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out, but in this I reckoned without the
milkman. had no idea before that
the multitudinal milkman was such
fiend in human shape. He drives ve-
hicle modelled after the old Roman
chariots, and he drives at rate Of
speed that is something appalling. The
moment got on my bicycle in the
road some accursed milkman would
come tearing up, and taking it for
granted that knew all about bicycle
steering he never paid the slightest at
tention to me. Consequently I came
within an ace of being smashed up
into pieces on several occasions, and
after steering my machine up ON the
sidewalk and into the fence to get out
Of his way used language that knew
must have turned most of the milk in
that neighborhood sour.
One morning, thoroughly discour-
aged with the business, got out on
the street little later than usual, so
as to be rid of the millkman. One Pc
culiarity ct the bicycle seems to be
that although you are reasonably sue
cessful on your last interview with it,
WIZ NAV y OU SOOAA W A0VO w VOS 1A OLA
over again. This particular morning
1 was more than usually discouraged
and had practically made up my mind
to sell the machine. All at once l
found myself in the saddle and rea-
lized that had run along several
rods without any serious wobbling. On
and on we went with a beautiful sense
of smoothness, ease and exhilaration.
I turned in to the main coaching
road with my heart in my mouth
but my feet still on the pedals, and
executed turn without disaster.
There was now a straight stretch
ahead of me for miles on smooth and
excellent road.
''Surely," said I to myself, ''the time
is come when my neck is to be broken.
This docility on the part of the wheel
can lead to nothing but disaster" ="
Nevertheless on and on we went, and
after travelling for about q mile and
coming to a wide part in the thorough
fare, I took sweep around with
amazing success and travelled back
again. 1t seemed to be an unbeliev-
able thing, but actually had succeed
ed in teaching that bicycle how to
carry a man as man should be car
ried.
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THEIRS GREAT IDEA.

How France Happened to Recover Napo-
Icons Remains from the English.
AS the story went, O'Connell had
warned Lord Palmerston that he pro-
posed to present bill in the commons
for returning Napoleon's remains to
France.
''Take care" said Lord Palmerston.
"Instead of pleasing the French gov
ernment, you may embarrass it seri-
.ously."
'"That is not the question, answered
OConnell. 1.-The question for me is
what 1 ought to do. Now, my duty is
to propose to the commons to return
the emperor's bones. England's duty
is to welcome the motion. l shall make
my proposition, then, without disturb
ing myself about whom it will f1atter
or wound"
$50 be it," said Lord Palmerston.
"only give me fifteen days"
"Very well," answered O'Connell
Immediately Lord Palmerston wrote
to NJ. Theirs, then at the head of tlao
French ministry, that he was about to
be forced to tell the country that Eng
1duU udu ucVcT IcluS0O GO TcCuru Lu0
remains of Napoleon to France, be-
cause France had never asked that
they be returned. As the story goes,
M. Theirs advised Louis Philippe to
forestall O'Connell, and thus it came
about that Napoleon's remains were
returned to France.
The grand pensee, as the idea was
Immediately called, seems, however, to
have originated with M. Theirs, who
saw in it means of reawakening the
waning interest in Louis Philippe. He
believed that the very audacity of the
act would create admiration and ap.
plause. Then, too, it was in harmony
with the claim of the regime; that is,
| that the government of 1880 united all
that was best in all the past govern
ments of France. and SO was stronger
than any one of them. The mania oi
both king Al d minister for collecting
and restoring made them think still
more favorably of the idea.-McClure's
Magazine.
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stake, but once you spend your money
for first-class bicycle You are then
compelled to learn, or else there 10 20
much cash thrown away"
This seemed very reasonable. so I
pondered upon it and then bought the
biggest book on cycling that is pub
lished, a very expensive book, one Of
the volumes of the Bennington Libra
ry, edited by real lord, and illustrated
by a prince-a prince of the brush
named Joseph Pennell, who is cycler
himself, and he draws very alluring
pictures of the machine. I studied up
this volume and was amazed to see
how easy it was to ride q bicycle.
then took the advice of the book as to
which particular machine to buy. It
gives several pages in a description Of
particular safety, and learned that
that machine had none of the vices
which were SO prominent in those bi-
cycles with which 1 had heretofore
been brought into contact. On this
one it was impossible to take a header.
The machine also would not slip side
ways in the mud. 1t has numerous
other advantages, for list of which I
refer all inquirers to the cycling vol
ume of the Badmington library.
So had wheel made to measure
for they measure you for a bicycle in
England just as if you were getting a
pair of trousers made-and the other
day the machine was delivered in good
shape wrapped up in brown paper.
At the back part of my house there
is somewhat large lawn that costs
me ever so much a year for having a
lazy man with a lawn mower go over
it two or three times month. I
thought would make things interest
ing for this man the next time he
came with his lawn mower by practic-
ing over the grass with my new bi-
cycle.
The machine was a beautiful one,
nickel-plated everywhere that nickel
would stick on it, and so light that
you could easily pick it up in one hand,
grasping it by the backbone. It
seemed almost too pretty for a rough
and tumble fight, even on the velvety
lawn. and l had some thought of put
ting it back in its brown paper again
and hiring secondhand machine to
learn on, but as it was guaranteed to
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Women Only Know

