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He Knew the Princess.

A London paper says that some time
ago the Princess Maud went shopping
strictly incog. While she was walk
ing along the street, she was accosted
by little street arab who was the
happy possessor of pair of large pa
thetic brown eyes and tangled crop
of curly brown hair. He was busily
engaged in the absorbing task of earn
ing his living land, perhaps, someone
else's as wen) by retailing "fresh
spring flowers, penny and tuppeace q
bunch" The Princess stopped by
him, and while choosing some flowers
she was little startled by the lad say
ing in an excited and familiar whisper !:
'It's all right, miss, I knows yer; but
I'll keep it dark and won't split on
yer" Tke Princess smilingly shook
her head in denial. eyes, I do
knows yer (more emphatically); "yer
Princess Mawd; twigged yer di-
rectly."
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DARING AND FATAL ATTEMPT
or United States Convicts at LeaVen-
worth to Escape.

or United States Convicts at Leaven-
worth to Escape.
A gang of forty convicts from the
United States penitentiary were being
worked on the prison farm on the Fort
Leavenworth (Ks.) reservation Tues
day afternoon when they became mutt
nous and made break for liberty.
The guards started shoe ting as soon as
the prisoners ran and nearly all OF the
convicts dropped on the ground to keep
from being killed.
George Yeast the leader of the out
break, refused to surrender and tried
to get in some brush. Six loads OF
buckshot were emptied into him and
he received death wounds. Yeast is an
Indian Territory desperate. 8. +.
Dove refused to stop running until he
was shot in the hip and abdomen and
knocked down with the butt end OF
pistol. His wounds may prove fatal.
Sam Mills gained the Missouri river
bank and was about to jump in when
he was shot in the left leg and badly
wounded
The prisoners shot were long term
territory hors1 thieves with bad rec
ords. When the prisoners who were
shot were brought to the Jail yard 2oc
convicts attempted second mutiny
and the guards, to protect themselves,
we're about TO fire into them. Warden
French arrived just in time and got the
men into their cells
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long from the left shoulder, which WAS
evidently designed for q leg, but which
ends abruptly where the foot should
begin.
The father and mother of the family
are about five years of age and were
born of perfect parents. Their de-
formity has not been accounted for
any more than have those deformities
that 60 to make up the many mon
strosities of the animal kingdom.
There have been bred seventeen
puppies, four of which have had three
legs, but the third was in no case per-
feet, though one had a foot of five
toes, shaped very much like an ele-
plants. Only one of these has lived.
OF the last delivery of four the two
with three legs died soon after birth.
The two-legged dogs have peculiar
excrecence where the forelegs should
start from the body, but there is only
bit of cartilage to be felt under the
skin.
This led to report several years
ago that the dogs had been skillfuliv
mutilated. But there is abundant
testimony that they were born SO,
while some of the puppies that died
were dissected in the presence of a
committee of eminent surgeons and
physicians.
The two survivors of the last litter
are also evidence in themselves that
they were born with their present de-
formity.
The dogs are intelligent and have
been trained to many little tricks.
They move erect on their hind legs,
but when desiring to move few
inches they push their bodies along
with their hind legs with little jumps.
The breed of the dogs Is cross be-
tween sheppard and water spaniel.
Mr.. Linn is a bachelor, a brakeman
on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day
ton Railroad. He has independent
means and has bred the dogs as a
scientific and philosophical pastime.
He treats his pets with fatherly con-
sideration, and IN some particulars
they are like spoiled children.
Mr.. Linn exhibits the dogs only to
those whom he believes take scien-
tific interest in them. New York
World.
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cruiser that came along, swift to circle
about the helpless levlathan, ready
now and then to pour in broadside
after broadside, any one of which
might disable the 12-inch guns and
pierce the magazines. The engine is
the master machine, and everybody IN
the Texas realizes this. There are
ninety men in the engineers force,
and all but twenty of them are on duty
at the fires, engines and boilers.
But what of those twenty? What
fateful and all important labor is
theirs! Some of them, by the glow
from the glass cased electric light
boxes, let down to them from above,
are raising slowly out from the maya
zine bins the deadly treasures of high
explosive, shell and cartridge. Here.
the mines are making ready, there the
torpedoes are preparing, and yonder
in the shell room the vast missiles to
be hurled from the throats of the 12-
inch guns are being hoisted through
the wells to the loading trays far
above. We're the dynamos to stop and
these light boxes to bacome suddenly
dark, what a horror of black muck
would envelop these toilers and para
lize every energy of their frames. 1t
was such casualty as that which
caused the collision in the harbor of
Havana some weeks ago by which a
Spanish cruiser went down, with her
| crew and captain.
Let's look at the steam steering en-.
gine. There are six wheels by which
the Texas can be directed in her course.
There is one in the chart house on the
flying bridge, just over the coming
tower, for steam steering. There's
another in the coming tower, for use
in action third on the after gun
deck; "a fourth in the steering room,
away down in the after hold. There's
big hand wheel in the steering room
for use if the steering engine breaks /;
a wheel on the steering engine itself,
IN the tiller room. Once disarranged
or broken, the steam steering engine
is disconnected and the hand wheels,
any one OF them, pro.ght into imme.
diats use.
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BELOW DECKS,
HOW AMMUNITION is HANDLED
ON A MAN-OF-WAR.
just What Will Happen Her
Water Line When She Goes
Into Battle-ls Directed
From Midair.

