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Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-09
A Leap Year Proposition.

AS leap year is upon us the moment
GUS question, Shall women propose? con-
fronts us in various newspaper columns,
with its usual four yearly regularity.
Conservative people will of course
pooh pooh the idea, and the more frivo-
lous laugh at the same. Some of our
radical, would be social innovators will
be advocates, and others will illuminate
their varied denunciations.
Considered in the abstract we do not
see why woman should not express her
natural preferences as freely as man
in regard to the opposite sex. Indeed,
she seems to be free to do so in every
other respect but that Of love and mar
riage. And yet is not this the most i'm
portant of all earthly relations to the
human race as society is at present Or
ganized?
Mere reasoning aside, however, other
considerations enter into our estimates
of propriety. Here we have sentiment,
which so largely makes up the sum of
womanly opinions on most subjects out
side of bread and breathing.
AS the majority of people think now,
and as they will probably continue to
think for many years to come, there are
certain moral and social questions
wherein old time precedent will doubt
less continue to rulel The realm Of
courtship and marriage still lies fully
within these prescribed limits.
In this affair it has from time imme-
mortal been her inalienable and alto
gether charming privilege to be the one
who should be sought, wooed and won.
Whether this be abstractly right or
wrong it is so ingrained in the very
nature of society at large that the iso-
lated kicks which are here and there
made have SO far produced little or no
effect. Yankee H8ae.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-09
All Married within Five years.

Five years ago a chapter of ten Kings
Daughters, consisting of eight confirmed
spinsters, one girl of sixteen, and a
heartbroken widow, all vowed to deny
any aspiration toward matrimonial joys
or hazards, and give their lives over to
the doing Of good works. The widow
married within six months, the spinsters
followed her example in rapid success
sion, and only month ago nine hap
PLY married women attended the we'd
ding of the youngest member of the or
ganization.- Housekeeping.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-09
A Female Lamplighter.

Richard Salters, colored man, who
has for years lighted the lamps in the
Belleville section of Newark, N. j., died
some time ago. He had been failing for
year, and during all that time his wife
has gone upon the rounds, cleaned the
lamps by day and lighted them at dusk.
She is said to be the only female lamp
lighter in the country Philadelphia
Ledger.
Miss Grace Dodge dresses more plain
ly than many of the members of the
working girls clubs over which she pre-
sides. At her regular receptions during
the past two months she has worn the
same gown-a simple and inexpensive
cashmere, dark green in color, with a
little white vest in the velvet trimmed
waist.
Belle Newport, a young American
pupil of Scharwenka, has passed the
requisite examination in music for en-
trance to the Imperial Academy of Ber-
lin. Out of the sixty-four students only
ten passed, and Miss Newport ranked
first of these.
The tallest woman in the world is the
giantess Rosita, who was born in
Vienna twenty-six years ago, and is now
on exhibition in Berlin. Her height is 8
feet inches, and she weighs 351 pounds.
Novelties in thimbles are of china in
royal Worcester, Dresden and Trenton
manufacture. These thimbles are white
with garland of colored flowers on the
border.
One of the delegates from the United
States to the Universal Peace congress
held at Rome last year was Mrs. Mary
Ormsby Frost, of New York city.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-09
woman Suffrage in This Country.

In the United States, where the COM
munal system never existed except in
some of its remote, modified forms, mu-
nicipal suffrage for women has come
slowly. In only two states, Wyoming
and Kansas, are women admitted to the
franchise and made eligible to municipal
offices generally although in fifteen
states they may vote in the school cleo
tions. Several states have granted to
women simply the right of being elected
to school offices, provided always that
they possess the qualifications prescribed
for men.
The question is thus decided in Cali
fornia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana
Maine, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island
At the present time the system of grant
ing to women both rights, eligibility and
suffrage in school matters has been
adopted in the following states besides
Massachusetts,: Colorado, North and
South Dakota, Idaho, Michigan, Mime
sofa, Montana, New Hampshire, New
Jefsey, New York, Oregon, Vermont,
Washington and Wisconsin, and the ter
ritory of Arizona.
Of course to this list must be added
Wyoming, where women vote at all
elections, and Kansas, where they possess
complete local suffrage. Finally, Ken
lucky and Nebraska admit women only
to the school franchise, and that under
special conditions. = Boston Common
wealth,
Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-09