How much they suffer when ner-
vous, weak and tired.
Nervous prostration is q lingering,
raclking, living death to those afflicted,
though wholly incomprehensible to
others. The cause of this condition is
impure and insufficient Blood.
Make the blood pure, give it vitality
and it will properly feed the nerves
and make them strong. Hoods Sarsa-
parilla cures nervousness because it
acts directly upon the blood, making
it rich and pure and endowing it with
vitality and strengthening power. No
other medicine has such q record of
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Hindoo Serpent Superstition.

The Hindoos. who are probably moro
terribly exposed to the ravages Of poi
sonous serpents than any other people
In the world, declare that no venomous
creature of that class will bite or other
wise injure babies. When the women
60 to the cane and cotton fields they al
ways take their children with them,
and do not hesitate to deposit the little
innocents on grassy plots adjoining,
even when it is known that such places
literally swarm with cobras and blood
snakes. English observation in India
appears to bear out the Hindoos' asser-
ton that babies are snake proof. The
reason assigned is that the serpent is
the wisest of Gods creatures, and that
It knows better than to bite one utterly
sinlesa.
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THE ERRATIC BICYCLE.
By LUKE SHARP.

HAVE, at various
periods of my life,
endeavored to teach
a two-wheeled ma
chine to carry a man
with something like
dignity and stabili-
ty; to act, in fact, as
if it did not wish to
wObble ver the
whole earth in the
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cures. Thousands write that they
suffered intensely with nervousness
and were cured by this great medicine.
The building-up powers Of Hoods
Sarsaparilla are wonderful. Even .
few doses are sufficient to create an
appetite. and from that time on its
healing, purifying, strengthening eff
fects are plainly felt. The nerves be-
come stronger, the sleep becomes nat
ural and refreshing, the hands and
limbs become steady, and soon life
seems to go ON without effort" and
perfect health is restored. Such is the
work which Hoods Sarsaparilla is doing
for hundreds of women to-day.
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a HARD CHOICE.

would not marry poor girl!
No; that would never do;
For what 10 terrapin for one
Il cold corned beef for two.
xwould not marry bright grit
Nor ono with degree:
would not want my wife to think
She knew too much for me.
Iwould not marry q pretty girl!
For beauty makes one vain;
And whom she once had lost her looks,
They'd not come back again.
Iwould not marry . plain girl!
I'm sure that could not
Endure her face for forty years
Behind the coffee pot.
Iwould not marry . rich grill
Ido not like that kind:
For heiresses are always spoiled
And sometimes hard to find
Iwould not marry silly girl!
No giddy butterfly;
No maiden with ceaseless laugh;
No schoolgirl need apply.
In fact, seem condemned by fate,
A bachelor to be:
For when I've found the girl want,
Perhaps she won't want ma!
Harry Romaine. in Puck
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space of ten seconds. My first efforts
were made more years ago than care
to estimate, on the ordinary bone
shaker of commerce. two-wheeled
vehicle with hickory spokes in the
wheels. If I remember rightly,
broke up the machine, and abandoned
the attempt.
Never shall I forget my amazement
when saw human being for the first
time on one of those wheels which we
now call the ordinary bicycle. It
seemed to me then anything but ordi-
nary. In due time I tackled one of
these machines at riding school, and
the result of this wonderful conflict I
wrote up years and years ago. The
result was that in certain number of
rounds the machine foored me every
time, drawing first, second and third
blood. As I had some work to do in
this world / again abandoned the at
tempt, not wishing to break myself
into little pieces. On various occasions
since then have endeavored to train
up bicycle in the way it should go,
but always without success.
It is an amazing thing, then, that a
sedate, middle-aged man should try to
do what he had invariably failed to
accomplish in his youth. In looking
back to see who is really responsible
for this amazing outbreak on my part,
think the man most to blame is that
celebrated dramatic author, Mr.. Bron-
son Howard. Yet Mr.. Howard has
always been exceedingly kind and gen.
tie with me. as, indeed, ne is with
everyone, and have often wondered
why he endeavored to lure me on to
the top of bicycle. Perhaps it is that
Providence does not intend any man to
be entirely good, and as anyone who is
acquainted with Mr.. Howard has never
any fault to find with him, it may be
that his goading Of man toward feats
OF bicycular eccentricity takes the
place in Mr.. Howard's nature that re-
venge, envy and all uncharitableness
occupy in the souls of the rest of us.
Mr.. Howard at first practiced ON a
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II PUT MY FOOT ON THE STEP. !"

