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Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-05-27

Eel
Than one. This, of course, is no news to
veteran fishermen who clean their own
fish. But there is always best way in
everything. The best way to overcome
or prevent malaria, to conquer incipient
rheumatism or kidney trouble, and to re-
lieve dyspepsia, biliousness, constipation
and nervousness, is to begin without de-
lay and to pursue steadily and regularly,
the use of Hostetters Stomach Bitters, a
standard medicine Endorsed by medical
men everywhere. 1t strengthens the sys-
tenn and improves the appetite and sleep
of those who enjoy it as restorative,
and accomplshes health-giving results
which fairly astonishes those previously
unacquainted with its efficacy. Invalids
of all sorts testify in its behalf. 1t is the
leading tonic of this era.
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-05-27
UN BEAMS.

understand that he hangs himself ovel
clothesllne every day for an hour oil
two. H.
He does.
That seems strange. Has there ever
been any question as to his sanity?
Not at all. Everyone understands the
reason. He is trying to make 'scorcher'
OF himself, and merely takes this method
OF improving the curve of his back.
The herald., 1896-11-17
AN IMPORTANT DECISION

In confirming the constitutionality of
court of the United States has opened
the sluce-gates of good and evil, but
only good will flow if the state legisla-
ture will make haste to shut the gate
against the organization of wildcat
schemes. Strange as it may seem, the
decision of the court is based upon the
time doctrine of state rights. That
is to say, the court cannot go behind the
will of the people when the issue is one
in which the state alone has direct in
terest. and the theory is also confirmed
that the few have no redress for injury
when the injury is inflicted for the gen.
eral good of the community. The deci-
sion seems to enlarge the right of emil
nent domain. but. on the other hand it
extends no further than the distribution
of water for irrigation purposes.
The law itself is an heroic measure to
prevent few from depriving the many
of the benefit of irrigation works by re-
quiring all the land in the district to par
ticipate in the expense of constructing
and maintaining water distributing
agencies, but the privilege of profiting
by the distribution is also guaranteed,
so it is as broad as it is long, except to
those who would oppose the work for no
| reason other than to oblige those who
did want it to buy them out at extrava-
! CANT prices. The decision thus gives
protection to the willing many against
obstruction tactics by the few.
Those who own irrigation bonds will
! be glad of the decision, as they have the
right to be, but that feature of the con-
sequences of the decision is of minor i'm
portance. The real benefits that will ac-
crue to California lie in the fact that the
| legislature has the right to enact laws
for the distribution of public water for
! public use in the arid districts, but, as
we have said, more harm than good will
come of it unless spectators and pro-
moters of wildcat schemes are barred
| out.
The herald., 1896-11-17

ter another was wholly or partly used
for buildings until at last a halt had to
be called. Not only this, but the city
went to great expense to tear down
buildings to make breathing places for
it's people Foreign cities have spent vast
sums in making parks by the purchase
and demolition of buildings. We believe
that the law preventing the city from
using its parks for other than strictly
park purposes is wise.
The law exists and we therefore sug-
gest the Spring street school site. At
this point great museum and public
library could be built with industrial
school attachment. 1t could have
frontage on Broadway and stores on
Spring street, with an arcade or passage
through from street to street. In this
way the library could receive hand
some income, doubtless sufficient to pay
the interest on the building. Such a
building would be within block of every
stret car line in the city. No more CEN
trail site. could be selected.
The herald., 1896-11-17
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

On unveiling bust of himself at the
London guildhall lately, the duke of
Cambridge, after looking at it, said sad
ly: 1T will remain after have gone"
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland, having
attained her 18th year has just made her
confession of faith as a member of the
Dutch Reformed church, and has been
confirmed.
At the time of the death of Professor
Serbes of the Jardin des Plantes, Paris,
in 1878. he was the owner of collection
of 920 dried human heads, the whole rep
resenting every known race of people on
the globe.
Mrs. Bradley Martin is one of the lead
ers of society in the brilliant American
colony in Paris. Her social functions are
usually elaborate, and this winter the
doings and sayings OF the Ensilsh- :
speaking people will be fully chronicied
in a new Journal devoted exclusively 10
that kind of literature.
Few mistresses of the White House
have been the moving spirits OF gen
eral gayety. One brilliant figure stands
forth as an ideal social head of the re-
nublican court, and most of the others,
admirabl as they were, seem prosaic by
comparison. Dolly Madison has never
had her counterpart in the home of the
chief magistrate.
chemist Is the authority for the
statement that it is easy and common
for women to indulge too freely in the
pleasurable effects of smelling salts. If
shifted habitually the olfactory nerves
speedily become less sensitive to thei.
pungency and demand, for effect. a
stronger and stronger dose, till the one
finally needed il positively hurtful and
The herald., 1896-11-17