Local and through tickets sold, bageae
checked, Pullman sleeping car reservation
made, and general information given upon %
plication to J. M. CRAWLEY, Asst. q. Pas. All,
No. l44 3. Spring st., cor. Second. OHARLEj
SKYLKR, Agent at Depots.
n6undays excepted.
RICH,D GRAY, Gen. Trafic Mgr.
T. II. GOODMAN,
tt Gen'1 Passenger Agt.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-09
American Girls and Their Voices

American Glrls ana Ineir Voices.
Nine. Fursch- -Madi, a woman of many
talents, chief of which is pure soprano
voice, has settled down in this city and
taken charge of the vocal department Of
one of the city colleges.
"Voice culture" she said to me the
other day, sis difficult work. There is
no reason why America should not pro-
duce some really great singers. There
are many grand voices in America, but
American girls do not seem to care to
become great singers. They do not like
to study.
eff a girl is blessed by nature with a
voice, she must study hard to cultivate
it, not study spasmodically, but go at it
with determination and keep at it. Of
course she should begin right. There is
a right way and a wrong way to begin,
and it does seem to me often that some
of our girls have poor advisers and poorer
teachers. A new method? Oh, dear
me, no. There is only one method, and
that is first voice, and second, proper
cultivation and study. All the great
singers of the world know this to be
true. It is the only way to succeed
Foster Coates in New York Mail and
Express.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-09

COUTHERN CALIFORNIA RAILWAY
y COMPANY Santa Fe Route).
IN EFFECT SUNDAY. NOVEMBER %, 1891.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-09
REDLANDS /!

DEFORE or after looking at all other orange
ID growi ng sections in Southern California,
come and take good look at Redlands, and let
your own good judgment tell you whether this
is, or Is not the choicest spot in California for
growing oranges.
Free from scale, freest from fogs, freest from
wind, freest from frost Live people in live
place. Hall. 2 million .oiiars' wortL of new
residences in the past year, and the building
still goes on. Call on the undersigned, who Will
be glad to show you the beauties of the place
and all improved property for sale, and will not
annoy ar you by ~ urging you to buy; Three snap
T. H. SHARPLESS,
Agent for Redlands real estate,
State street, near Hotel Windsor.
SSANDRO!
A BEAUTIFUL vALI EY that has all the ad-
N vantages of Redlands, excepting the fact
that it is newer country. Exclusive agents
for over 1000 acres. Agents for over 5000 acres.
Have sold 43U acres to sharp and well-p0sted
buyers in the past few months. Prices from
sHARPLEsS & BROWN,
Agents for A1essandro lands
B. W. BROWN, Moreno.
T. a. SHARPLEss, Redlands.
GOOD BUYS FOR SOMEBODY!
10 acres eight-year-old bearing orange trees,
20 acres IL acres bearing orange trees, bal
ance improved, $17, ,000
20 acres, acres bearing orange trees, balance
improved, o $40 200: 49,. uu. "a
Sole agents for all of above properties, all be-
low regular prices. Agent for improved prop
critics from, $500 to 100000 each Unim-
acres up to 5000 acres each.
State st., near Hotel windsor, Redlands, CAL
1-196 6m
Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-09
To Help women in the country.

A Michigan woman, much interested
in the fresh air work, suggests that city
women engaged in this work should in
vite the country mothers who have en-
tertained children at their homes to visit
in the city homes few days in the win
ter. These farmers wives, who take in
the city waits at time when summer
work presses hardest and summer heat
is most oppressive, need change of
scene almost as much as do the mothers
and children in the tenements, and for
lack of change and rest it is said that
farmers wives form a large per cent. of
the inmates of insane asXlums. 1t is not
the hard work, but want Of companion
ship, the isolation from books, music,
lectures, the theater, the desolation of
intellectual starvation.
In some of the western towns a move
ment is on foot to establish clubs among
the country women, where it is believed
a higher mental development is possible
than in the city, because no other form
of recreation will distract attention
The plan is to divide each county into
sections and organize woman's club in
each section. These country clubs will
cooperate with those in the cities for
the interchange of ideas and the forming
Of friendships mutually beneficial. New
York Sun.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-09

The undersigned win pay at his counter any
prize drawn in this lottery.
MAX MULLER,
Cashier and Agent RI Paso National Bank, @.
Juarez Mexico.
The subscribers, having supervised the Single
Number Drawing, Glass "K," Gran Loterfa
Juarez, hereby certify that the above are the
the wheel with the prizes corresponding to
them.
Witness eur hands at @. Juarex, Mexico,
Wednesday, February 3, 1892.
JNO. 3. M0sBT, Commissioner.
Z. PIMENTEL, Intervention.
For particulars address the
MEXICAN INTERNATIONAL BANKING CO.,
City of Juares, Mexico.
Postage to Mexico, 2 cents.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-09
LINES OF TRAVEL.
Pacific Coast 5. s. Go.

n NOODALL, PERKINS q CO., GENERAL
VI Agents, San Francisco. Northern routes
embrace lines for Portland, Ore; Victoria, B.
o., and Puget Sound, Alaska, and all coast
Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-09
Emanoipated from Boarding Houses.