PUT MY FOOT ON THE STEP"
tricycle., and used to cover amazing dis.
tances on that remarkably sane ma
chine. Once when in Honolulu, with
nothing to occupy his mind or his
muscles but bicycle that happened to
be unemployed at that particular time,
MIR. Howard tumbled about the land of
the Sandwich islands, and nearly got
himself flung into the Pacific on two or
three occasions. but he persevered and
finally conquered the two-wheeler.
Since then he has been Dragging about
it and inviting me to take trips with
hie to various interesting portions OF
the earth.
so l said to myself that if mere dra.
matte author had brains enough ia
ride bicycle, surely talented news
paper man could do the same.
A friend of mine in England said
that the real way to acquire the bi-
cycle habit was to get machine OF
my own.
''As long," said he, ''as you simply
depend on hired machines you won't
learn. because you have nothing at
- ,
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KNOWLEDGE

Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly used. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less expenditure, by more promptly
adapting the worlds best products to
the needs of physical being, will attest
the value to health of the pure liquid
laxative principles embraced in the
remedy, Syrup Of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly
beneficial properties of a perfect lax
ative; effectually cleansing the system,
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
and permanently curing constipation.
It has given satisfaction to millions and
met with the approval of the medical
profession, because it acts ON the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak.
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every Objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in SOC and 81 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being we'll informed, you will not
accept any substitute If offered.
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MAMMA-"If Mrs. Smith gives you piece
Of cake, be sure to say thank you.'" Fred.
die-"What good is that? She never gives
you any more. e."-Brooklyn Life.
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Beecham's pills are for bilious
ness. bilious headache, dyspepsia,
heartburn. torpid liver, dizziness,
sick headache, bad taste in the
mouth. coated tongue. loss Of
appetite. sallow skin. ETC., when
caused by constipation; and con-
stipation is the most frequent
cause of all of them.
Go by the book. Pills ,cc and CSC a.
box. Book FREE at your druggists OF
write B. F. Allen Co.. 36s Canal Street,
New York.
Annual sales more than 5000 900 boxes
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AVOID him who, for mere curiosity, asks
three questions running about thing that
cannot interest him.-Lavater.
The herald., 1895-09-29
Litigation in Embryo

The State Loan and Trust company of
Los Angeles yesterday filed suit against
G. H. Dunsmoor and J. M. Dunsmoor to
recover on certain promlssory note.
On Septem Der II, 1894, the defendan ts
executed and delivered to the plaintiff a
note for $1,000. bearing interest at per
cent per annum. To date no part of the
principal or accruing interest has been
paid and.tne plaintiff company has APP
pointed Messrs. Gardiner Harris and
Rodman to conduct the present suit and
enforce payment of the said note, with
$130 additional claimed as reasonable
sum for attorneys fees.
A volum inous com plant was yesterday
filed by the Pomona Land ard Water
company in the suit instituted against
James Loney. William O'ConnoI, J. l..
Armstrong, Il. Phelan and g. A. Peck.
The suit has been brought to restrain tho
defendants from in any way interfering
wi tn the waters of the San Jose creek or
of the Also stream until the final hear
ing of the cause on its merits; excepting
during the II DAYS 6lS hours in each %
days 10}$ hours, during which time it is
conceded they have right and title to
such use. That the defendants be also
restrained from in any way using the
bed of the said waterways, within certain
lots situated in block | of the Palomares
tract. excepting during the time above
mentioned. Judgment is also asked
against the defendants for the sum of
$500 damages and for such other and fur
Their relief as the court may IN equity
award.
The herald., 1895-09-29
Bonds That Are Severed