benumbing. He cites in proof that he
has customers who bring an assortment
of smelling bottles to him every day for
replenishing, their virtue to these thor
oughly seasoned women having quickly
departed. ~
A monument to the memory Of Da-
guerre, the inventor of the daguerreo-
type, the precursor of the photograph,
is soon to be unveiled in the province of
Bry-surM Marine, France. The famous
chemist spent the last twelve years OF
his life there and the ruins of his house
in the Rue de Villiers are pointed out to
tourist. He constructed tower there
nearly sixty feet in height, having Z
room at the summit, in which he per-
formed his experiments. At the cere-
| mony of unveiling the monument, which
the czar's visit has postponed, the mu-
| nicipality of Bry-sur- Marine will organ
ize series Of fetes for the day and even.
ing. \
The young and rich Baron de Selye
Longchamps, who was recently elected
senator in Belgium, polled remarkably
large vote among the peasantry. He mas
caused sensation in the office OF the
| secretary of the senate by requesting
that his titles be omitted in calling the
roll. This sensation was increased when
he announced the intention of appearing
at all sessions of the senate IN the work.
ingmen's blouse. which he daily wears
as a symbol of his love for the masses.
AS the senate is composed chiefly Of
princes, noblemen and millionaires, their
opinion of their new associates taste
and sense may be easily imagined. The
| baron's father also has seat In the sem
ate, has no objection to titles and wears
clothes suitable to his position In To
| state. :.
The herald., 1896-11-17
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY

The bright pages of the last Capital
contain an endorsement of The Herald's
oft-made suggestion for public library
building.
The suggestion that the building be
located in Central park is not capable
of being realized. The law prohibits the
use of city parks for any but purely park
purposes. This law was discovered re-
Gently when it was proposed to turn the
Plaza into market. While there may
be times when parks could be advanta-
geously built over, the temptation to use
such public ground when a site for a
building is wanted has proved too great
to be resisted in most American cities.
even when the public interests demand
ed the retention of the park. The
denser the city population and the high
er the cost of land, the greater the temp
tation to use parks for building sites be-
comes. At the same time, the increased
density of population makes the park
all the more essential to the public well
fare. If park is needed anywhere it is
needed in the densest peopled city. IN
New York one public garden or park af-
The herald., 1896-11-17
HUMOR OF THE HOUR

Her friend-"And when are you to be
married?" She-"In three years. Charles,
you know. is so impatient. Puck.
can phwat are yez a-doin' wild that
pig in the sea?" "Shure. am I'm maxim
salt pork av him afore 1 kill him.
Truth.
He"Madame, you have my assurance
that am a gentleman" She-"I have no
refUon to doubt your assurance.-Har-
lem Life.
Paw" said Tommy Tucker "am
descended from the monkey?" mot on
my side fthe house. replied Mr. Tuck
er, with much positiveness.-TidB Bits.
Isaacstein-"You are opposed to dem
trusts?" Cohenheim-"Of course! Some
of dem get such monopoly of der peez-
ness dot dey will only sell man goods
for cash. .'-Puck>
The Prince de Cont was not fastidious
on the subject of mass. He wished to
have for his almoner, the able provost,
author of Manon Lescaut. "Monseig-
neur" said the able to him" II have never
said mass" "Never mind" said the
prince, II never hear it."-London
Figaro.
Mamma-"Johnny. fear you were not
at school yesterday" Johnny-"H' m!
bet the teacher told you. A woman never
can keep a secret."-Boston Transcript.
Bacon-"In Venezuela they have trees
which look exactly like umbrellas" Eg-
bert-"I should think they would be
afraid to leave them out all night then"
--Yonkers Statesman.
I've got great mind" said the young
man. ito go west and grow up with the
country" But you don't know anything
about agriculture" II know that But
there are one or two sections where
there seems to be so many politicians
that l believe an energetic man could
come pretty near getting a monopoly
Of the farming. ."--yS ashington StaA
The herald., 1896-11-17
JUDGES