Emancipated from boarding Houses.
Some young women of this city have
tried new experiment. in housekeeping
with eminent success, and there is no
reason why other young women who are
earning their own livelihood should not
follow their example with great benefit
to themselves. The ladies had been board
ing, and they agreed that this sort of life
was unsatisfactory. The monotony of
boarding house life became unendurable.
They resolved to break loose and estab-
ish ''menage of their own" A nice
house was obtained in one of the most
'eligible" streets of the city.
The servant was an immigrant, for it
was part of the experiment to instruct
their help in their own way. The ladies
take turns in ordering the next days din
der in certain understood limits, so that
the longings of each individual for beef
steak and onions, corned beef and cab
bage, or beef a la mode, or any other spe-
cial dish could be gratifed. They also
take turns in the management of the
house. They live in entire harmony;
they are at peace with the cook; they
have ample time to attend to their sever
al vocations and for occasional amuse-
ments, and they save enough from their
former board expenses to pay for their
summer holidays. ALBANY Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-09

One of the delegates from the United
States to the Universal Peace congress
held at Rome last year was Mrs. Mary
Ormsby Frost, of New York city.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-09

Prizes on English printed tickets cashed In
fall, without discoudt, in United States cur
reney.
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1892-01-22
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Wednesday,.


WASHINGTON, Jan. 81 In the house
q bill providing for Il railroad and wagon
bridge across the Mississippi river at
South ST. Paul passed. Mr.. Hatch, of
Missouri, introduced bill providing TINT
olen,arsarine transported into any state
or territory shall be subject to the laws Of
such state or territory, the same as if
manufactured therein. referred to the
committee on agriculture. The house
took up the report of the committee on
rules
In the senate bill was reported favor
ably for n dry dock at Alsiers, La, ut a
cost of $500 also resolution asking
the president for information as to steps
taken for sounding between San Fran
cisco and Honolulu and other points in
the Pacific for submarine cable accord
ing to the provisions of the last hawai- bill.
Mr.. Cullom introduced an amendment to
the interstate commerce law.
Thursday.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2S.-Aimosf immedi
arely after the reading of the JuarEnl AS
sistant Secretary Pruden was announced
with the presidents additional message 0
the Chilian affair. The vice president ln
the message before the senate and it
read. After the reading the senate /
ce"l.d to routine business.
| the hous. after the reference Of
executive communications the '
Needed to consider the rules. 4,
schresident's second message and
aning documents were laid bef
h,lse ana read. On motion of Mr.
tn"ssa:s and correspondence
trreG to tine COMMITTEES on forcj"
: house then proceeded to Il
x the new rules
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1 vel W iO ,.....-
Barratt promises that he and his wife
will give another concert here in the
near future.
James Peace and witnesses James
McPhail and Charles McDcrmott
from near Harlem were before Ma
Baldwin yesterday to submit tcsti-
mony in the contest ola claim in Sar-
gent county.
Miss Maggie Ferrell returned Fri
day from visit to her brother at
Fort Buford. Miss Maggie is very
low with that dread disease, ,consump-
ton brought on by an attack of the
grip year ago.
James Head living few miles
southwest Of Ludden had the misfor-
tune to lose about one hundred and
twenty-five bushels of wheat last Mon
day. He was absent from his farm
when it was taken.
J.J. Carpenter, the genial mail clerk
on the MP. and Miss Bessie Flanders
of Aberdeen, were married yesterday
Their cards announce that they will
be at home to their friends at Oakes
after February first
We are sorry tolearn that T. w
Millham is again suffering from the
trouble which was the cause of his
losing two of his fingers some time
ago. He fears that he will soon lose
another one from his right hand.
The n. p. has been late several
days this week on account of having
to go over to Edgley to help the train
of that division out of snow bank.
AS general rule it has made remark
ably regular time so far this winter
A letter from P. w. Thompson an
nounccs the safe arrival of himself
and wife in Vermont after a Y hours
ride. Mr.. Thompson is celebrating
his return to New England by an at
tack of chills and fever but hopes to
be out soon.
The Hon. E. A. Williams, Surveyor
General of North Dakota was in town
Saturday. Mr.. Williams is most
pleasant gentlemen to meet and one
of the oldest settlers in North Dakota
and certainly one of the states most
efficient officers.
Jimmie" McQuay, who has for
some time done flourishing blind
pig business at Harlem, wasH'pulled'
last Saturday, fourteen gallons of
tanglefoot being found in his dive.
The evidence is said te be complete
and if the matter is pushed it will go
hard with"Jimmie 'LCogswcll Rust
Ter.
A profess ional runner by the name
of Moore has been II town for the
past week. Last week he defeated
E. o. Bailey of Ludden in little
race in front of the Vinlle house and
he is probably arranging. to take the
conceit out of some legal runner in
some other locality.
Foster the weather p,.phet 9"
that the last days of JAM
soon be forgotten by tb
in the western part
leys for great biz
section not far fr
days of Janua~
-~nSSed upc
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ON APRIL is

