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The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-17
CAN CURE ASTHMA AND HAY FEVER
Noted Physician Offers to Prove This to All
Sufferers in Los Angeles on Thursday

The majority of sufferers from asthma
aud kindred complaints, after trying
doctors and mum berless remedies adver-
tised as positive cures. without avail. have
come to thu conclusion that there is no
cure for this most distressing disease and
these same persons will be the more in
doubt and skeptical when they learn
through the columns OF the press that
DR.. Rudolph Scbiffmann, tine recognized
authority who has treated IL ore cases of
these diseases than any living doctor. he's
achieved success by perfecting remedy
which not only gives immediate relief in
the worst cases but has positively cured
thousands OF sufferers who were consid-
cred incurable. These we're Just ss skep-
teal as some OF our readers now are. DR..
Schiffmann's remedy no doubt possesses
the merit which is claimed for it. or he
would not authorize this paper to an
nounGe that he is not only willing to give
free to each person suffering from asth-
ma, hay fever, phthisic or bronchitis in
this city one free liberal trial box of his
cure, but urgently requests all sufferers
to call at II. NJ. sale & Sons drug store,
30 South apring street. from a. III. till 6
p. NJ Thursday, September 18th. and re-
ceive package absolutely flee OF charge,
knowing that in making the claim he
does for his cure a strong doubt may
arise in the minds of many. and that a
personal test, as he offers to all, will be
more convincing. and prove its merits,
than the publishing of thousands of testi-
monials from persons who have been per-
manently cured by the use of his Asthma
Cure. DIR. Schiffmann's Asthma Cure.
as it is called, has been sold by druggists
OF this city ever since it was first intro
duced, although many person may never
have heard of it. and it is with a view to
reaching these that he makes this offer.
This is certainly most generous and
fair offer, and all VINO are suffering from
any of the above complaints should re.
mem Der the date and place whore the
distribution will be made, and avail them
selves OF the same. Persons living out
OF the city who desire to test the efficacy
OF this most wonderful remedy will re-
ceive package free by mail by writing
to DR.. r. Shiffmann, SIS Rosabel street,
st. Paul. Mimi. providing their letter is
received before September 30, as no freq
samples can he obtained after that date.
The wall paper dealer of tho city is Eek
from, 1924 South Spring street.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-17
ARRESTED AT MT. BERNARDO
The Supposed Mussel Beds Murderer
Under Arrest
Rentereas, nurderer Of His Son-in-Law,
Shot After He Had Killed One
Of His Pursuers

CARLSBAD, Sept. 16.-Ths mulatto,
Joe Banks, who murdered Mrs. StilesIand
her father at the mussel beds, WAS ar
rested Saturday at Mount Bernardo, al
Deputy Constable Frazer took the man
Gaigles down on the 1850 train for the
purpose of identification. He will also
be held as an accessory.
News has also arrived of the killing by
the pursuing posse of Rentereas. who shot
his son-inlaw a week ago. He was en-
coun tered at Mesa Grande. H shot one
horse, and then killed deputy named
Costello, when they opened fire on him
and killed him. The wounded man is
still living. but there is little hope for
his recovery.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-17

SANTA ANA, Sept 16.-Farmer Akin
son Of Antelope valley, who lost his fam
lily here last week, has found Them over
by Westminster, west OF this city, about
eight miles. Foul play was feared few
says ago, but-now the mystery 10 cleared.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-17
Nicaragua'S l1denendence

MANAGUA. (Via Gaiveston) Sept. TO-
The seventy-second anniversary of Mica
ragua's independence was celebrated
yesterday by numerous parades, Grafton S,
fireworks, etc.
The minister OF the treasury, Senior
Callejas. has effected a settlement OF
$500, 900 of debt incurred by the former
government to foreign com pany.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-17

SANTA ANA. Sept. 16.-Saul Ellis. a
prom nent farmer residing near here,
barely escaped oeath today in runaway
His shoulder was broken and his head
bruised so that he has been uncon scious
most Of the day.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-17
Do You Know

where to get the best value for your money in
Chlldren's Suits? Come around and be sure.
We are most decidedly in 1t on Knee Pants
SUITS from 50 to $12. You ought to meet
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-17
REV. WAYLAND JOHNSON
SAYS OF
CEREBRINE.
THE EXTRACT OF THE BRAIN OF THE OK
PREPARED UNDER THE FORMULA OF
DIR. VIM. A. HAMMOND.


