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The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-17
ABOUT POSTAL CARDS

II seems amost incredible that there
should be 5000 varities OF postal cards, but
that is the extent claimed for a collection.
These, however, include various isues of
the same nation and denomination. and
also cards issued for special occasions.
Postal cards have been in circulation a
little less than twenty-five years. The
idea. under the head of New Means of
Correspondence by Post" was published
and attracted the attention of the govern
ment officials. The director-general of
posts took up the idea and succeeded in
having an issue of postal cards put in cir
culation in 1869. The original name given
to them was Correspondent karte, and
this has been retained ever since. This
new move on the part of Austria quickly
excited other countries to adopt similar
method of correspondence, and before the
close of 1870 nearly all the European coun-
tries were using cards.
Germany was really the second coun-
try to mploy them. and special series
was issued to the soldiers engaged in the
Franco German war. These were called
the feldpost correspondence cards, ana
were sold unstamped to the soldiers at tn the
rate of about five for half-penny. The
soldiers had the privilege of using them
without paying postage. -.
n Another series was issued for civilians:
These had place left for stamp. ana
the writer had to atfix German postage
stamp to the card before posting. The held
most cards are now rare, the used ones
being scarcer than the unused ones.
Another card of equal rarity, and also
a reminder of the same war, is the balloon
post. card. issued by France during the
siege of Paris; The cards were sent up
from Paris in balloons and the mall bags
country where there was the least possible
opportunity of their capture by the
enemy.
They were smaller than the postcard
now in use and were covered with war
like expressions as Paris dehes the
enemy!" GLORY and conquest signlIy
crimes, and desire for revenge. Only
one war is just and right-that for inde-
pendence."
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-17

stantinople, looked into one another's eyes
and found brothers.
Although the tendency Of modern relig-
ious thought is toward universally
toward the enlargement of our thoughts
until it shall embrace all races of man
kind, thus far the ethical basis is the
only one on which all men may find
common standing room. The theme of
the anthem in which the voices of all the
religions of the world may unite is good
ness.
Il am sick OF opinions, said John
Wesley; "You want no other creed than
to do right. said Drummond; Love is
the fulfilling of the law" said Jesus.
The drift of all thought is toward ethics
and the religion of ethics.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-17
PEOPLE WE ABHOR

Those persons who want to tell part OF
your story for you. Il
Those persons whose education is con!
stantly::paraded before us. p
Those persons who know so much they
cannot refrain from correcting other peo-
pie. &
Those persons who look with benign
pity on any one who does not see things.
as they do. MS
Those persons with opinions so positive
that they know dissenting humanity to
be fools.
Those persons who know truth only in
what they think is right, and see error in
all else.
Those persons who have tasted the
waters of culture and have little intellect
to cultivate. T..
= Those persons who survey the universe
with little mind quite fascinated with
its own Importance.
Those persons who long to impress one
with their ease and unconcern in the
presence of supposed interiors. .
Those persons who by superficial falsity
and internal egotsm would convey an inns
preston of exalted refinement. X
Those persons who bore us by interjectl
ing narrative of self or surroundings
into subject having no tangible connec-
ton.
Those persons who consider themselves
SO educationally endowed they have lost
to view the ordinary rules of common
sense.
Those persons who do not know the
meaning of decency, yet are highly, set
up by self-estimation and well-adver-
tised Christianity.
Those persons who know so much relig-
ion tnat they violate, not only the writ.
ten laws of Christianity, but the unwrit-
ten code of courtesy.
Those persons who mistake cynici m Tor
wit, narrow self-satisfaction Tor iperai.
ism and the wrong side of every subject
for an exemplification Of all the world 8
culture they have Gagged in their own,
cOnCeif.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-17
CRIMINAL COLLISION