Settler. Can Take Land in tho sisseton
Reservation.
WAsil;SHroN, Jan. 3d. Secretary
Noble said: II have decided upon April
IS as the day for the opening Of the Sis
seton Indian reservation in South Da-
ko.a, and the proclamation will be is
sued as coon as I receive official notice
from the general land Office concerning
the particular lands to be added to the
public domain"
Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1892-01-22
Frlday.


WAsIIINGToS, Jan. 29.-The house spent
all day discussing the report Of the COM
mittee ON rules. The only action taken
was the rejection of amendments propos
ing to place the appropriations for the
District of Columbia in charge of the COM
mittee on the District of Columbia. and
the appropriations for the Mississippi
river in charge of the committee on levet
Of the Mississippi river. Free coinage, on
man power, CarsarisIn and filibusterin
were discussed
The senate was not in session.
Saturday.
WAslIILGTUN, Jan. 30-Mr. Oates, of
Alabama, from the committee on the Jul
dietary, reported the resolution referring
to that committee the report, charges and
evidence taken by the committee in the
Fifty-frst congress relative to Aleck
Boardman, Judge of the Western District
OF louisiana, with instructions to fully in
vestigate the same and report its findings
and recommendations ut any time.
Agreed to. The house suspended busi-
ness to pay tribute to the late Representa-
tive Houck.
The senate was not in session.
Monday.
WASHINGTON, Feb I'm the house,
Representative Arm old, OF Missouri, pre-
sented for references resolution request
ing the president to recall the minister Of
the United States to Cali. Mr.. Patrick
Esan, to the enT that reciprocity OF amic-
able relations 'Gtween the two countries
may be main, i. T',e house assumed
the consideration o. he report OF the COM
mittee on rules
4! In the senate several bills wers passsd
by unanimous consent. ~ . o'clock ths
senate resumed discussion OF the La Abra
and We'll claims. a vote was taken and
! both bills were passed.
Tuesday,.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-In the senate, Mr.
Mitchell, from the committee on privileges
aud elections, made report on the
Clagget- Dubois contest for . seat in the
senate from Idaho. The resolutions do
clare Mr.. Dubois entitled to the seat, and
lhut Mr.. Claggett is not entitled to it. MIR.
Vance gave notice of II minority report,
which he stated would be probably pre-
scnted Thursday. House bill authorizing
change of location in 3 railroad bridge
over the Mississippi river at South st.
Paul, Mimi. wns passed. Mr.. Palmer, OF
Illinois, submitted a resolution providing
for the election of senators by the penr',
The house resumed considera'
new rules. The dsbate wa.
in by Mcssrs, keed NJ
others. Moth
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bout this time he
,tion by announcing his