~ F oil the ships of the new navy
| the Texas, which anchored at
Y ! the Brooklyn Navy Yard last
week, is in some respects the
most interesting. A great steel fort
spans her decks. At each end of the
citadel is turret, and in each turret
twelye-inch breechloading rifle, a
magnificent monster of destruction,
an engine of war that would be terri
BILE if we only knew just what it would
accom- Llish in an emergency aimed
against men and cities and ships in
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THE CARE OF EARLY CHICKS.

Early Matched chickens seem to have
stronger constitutions than those which
are Matched after the weather becomes
warm 1t is surprising how much cold
they will endure If they are kept dry.
If it is possible. like to have one or
two broods out by the first Of March.
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The width of his mouth was eight in.

The width of his mouth was eight in.
ches, the length Of his leg 49, inches.
The biggest frogs on earth are found
in this country. Nowhere else are
frogs so large feature of swamp and
marsh life. A year ago twelve enor.
nous American frogs were sent alive
to Europe, where they excited much
wonder, but none of them was as large
as the Railway frog here described.
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A lot of land on Cornhill, in Lon
don, with front of twenty.four feet,
facing the Bank of England, was sold
recently at price equivalent to Sl2..
260, 200 an acre --@--'--->-,-s;
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The city of Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
has been presented with the sum of
$50, 900 by the children of the late
John P. Adriance for the purpose Of
erecting . public UbzaxT.
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A Frog a Foot and a Half Tall,

The king of frogs was caught re-
Gently at Railway, N. j. He weighed
ten and three-quarters pounds. His
right leg weighed 24 pounds, and his
left leg..24 pounds. He was eighteen
inches long and twelve inches wide.
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muzzles, forty feet away, are even
now threatening to shstter the air
with the hosrse earthquaking, sea
msddening roar of a discharge that
WI do murder twelve miles away
amid all this diabolical saturnalia what
enaIce would an old fashioned speak.
ing trumpet have?
he central station, in which these
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CURIOUS CANNES,
An Odd Breed of Three-Legged Dogs
Owned by a Cincinnati Man.

An odd breed of dogs is to be found
in the kennels of @. w. Linn, at Gin
cinnati, Ohio. There are six of them.
Five have only two legs each. The
sixth has q growth about six inches
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long from the left shoulder, which WAS
evidently designed for a leg, but which
ends abruptly where the foot should
The herald., 1896-08-09
Two Unique Southern Monuments

The little village of Fort Mil, on the
line of the Southern railroad in South
Carolina, boasts of two monuments, the
like Of which is not to be found else
where in the United States. One of
them is dedicated to the women of the
confederacy; the other is intended to
commemorate the faithful slaves. They
We're erected by Captain Samuel f.
White, and were unveiled a few days
ago. The women's monument consists
of a base, pedestal and a statue. The
statue shows female figure kneeling
on a confederate flag in the attitude of
prayer. The other is a tall, plain shaft.
on the base are proper inscriptions and
two typical scenes from slave life,
carved in the marble. II also bears the
, names of half dozen slaves whose 10y
atty to their masters is told by the mon
ument.
some years ago a shaft to the confed-
crate dead was raised in Fort Mill. Since
then Captain White has concluded that
the women and the slaves deserved rec
ognition and at his own expense the
monuments We're prepared and erected.
/ During the war, while the men of the
region were fighting at the front. the
| slaves remained at home and cared for
! the women and children. There was no
/ insurrection, no runaWays and no trou-
BILE whatever. To tittingly acknowledge
1 this faithfulness of the slaves the monu-
! nent was erected.-NeW York World.
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THE FINANCIAL FURRY
OVERPAST

