
Her early opportunities were of the very
best. She was reared in an intellectual
atmosphere, educated at Vassar and ac-
quired all the varied knowledge and
social standing possible to congress
mans daughter in Washington city.
Ten years ago she married Mr.. Horace
E. Tupper, q railroad manager, and went
to live in Chicago, where she launched
into journalism and made a brilliant
success from the start.
After doing much good work for The
Herald, Tribune and Inter Ocean she
removed to New York and soon became
known as one of the most versatile
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-25
THE GERMAN IDEA OF POKER.

THE GERMAN IDEA OF POhER.
Another leaden missile plowed a furrow in
Richards scalp. During the night a
desultory fire was kept up, and it was l
O'Clock in the morning before the two men,
scarcely able to move their cold limbs,
finally left the water. Being confident
that the outlaws had disappeared, they
examined the body of Lopez, took the
knife and went back to their companions.
The whole posse then took up the trail,
but Vasquez and his men made their
escape in the mountain Businesses.
Sergeant Bennett prizes the bowie knife
highly.
These are but one or two contrasts in the
phases of bustling, hustling, and, sad to
say, sometimes criminal American life. So,
after all, it looks as though we should
judge leniently the German artist already
criticised. To tell the truth, poker player
often does hold six cards, but he carefully
keeps the extra one out of sight until it is
needed GEORGE BAvARD.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-25
THE MORMON AND HIS WIVES.

Bismarck Kicking the American Hog"
is also out of date, historically speaking,
and the combination in one picture of Bar
num- Buffalo Bill and Edison almost forces
one to think that the talented Berlin artists
and editors who created the illustrations
had indulged in--well, let us hope it was
champagne, yet more probably the bever-
age was beer.
But the picture of the poker camel If
anything can prove the errancy of the Ger
man mind, that will. One man has six
cards, another five. and the third four, an
inequality of conditions that would start
a riot in any well regulated gambling room
in the United States the moment it was
observed-particularl by the man who
was ''short on the deal"
This by the way of preliminary. Strange
to say, the average European who has not
Travelled knows less of America than he
does of Timbuctoo, and his ideas regarding
both regions are therefore erroneous One
gentleman, a citizen of Texas, has been
abroad, however, for some time, propagat-
ing the gospel of information, and has given
the English people faint conception OF one
side of American character and peculiari.
ties. He has not only scored social sue,
cess, but has done well financially. He is
an ex-member of congress, his name Is
Thomas Porterhouse Ochiltree, and we
shall soon have him with us again.
He has succeeded in getting in with
Colonel North the famous nitrate king,
and he is coming over next month in COM
mand of the stables of that English finan-
cier. North is sending across the water
number of famous handicap horses and
some Youngsters in the 2-year-old division
which it is believed will capture some of
the rich stakes to be offered at the Wash
ington Park Jockey club, Chicago, during
the Worlds fair next year. Ochiltree is
to be the special commissioner for Mr..
North 1t is not yet settled who is to train
the horses when they come on this side,
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-25

PRESIDENT HARRISON AND GRANDSON.
surance that Tullia still lived is n scens
that touches the universal heart in 1892
as powerfully as in the Augustan age.
Mr.. Cleveland and General Harrison are
to most Americans but as political alb
stractions, but Baby Ruth and Baby Nc
Kee are known and loved in many do
mestic circle where the questions Of pro-
lection and revenue tariff are scarcely
better understood than the Huttonian
theory or the precision of the equinoxes.
1t is perhaps delicate matter to
touch upon, but surely every American
must feel certain sort of pride that in
the very climax of the heat and fury of
the late political campaign there was
universal pause and expression of pro-
found sympathy when the beloved lady
of the White House obeyed the last
dread summons. In Great Britain il
was and is the same. The domestic Joys
and sorrows Of Mr.. Gladstone touch
the popular heart, and 1t is fact we'll
worth noting that Mr.. Gladstone and
President Harrison have du,.ing all their
political life found their rest md recrea-
acteristic of our greatest men in both
nations.
Mr.. Gladstone has met with many
bad knockdown, but when the first smart
was over he went home to Hawarden,
chopped down few trees, romped with
his grandchildren and emerged in few
days serene and refreshed. Benjamin
Harrison, despite his great ancestry, had
rather hard struggle in early life, but
from the very day when the cultured
and popular Miss Scott, the pride Of Ok
ford (O.) schools, gave him her hand and
heart domestic life has been his real
life, and since his grandchild came to
cheer his hours of WEAKNESS no other in
terest has given him SO much abiding
joy.
Details like these are not trivial. They
only illustrate that trait which makes
Great Britain and America the leading
nations of the earth--domestic life, do
mestic love! The people of the British
isles of all races, the Germans, Scandi-
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-25

GLADSTONE AND GRANDDAUGHTER.
navians and other races which go to
make America-these are the races with
whom the home life is first So long as
this is so all the people will read with
delight of how Lincoln romped with his
mischievous Tad, and how Garfield in
dulged in "pillow fights" with his sons.
And with not less pleasure they will
read that President Harrison is never so
happy as when holding his little grand
son, and a smile will join with some
thing near akin to tears when they read
that the apparently stern old Gladstone
holds his youngest grandchild with such
timorous tenderness that even the wom-
en- laugh at him.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-25