bout this time ne
'tion by announcing his
he Roman Catholic faith,
priesthood in 1851. In 1857
ecclesiastical congregation
hich he called the Oblates
'3orrom:o, received the de.
i'd the office of provost OF
chdiocese Of Westminster
| was also created protono.
nd domestic prelate to the
.e death of Cardinal WISE
Manning was consecrate1
Westminster, on June 8,
further honored by Pope
,eing created a cardinal
Ii Is, 1878, assuming the
drew and Gregory on the
He was invested with the
1t the Vatican on the last
1877.
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develop into an attentive loving hus
band. Cody does great deal of
smiling and wears highly perfum-
ed head Of hair, but being married
man he is left. Allen, Dcvendorf,
Vinkle, Brown. Griggs are all o. X.
All these should be ehomesteaded soon.
There are two prizes in Mccartney
and Cooper, No blanks in them.
Elmer Weston is ready to become the
head of Il house any day. d. Larson
is naturally ei1'ectionate and a gem.
Patterson and Wilson although re-
cent arrivals are highly spoken of by
some ladies. All acts of gallantry
performed by them to the fair Sex are
sure to be rewarded soon by a sweet
proposal from some lovely maid.
1t is unfortunate that Willie Finnerty
has the grip so early i'll the joyous
year. He will miss one or two
chances to we'd, but there is another
that will wait until he is convalescen
and rational and then let him submit
gracefully to matrional proposition
Winhold is the man for the head of a
house in North Dakota. No cyclone
would dare attact Il house where Ed
dies wife was. Henry Scott has
gone to Columbia, S. d., to see what
the old women think of him there.
Hei is billed to be back soon, wants to
marry bad, but the girl that gets him
will have to so slow as he is timid.
The girl that can get Berg and some
of his furniture will have a hand
somly furnished house.
FARMERS MUST own THEIR OWN
IHI;r.SlIEHS.
The suggestion made by one Of our
farmers that farmers should own
small tread power threshing machin-
es and do their own threshing seems
to find supporters in other parts of
the state. Tho jamestown Alert in
referring to one of these machines
says:
"One Of these small separators
now at work on the Carringtc
Casey farm in Foster county
Senator Casey, always on the
out for improvements in farm
chinery, has been about the f
try this substitute for the ex1
steam thresher. The tread
machine is worked by three hors
oxen, with five or six men, and
about $500 or 5000, and threshes
300 to 400 bushels day. For 81,
farmers, an outfit of this kind is b,
ly needed in every part of the sta,
and the probabilities are that a goo
many machines will be in operation
next year. In every case reported
these small seperators have given the
greatest satisfaction. The expense
of boarding about 25 men, the diff.
Guilty in getting crews together and
the greatest trouble of keeping them
sober in bad weather and on SUNDAY
will be avoided by the substitution II
tread power. The threshing item
OF an expensive steam outfit is also
too great, as the price charged this
>Near, IL to Is cents, shows. DELAYS
*"os. and other objections
"''ae are pre-
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SQUADRONS COMBINED.
ADMIRAL GHsRARDl ORDERED TO
JOIN ADMIRAL WALKER.

Together They VIII Proceed t" Valpar-
also to Join tho ships Already There.
a Chilian Squadron Said to Ise Going
Out to Meet Them Mt tho Straits OF
Magellan.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 49, ORDERS were
issued from the navy department
concentrate the squaarons under Ad-
miral Walker at Valparaiso, Chill.
Admiral Gherardi has been designated
to command the vessels on the Pacific
station At present Admiral Ghe"rvl
with his squadron is at Port au Prince
West India Islands. The vessels Of mis-
squadron consist of the Phila ph'a
Concord and Kearsarge. Admiral
Walkers squadron is at Mo -}ids'o ..
The Chicago, Atlanta and Be-; OF
comprise the vessels under h.s m
mand. Admiral Walker wa also ad
vised of the orders issued to AdmNa
Gherardi, and it was left to his ldisc6e
ton whether he should proceed to V.
paraiso or delay his departure un
further advised from the navy depa
ment. Admiral Gherardi's sqG:"'
will leave also for the South At!
touching at Bahai, Brazil, for
from the navy department.
This combined squadron will
Valparaiso, the Yorktown, Bc
Charleston, making fleet Of
sells, three of which are the
full in the United State
Chicago carries IA breerh
as its lna!n battery
Atlanta 8. the Phil"
"nSton 8, the !"
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pecilnen Cases.

pecimen Cases.
ford, New Cassel, Wis,
d with Neuralgia Rhe,nna-
mach was disorder reid, his
Elected to an alarming .ex-
ite fell away, and (he was
Iucad i'll flesh and strength.
es of Electric Bitters cur
Shepherd, Harrisburg, ILL.,,
ling sore on his leg of eight
ding. Used three bottles
Bitters and seven boxes of
/, Arnica Salve, and his leg is
ID we'll. John Speaker, Ca
/, had five large Fever sores
s, doctors said he was incur
bottle Electric Bitters, and
ucklen's Arnica Salve cured
Sold at e'T Harris
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London the sad
intelligence has
been received d
with expressions
of the deepest
sorrow. Queen
Victoria was i'm
nediately notified
at Osborne of the
of Il Q T.