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The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-02-17
The Old Wooden Rocker
RICHMOND DISPATCH


How vivid the sight of the old wooden rocker
That calm retrospection presents to my view
genuine type OF the old knickerbocker
Affair that aforetime our sitting room knew
A real am buscader, a atch-as-can wres Ter!
That lurked in the darkness each lodge night
for me,
And made "yours truly" . pang.tortured
nestler
Amidst the old sitting rooms scattered de-
to- brs
That old wooden rocker; that dastardly rocker !
That seemed full Of impious mischief to be-
How oft ere I'd go for my regular outing
s. I'd locate the thing in the northermost nook
OF that sacred apartment, without ever doubt
ing
Its inanimation and statuesque look
But surely as later entered its presence
And tiptoed around where it wasn't before,
I'd get of its meanness a compounded essence
And find myself sprawling again on the floor,
Imprecating that rocker: that satin-shod
rockeri
That rocker which gave me Commissions ga
lore.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-02-17

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The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-02-17

His Mistake. -Woman--That rocking
chair you sold me is a fraud.
Second Hand Dealer--How's dot?
'sThe rockers are not even and, as you
rock it keeps moving sideways all over the
room"
ssMein gracious! / hat made meestake
und sent you Won new patent rocker var
ranted nod to wear out de carpet all in
Won place. Dot kind costs 81 more. -
sHugh! Well, its your mistake, and
won't pay the ~, and I won't send it
back--so there. New York Weekly.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-02-17

Los ANGELES, June Q, 1893
To THE PUBLIC: For five years l have
been troubled with nervous sick headache and
liver complaint. didn't seem TO find any help
from the many doctors and medicines that I
tried until tried Dr. Wong Him. 639 Upper
Main street. am now well. Yours truly,
MISS NJ. q. BROCK.
48 Hinton ave, Los Angeles, Cal
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-02-17

PLY E. First street, Los Arg lies. Ca. !
December Is, 1891
l. the undersigned, hereby testify that, i've
years ago, DR.. s H. Chamley cured two very
large eating cancers on my lace -one on my
temple and eye, measuring "a By inc res,
and the other in front OF my ear, measuring
Ia by 2 inches. Both are entirely we'll
VALENTINE PETER.
Now this is no falsehood or mistake. The
above is an exact picture of Uncle Valentine
Peer, before treatment. / have cured nun
dreds OF very similar cancers, and many
weighing ten times mach, in womens
br asts l know that people generally ana
even physicians, say that cancer cannot be
cured, but affirm that / can cure any CAN
GER or TuMOR that ever existed, ii it is all on
the outside of the body and not attached to the
ribs. use an almost painless plaster which
kills the cancer, and the whole mass drops
out Write for book of home testimonials OF
wonderful cures
g. r. CHAMLEY. NJ. D.,
Office 21l West First street. Cancer Hospital,
Eli West Ann street, Los Angeles. Cal
PLEASE SEND THIS TO SOME ONE WITH
CANCER OR SEND ME THEIR NAMES.
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With a Birthday Locket
FREDERICK LOCK Err


Your sun is in brightest appaI ell.
Your birds and your blossoms are gay.
But where is my jubilant carol
To welcome SO joyous day?
| sang for you when you were smaller,
AS fair asa fawn and as wild;
Now, Lima, you're ten. and you're taller
You elderly child.
| knew you in shadowless hours,
When thought never came with smart;
You then were the pet of your flowers,
And JOY was the lid OF your heart.
! ever shall love you and dearly!
think when you're even thirteen
You'll still have heart and not merely
flirting machine!
And when time shall have spoil'd you OF pas
sion,
Discrownd what you now tn nix sublime,
oh, swear that you'll still be the fashion,
And laugh at the antics OF Time.
To love you will then DE no duty;
But happiness nothing can buy
There's II bud in your garland, my Beauty,
That never can die.
heart may be bruised and not broken;
A soul may despair and still reck.
| send you. dear child. poor token
of love for your dear little neck.
The hear that will beat just below it
Is open anu as pure as your brow
May the heart. when you come TO bestow it.
Be happy as now.
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HARPER's BAZAAR