In the divorce suit of Maria A. Scidhin-
ger VS.. Nicholas Scidhinger the latter yes
terday appeared before Judge Mckinley,
sitting in department four, upon clta-
tionito show cause why he sould not pay
alimony. The defendant was ordered
to pay $25 attorneys fees and $40 costs
within ten days, but motion for sup
port was denied. The plaintiffs claim
for decree is on the ground Of cruelty,
but a complaint has been filed by
the defendant alleging adultery and
naming Andre Faure as correspondent.
Mrs. Georgiana Merrill was granted a
divorce by Judge Mckinley from c. S.
Merrill by default, the ground being de
sertion and non-support.
For like cause a decree was granted to
Matte Gilbert from G. o. Gilbert.
Judge Shaw granted decree of divorce
to Milton S. Monroe of MonrovIa from
NJ. N. Monroe. by default, the ground
being desertiun.
Henrietta Kloth was granted decree
of divorce by default from Charles
KIoth, on the ground of desertion. The
DEFENDANT was ordered to pay SIS per
month alimony, commencing. Septem Der
LIST.
Judge Shaw yesterday + eard the divorce
suit of A. P. Wiley against Mrs. B. A
Wiley with closed doors. A decree WAS
granted by default on the grounds of
adultery. A. II. Baxter being named as
correspondent IN the case.
The divorce suit of Mrs. J. L. Whitson
VS.. L. H. Whitson was heard by Judge
Smith yesterday. decree was granted
The herald., 1895-09-29
r1uch Subdued. But Funny

James Sharp,swho is charged with hav-
ing attempted to commit a rape on the
little girl, Requena Moore, seems des-
tined to mingle certain amount of
humor with case revolving in it's de-
tails. After making the request of the
sheriff and district attorney that be be
allowed to plead guilty to the charge pre-
ferred against him, and failing to do so
when brought before Judge Clark, he
was brought before Judge Smith yester-
day for arraignment under the informa
ton filed against him. He was unrepre-
sented by counsel and the court asked
him it be did not desire to have one ap-
pointed.
In a peculiarly shrIll and squeaky
voice Sharp replied, after deliberately
scanning the faces of several attorneys in
the court ROOM II would not object if
| could get an honest one"
Deputy District Attorney McComas ap-
preciated the insinuatIng reflection and
asked Sharp if some of the legal lights
present would not come up to the stand
ard required by him.
mo. sir; not one." guilelessly answer
ed Sharp, while look of soIemnity
heightened his visage.
The court put one or two interrogations
HFon which SHARP maintained that he
was not guilty OF rape. and his innocence
would be proven if the court would only
appoint some enc to examine the alleged
The herald., 1895-09-29
A Nemesis Knocked Out

Just three years ago Thomas Thomp-
son. who is of the class that ''goeth down
to the sea in ships" gave too free vent
to the exuberance of his spirits at the
classic little port of San Pedro. and was
thsreupon incontinently run in. His
apologies were not accepted and the JUS
tlce, before whom he was brought upon a
charge of vagrancy, sentenced him to
ninety days in the county jail. Having
some bowels Of compassion, however, the
magistrate suspended BE ntence and
Thompson was given ''hoater" in or
der that his might redeem himself. Quite
recently Thomps again appeared in
San Pedro and again had the unhappy
luck to be arrested, aud, Nemesis like,
his old suspended sentence was revived
against him.
Thompson was yesterday brought be-
fore Judge Smith on habeas corpus pro-
ceedings. S. A. Garrett. esq.,, appeared
as his attorney, and upon drawing the
attention of the court to the fact that the
original sentence stated specifically that
the prisoner be confined ninety days
latter this day." and consequently the
sentence must have been rendered Void at
the expiration of the ninety-day term,
leased. Juoge Smith took the opportu-
nifty, however, to caution the old she'll
back against navigating on shore with
too much sail set, and the delinquent,
having given his quid turn over in bis
mouth while he made his acknowledge
ments, made haste to get beyond the
precincts of the courthouse.
The herald., 1895-09-29
A Losing Contract

