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and OF the soldiers, who tried to dis
suade them, the gallant student crew,
after few seconds conference with
the keeper, moved silently toward the
boat. which lay on it's carriage at the
head of the slide. They would take
the awful risk. With the help OF the
soldiers the boat was eased down the
slide without accident, but on reach.
ing the beach it was found necessary
to drag it along a narrow shelf to o
point directly abreast OF the wreck for
launching. This could only be done
by watching the breakers and avoiding
their force. AS it was, the surfmen
were often waist deep in the water,
and several narrowly escaped being
carried away by the powerful surf.
Three times the boat filed and had to
be cleared Of water. Again the boat
would be snatched from the control of
the men and hurled against the cliff,
and was only saved from disaster by
finding buffer in the bodies of the
surfmen ranged along the inshore
gunwale. These sustained several
bruises, and, like their mates on the
opposite side of the boat, were
drenched with the icy water. Finally
the boat was brought to a suitable
point for launching-a depression in
the beach where the surf was lightest.
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board. The train proved to be made
up of loaded box cars and there were
no empty ones at hand to carry the
lifeboat. The next resource was livery
teams to haul the boat twelve miles oy
sleighs. Fortunately a liveryman was
found who was less considerate for
horsehesh than for human lives. he
provided stout teams for the boat and
Lawson with the six surfmen who were
to bear the hardshlps Of the enter.
prise bearded the train. A hot journal
caused delay of an hour and it was
4 o'clock when the party reached the
fort. A guide who had first sighted
the steamer by her lights conducted
the life-savers toward the bluff op.
posite the wreck. Confused by the
darkness and binding storm, the
guide lost his way and an hour was
passed beating up and down the bluff
for a pathway to the waters edge.
The bluff at that point is seventy
feet high, very precipitous and
cut up by ravines, filled with
trees and underbrush. Several
ravines were exploded before one
was found suitable for operations.
This was prepared by the aid OF sew
eral soldiers from the fort who had
been aroused by the steamers whistles
of distress. Some fifty men set to
work with axes, hewing away the
trees to make slide for the boat. The
stiff, hard clay wes also pared down
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to give the frail boat a safe passage
way, for the craft 80 stanch and ser
viceable on the water are in danger of
being stove by coming in contact with
rough obstacles when under motion.
A huge fire was kindled to tighten up
the scene; it also served as beacon
to the imperiled sailors who knew by
that that their case was known.
Everything was ready when the boat
arrived, drawn by steamlng, foamlng
horses, at 7 o'clock. 1t was then lig ght
enough to make out the plight OF the
men on the ill-fated Calumet. They
we're seen huddled in and about the
pilot house, the only place of refuge,
for the steamer was submerged to the
main deck. Moreover, she was liter
ally ship Of ice, having been deluRed
for ten hours with water that left layer
upon layer wherever it struck. The
poor fellows on board were motionless,
apparently frozen to their tracks and
too far gone to give any sign of Joy at
the promised delivery. Indeed, with
the best of luck it seemed hopeless
case.
Snow was still falling and the dis
tance to the wreck seemed less than it
really proved to be, for when 6oo-
yard line was sent whirling toward it
from the throwing gun it fell far
short. Daylight had shown the life
savers terrible surf lashiDg tie foot
of the bluff, and with line and buoy
to depend upon no one thought OF
venturing the bost'in that dangerous
sea. But true bravery faces danger
when it must for some noble cause.
To the astonishment Of the spectators
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At the gateway OF the winter now comes
Thanksgiving tide.
In the glory OF its atmosphere, its pie and
turkey pride.
And it is most becoming that its cheer should
far and wide abound,
Fen going to the humblest home whereer 1t
may be found.
In olden time Thanksgiving was for harves
poor or good,
The CORD, the pumpkin, wheat, and all that
gave a livelihood.
For poor returns the Pilgrims held up their
hearts in praise,
Far greater should our thanks be that live
in these glorious days.
Then welcome be Thanksgiving with its
manifold feasts and joys;
Under many homestead roof now gather
the girls and boys;
And though some OF US fail somewhat in
,harvests where we strive,
We should be thankful for our hopes. and
that we are alive.
Then pass around the turkey, the mince and
apple pies;
Don't slight the poor and needy if In wisdom
you'd be wise.
To relieve distress our people have only to
be told.
For Lord be thanked the human heart is yet
as good as gold!
Edward s. Creamer.
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Size and Speed of Waves.