The method by which the Vanderbilt
divorce was arranged is scandal to our
jurisprudence. Worse than that. it is an
influence for the degradation of public
morals and the breaking down of the
popular sense of right and wrong.
Practically. Mr.. and Mrs. Vanderbilt
divorced themselves. There was no hear
ing before court. The parties did not
appear before the tribunal. There was no
public proof of intidelity on either side to
serve as a punishment for the guilty
party or as a deterrent influence in the
case of others. The whole matter was
arranged by dicker. The only function
of the court was to give legal effect to
the terms of the bargain.
Is it, then, pertinently inquiries the New
York World, the privilege of the rich to
annul their marriages at pleasure by mu-
tual agreement? The law, rigidly en-
forced against all ordinary citizens pre-
scribes that collision between husband
and wife shall be an effectual and per-
manent bar to divorce. Yet this rich
man and woman have sent their lawyers
into court with collusive agreement al
ready made; the court has suppressed the
evidence agreed to be presented, by send
ing the case to referee instead of hear
ing it in open session; the referee has
made q report in accordance with the
terms of the dicker; the court has affirmed
it, ordering the papers sealed so that
there may be no scandal-which means
simply that the guilty party shall be
spared all social shame and inconven-
ience-and the terms of the collusive
agreement have been embodied in decree
which authorizes one party to marry
again at pleasure, and imposes upon the
other a prohibition of marriage, which
is as effectual as bill against comet.
The court that connived at this con-
spiracy is merely the instrum ent of a vic
ious system prevailing to greater or less
extent in other states besides New York.
Unless we accept the unclean doctrine
of free love. marriage and divorce are
not in any sense private matters. The
family relation lies at the very founda-
ton of society. Divorce, equally with
marriage, is a matter of public concern,
and should be decreed only after a public
hearing and proof of statutory cause.
A case of this kind sets an example of
the most pernicious character imaginable.
1t means to the majority that there is one
law for the rich and another for the rest
of us. 1t means that if you have money
enough your marriage VOWS may count
for nothing. 1t means that your miscon-
duct will be carefully guarded against ex-
posture by all the authority the courts
possess. 1t means that while collusive
divorce proceedings are peremptorily
thrown out of court in the case of ordi-
nary persons, multi-millionaire and his
wife may arrange such a proceeding in
full assurance that it will be ratified by
the courts, and that all the scandalous
details will be securely hidden beneath
the sacred seal of the tribunal.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-17

The trouble on the Umatilla Indian res
ervation is ended. The pipe of peace has
been smoked and the red men have re-
tired to their wickiups. Captain Richards,
of the army, who smoked Uncle Sans
end of the pipe, showed the untutored
sons of the Northwest how rapid firing
gun worked, and the savage chieftains
remarked that they would not go to war
with men who loaded up on Sunday and
shot all of the rest of the week. Whether
the chiefs referred to the officers and sol
diers or to the rifles is matter of con-
lecture,
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-17

Oakland is not adverse to woman in
public office. DR.. Myra Knox, "a promi-
nent woman physician, has Just been
elected one of the School Directors of the
city. Several other women were pro-
posed for the nomination. and they were
all invited to address the non partisans.
DR.. Knox was detained at dinner and
did not arrive until the other speakers
had finished. She did not know that they
had all made long. somewhat elaborate
and telling speeches. The woman ply
stefan walked in. and when an opportun-
ity was given her to speak she said very
simply: Gentlemen, | am TAXPAYER
and | have two children in the public
schools. If | become School Director
shall know that there are but 100 cents
in IL dollar, whether that dollar is in my
own bank account or in the public treas
ury" This brevity evidently won the
convention, which had been suffering
from surplus of masculine eloquence. Dr.
Knox was the only woman nominated.
In 1854 Mrs. Knox graduated from the
Cooper Medical College, having studied
medicine after the death of her husband
She went to Oakland, where she knew no
one. and started to practice to support
herself and her two small daughters. In
eleven years she has purchased her home
and property IN other parts of the state.
one of her daughters is now in the uni
versity aud the other in the high school,
She attributes all her success profession
ally, socially and politically. to going
anead quietly. paying no attention to
what people said. and mindng her own
affairs with decision. but without noise.
The Herald takes pleasure i'll commencing
Mrs. Knox and all her kind. and reiterates
the assertion that they are as worthy of
the electoral suffrage and as competent to
administer affairs of state as nine-tenths
of the men thus privileged and trusted.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-17

We are making lot of fuss over that
Alliancia affair, but we are not talking SO
loud about Italian lynching out in Colo
RADIO, or about that shooting of British
subject on the New Orleans levee. There
are moments when We prefer to saw
wood
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-17

The story that comes from the legisla-
tive investigating committee in Illinois
regarding the atrocities perpetrated on
the unfortunate girls in the reform school
of that state, is one that will be read
with sEudder. Reformation is a good
thing, but when means that would have
put to blush the tortures of the middle
ages are used, it is time to call some sort
of a halt-probably with halter.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-17

It may be that Democratic legislators
have betrayed the trust reposed in them
by the people, that is an individual
crime or misdemeanor. The majority
of this Legislature, however, is Republi-
can, and that party must answer for the
acts, criminal and otherwise, of their rep
resentatiyes.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-17