DR.. VIM. A. HAMMOND.
~ have been using Cerebrine two weeks, and
am glad to report the most excellent result
was in state OF nervous prostration that
utterly untitled me for any continued mental
work. From the first dose experienced a re-
newed intellectual gras and power and clear.
ness and joy in mental work that had not
known for years. Besides this am conscious
OF an increase OF muscular strength and en-
durance that surprises me- At first was i'll
cllned to suspect that these results were due to
strong, stimulating properties in the Animal
Extracts; but as studied their effects found
that they were not only permanent, but were
OF an entirely different character from tn ose
produced by stimulant. Under the influence
OF an ordinary stimulant felt a highly exalted
state OF body and mind. but the activity was
feverish and eccentric, while the effect of the
Cerebrine is to give q sense OF cool, satisfied
self-controlled mental and physical energy
sincerely yours. WAYLANp JOHNSON,
pastor First Baptist Church."
DOSE, Five Drops. Price G. drachms), $l.OO.
Where local druggists are not supplied with
the Hammond Animal Extracts they will be
mailed, together with all existing literature
on the subject, on receipt of price by
THE COLUr1BIA CHEMICAL. CO.,
Washington, d. G.
FOR SALE By II. NJ SALE & SON, 900 S.
Spring 1t, Los Angeles
AT WHOLESALE BY +. W. BRAUN & CO,
G0l and Ao7 \ Main n, Los Angeles
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-17

Light as sea foam is cake made viii h
DR.. Prices Baking Powder.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-17

Like Tennyson's brook" increased
sales OF Prices cream Baking Powder
go on forever.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-17