Many different answers have been
given to the question: "How high are
the greatest ocean wavesT M. Dibos,
q marine engineer and laureate of the
Institute of France, has lately made
some personal observations on this
subject. He describes waves encount-
cred in the North Atlantic which had
q height OF at least forty-fve fest
Driven before a heavy wind, waves
may advance at the rate of from thir-
ty-fve to forty miles an hour, r,and such
'undulations of the OCEAN may travel
more than 500 miles from the point
where the wind created them, without
being accompanied by any disturb
ances in the atmosphere. ,a@
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The crew sprang to their seats ana
fixed their oars, while the soldiers held
the boat steady for favorable sea.
Calamity the lifeboat rode the break
ers until she came to a sand bar over
which the waves broke with tremen'
dous power. An immense breaker lllt.
ed the boat upon her stern and almost
threw Keeper Lawson, who was at the
steering car, overheard. Before ne
could recover and head the boat to sea
a second wave struck her broadslae
and filled her to the thwarts. Inc
stroke oarsman dropped his pad,
die for the bailing bucket and
his five mates, by pulling Tor
their lives, struggled through the
breakers. During these Interruptions
the powerful current had swept the
boat far out to the leeward, compell-
ing the gallant surfmen to row in the
teeth of the gale. It was then that the
anxious watchers on the bluff lost all
hope and wished that their warning
had not been in vain. 1t seemed an
impossibility for the life boat either to
reach the wreck or return to shore.
Every wave left q coating of ice wher-
ever it struck upon the gunwales' the
oars and the clothing OF the men. The
rowlocks gradually filled with ice and
the oars were constantly slipping from
them, disslpating half their force.
But the difficulties OF their task only
served to nerve the men to greater ef-
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The Great Barrier to tile North Pole.

The great obstacle in finding the
North Pole is, Of course, the all.per.
vading ice. During the summer, the
season of constant sunlight, the Arctic
seas open somewhat and the explorers
push their ships farther and farther to
the north, with the hope strong within
them that they, of all the venturesome
epirits who have sought the Pole, will
find it, and will win undying glory.
But these open seas which stretch out
30 invitinglY, are Turing them to their
destruction. Weeks have been pass
ing while the s.ancb craft of the ex-
plorers has been sailing north. The
sun sinks lower and lower in the south
west, and at last leaves the region en-
veloped in the long Arctic night. The
pathway of water between the fields of
ice slowly closes. The ship, now in
ell probability pushing her way des-
perately toward the south, makes less
and less progress and finally stops.
The ice gathers round her and presses
her with an embrace that constantly
grows tighter and more deadly. She
IS in trap. She groans and cries like
a living thing in pain as her frame IS
slowly crushed; but the remorseless
ice only squeezes her the harder, and
finally she becomes broken and use.
less, and those who brought her here
leave her to her desolate fate and be-
gin journey southwark over the ice
"a Journey which, for many, ends in
graves in the frozen solitudes. DE-
morest's.
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A Hundred Miles an Hour.

An electrical engineer has been ex-
hibiting in London the model Of his
proposed single rail electric line for
speeds OF $50 miles an hour. The rail
is fixed on V.shaped trestle, sndruns
up into the body Of the car, which. a.
it were, runs astride Of it. The car
runs on twelve bearing wheels, and
seats 1876 passengers, with space for
their baggage. One of the difficulties
met with in schemes for excessively
high speed travel Is the tendency OF
the car to run off the track. By run
ming the rail within the Car the lateral
tendency of the train is overcome.
But in this late scheme the great diff
fculty seems to be the passenger.
What would happen to the passenger
when the train took Q sharp curve
while going at $50 miles an hour i
not explained-Pittsburg Dispatch.
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ood's s
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The best-In fact the One True Blood Purifier.
Hoods Pills ie SiIieusness. sness Is ssSss.0n eeSss.
Give a Cent a Week.