BARNUM, BUFFALO BILL AND EDISON.
that he became an advocate of vested in
terests and in later life builder up of
that which he had before torn down. His
policy was to despoil that which belonged
to others and build up that which he
owned himself.
Looked at from any other standpoint
than that of money getting, Mr.. Gould's
life must be considered failure"
That perhaps may be an unfair estimate
of Mr.. Gould's doings and career, but it is
the printed and deliberate statement OF a
man of the world.
"Out west" as the saying goes, specula-
tiou is so common that it causes no com.
ment, but once in awhile some criminal
gets record and finally dies with his
boots on. At San Francisco Police Ser
geaDt George Bennett is the owner of a
bowie knife that has been dyed with the
blood of many innocent victims. The knife
belonged to Chris Lopez, lieutenant OF
the notorious outlaw, Vasquez, and Ser
geant Bennett came into possession of the
weapon by reason Of having killed it's for
mer owner He took the knife as a me-
mento from the outlaws corpse
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-25
German Thieves Slang.

A thieves slang dictionary is being COM
piled in Berlin to help the police in their
dealings with criminals. Since the last
similar publication was issued, in 1S4S, new
phrases have crept in, and old expressions
have become obsolete among the criminal
classes, so that the authorities are obliged
to keep their knowledge of thieves argot
in touch with the times
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-25
The Encroaching Lake.

One of the humorously attractive
characteristics of child is his large
sense of personal Importance. A little
girl was walking with her father on the
shore OF Lake Michigan, where the
waves were gently tapping up on the
beach. Suddenly one came up higher
than the Others and swept over her foot,
when she exclaimed, ''Oh, papa, the
lake stepped on my toe. New York
Times.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-25
Ururuay,s customs Receipts.

During the month of September the
custom house receipts throughout the
republic of Uruguay amounted to $714,-
1921 as compared with $725,675 during
the corresponding period of the previous
year. The returns show an improve
ment of about 100000 over those of Au
gust, and are nearly equal to those Of
Cox,+o,.,l,o,, 1900
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-25

writers in the country. In poetry she
has decided talent for society verses,
as they are called, and her lines begin
ming,
Painted and perfumed. feathered and pink,
Here is your ladyship's fan.
have been much quoted. AS a closing
personality it may be added that she
weighs 15O pounds, is most 'sunfashion-
ably healthy" and has wealth OF light
brown hair that is the admiration of all
her friends and the envy Of many.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-25
Diamond Cutting in This Country.

The diamond cutting industry is rapidly
developing in this country. 1t is stated
that about 209 men cut diamonds in the
United States In New York there are six
teen firms engaged in cutting and recut-
ting diamonds, and in Massachusetts there
are three Cutting has also been carried
on at times in Pennsylvania and Illinois,
but has been discontinued.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-25
CLUB LIFE OF TODAY.
THIS is THE AGE OF CLUBS, AND
! SOME OF THEM ARE QUEER.

The Argonaut, Sea Serpent, Shaw-wa-n nos
so-way. Storm King. Titans and Triple
Aliiance--The Thirteen and the Eccentric
! Antisuperstition Clubs and Many Others.
Copyright, 1892, by American Press Associa-
tion.l
Cain and his club have furnished the
jokers with matter for many pun, and
in the old comic almanacs the wife who
feared her fate would be that of Abel
because her husband was too devoted to
his club was familiar figure. From
Aristophanes to Artemus Ward the hui
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-25
Mud in tho Mississippi.

It is estimated that the Mississippi river
annually discharges into the Gulf Of Mex
leo 19,500, ,oO0, 10000 cubic feet Of water.
Of this prodigious quantity the 1-2,900th
part will be sediment. Thus the Missis-
sippi annually deposits alone into the Gulf
Of Mexico sufficient mud to cover a square
mile cf surface to "A height Of 24O feet
Iohjladelphia Iedrer
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-25
The Rainiest Day of the Moon.

A celebrated aeronaut asserts, after
patient investigation, that the ninth day
of the moon is the most rainy day of the
whole twenty-eight, and o'clock in the
afternoon the rainiest hour Of the day.
-ChamherS' Jonrnal.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-25
Ehectual.

Husband-How is it that the cats didn't
trouble us last night?
Wife-I threw out one Of your new neck
ties.-Truth.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-25
ExTERIoR OF ARGo cIUBgoUsE.

The honorary president is Mrs. j. Law
renee Smith, and among the members
are Mrs. Henry Watterson, Mrs. Basil
Duke, Mrs. John B. Castleman, Mrs.
Patty Semple and others bearing names
long honored in Kentucky.
J. I'll. BEADLE.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-25
THE TIES OF LOVE.

They Bind Together the Aged Statesman
and the Laughing Child.
The joys and sorrows Of the great
have strange charm for the mass of
mankind. Cicero laundering against
Catiline is spectacle for scholars, but
Cicero weeping over his daughter and
seeking in his philosophy for some as