The wall paper dealer of tho city is Eek
from, 1924 South Spring street.
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breathless "story of adventure cannot
avoid some character drawing) the objec-
tIon is much less strong; here character is
generally of a less involved and subtle na-
ture, and is sufficiently developed in and
exhibited by the incidents. For such books
the autobiographcal form is uitable
enough and has one positive advantage,
inasmuch as it keeps the reader always in
close touch with the chief actor and best
attains the object of ma king him feel what
the hero feels as the dangers close round
or, at last the hardly-hoped-for refuge is
won; If mere viyidness be the goal, it can
probably be best obtained by making a
leading character tell the story. For these
reasons the method seems to be much
more safely applied in what are roughly
called novels of incident than In what are
with equal roughness styled novels of char
acter But OF course this rule is not uni
versal, and could not be, If for no other
reason than that there is no fundamental
distinction between these two forms Of
novel They slide into one another-to
which class does Esmond belong?-and
even where they diverge most widely, as,
for instance, in Mr.. Henry James social
studies and Mr.. Rider Haggard's romances,
both are still studies of men as affected by
Incidents The difference between them
can perhaps be expressed by saying that
IN one class the incidents exist for the
sake of the characters, and in the other
the characters for the sake of the incl
dents. And could the mind of the writer
be opened and examined during the forma-
tion of his story, 1t would probably be
found that the novelist Of character gets
his people first and then considers what en-
vironment and incidents will best exhibit
them, their ways, and their idiosyncra cies,
while the novelist of incident invents his
'plot'' first and then fills in the people
who will best serve to heighten the effect
Of 1t.
Thus the one begins with a man and finds
him a situation, the other begins with q
situation and fits a man into it, and to re-
turn TO the original point, the one will gem
orally want to talk about his man and look
at him from all possible points ofview, Civ
ing his own opinion of him and the opinion
of other sorts of people embodied in the
other characters), while the other will often
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"a LITTLE STAGE rative becomes sim
CRAZY" pie, progresses in the
main through single series of incidents
and speaks from one dominant point of
view. There may be, of course, Some diff
culties arising from the absence or prob.
able ignorance of the supposed narrator,
but a little stage craft surmounts them.
Again where n bygone age or state of soci-
ETY. is represented, the proper colour" is
easier to give If q contemporary he sup
posed to tell the story. On the other hand
something is likely to be sacrificed. The
book fills narrower field, and the genera.
impression may be weakened. The au-
thor is apt to become engrosSed in the one
character who is his spokesman, and, even
II he avoids this error, he cannot pay full
attention TO the motives of the other per
sons of his drama without appearing TO
endow his narrator with an almost super
natural clairvoyance. This last objection
is formidable one in a book which is pri-
marily occupied with the development OF
character and the reciprocal influence of
mind on mind. Here the author would
seem best placed when he stands outside
and above all his puppets and can, VIRTUE
officii, speak with full and equal knowl-
edge and authority of all that is going on
inside each of them.
But where the book is mainly concerned
with incident (for after all the most
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what it may it will be Interesting to OBJ
serve whether the banishment of from
the politest circles proves permanent. Aris-
tocraces arestubb weknow land the gen
eral election may intensity the pride fours)
bu still they change in the end. Wehave re-
Gently seen ours, regardless of long years
of abuse and scorn, take the bicycle to its
heart at last; 1t might during its season
have been seen daily performing tie ex-
ercise once peculiar to ''Cads on castors." T"
When, therefore, l see great folk beginnin'
TO ride bicycles and thinkin' nothin' of COM
in down Piccadilly or runnin' round and
round Battersea Park, explorin' the savage
recesses of the city and even invadin' Tor
proposiD' to invade) Hyde Park itself on
these plebian machines my mind takes
flight ahead and look forward to the pos
sibility that it may one day become fash
ionable to pronounce the letter "G,' at the
end of word. / do not, however expect
to live to see it.
ELECTION AGENTS
One thing candidate has to make up
his mind to-of course he has. to make up
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almost always rely on a,local man telling
1t with an air of discovery, and when
you see the immense success it has, you
are very sorry you didn't tell 1t your
self
Another story Which met seemed to me
good example of the sort OF shrewdness
which abounds among what we scornfully
call 'yokels." 1t was told in places where,
rightly or wrongly, the squire is supposed
to be little too inquisitive about how his
laborers voted. The hero of the story tells
how he met the squire as they were both
returning from the polls, and the squire
said: We'll, John, how have you voted?"
Same as you, squire, same as you,"
John replies with hearty friendliness, and
the esquiregoes offin benevolent ntcontentment.
well. SO / did," cries John, triumphant
ly; esquire voted to please himself, and 1
voted to please myself. i voted same as he
did" This story has quite classical
flavor in its simple cunning, and was al
ways highly appreciated. Whether its
lesson is put IN practice 1 don't know,
and whether it ought to be leave to moral
lists TO determine. Perhaps the only obvious
moral is that which used TO be drawn for
US in our youth, ASK no questions and
you'll be told no les"
OLD @.
/ think it was Bacon who observed that
on the stream of time, as on other streams,
It is the lighter things that float, the heavier
(and more valuabe) that sink. Certainly
it is generally just the most interesting
thing that is lost to posterty. was read
ing the other day Mr.. j. R. Robinson's life
OF "old O." the fourth, last, and very bad
Duke of Queensbury lit is an attractive
book, in spite of certain vagaries In the
construction of sentences) when the above
reflection was inspired in my mind. The
duke backed himselfs to- produce a man
who would eat more than any other person
whom his opponent scedld put into the
field (or the trough perhaps / ought TO
say. Here is the letter which the dukes
agent wrote to his grace:
MY lord, have not time to state par
ticulars, but merely to aequaint your grace
that your man beatShis antagonist by
pig and an apple pies (Signed) ]. R."
Now this Is a case in which tile full score
would have been a reniarka BILE document
wish ]. r. had had more time. For to win
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Incident in a Future Cam paign.