Over the sorrow and over the bliss,
over the teardrop. over the kiss.
over the crimes that blotted and blurred.
over the wound Of the angry word,
Over the deeds in weakness done,
over the battle, lost and won, =
Now at the end of the flying year,
Year that tomorrow will not be here.
over our freedom, over our thralls,
In the dark and the midnight the curtain falls.
Over our gain and over our loss,
over our crown and over our cross,
over the fret OF our discomfort,
Over the i'll that we never meant,
over the scars OF our self-denial,
over the strength that conquered the trial.
Now in the end OF the flying year.
Year that tomorrow will not be here.
Quietly final, the prompter calls;
over it swiftly the curtain falls
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TO THE PUBLIC:

Los ANGELES, Cal, July 81, 1894
DIR. WONG HIM, 500 Upper Main st. ,.
DEAR SIR take pleasure in adding my tes-
l will say that after taking your treatment for
catarrh Of the head and throat, that am now
well, and ask you to rel to me any person
as to the efficacy of your treatment Yours
truly, p. E. KING,
Attorney and Notary Public,
Garvanza Cal
The Washington times., 1895-05-05
Nansen,s Talented wifa

Frau Eva Nansen, the explorers wife.
is born singer. She has been singing In
copenhagen this winter, and always gives
several concerts here, which are considered
events and eagerly attended. Even the
King never misses one when he is in town
A very shy woman, almost ipaccessil,Ie
10 Foreigners, she throws her whole souI
into her art, and when she steps upon the
stage seems to lose sight of her audience
completely, and TO see straight into The
mountains and green forests as she losses
Dack her head and rises to the very spirit
or the song, her face glowing with strong
excitement. But even Were she less an
artist, / think her concerts would sim
be crowded, from the desire that every one
feels to testify oil possible sympathy ana in
terest In the young wife whose courage
and whose trials are so great. One looks
at her fine, strong, brave face and thinks
as she must so often be thinking. Of tha
terrible risks of those arctic deserts where
her husband, for years beyond the chance
of any communication, is at best MAKING
his perilous way.
The Washington times., 1895-05-05
PROTECTION AGAINST rHIsTLEs
Sixteen Miles OF Wire Fencing One
North Dakota Farm.

Sixteen Miles of wire Fencing ON One
North Dakota Farm.
The Wahpetan, N. Dai Globe says Last
year W. P. Adams, PROPRIETOR of the Fair
view farm, fenced in bis farm of 5000
acres. building sixteen miles of woven wire
fence. The fence was baiit as a protec-
ton against the rowing thistle or eactus.
and proved to be successful barrier to
progress across his fertile fields.
Mr. Adams made trip through the worst
Infested OF the thistle districts iu South
Dakota, and from what he saw was con-
vinced that wheat farming and thistle
growing on the same lands are not COM
patible. After correspondence with rail-
road officials and others who were expert
enced in fencing matters, Mr.. Adams deter
mined on fencing. Woven wire strung on
cedar posts seemed to promise the best re-
suits. Mr.. Adams bought siAt'ei, iiilss OF
wire at 21 cents per rod, u Id with tie
posts and staples the cost was $3.50. Dur
cactus would come rolling acrJss the prai-
rie from the west by the t.foasam1. Tho
.ence, which is foity-sight inches high,
would stop them. As soon as the cac6us
would BE- piled up as high as the lcllce,
they would be burned. The buruiug was
done by walking along the fcnce and ap-
plying the torch. Flames would slToot up
twenty feet high, but would die out n a
noment-a flash and all would be over
so dry was the plant. The feuce was
cleared of cactus twelve or fifteen times
during the winter.
Mr.. Adams believes that systematic
fencing and burning is the eeasiest and
cheapest way Of Kidding farm Iauds of
cactus.
The Washington times., 1895-05-05
Fondness for Feathers.

According to a writer in the London
Spectator a change has come over the
minds OF women III respect to feathers; and
while these pretty ornaments coutinue to
be worn the objections to the wanton
sacrifice of birds in order to procure them
have so far prevailed that su bStitutes have
been found for those kinds to obtain which
birds were killed.
While the egret plume-the finest of
these feathers-is still unapproachable
as an ornament, the milliners say that ladies
object to buying the real article because
IL is cruel" and demand artificial substi-
tutes, or are contented with less perfect
plumes; and sham 'ospreys," as they are
called, are made in ways it is difficult to
determine.
Some are fashioned from split quill
feathers of larger heron. In others even
a microscope fails to show the process of
manufacture. Besides substitutes for
the osprey" all kinds of composite feather
decoration, perfect for the purposes to
which applied, are now used for hats and
bonnets, aud naturalist in q milIiners
shop finds himself confronted with hun
dred varieties OF plumage never seen in
nature ebutexcellentiuart, for which it would
puzzle anyone but the ''plumassier" or
the taxideunist to find a name. The era
of stuffed birds and natural wings adorn-
ing headdreSses is almost over.
The Washington times., 1895-05-05