A new wrinkle in charity projects
has just been devised by the Salvation
Army. It is called the "Mercy Box
Fund" and its object is to secure
sufficient money to carry on what is
known in the army as social work.
The public all over the country will
be asked to become contributors, and
to this end $4,000 little boxes have
been made and sent to the army posts
for distribution. Ten thousands sddi.
tional boxes are being manufactured.
The persons on whom these boxes are
bestowed are asked to give one cent
week and to induce others to do the
same. The project is being looked
after in very systematic way, and it
is believed the object of the movement
will be secured without difficulty
New York Journal.
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Hov,a ThfR9

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for
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IT'S said that every land has its. season. a
beauty. Mexico and California have opened
their doors for the winter travel that seeks a
more genial cline. The southern Railway
"Piedmont Air Line" in connection with the
Southern Pacific, via New Orleans, offers the
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Southern Pullman Vestibuled Limited, ope-
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a lleIyu UI "A any N.nI5.

victoria's accession to the throne
did not usher IN an era OF peace
Scarcely year OF her long reign has
passed without England's being at war
in some part of the world. The two
greatest wars of her era have been the
Crimean in 1854 and the Indian mu-
tiny in 1857. Hers is the only reign
since the conquest in the eleventh
century that England has had no war
with France, her hereditary enemy.
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Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
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A Thanksgiving Rescue.
BY GEORGE L. KILAIER.

N the height of a
terrible blizzard
of snow and sleet
LITE on Thanks.
giving Eve, 1889,
the propeller Calu.
met, from Buffalo
for Mil " q u k e G
with e j 6 b t e e n
ou Is on board,
came to grief on
stormy Michigan.
Some days before,
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To give work to the unemployed In Patsr-
son. n. J., the Common Council OF that cry
appropriated $4,000, making total OF SlS,-
Olij APPROPRIATED for that purpose.
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Japan has ffty-five completed rail.
way lines with a mileage OF 2067. The
capital invested is LOG, 100000 yen
(silver dollars).
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When Doboins' Electric Soap was hrss made
In 1855 It cost 90 cents bar. 1t Is preeiselv
the same ingredients and quality. 1'oo and aoesnI
cost hat. Buy it Of your grocer and preserve your
clothes, II he hasn't it, he will get 1t.
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three regular crews had been so high;
ly honored.
When the tables were spread in the
warm barracks kitchen Of Fort Sheri-
dan that afternoon there were eight.
cen grateful strangers reclining upon
their hospital cots around the Thanks.
giving board-eighteen unexpected
but for all that thrice welcomed
Thanksgiving guests.
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As Seen by Him.

The old gobbler looked dreamily
away over the backyard fence.
"Yes."-
A shudder ran through his frame.
-"they are bringing out all our family
skeletons these days"
A glance at the debris from the din
ner table showed that this was only
too true.
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces inhamma.
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WHEN bilious or costive, eat q Cascaret,
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The spasms of pain that rack the rheumatic
are relieved by Gienn's sulphur Soap. ~.
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WHY is it that at wedding men
laugh and women weep?
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l. yes

Ears and nose are all more or less affected
by catarrh. The eyes become inaamed, red
and watery, with dull, heavy pains between
them; there are roaring, buzzing noises
In the ears, and sometimes the hearing
ts affected; the nose is a severe sufferer,
with its constant, uncomfortable discharge.
All these disagreeable symptoms may be
removed by the use Of
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Towards the Setting Sun.

CAscARETs stimulate liver, kidneys and bow
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The turkey is not brilliant bird,
When all is done and said,
For Oh all great occasions
Hes sure to lose his heId.
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After six years suffering was cured by Pi.
SOS Cure.-MARY THOMSON, 29H Ohio Ave-,
ALLEGHENY Pa March I9. 1894.
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JUST try a 10c. box of Cascarets, the finest
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The herald., 1896-06-09
INSURANCE

AN UNCLAIMED $1,000
The Mutual Reserve Fund Life asso-
citation offers $1,000 reward for the name OF
any honest death claim due and unpaid
which it has not paid in full, the fact to
be determined by any two bank presi-
dents in New York city, and to cover the
entire history of the association.
The insurance commissioners of the
states Of Illinois, Texas, Ohio and South
Dakota certify that I'VE have made a
very careful examination of the death
claims paid by the association during the
period covered by this examination, and
that we are of the opinion that the Mu-
its death claims honorably and promptly
and that it does not in any case willfully
attempt to resist payment of any honest
death claim that is made upon it, and
that the work of the death claim depart
ment is handled with all possible dis
patch and in such way that the most
critical can have no just cause or rea-
Why does not that man who says the
Mutual Reserve does not pay it's death
claims in full claim the $1,000 reward?
Why?
Why will sensible people pay $50 for an
article that can be bought at SIS? Why?
Why if fire insurance can be profitably
sold at one-half former rates. cannot life
insurance? Why?
Why does not some enterprising grocer
with Tontine in his mind) advertise to
sell scent sugar for 10 cents, Offering "a
dividend" in sugar to those of his custom
ers who continue to patronize him for
ten or twenty years? Why?
For insurance at cost and for answers
apply to
Manager Mutual Reserve Fund Life As
sociation, California Bank bldg. IL
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FOR EXC7ANGE-RE ESTATE
FOR EXCHANGE
By JOHN H. COKE,
No. 207 s. Broadway.

