The herald., 1894-12-28
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS.

last evening. You could see ~ much
from the added lines on face that is
never bland and seems to havs been
born with wrinkles. His voice was
petulant. but his little audience in the
foyer of the Westminster was none the
less attentive when the drawn lips be-
gan to move and the thin, piping voice
was heard.
"Hickety-hi! Hickety-ho! She.caw-
gol She-caw,gow came Q strong whis-
per from the other end Of the room, just
as the Gargoyle got his mouth fairly
open. 1t drowned his irst sentence and
increased the wrinkles on his forehead.
The Gargoyle frowned, almost audibly,
it seemed. Then he cleared his throat
again.
"I wish these conioundsd college boys
would not interrupt their seniors. In
day or two suppose the whole town
will resound with their cries. Why can't
peaceful man find . quiet corner in
the world somewhere?
"Why don't l 60 to San Francisco? =?
Oh. that's too heroic . remedy. l like
my medicine in homeopathic doses.
went up there last month. but after the
bustle and rush and hurry of Southern
California. 1 found the quiet concsit Of
the bay people rather too depressing.
never heard the sound Of hammer or
saw all the time l was in San Frau
cisco. And they robbed me up there.
The merchants have their mottoes up
side down. Slow sales and big profits
is the way they read old Ben Franklin's
I.,o
charged me 10 cents for Los Angeles
paper at the Palace hotel.
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"Oh, I've got lots OF kicking to do to.
night; but speaking OF those football
boys that are qnarted here, did you
notice that they have the proper pro-
nunciation of Chicago. It's She. cav.
go. not Chi-ca-go. It's the name OF an
Indian stink weed that smells about
half and half between the onion and the
garlic. It's quiet as easy to pronounce
it right. Why don't people post them
selves, | wonder? and why don't Che
caw-go spsll her name as il is pro.
nounced? Bah; this is topsy turvy
world
"There's 80 much bad logic afost in
it-that's the trouble or is it lack of
logic? Now | talked 10 man
today about how the Southern Pacific
monopoly had ruined San Francisco snd
was trying TO ruin Los Angeles. lie
said: oh. you'd be- a monopolist
yourself il yen could = Then he
thought he had silepcsd me; and he
had, for don't caro- to argue the point
with people who reason in that way.
Suppose l would be monopolist il l
could. and suppose every msn in the
world he a hog II placed before q filed
trough? What OF that? Does that
make it right?, Does that lessen Los
Angeles danger? Does that make O
competing line from the north any the
less desirable? Tno public schools
ought to teach logic before grammar.
**4
Excuse me, gentlemen, if | change
ths subject, but while | think of it |
want to observe that the plan to take o
new census OF this city Is a most desira-
Bile one. Perhaps the chamber Of COM
merce will take the matter up They
have considered it. l don't know just
whose duty it is. but it ought to be done,
| tell you."
"Hckety.hi! hickety-ho!" came
again from the far end OF the foyer. the
eloquence of the Garvoyl, wse drowned
in tie subdued volume of the CO. lege
call. The Gsrgoyle adjourned sine die.
#"%
Judge Cope OF Santa Barbara, ex Dis
tic Attorney James Copeland of San
Diego, end Col. Bob N,rtham OF Fuller
ton shook hands in the corridor OF the
Nadeau last evening. 1t wss en- informal
meeting and certainly unexpected. 1t
was an agreeable meeting all around,
! however, and during the session there
were eeveral remarke made similar to
| those historic words that once passed
between the governors of North and
South Carolina.
Copeland had just come down from
San Francisco, where he has been in
consultation with Col. Dan Burns. He
| hes quarters at he Nadesu, and will ra.
main for few DAYS. He is one of, il
not the leading, Republican politician
of San Diego.
Colonel Bob is an honored member OF
Governor Markham's staff and a mem
Der OF the executive committee OF the
state central committee He returned
to hit home at Fullerton last night.
1t was the etaid aud dgnifed Judge
Cope of the superior bench OF Santa
Barbara, who lent judicial tone 10 the
meeting and makee it safe to assert that
the remarks similar to those that once
passed between the Carolinas' governors
we're not repeated with unwonted fre.
quency prior to adjournment.
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J. E. Coffin, super ntendent OF the
Whittier school, WAS in town today.
the Dig improvements out there are pro.
crossing rapidly he says, and in a month
or two at least half Of them will be com.
pleted.
~ were so crowded that additional
buildings became an absolute necessi; y"
says Superintendent Coffin. '.We had
accommodations for 200 boys. and ~
we were caring for double that NUN
| ber.
I'VE had a great time at Whittie'
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