ITO what am indebted for the honor OF
this call?"
1t was Mrs. Mary Ellen Ricketts, who
spoke. She held in her hand the card OF
Mrs. Samantha Jenkinson, which had lust
been laid on her desk by the office girl,
by the entrance of the person whose name
it bore.
There was really no necessity for the
use OF the card, for the tw o had frequently
met
Mrs Ricketts, was the candidate for Con-
gress on the Republican ticket, while Mrs.
jenkins on was the Democratic nominee.
Under the circumstances it was natural for
her to be turprised at receiving a call from
her opponent.
II came TO tee You on small matter of
business" replied the visitor.
pray proceed"
81 have learned from good authority that
your managers are bent upon campaign
of per- Qualities, and that they intend to
give to the press certain slanderous gossip
about me, intended toinjure my candidacy ="
The speaker paused, and Mrs. Ricketts,
eaid. interrogatively:
..well?"
'sWen,n echoed Mrs. Jenkinson, 1--WE
must keep personalities out OF the cam
paign''
1--WE mus {, must we?"
Mrs. Ricketts, sneered.
Mrs. Jenkinson waxed wroth.
Look here. Mary Helen Ricketts," she
exclaimed, don't you dare to turn up
your nose at me, now"
Samantha jenkins on" retorted Mrs
Rickettt, my nose is not snub, and don't
you dare 10 pres ume 10 dictate what my
manager shall or shall not do in this cam
paign."
wen Zee about that Mary Ellen Rick
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Book. "''Here, at last / said with sigh,
nobody tries to improve anybody" and
1 settled down for comfortable half hour.
Alas, 1 was wrong; did not allow for Mr..
Arthur Waugh.
We have been unfortunate enough to
incur his disapprobation and he says in
effect that we are little better than a lC {.
of auctioneers He has been in our com
pany (oh, that we had known, in order
that we might have said something supe-
rior) and we Tor nine-tenths of u.s. never
tax about anything but the rate of pay We
receive. 1t is a terrible picture; we are
just like lot of competing Fagins, count
ing the stolen ''swipes" in corner. This
must be true, because Mr. Waugh has been
there and heard it-heard it with such
emotion that he throws hims elf in an agony
on the bosom of The Yellow Book"
Then there was another gentleman Il hope
at least that 1t was not LADY, who has
troubled himself with so humble matter
as the reason why in certainlittle dialogues
of mine the remarks of the Dramatis Per-
sonae frequently failed to fill a full line
of print; the reason of this is not any theory
that persons in conversation sometimes
say only word or two or interrupt one
another halfway through sentence, but
simply that am paid by the line and it
is my plain and obvious interest to get paid
(as often as can contrive it, for whole
line, while Ironly write half-al line. That,
of course, is the way to get rich. But is
it art, is it literature? Certainly not; it's
a very sordid device, not far removed from
downright swindling of unprotected edi-
tors. But it is SO thoroughly charact-
eristic of a novelist that it deserves men-
ton, although the particular criminal.
is entirely insignificant.
Well, well; we're very bad lot. Why
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old OF older than the political issues. Last
election 1t was the Conservatives who
damned" the flowing tide in their posters,
this time this enforced appearance. of
cheerfulness was imposed on the other
SIDE We heard again of the youthful
candidate, who, in reply to the scornful
question, whether his mother knew he was
out, answered that the old lady would
soon. know he was in, and of the much
heckled candidate who, having been in
vited to answer with plain yes OF NO"
many questions which did not admit of
answer, retorted with variation the old
''Ieft-off- heating your mother" puzzle and
asked his tormentor to answer HONESTLY
yes or no-whether he were more drunk
than usual that night; an awkward ques-
ton, as either negative or an affirmative
answer would seem to throw a lurid
light on his habits. But the best, Oldest and
most popular of election stories is that con-
cerning the puppies. 1 have met it in very
many parts of the country. and it never
fails to toelicitgreat applause.
The speaker describes how, little while
back, he met man with n basket of very
young puppies, and the man invited him 10
purchase "a nice lot of Conservative pup
pies" For one rea son or other he declined
Later on in the campaign he met the same
man with the same puppies, but they were
now commended as good, Liberal puppies
"Why," the speaker represents himself
as exclaiming, when 1 met you before,
you said they were Conservative puppiesF'
Now comes the pointl) AYE, but they've
opened their eyes since thenr' This story
is exactly the sort of a story that public
meeting likes. The hunor OF it is simple.
obvious and primeval; moreover it has the
sovereign virtue of an election story, namely,
that by mere transposition of 'Conserva-
tive and Liberal" it can lie told equally
well by the other side Speakers from Lon
don are foolishly afraid of this story. be-
cause it is not very young; but you nay
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great beauty and small scruples, and an
entirely astonishing dcIouemet to evesy
story. canrot do better than try Mr.. LIE
Queux's "Stolen Souls There is
mesinerizing william who out-Hcrods Sven
gall, since he makes his subject attempt
murder instead of merely bee oming prima
donna; there is lady wLo tries to muir
der an innocent newspaper correspondent
after gaining his affection aud worming
out of him the secret which he had indus
triously and mer;,oriously discovered by
listening at the prime minister's door; and
there are many other pleasant horrors of
a kindred kind.
Mr. LIE Queuk's favorite hunting around
is Russia; he is au niienx with anarchists
and tells much of their doings. Tie biok
is downright scnsas:onalsrI, of course,
but do not know why /, or Mr.. LIE Queux,
either, s:ioui,i .i..,--.si-e .of s.,i, a. loOd
The morning times., 1895-10-27