Last August George W. Turner and
Frank W. Hassfurther Jointly entered
into a contract with Laura V. McKenz lie
by the terms of which they stipulated to
build siI-room cottage for her for $685.
of which sum $3.50 was to. be paid when
the frame was up, and the balance in
three further installments.
The work proceeded satisfactorily and
on Septemb Der 9th the first installment
of $3.50 fell due. The amount was paid
by Mrs. Mckenzie to Frank H assfurther,
but he, instead of applying the amount
to the payment of the materials, etc., put
it in his hip pocket and appropriated it
to his own use.
That did not suffice apparently, for,
according to a complaint filed by his
partner, it appears that on Septam Der
9TH. prior to the conversion to his own
use of the $3.50. he executed ana delivered
a deed to his mother, Eva Hassfurther,
whereby be conveyed lot %, in block 40,
of the Electric Railway Homestead Asso-
citation tract. to her for consideration OF
$500. Having realized on his possessions
Frank Hsssfurther vacated the imme-
diate territory where there was posi-
bilitv that tn ings might be made too lively
for him.
Turne, in now instituting suit has
made Mrs. Eva Hassfurther party to it,
and claims that the conveyance to b er
was made without actual consideration
and with intent to defraud Frank Hass-
further's creditors, and more particularly
himself; that the deed OF conveyance was
cepted by Franks mother for the pur-
pose of assisting her son, and that she
holds the property simply in trust for him.
The herald., 1895-09-29

Mollie E. Flthen has filed her petition
for divorce from John E. Fithen, on the
ground of non-support, and asks for the
custody of the minor child by a previous
marriage.
r. Price is the owner oi-lot :, block X,
in the city of Monrovia, but s. NJ. Patten
and ]. NJ. Patten claim interest in the
property. Price has now commenced
suit fof the purpose of clearing the title.
George Staff, a trackwalker in the en-
ploy of the Santa Fe, was brought be-
fore Judge York yesterday for his mental
soundness to BIZ passed upon. lie de-
veloped the first symptoms OF insanity IN
February last, and was for time in an
asylum bout two weeks ago he again
showed signs of mental unbalance. Upon
the report of Drs. P. W. Miller and W..
Chapman the court ordered Staff COM
mitted to Highland.
Alex Hume. a native of Canada, and
Joseph Bosmuller. a native OF Germany,
upon proper presentat on OF proof. were
yesterday admitted by Judge Shaw to all
the rights and privileges of citizenship.
Peter Jansen, accused of embezZllng
a chest of tools valued at $45. Was before
Judge Young in the township court yes
terday. Evidence was taken and the case
continued until tomorrow.
u. L. COLLINS, VINO was Cnargeu Will
having committe perjury during the
hearing of case at Calabasas in which
he was the plaintiff. was brought up in
the township court yesterday and his
examination set for Tuesday next at ..
m. Collins charged J. and ]. N. Huston
and ]. Goodlin with having threatened
to kill him on August 18th. His state
ments then made are alleged to have been
false. and he was arrested and charged
with having committed perjury at the in
stance of J. Hustin.
The damage SUIT of Wickersbam vs. the
Consolidated Los Angeles Electric Rail
way company, wherein $25. 600, claimed
for damages. is at issue, was heard before
Judge Clark and jury yesterday. The
suit resulted from a collision between
street car and sand wagon on South
Spring street, between Second and Third.
several months ago, when, the plaintiff
claims, he sustained severe injuries.
The case was continued until Monday.
The case of James Howell, ex-postmas-
ter at Porterville, who is charged with
having en- bezzled $500 of the govern ment
funds, came up for trial In the United
States district court yesterday. Several
witnesses were examined and the case
went over until tomorrow.
The herald., 1895-09-29

victim. The idea did not strike Judge
Smith as particularly happy oneland
he appointed s. A. Garrett, Esq. to de-
fend Sharp. The attorney made his ex-
cuses. however. claiming that, in his
preparation for. his defense would take up
more time than he could possibly give
to it.
After celebration the ocurt appointed
lie Comte Davis, Esq, who was not in
court at the time, and therefore did not
come under the scathing summing up
by Sharp of those present, to defend the
prisoner, and postponed his arraignment
until Monday morning.
The herald., 1895-09-29
She Did Not Want a Doctor

J. ". Johnson, editor of the National
Traveller. Chicago, says: "When at the
Iowa state fair last fall. my wife was TAX
en- violently ill with choelra morbus. |
asked Shall 60 for doctor" No, she
said, Go for Cham berlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy l followed in
structions. The result was that in TWEEN
ty-four hours my wife was about again
and ENJOYING the fair" For sale by OFF
& Vau6gn, corner Spring and Fourth;
G. +. Heinzeman, go North Main street.