Judge Wallace has decided that Mrs.
Susie B. Martin, acquitted from the
charge Of numbering her third husband
on the ground of insanity, must now
This Is surely a most sensible stand
to take. If persons are so insane as to
kill others and because of claimed in
sanity are not to be punished. the well
fare of society indicates that they
should be restrained. if the plea is to
stand. This is the only way that the
homicidal mania can be guaranteed
from fresh outbreak If the plea of in
sanity in mitigation of murder is hon.
estly made and satisfactorily proved
there can be no quetion but that the
victim of such insane deviltry should
be securely prevented from making
more murder. If the plea is not honest.
though effective, its beneficiaries should
be imprisoned anyway.
Judge Wallace and Judge Hebbard
are the two great judges of Northern
California. Their clear, plain common
sense decisions have not, indeed, al
ways received the support of our pres
ent state supreme court-more is the
pity-but they are approved by the peo-
pie.
These two judges like our own Judge
Ross. are not approved by those cor
porations that seek to evade their OBJ
legations, defy justice and nullify the
law. A man who cannot be deceived by
plausible pretext who cannot be swayed
by influence, nor intimidated by threats,
nor bought by favor or gold coin is
not to the liking of our great corpora
tions. The persons interested in these
corporations, however, should be the
last to weaken the law or destroy the
confidence of the people in their courts
of Justice The property of corporations,
of all property. is that which most de-
pends for security on law and order.
Yet it is our trusts and great corpora
tions which do and have all along done
the most in recent years to diminish the
standing of our courts and to destroy
the confidence of the people that our
courts will give impartial justice. This
in effect is undermining our whole sys-
tenn of government. Our Hannas and
Carnegies have talked good deal about
law and order. 1t would be hard work
to find two citizens who had violated the
law and even the common dictates of de-
cency and humanity more flagrantly
than these two. We want more judges
like Hebbard, Wallace and Ross.
The herald., 1896-11-17

Down the long lanes of Arcade
My lady canterS merriiy;
The grain is bleaching in the sun
The russet hlckorleS confer,
And mounted on old CheVeron
With laughing call l follow her.
The NAPLES stand in flaming red,
The sturdy brakes are seer and dead;
But still my lady canters on
Through field adm WOOD and busy town
And mounted on old CheverOn
l try to rice her down.
Through the long lanes of Arcade
The crlckels skip ana chirp to me;
MY ladys just round yonder bend,
Methinks | hear her call TO me
Methinks our chase is at an end
Through these long lanes OF Arcade!
Nay still she canters down the lane
With floating skirt and loosened rein.
We've Travelled all this summer land
And stll we mount anoi gallop on;
Sometimes she turns and waves her hanC
A challenge to old Cheveron.
Through all this land of Arcade
She leads old Cheveron and me.
And how her good mount stands 1t so
Is really more than can see;
Yet still we ride through Arcade.
Old Chereron has cast his shoes!
The chase is up, my Lady Muse!
Theodore Roberts in the Independent.
The herald., 1896-11-17
A PLEA FOR THE TRAMP.

Editor Herald: MY indignation has
been aroused by an article in your pa
per headed The Tramp Problem Again
1t seems to me that as general prin-
ciple q man should be free to refuse
work and depend on begging or any
other way to live, If he cares about
taking his chances in that way. No one
is compelled to give, and If he threatens
or steals, why, that is matter for the
law, but not before. But certainly a
man is deprived of his constitutional
right of life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness" as things are now run by
our police department. But, apart from
most unjust to class the large number
of unemployed as tramps. I, of course,
cannot Judge of the experience of those
who complain of them to the police.
There is no doubt that some of them are
tough characters, but I contend they are
a small minority. The unfortunate who
can get no work and seeks poor shell
ter in box cars and elsewhere is imme-
diately run in as "hobo," and sent
to the chain gang.
My experience for three years as a
housekeeper in this town has convinced
me that the number of those unwilling
to work is exceedingly small. In the
majority of cases they do not ask for
money, but for a meal, which the aver
age housekeeper is unwilling to trouble
| herself with getting. While in larger
houses the servants Especially Chinese)
| dismiss them without consulting their
! employers.
I notice that the article mentioned
| above. is almost identical with one in
| the Times. AS you are supposed to be
| Democratic. I should think you would
| discriminate in this regard.
| MRS. c. N. P.
| (Our correspondent must have been
exceptionally fortunate in her expert
| ence with the genus tramp. The visit
of characteristic specimen to her back
| door will dispel her humane delusions.-
| Ed Herald)
The herald., 1896-11-17
THE VERY LATEST.