find that he can put into his mans mouth
quite enough reflection and self-revelation
TO give point and poignancy tothe situa-
ton, which is the great subject of the
book II is curious and may perhaps lend
some little confirmation of these sugges-
tions that the novel to which have referred
as having a foot in both fields, although
protesting TO be told entirely by its hero,
is in reality only partly autobioSraphical
in form; for Col. Esmond often steps aside,
the narrative falls in the third person, al
though the style appropriate to Col. Es-
mond and his period is always preserved
yet the author in fact becomes the narrator.
Thus the advantages OF both methods are
preserved, although by an expenditure of
skill in avoiding very probable confusion
that it would lax any other writer to rival.
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scription)-it is that class whereof the
writer OF these lines is an humble member.
In vain do we nieekiy bow our heads; we
cannot escape. l myself turn from paper
to paper, from periodical to periodical II
do not buy them, OF course. read them at
the club seeking some haven in which the
VicesandNoyelistn ma y remain undenounced
Such a sheltered spot is hard 10 find
confess to thinking that our brother
pennien might'let Us down little more
easily, but no doubt We deserve all we
get and we certainly must get at least
a large proportion of what we deserve. We
are, it seems, vain, greedy, vulgar race
of men, consumed by conceit, supposing
that novels are the only form of literature,
that we are always going to be as
prosperous as We are now c'Thank heaven
that's not likely say our friendly critics.,
wailowing in heaps of ill-gotten gold, up
to the neck in II. Just the other day, seek
ing relaxation and the Improvement of my
artistic instincts, / took up THE Yellow
The morning times., 1895-10-27

ctts, you were engaged to my husband
in your young days, good many years
ago"
I'm not nearly as old as you, I'd have
you know
You arei,,
I'm not, you insulting thingr'
You arei''
I'm notr'
1--WE viii pass that point but 1 want
TO say that when l married my husband,
all your love letters were still in his pos
session, and / have them now"
''You spiteful thingi'
''Many u good laughIv have over them.
What perfect goose you were!'
81 just hate you, SO therei"
"And 1 merely with TO add that, on the
The morning times., 1895-10-27

and even gorgeous sensatinnaIism and
therefore well justified of existence. We.
or the sensible among us, like all sorts of
people, and we ought To like all sorts of
books also. SO long as they are good OF their
sort. Another story, which / pray leave to
mention, is 1.-The Princess Aline." little
tale written by Mr.. Richard Harding Davis,
who wrote Gallagher" and therefore
should have a statue somewhere. Princess
Aline is most charming lady, and the
other lady with whom the young man was
brought in contact, is in another way quite
as charming; and 1 shall not say which he,
and do not know which should have in
the end loved the more. However ceteris
paribus, princess for ME!
THE VICES OF NOvELIsTS
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can't we be like critics, and essayisis, and
journalists, and lawyers? They don't talk
or think or care about THAT they get. How
ever. there's good time coming. We
sha'n't always be prosperous. Let these
gentlemen take heart. And for ourselves
we do not ask for Immortality; indeed,
Mr.. Waugh has shown us that we are going
quite the wrong away about 1t, If that is
what we want. But now that we have
been told the whole truth, may we be al
lowed TO crawl into the corner and die in
peace? 1t is not for long. Mr.. Waugh viii
go by, and. 10, we shall be gone. He shall
seek US, but our place shall nowhere be
found. Cheer up, gentlemen.
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"BoYCOTTED THE would dream o quar-
LETTER G." reling with the habit.
The peculiarity is no doubt a survival OF
local dialects and it finds parallels,
believe, in other parts of the world.
Indeed, have hazy recollection (from
Oxford days. that the Greeks of different
cities used to chaff one another on their
various treatments of the aspirate. My
question is more difficult and mysterious.
1 may as well blurt it out. Why has the
aristocracy, Tor large portion of it) which
should afford TO the rest of US a mirror
of correct speech, boycotted the letter