The parsons of Oakland are demand
ing the right to speed their bicycles over
the sidewalks CT that city. The old fash
toned pedestrian, however, cannot per-
ceive any difference in the agony OF being
run over by preacher and collision
with the wheel OF rough riding sinner.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-17

When an army officer at Vancouver bar
racks gets himself disliked his enem les
charge him with drunkenness and then
comes court-martial. This is one way Tor
army officers to kill time in days OF peace.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-17

Edward Hutchinson, school teacher,
protests against the murderous rate OF
speed of Southern Pacific trains within
the city limits Of Los Angeles. Mr..
Hutchison's protest, it is needless to
say, will not be needed. Even the mang-
ling of a bevy of Mr.. Hutchison's pupils,
privileged" as he says, to cross the rail
road tracks. will not permanently abate
the danger that threatens the school chill
dren of that section of the city. And the
parents of the dead children will have no
redress. They may convict an engineer
of manslaughter, or they may not, but
the corporation in any event will have no
difficulty in proving ''contributory negli-
gence," and thereby escaping the conse-
quences of their crime. The Southern
Pacific is the innocent Abigail of cor
porations.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-17

1t is now proposed to Lexow the Leg
islature. The woods will soon be fuil Oh
fugitive witnesses.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-17

The Valley road looks as if it is all
right. The first shipload of rails has been
ordered-but it is a long way around the
Horn.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-17

Los Angeles ought to be interested IN
that manufacturers convention TO as
semble in San Francisco next Tuesday
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-17

That trouble over the firing on the AL
liancia by the Spanish gunboat begins to
assume the proportions of prize fight pre-
liminaries. All talk and no action.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-17

How many members of this Legislature
have lived up to their pledges? CAN the
roll
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-17

1t is now the fashion of Oakland clergy
men to ride churchward O. Sunday morn
ings on bicycle. The Master rode to
the Temple on burro.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-17

Chris Buckley and Sam Rainey are
content plating another trip to Canada.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-17

Governor Budd will not approve the
anti-scalpers bill. Scalp, brothers, scalp
with care; scalp in the presence OF the
passeniaire.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-17

There must be gum in the waters that
smoothed over the troubles OF the WHISKY
trust.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-17

Los Angeles is an overpopulated town.
Notwithstanding the fact that we are
building seven houses a day the cry is
'still they come" The sidewalks on
Spring street are too narrow to accommo
date the throngs; the hotels and boarding
houses are full to the attics; from the
overflow, towns are building i'll the sub
urbs and towns already established are
rapidly developing into cities. When we
begin to operate manufactures TO handle
the products of our soil the increase of
population will be greater and the
hustling busting, jostling more annoy
ing to the valetudinarian and the cpl.
curean who come to Southern California
merely to enjoy an afternoon existence
in the land of perennial sunshine. What
we are going to do about it cannot be de-
termined at present, but the necessities
press and we must act soon or submit to
be crowded off the reservation.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-03-17

The Los Angeles whist clubs have not
suspended on account OF Lent.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-02
NOTICE.

A meeting of Stockholders Of the Fifth
National Bank of San Antonio is hereby
calledfor October 10th, A. D., 1895, to be
held in the Dullnig block on the corner Of
Alamo and East Commerce streets at 10
o'clock a. m. for the purpose of ratifying
and confirming the resolutions heretofore
passed on the 25th day OF May A. D., 1895,
closing said bank In voluntary liquidation
and delivering its assets TO the Alamo
National Bank of San Antonio, and TO
continue said liquidation In accordance
with law.
GIG II II. o. ESGELKE, Cashier.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-02

free of charge. 1t is worth q
fortune to any sick person. L have
just sent 20 of these books to sick
friends for l believe if they car
see DIR. r. C.Flower they will die
in healthy old age"
"Do you return to South Ameri.
caw asked some one.
"No; | shall take up teaching
again in this country; but l shall
always think that, unless / had
gone to South America L might
never have been directed to and
cured by this wonderful man w-
(E. c. Welch in Hartford, Conn.
Telegram.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-02
FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN.

One story frame house, rooms, hall,
two galleries, city water, large stable
corner lot with south exposure SO by
1873 feet, fifteen minutes walk from Post
office. Address Business" care LIGHT
office. STAT
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-10-02
AUCTION, AUCTION.