This is said to be 1.-The very latest" on
the money question, says the Atlanta
Constitutions: A gold standard man was
telling Polk county farmer the other
day what he should do at the approach
ing election.
How do you know what / should do
for my best INTEREST,"" said the farmer
You never did days work on the
farm in your life
mo. l never worked on farm" the
townsman replied, but I work my
head"
SO does a woodpecker," quickly re-
piled the farmer but never heard tell
of one saving the country"
The goldbug was carried home be-
tween two chips,
The herald., 1896-11-17

strange man entered, and, hearing the
remark, said to a neighbor:
"I'll bet you sovereign I'll do him. !"
You won't" said the landlord.
II WILL" said the man. IF you'll put a
sovereign under that mug and place 1t
on that table will take the money with
out touching the mug"
You won't trick me-" said the master.
And to let you see that l am not afraid
1 will put two in fact 1 will place three
sovereigns under it, There you are" he
added, ''all is ready" and he stood with
a smile on his face, while the others
looked on, very eager to see how the
scene would end.
Leaning under the table, the man ex
tended his hand, and presently withdrew
it with three sovereigns in his PALM He
showed them all around, amid much
wonder.
The landlord, getting rather warm In
his excitement, caught up the mug
whereupon the man picked up the money
and walked out, amid much laughter.
as the landlord shouted: Done at last!"
OF course, the man had not touched the
mug; the landlord lifted it and so lost the
bet,-Tid- Bits
The herald., 1896-11-17

The Herald has at last driven the
Times into the open on the question of
the city's ownership of a water supply,
and ,as was anticipat ted, the old strumpet
shows her teeth with as much libelous
scurrility as she dares indulge in Every
body knows the historic relation of the
Hoodoo (hypothecated) to the City Wa
ter company and that 1t is on tenter-
hooks Of anxiety to do what 1t can to Sc
cure the maximum price for that COM
The herald., 1896-11-17
A1uSEnENTs TONIGHT
LABOR-WATER-"THE TIMES"

The editor of yesterdays Times went
out of his way to make low and brutal
attack upon organized labor. There was
no occasion for it. unless there was an
extra accumulation of hatred of work.
ing people which was probably the case.
Nothing so exasperates the would-b be au-
tocrat of the Times as an exhibition of
independence of thought and free man
hood on the part of labor. He does not
deny the necessity for labor in develop
ing and fashioning into articles of trade
the resources of the country, but he ap-
pears to think there should be made no
very great distinction between work.
ingman and the tools he works with
that, in short, labor is the mudsll of So
ciety and commerce, and it presumes
when it essays to have voice in the
construction of the superstructure Such
reflections upon the intelligence and in
tegrity of our wage-earners suggest
degree of meanness and viciousness in
the Times which goes long way toward
substantiating Calvin's doctrine of total
depravity.
1t is not the purpose of The Herald to
defend labor against this attack of the
Times, for it needs no defense. The
source of the attack is itself defense
of labor in the minds of all fair-minded
people; but it is The Herald's purpose to
assure those who are not so well ac-
quainted with the people of Southern
California. especially with the people of
Los Angeles, that the Times does not
reflect their sentiments, religion, politics
nor morals
The Los Angeles Council of Labor is
not composed of men who are in con-
slant fear of the "chain gang as the
Times would have it appear; nor of
They are reputable citizens, and are as
much interested in the welfare of the
community as is the Times. 1t is very
true that they are not property lords nor
industrial barons, and if to be just plain,
honest and Industrious citizens, who are
obliged to practice economy to make
income meet expenditure is to have a
condition of existence that is repulsive
to the lordly tastes of the Times. why, of
course, it is easy enough to see how the
Times would conclude that they were
"vags' afraid of the "chain gang" for
that concern has nothing in common
with honest labor. Nevertheless, if the
theory of evolution be true, very many
more of the appetites, desires and beast
ly instincts of jungle life will be found
In the Times in minute than in those
labor "vags'asin a year
AS to that branch of organized labor
known as the Typographical union,
at which the Times tries to fling smut
smut that oozes out at the pores of its
own leprops-infected hide from a poo
Of native iniqnity-rits. effort to harm oil
disfigure will be as ftltfie as would be the
effort of q sickrbaby to batter dowr
Gibraltar with pebble stones. The Typo.
graphical pHions like all. other labor or
ganisatiops. ySas born Of necessity. The
brutal aggressiveness Of business enter
Drises. Of which the Tlnes'is conspic
uous representative, so threatened tn,
Independence Of labor and the rights o
y ~ individual wage-earner that 1t hat
The herald., 1896-11-17

