The herald., 1895-01-01

There was nm expression OF Anxiety ittei-
woven with the wrinkles on the Gargoyles un-
handsome face last evening.
"rm troubled good deal about my ifiehu
Colonel Otis these days" he sald, as ne SAM
into the chair nearest the Hollenbeck main
entrance .pve spent the best part of the
whole. day in searching through his paper lor
soma evidence that the ColonePs earthly ana
carnaI existence is not enuiely matter OF
philosophic speculation.
"sunday I met the Colonel on the street,
we shook hands co daily and then hao glass
of water in the grill room. He started to talN
about the weather and the ange crop. bu'
YOU know how keenly am Interested III sii7
San joaquin propostion-l wanted " get 'he
colonels views on the subject. lie mas views
and things, you know, that are "oi'h
So broke right out:
"'Colonel, seems to me that valley rairoau
scheme is a big thing for Southern California
eh?"
"sAhem, said the Colonel. He walk d over
to the tin letter box and took out tract en-
titled The Kingdom of Heaven. Then he SANK
into one of the chairs and remained in rather
a coniatose condition until 1t was ume lot hie
to make my afternoon calls.
81 though perhaps the Colonel hadn't heard
me- and in the consciousness OF having some
thing more important to say than even me
tract contained, took seat beside him ana
began again.
seems to me that the Mathews bill would
solve the whole question, colonel? What 40
y ou think of it?'
"But the colonel was lost in The Kingdom OF
Heaven. Then, for the fl rst time, noticed a
serene, ETHEREAL expression on thu coloneVs
face, and the thought transferred ltse from
his mind to my own that the once Warllke
colonel was fixing his mind upon more eternal
projects than the plans OF material world
And when the colon walked out into the
street wi h me, noticed that though his leet
still trod in the soft mud his head was above
the clouds.
"Ioday gathered up a file OF the colonel's
paper for the last week or more and went
through the columns very car fully, searching
for some proof that the colonel's astral body
still inhabited the earthly shell that was once
SO renowned for deeds OF daring among men.
"Iye tried to reason out the matter to
different conclusion but that's all can make
out of it, Why, there hasn't been line in
the colonel's paper absut any of the burning
questions OF the hour. 1t wasn't until this
morning that the coloners telegraph bog
made the discovery that Superintendent
Byrnes had resigned.
"Now I think I'll make o resolution-the
last one of The year-not to weight down my
lockets any more with copy OF the Times.
FITS too heavy, don't you know.
"Hold on. there is one more resolution
want to make That is not to swear eff on any
thing when the new year CON. ia" 15 1rirH
Most of the leading hotels in his city have
received the latest bulletin from the Hotel
Mems Confidential agency IN New York, which
is organized upon similar basis to an asso-
citation of hotel men in this state, the object
OF which is to report hotel beats and delin-
quents. The list contains the names of "a
persons, with an aggregate inde bteness OF
$22,41951. The name of the beat is given,
together with the amount he owes and brief
personal descrition. The popularity OF the
list is that most of the amounts are over
800. One man in Jersey City, who is de-
scribed as being lawyer, is quo ed owing
$3391 .61; another individual is down Tor
$Il29S5, and ii the report be correct still
another owes the Bartlett house of New York
$1216.13. The list includes only the names
of the larger deb ors, and contains many that
are we'll and widely known. These reports are
issued at stated periods by the different as'o
Citations OF hotel men throughout the country
and are exchac ged by the associations, so that
a man who once succeeds in beating q hotel
will find it difficult to repeat the performance
among members OF the associations.
L. B. Robertson OF Riverside county, who re-
Gently returned from Australia, says that the
steamship companies are making strong efforts
to induce emigration to the Coolgarde gold
fields, and that highly CO ore d pamphlets and
descriptive circulars are sent into the interior
of the state, in which the so-called new Ell
Dorado is highly eulogized. He says that
his experience convinced him that no man
has any business in the Australian gold fields
unless he has sufficient apital to esta blish
himself and not depend upon an immediate
income from his labor.
SOME SAMPLE CABEs.