A pretty broom cottage on hills over
looking city. for house and lot in Pasa-
dena: property clear, valued at $4,000.
Two 1o-room houses on Burlington ave-.
equity for ranch in northern part Of
state.
broom cottage, Wolfskill tract 7-room
house Twenty-eighth St. and some prop
erty in the East. for inside property:
value SIS, 900: all clear and bringing in good
income: will assume mortgage.
9-room cottage at Santa Monica. rent
ing for $50 month the year round. has
a small mortgage. will exchange for Los
Angeles property and assume same
amount. Price 5000.
9-room new house. Southwest. on car
line, for other property. either in or out
of city; equity 5000; price $500
Fine business property on Second St.
a good income. clear of incumbrance;
want cash and improved ranch; will as
sumo if necessary.
S-room modern house. clear, in Phoenix.
for house and lot in Los Angeles; will
assume price S50O0
Groom cottage. East Los Angeles;
equity and cash for house and lot on
West side. price $780,
S-room modern house, two story, in
East Los Angeles: mortgage $1,000; for
clear st. Louis property; price $4,000! this
is beautiful home.
9-room house. clear. on s. Hope ST., for
Pomona property; price $6OOO.
Groom modern cottage. one block from
leINDle ST. cars, Will eAclldHBe equity VI
$500 for clear ranch or other property;
price s250o.
tenement house Of 6 rooms. clear.
close in. to trade for residence In South
west: will assume; price $4,000.
40 feet on S. Broadway, location AL. to
exchange equity OF $4,000 for vacant lots
or residence in city; price $50, coo.
Lot on Westlake car line, with $1,000 to
$500 cash for desirable house and lot in
Wolfskill tract or elsewhere.
innr0Vp1 nOStOf1Cn
grocery store, IL miles from Los Angeles,
to exchange for house and lot in city:
price $1,000.
The herald., 1896-06-09

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CHURCH NOTICES

81. PAUIjs CHURCH. EPISCOPAL.
Oiivest.,- opposite the park. Open every
day In the year: Daily service at ~ a. m.
the offices Of the church for strangers
OF visitors /, without respect to creed;
buffals, marriages. baptisms or VISTA
cheerfuily given free for funeral ser
vices. Tel. 143 red u
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PACIFIC LOAN CO.-LOANS IN ANY
amount on all kinds of collateral secur-
ity, diamonds, tewelry and seal skins
goods in private lodging and boarding
houses and hotels. without removal
Partial payments received. Money
quick; business confidential: private Office
for ladies. w. f. DEGROOT, Manager
rooms z and T. ia S. Spring St
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

FOR SALE-DEATH OF BUSINESS
manager east compels the sale at great
sacrifice of the following property 81.
acres, with 10-room house, bath, fruits,
barn, chicken houses and yards for 300
to 800 chickens; free water; southwest in
city, worth $4,000: will sell for s3500 $500
cash. balance time. 10 acres southwest
y mile city; worth $1,000: will sell for $500,
part cash. Lot southwest; worth $780,
for $3.50. all fenced. A frst-cass, we'll
established real estate and loan business,
with horse and 2-seated surrey; worth
$1,000; will sell for $3.50: made more than
that much in one week of last month;
cow and chickens cheap. EDWARD
FRASER, PIG S. Broadway. 10
The herald., 1896-06-09

NOT1CE.,ALL PERSONS HOLDING RE-
ceipts for pictures taken al The Excel
sor Photograph Gallery. 352 s. Broad
way, Los Angeles, will receive same by
sending name and address and number of
receipt. Address H. S. SIMMONS, North
Beach Bath House, photo gallery, Santa
Monica, Cal. N. B.-Creditors will also
send statements of accounts.
The herald., 1896-06-09

NOTICE-THE LOS ANGELES CITY
Water Co. will strictly enforce the fol-
lowing rules: The hours for sprinkling
are between the hours of and o'clock
lation of the above regulations the water
will be shut off and a fine of So will be
charged before the water will be turned
on again. 1920