Public sentiment is setting In strongly
against any tinkering with the tariff.
The revival of business everywhere ia
pretty good evidence that the present
tariff law is about right, except that it
is too high in spots.
The herald., 1896-11-17
DONE!

A village innkeeper in the midland
counties tells how he was cleverly trick
ed by one of his customers. One day
he was talking to a bar full of people,
and saying that no one had ever been
able to get the better of him. when a.
The herald., 1896-11-17

pany's plant from a serviceable council
and mayor. Well advised that its ad-
vocacy Of any interest Is calculated to
damn 1t before the community where 1t
is so thoroughly distrusted and disllked.
it assumes a disinterested tone and is
fain to indulge in cutie fish tactics. by
attempting to escape in an inky cloud of
imputation against The Herald's good
fain to indulge in cuttlefish tactics by
public mind is not to be obfuscated.
Never in its history has the Hoodoo
espoused the cause of the people. Never
in its history has The Herald failed to
uphold the peoples interests. There we
rest our case
The herald., 1896-11-17

The Craven-Fair litigation takes on
new shapes nearly every day. The fam
Gus pencil will has been withdrawn, but
there are enough other questionable fea-
lures of the controversy left to keep the
disgust of the public up to high pitch.
1t is unfortunate that line of the mis-
cradle affair was ever permitted to en-
ter the columns of newspaper.
The herald., 1896-11-17

Niagara Falls appears to be bigger
than all the motive power shops in New
York. Science, energy and pluck are
doing much for the world these days.
The herald., 1896-11-17

The battleship Texas appears to have
been built after the fashion of the Car
negie blow-hole plates. 1t is fortunate
her great defects were discovered at her
The herald., 1896-11-17

AS is invariably the case after a presi-
Dental election. there is a general out
cry for the election Of president by the
direct vote of the people, and when such
journals as the Philadelphia Record see
the necessity for such a change, there
is reason to believe the question is wor-
thy of serious consideration Referring
to the matter the Record says:
The sixteenth amendment to the con-
stitution should provide for the aboli
tion of the electoral college and for the
election of president by the direct
vote of the people, the candidate re-
ceiving a majority or a plurality of all
the votes cast from one end of the land
to the other to be declared elected.
What is needed is an amendment decid-
ing that the right of citizens to e.the
votes of majority or plurality of all
the voters decisive of the choice of any
candidate shall not be abridged by sys-
tem-which in one state makes a change
of 600 votes the gain or loss of So electoral
votes out of the small number of 447 and
in another the gain or loss of only cleo
toral votes
A change OF 10000 votes in four west
ern and southern states would have
given Bryan majority of one in the
electoral college and yet Mckinley
would have had a popular majority of
over 100000. 1t is this showing that is
alarming the east
The herald., 1896-11-17

The completion of the coast road to
San Francisco seems to be now assured.
This will add to Los Angeles trade ter
ritory and provide a pleasant summer
route to San Francisco. The building of
this road, the extension Of the valley
road to an independent outlet at Los
Angeles with the assistance of present
company and the inception of the long
delayed Salt Lake road added to our
deep sea harbor must give Los Angeles
and Southern California great impetus.
Bright business days are before US.
The herald., 1896-11-17
A NEW IDEA.

J. M. Barrie has struck new idea for
visiting Englishmen, which he ought to
copyright. He declines to say what he
thinks of American girls-except to the
girls thems ves.-Philadelphia Ledger.
The herald., 1896-11-17

Five per cent of the people, including
the Times, want the old water company
to continue in the ownership of the wa
ter supply. That is too small a tail to
wag so big dog.