ing some hot coffee and preparing morsel
for her To eat
The gent. On the other side of the stove
did not move while we were attending to
her. i don't even know whether he
looked a her; but l am sure she did not
know that anybody else was present. BY
aud by, when she had eaten and drunk and
become warm enough TO move about, she
walked over to the settee where my father
had wrapped up the child, and, taking off
the coYeTlct, looked mournfuliy in its face
and then kissed it. She turned from it
anon toward my father and me, and with
clasped hands and an impioring look begged
us To think no i'll OF her. We tried 10 pacify
her and led her toward her seat at the.
stove, aud then / knew she had seen Mr..
Hollidge- She started from our helpful
grasp aud took step or two back with both
hands at her temples. But she made no
sound. The shock waSmcre than she could
endure, and her over wrought body sank
under il To the ground.
There was a dead silence for a minute
most-it seemed an hour-then Mr Holiidge
arose sterniy and silently from his seat.
lie was white as death, but his grace OF
bearing never fOrSook him. lie walked
around her, as if il had been pollution TO
touch her and stepped close to the chil1-
He uncovered its face and looked at IL
curiously but tenderly-it was such a look
as a mortal agony should cast on little,
innocent child-and then, without word,
he took up his hat aud walked, slowly and
with dignity, through the gate into the
street
We took the mother up from the floor
and kept her here for that night. Ahl
twas pitiful, pitiful sight. She died a
week after in the hospital.
And this is my pretty sweetingi Ny
dariingl Ho, bonny, tits time for bed.
Come, sweet, comel
Mr HoIidge? None ever heard more of
him. He was a silent gent; but true
gent, think
The Washington times., 1895-05-05
IT'S BUTTON IN rHE MIDDLE.
The Queer Fix of n Snake That Wa.
Killed ON a Kentucky Farm

The Queer Fix of n Snake That Was
Killed on "A Kentucky Farm
when / got down TO my farm in Hardin
county last week" said a LAWYER to a
Louisville Courier-JouruaI man. Il found
my men still talking about the snake one
of them killed during the last snow. silas
Warner, who manages the farm, was passing
through small apple orchard on his way
TO mound OF turHips that had been covered
with earth for winter use He carried a
hoe with which TO dig out the turritls
AS ne walked along small foot path made
by the COWS in going TO the spring for
water, he was surprised to see half the
pody or a Big COW snake, almost erect and
tanning the air vigorously.
He stopped in surprise, for snakes in
motion in the winter are most unusual
The snakes body dropped TO the ground
IN a minute or two and he seemed TO be
resting. Then the body again assumed a
motion and the tail began gradually to be
lifted into the air and its quick thTesIins
was repeated. Warner waited for the same
programme OF action to be gone through a
third time without disturbing the snake
Then the cold began 10 make itself felt and
Warner resolved to investigate the reptiles
queer actions without further delay.
he walked over to where the snake was
and found the front half OF the reptile
buried IN small opening in the ground 1t
was Kept from going entirely into the hole by
a Dig round ball that was about the center
OF the snakes body. Warner pulled the
snake out of the hole with the hoe. The
reptile refused to move. He cut the shake
In two, What was his surprise to find that
the swelling was caused by gourd, which
mad been worn smooth and shiny. On
cutting the gouId open he found that it
Was sun juicy aud apparently fresh. Where
and wien the reptile swallowed the pourd
was not quite plain to Warner The only
man who raised gouIds lived cutie three
quarters OF mile away from my farm"
The Washington times., 1895-05-05
A Singing Reuort.

Nine. de Stael had fallen out with the Wis
count lie Choiseul owing to certain malicious
reports circulated by the latter. One day the
lady and the yiscount met in company on
which occasion good manners required that
they should speak to each other Mme de
Stael commenced.
We have not seen you for q long while, NJ
de Choiseul."
III"
Seriously, monsieur"
81 had a narrow escape from being pol
soned."
.'Alasl Possibly you took bite of your
own tongue"
This little joke fell like thunderbolt on
the viscount, who was a notorious back
bitter and mischief-maker. The lesson was a
severe one, but he richly deserved it and
had not a word to say.-Le Savoir-Faire ct
Savoir-Viyre.
The Washington times., 1895-05-05

