The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-12-08
He Comes to the Front With an
Assortment of Kicks
GRAND JURIES AND BARRIERS
Blue.BeIlied and Black. Hearted Demons
Scored
He Visited the County HOSPITAL Upon One
Occasion and Now Revcrts to the
Trip and Its Object

that the government experiment we are
trying must end in a miserable iiasco.
The Herald's [enviable record in sup
port OF the grand jury is not the most
pleasant reading in the offices of its Cum
temporaries.
It 10 so seldom that an honest grand
jury is made legal by the fiat Of our
almighty court that the ubiquitous rascal
will now perceive that the late process
sion of convictions was really great
funeral procession in dishonor OF rogues
the body polite.
Among men honesty is not so deep
seated as rascality and kindred diseases,
but it is very contagious at certain and
rare periods.
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The gentlemanly and diligent Santa
Ana barber, who was fined for shaving
another decent citizen on the afternoon
of Thanksgiving day; is no doubt thank
full that the barbar-ians who framed the
accursedly barbarous law and the other
barbarians who permit its enforcement
have satisfied their consciences and
glutted their blue-law nppetites with a
mere arrest and fine for i'm prison ment
in dungeon.
If his honest diligence had polluted the
free and liberal atmosphere Of this glori-
Gus country to the extent of shaving
dozsn chins that were hairy and unsightly
the blue-bellied and black hearted de-
mons that are rampant might have
justified themselves and purified the holy
ar of the Thanksgiving afternoon by
boiling the honest barber in oil or break
i,,r hi In
his tongue. or by hanging, drawing and
quartering him Tor the benefit of the
clergy, or by parboiling his children to
the third and fourth generation. Surely
the honest, industrious william has escaped
much and hae much to be thankful for,
of breathing the sweet and holy Thanks
giving air.
Lovers of the beautiful are still privi-
legged to enjoy the pleasing spectacle of
our very spectacular open police patrol
wagon.
. Yesterday the crowds on several of our
Streets were entertained and diverted by
being permitted to gaze on the graceful
form of stranger who rode majestically
aloug in charge of the police. He was
evidently in one Of the most enjoyable
altitudinous stages of robust debaYch.
On lofty pinnacle he had met a friend
graceful touches had carved the erstwhile
plaic. visagc into the most picturesque
and. statuesque form Imaginable. The
deep, rich carmine paint that nature uses
IN her gayess and most gorgeous decora-
lions was spread with lavish hand all
over the beautifully carved heroic figure.
The aesthetic soul of the crowd was en-
raptured. The brieht sun shone on the
work Of man and halo seemed to rest
on the face Of the gloritied; then they
carried him into the police station and
the crowd sighed for another ennobling
spectacle.
A week has passed since I offered Pro-
lessor Tyndall $40 word for reading
plain script by his so-called telepathio
method. but he does not seem to need
the money. nor has ne offersd to try the
'reading."
A number of his unreasoninG protagor-
lists undertake to attack my ideas CON
corning mind reading" and my state
ments thereon, by quoting Webster's
dictionary
1t is useless to squander time in dis
cussion with the antediluvians who swear
by the agg lomeraion of stuff called Web
stsr's dictionary. That illogical mass
was not without use in its day, but in
this age we need something more scien-
tifc and accurate. Bes DIES Noah Web
ster's memory should not DC made to
Dear INC DuruoH Vi All ln0 nOuge pOOR0
that enterprising publishers ana illiterate
photographers have been uttering over
the forged name of Noah Webster for the
last Fifty years, or since death relieved
him OF their company.
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People who habitually use such slang
phrases as ''along those lines" and
'looged at in larger aspect will please
refrain from writing to me on educational
m Snrh noOnla inNuffora bIo
as the autnor of the california state
series" of Biographies. That learned
man talks elibly of savage houses" and
"civilized houses. | wonder if he ever
saw any red handed, villainous houses
with murder in their eyes and blood in
their tracks.
People who write to me to complain of
various matters that need airing in this
column or elsewhere, and who are too
cowardly to sign their own names as evil
dence OF their good faith are a shade
paper and ink and postage stamps and
time.
l have a few words to say concerning
the management of the county hospital.
| knew months ago that the bodies of
paupers who died there were being buried
naked, even when proper clothing was
not have a hearing then. Now that the
grand jury is active it can be told and is
commonly tuld abroad.
On July >, 1895, a young man named
Frank Hische died at the county hos
nal. after being an inmate for about two
or three weeks. He should have had in
his possession at that time several suits
of clothes, gold watch, two valuable
rings, about $40 in money, gold badge
of the order of the Knights of Pythias
and a check for $50.
Inquiry at the hospital seemed to indi-
cate that the property had vanished into
thin air.
Two other men and myself we're APP
pointed by lodge of the knights of
fythias as a committee to find the prop
erty OF the deceased. Two OF us went to
the hospital TO see DR.. Barber. He stat
ed thar no prop ,rty of Mr.. Hische's was
left there. l told him what We were
looking for and that had enough evil
dence to make good column for Hutch
ison's Hobbies. The doctor then opened
drawer ana took out a letter for Mr..
Hische containing check for 500, which
lie gave me, for which | gave him re.
ceipt, and which check turned over to
the relatives of Mr.. Hicshe. BLESSED
are the dead which die IN the Lord"
Yours truly,
EDWARD HUTCHINSON.