Great Auction Sales daily, commencing Oct.
LIST, at 10 q. m, the Green Front Auction and
Commission House. consisting of Diamonds,
watches, jewelry and everything in the furni.
ture line. Outside sales promptly attended
to. Satisfaction guaranteed. Furniture moved
and stored at very low rates; responsible for
all breakage. A. BERGER PROP
Ger. Commerce and N. Flores st. 26tf
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-08-02
University Degrees For Women.

Her majesty the queen having granted
an amcudcd charter 10 tho University of
Durham, whereby all its degrees hence
forth. with the exception Of divinity,
viii I've open 10 women all Interested in
the movement for tho higher education
of women VIII npito with us in congrat
ulatiug the senate We arc pleased also
10 state that il is also about TO establish
II new degree in letters, with the title
b. Lift, which Will be OF especial value
TO those whose taste. do not incline TO
science or medicine We understand that
specially reduced composition fee. for
all the instruction for " whole year III
tho subjects necessary to this degree.
amounting to about only SIS, has hcen
arranged, and this, together with the
reasonable rates Of the women S hall of
residence, will place this degree within
the reach Of all aud at loss cost than tho
ordinary boarding school charges We
would specially commend this to the
notice of those who intend to qualify
themselves for the profession Of teach
ing
Tho Durham College of Medicine as
well as the College of Science is sitnat-
ed fur convenience in Newcast leon
Tyne, and we mc convinced that this
new privilege TO be accorded to women
students viii increase their numbers
considerably and most heartily congrat
ulato the university upon the acquisi-
tiou of this amended charter. London
Queen.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-08-02
They Don't Look Dowdy.

Tho newspaper woman perhaps has
had more than her share of unjust criti-
c!Sn III regard Ia hor personal appear
ance. She has been represented usually
as boing somewhat like pegsutty in re-
gard - buttons as well as Needless as to
boots and careless i'll regard TO gloves,
with hicrCS lyphics on hor cuffs. There
is no profession which offers so many
difficulties IN the way Of keeping spick
and span, for there is constant danger
of entangling boot heels in unloosened
dress bindings and facimgs on account
Of the haste which forbids the taking Of
1.-The stitch in time" but it is to the
credit Of women WHO are Obliged to
work from 10 10 10 hours day that the
majority Of them pass among their sis
tiers Of leisure ut receptions and teas
without being conspicuous for careless
attire.
a small cotaric of newspaper women
have solved the problem Of preserving u
neat and well dressed appearance at
small expenditure by employing II gen
tlewonn1n in reduced circumstances To
tako charge of their wardrubes The
woman III question is IN excellent seam
stress and of refined tastes She goes to
their rooms, looks over every article OF
clothing, puts on bindings, buttons and
bralds seWs mp rents and keeps every
thing in order and charges 20 cents an
hour for this work. In this way gowns
may sec hard service and still present a
creditable appearance -Exchanee.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-08-02


FnANKFoKT, Ky, August l.-Senator
Blackburn's campaign was continued
10 day ut Bald Knob. A rival barbe
cue was started by the McCreary
people and made competition lively.
Senator Blackburn in his speech de
nounced Cleveland for sending Car
Isle away from his duties at Washing
ton to ''ventlate his cuckoo ideas he
fore tho Kentucky Democrats" He
then ridieuled the sc.ion of the State
Convention on the platform issue
lie said that the 80 votes of Louis
vile aud those OF the big cities over
rode the wishes of the western portion
OF the state where the big Democratic
malnrities were rolled up and the con.
vention made n platform TO suit the
wishes OF city that weDt Republican
last fall by 5000 votes.
The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-08-02

Kate Field, the clevor writer, address
ed some remarks not long ago 10 girl
graduate. which are especially timely at
this season To he snre they are to be
taken with gram of salt, but they are
none tho less valuable and suggostiye
Dear graduates cooking is the alpha
bet of your happiness. l do not hesitate
to affirm that tins republic great as her
necessities are IN many directions, needs
cooks more than al else. The salvation
of the national stomach depends upon
them. We are a nation Of dyspeptics,
and Americans are dyspeptics because
they eat the wrong foods badly cooked,
which they drown III ice water. They
are dyspoptics because our women don't
know the rudimcnts OF their business
and resign their kitchens into the hands
of incompetent servants, of whom they
are afraid, and whose impudcncc they
frequently endure through sheer help
lessness. Be cooks fret and anything
you please afterward. On you postarity
waits.
- Druggists say that their sales of Hoods
Sarsaparilla eNccsd those o all Others.
There Is NO substitute Tor Hoods.