Mr.. Adoiph TownIey and Miss Prissie
Squire.
cat a London Dinner Party.>
Miss S-Nothiug 10 do in the oountryl
Oh, Mr Townleyl
Mr. T.-EXcept TO wish you hadn't got
up or could go 10 bed, you know.
Mss y Don't you care Tor The country,
Mr.. Townley?
a.f - mas its value as back
ground TO London. In contemplating you,
we realize our happiness. What would
heaven lie without he'll, Miss Squire?
Mss D, .si,te--NS -, - Botloi tDc-
termining 10 be agTeeable.l Oh, but you
mustn't think ] cont appreciate London.
love- IT. love the shops, and the theaterS,
and the sights, and
a. Sights arethingsthat
nobody goes 10 see. Are you going 6n2
Miss S.-Going on?
j. urgIetlui4y yt5ENerybod is, you
MSS s.-But where t9?,J
Mr. T.-The Wokinghans, of course.
Che sghs.) ,ol
Mss s.-But I don't ikRow the woking
hams. never heard of them
Af I.-4 o. neseTJ--. (Decides to
congratulate her.) What privilegel You
ought TO be framed, Mlss Squire.
Ms S.-Do-do mass people know
them? ,TRu
-. TIT is necessary 10 know them to
go O see them. 5 D. s-a f as-
Miss s.t-In the country we only go TO sac
our friends. 81
Mr.T.-Iknow. You aETiYein wasonette,
fuIl-quite fuIl-before- lunch and spend
long day. You plaFgr games, and eat
gooseberr es. and make Ray.
Miss s., in sUcden BeRe of Sympathy
a ..sl i IL luI? Ca, fose d long Cd, i4he
that. .c@los'
a.r. T.-And you talk satIout the parson,
and when tie parson's exhausted you ds-
cesc his wife, and-then you make hay
again.
Mss s., sti rred at retaiiation-I don't
woafer Londoners disli ke the country.
They can't do anything, you know.
Mr. T.-Dear me; is there ever anything
to do?
Miss s.-They can't shoot, or ii sh, or ride
Fancy not being able TO ride.
MI r. noe beng able 30 II de and secretly
ashamed of 1.-THE rural idea is a centaur
WHO woes Conservative and goes 20 church
ON Sunday.
Miss $, finding him out-Cant you ride,
Mr.. Towniey?
Mr. T., with di gnity-As boy used to
ride.
Miss S.-Donkeys at the seaside?
Mr.. TT like country hunlor. It's so
fresh and primi tive. Miss s. laughs un-
pleasantly And how have you spent your
day? What have you been To see?
Miss s., ashamed n her turn-Oh-well,
nothing n particular.
Mr. T., persuasively-The Tower?
Miss &. sharply-No. l haven't.
Mr.. T., after ostentatious reflection
The waxworks?
Miss s., very sharply-No.
MIR. T. DECIDES TO CONGRATULATE
Herl-WHAT a PRIV ILEGE.
Mr.. t., nsplred-AfterDoon perform
ance? Let'ssee. savoy!
Miss s., covering annoyance with dig
nity-And why shouldn't /, Mr. Town
ley?
cir. T.-My dear Miss Squire, it is
most amiable way of spending the after
noon What a gay day you'n have hadl
Theater in the afternoon, party in the
evening What stories you'll have to tell
when you get back!
Miss s., asde-I wish 1 had him on
Teaser. (Sarcastically)-I shall be very
proud o being able TO sdy I've met you, MIR.
Townley.
Mr.. T., detecting the sarcasni-0h, no,
reallyi / can't fatter myself that my
fame has pene trated into the corners of the
earth Mine is q local celebrity. Where
do you-er-live, Miss Squire?
Miss S.-Devonshire-an Ian proud of it.
Mr. T.-Ah, yes. once went to adding
The Washington times., 1895-05-05
WILL FUruns NAN sLEEP2
Startling Contention OF Englisl
Thinker and Writer.

Startling Contention of an English
Thinker and Writer.
Whatever may be your fad, il is certain
sooner or later to receive the approval and
support of ofthemedicaIj journals, says the 2 all
Mall Budget From time to time they have
discovered death in the milk Jug, death in
the teapot death in Wine, beer, tobacco, cy-
cling, cricket, football, bathing, and what
not. The condemnation of the oy ster was
heavy blow and now we are asked TO re-
pudiate the principle OF early rising. Speak
ing as one having authority, and not as the
scTibes, the British Medical journal makes
bold 10 say that the early rising theory is
mistake, tnat the vital forces do not come
fully into play until midday and tnat the de-
sire 10 get up with the lark, so far from be-
ing a sign OF strength Of character and yigor
of body, denotes adyaRiug age.
Such a doctrine is nothing short OF rsvo-
lutionary. Ii not ouly throws cold water
upon tue claims OF the early riSers, but by
parity OF reasonin II exIois that uune roaS
class, the lazy lie-aDeds, who, we are now
given TO understand. ar-ibe SAT- OF theeaTt
Frankly speaking, while inclined 10 rejoice
al the sDu administered to the early rlsers,
! am una bic to agree with the British Med
ical Journal. | wish | could, but ali the
SCIENTIFIC evidence seems to me to point TO
the early riser, or, let me say, the short
sleeper, as the coming man.
Primitive man, like monkeys and birds,
having no artificial light, must have gone TO
bed at nightfali, 10 sleep until sunrise; there
was nothing else for him 10 do. Down TO
the last century civilization exhibited little
change in this respect, all modes OF aru-
ficial lighting being SO poor that there was
no iI,-,.t ement for anybody 10 turn night
into Gay. The electric light, however, may
conceiyably enough make man independent
of the light OF day for the carrying on OF
business. In such an event the fiIteht type
oi man viii 81 rely be ne whot an keep aw axe
longest ana get through tie most WORK 10
the four-and twenty hours. Ibelievethatthe
philosophy of "eany TO bed and early to
rise" is Il survival of the old CONDITIONS
Work while yeJ it is day, says another au-
thoTity, FOR the night cometh when no man
can work" That was rash assertion. 1t
could not have been euunciated al hJe end OF
tue nineteeath century. very great deal
OF the labor is done by night, and the prac-
tice is sure to extend.
TINS being SO, all The four-and-twenty
hours, in fact, being DOW available for work,
the man who wants loug sleep, rather
r.san a short one, viii assuredly be at a dis
advantage in the struggle for life. II the
Darwinian theory is true, therefore, he viii
tend to die OUT. e., to be replaced By
more active organization adapted TO the
new conditions.
The Washington times., 1895-05-05

THE AFRo-AMERIcAN sLoPED.

HIS 1sOWnNarratiOnaS toaNew Yorker
w no ohtdanInex plica bIeA IA bltfOn-
J. NJ Des Rochers, the Jolly lumber broker
had the vice president of big New York
lumber concern down the other day and waa
doing the bonors for him, says the Florida
Times Union Mr.. Des Rochers, who is a
quiet, peaceable citizen, finding that the
GOthamite was trOtting a gait too fast foI
him, sent for two sawmin men from I'D tha
road apiece to help him out. One night
they carried the New Yorkerout and saw the
town aud then promised il to him.
The next day Mr.. De Rochers, CHANGING to
meet George, the hackman whose hack had
Deem employed, said.
We'll, George, did you treat the gentle
men rght?''
'Yesse5, oh yesSer; butdoes you know Mr.,
Des Rochers, whatdey d8n2 Lemme tell you.
When ulgger run up on a cracker heknoWs
dat DE consvmin' segashuation OF dat crack
ers mnd is to trash d. nigger. Indat crowd
de yuther night de man from New York gin
NE 81 z 70 times whaJde hack was wuth an
den he say:
Boys, 1 got to whip dis nigger'
'Thinkera Yankee fUmNew York wantin'
TO whip niggerl could expected II FUN
dem yuther two gemmuns, cause dey waa
raised dat way
'SOOuas deNew York ma nmade dat crack
thought / knew what was comin'.
One de yutber gemmuns say No, you
caH't whip dis niger
AT dat INSTANCE my teeth stop chatterin'
and felt so per cent better.
But my heart ent way downin nv boots
again aud my teeth chartered when he up an
continued, sez he:
i got to whip this niger mySelf. 'cause
It's been g~ine on six weeks since 1 whipped
a nigger.'
Den de yuther Florida gemmun 1oweddas
be ain't had de pleasure IN eight weeks. and
so dey argued and argued aud jawed and.
Doss, II got 70 be so iHteresti1' dat forgot
10 drove of until a thought hit me dat qiS
hyeT was my time, SO hit de horses a cut
ana ie1' EN- Jawiu' on de sidewalk bout
MhlnnIn, q ni.-a-..r rlat Id IL.