/
| The recent uneasiness in financial cir
cles was. in many respects, peculiar
episode. Now that the timid capitalist:
large and small-have recovered from
their little scare, some of the causes fol-
it may be worthy of passing notice.
| The extreme advocates of gold stan
dard are originally responsible for the
feeling of apprehension, which passed
| like a wave over the country. Their lu-
| rid prophecies of the depreciation of sill
yer and paper money to inevitably fol-
low the free coinage of silver led many
unthinking people to fear that trouble
was ahead. What could be more natural
than for those putting faith in such
prophecies to secure gold and put IT
away, so that the holder might be pre-
pared to buy silver and paper money at
the low prices predicted by the goldites?
In the east only large capitalists We're
able to obtain gold, as 1t has not been in
circulation there for ordinary transac-
tions, but in this state, where business
has always been done on gold basis,
boarding was commenced. In almost
every instance the amounts boarded
were small, and the aggregate was prob
ably but an infinitesmal fraction OF the
amount in circulation, but the mere fact
that any Withdrawals were being made
for such a purpose was sufficient to eX-
cite more or less alarm. 1t has happily
passed away without serious conse-
quences, but we have had an object les
son of the trouble which may be occa-
stoned by false promises and illogical
reasoning.
In the first place, the dire forecasts of
evil consequences inseparable from free
coinage are given out by Missionaries or
demagogues. That they do not receive the
credence of the large body of our people
is made apparent by the improvement
so noticeable in business circles since
the triumph of the silver cause became
certainty.
Even conceding (Which we do noD
that silver would not circulate at par
under free coinage regula tions, there
was never the slightest ground for TIM
idity among the bank depositors of this
state. Banks are especially dependent
for success-for their very existence
upon their reputation for honesty and
fair dealing. The banks of California
have received from their depositors gold.
or its equivalent. and have as their as
sets. securities calling for payment OF
gold. Honesty and business policy would
both demand that the banks should pay
their creditors in the kind of money col
lected from their debtors, and the banks
have not left the people in doubt as to
their purpose to do the honest and poll
itic thing. Mr.. Lowell White, cashier of
the San Francisco Savings Union, re-
Gently published an announcement that
that Institution would collect and pay
gold, and every expression, public or
private, which has come from the repre-
sentatives of the banking interests of the
state has been Of like tenor. Even those
who had been r,nieica ~ >i.~ pivoi~>'>@'-s
of silver depreciation soon saw that the
conditions existing in California pre-
cluded any possibility of loss to bank
depositors here. Business has resumed
normal conditions, and will pursue the
even tenor of its way undisturbed by the
prognosticatio tions of politicians.
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Hers and There

Mr.. and Mrs Ezra Stimson left yes
terday for Coronado.
Mr. Jarvis and the Misses Jarvis are
home again from Catalina.
Mr.. Louis Nordlinger will leave today
for visit of few weeks at Bear valley.
Miss Furbish left yesterday for San
Diego to enjoy number of weeks out
ing.
Mrs Gregory Perkins and Miss White
have taken up their abode at the Sea
Side Inn, Long Beach.
Misses Ida f. Lawrence. Ger
trude NJ. Lawrence, Fyora E. Law
renee, Edith Worcester, and Cellie
Shields are at Catalina stopping at. the
Glenmore.
Mrs. F. r. Warner and Miss Helen
Hammond have returned from Long
Beach.
G. De Forest Harvey and Clark Briggs
are at Catalina enjoying the dancing
and the pretty girls.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Montgomery and
family will leave Tuesday for sojourn
of several weeks at Catalina.
Miss Louise Pellisier of Los Angeles,
who went abroad q short time ago, is
enjoying a delightful stay in Paris.
Mount Cloud, recent graduate Of the
University of Virginia, has come to Los
Angeles to reside and practioe law.
The marriage of Miss Katherine w,
kimball and DR.. w. E. Forest occurred
in Boston, Mass, July 29th. After
spending q few weeks at . watering
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BRYAN THE CRAVE

oh. he came like young Lochinvar out of
the west
With the love of humanity thrilling his
breast,
From The pralries that sweep like the tides
Of the sea,
TO speak a bold word for the brave and the
tree.
He met the proud foe in their trappings of
Anr he vanquished their chieftain like
David of old
And the multitude shout, while their bright
Wen done. noble Bryan-young Bryan the
brave.
o, ye toilers who make for your country
Who have laid broad and deep it's founda-
tions of fame,
Ye have wrought at the forge in the field
and the mine
divine:
From its dome shall our flag Of fraternity
rise,
TIL il blends with the blue of its own native
skies.
Inspiring the soul of each downtrodden
slave
To rally for Justice and Bryan the brave.
The Atlantic sends greeting from Texas to
Maine.
And Pacic's grand mountains roll back
the refrain.
From the Gulf. whdre the continents
waters are poured.
TO the lakes of the north where our har-
vests are stored.
We rejoice that the dread and the doubling
are past.
And The millions who toll have a leader at
last
TO rescue the land from the traitor and
knaVe:
Strike for home. God and country and
Clark T. Havens.
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I'm THE ALEMBIC OF REASON"

1t Is about time that Republican or
gans ceased their vaunting patronage
and discarded the air of superb omnis-
cience in dealing with the financial
question. Ridiculous as such position
should be in any case, it becomes
preposterous when a single standard
newspaper in condemning the free
coinage fallacy." gives vent to such con-
Trajectory sententiousness as is voiced
in the Los Angeles Times of yesterday.
Below is given a sample of such abb
surdity, as published in the Times. side
by side; the excerpt on the left being
taken from an article headed How 1t
Would Work, and that on the right The
Silver Mems Game:
As the bullion AS long as the sill
commercial value OF Yer mine owners can
the silver dollar is take SO cents worth
about half that Of Of silver bullion to "a
the gold dollar, 1t is mint ana receive
evident that If the back Tor 1t colneG
present commercial dollar which they
ratio were maintain can pay out at the
ed under free ana full value of a dol
Unrestricted coinage lar. they are max ng,
one gold dollar would say. q cents profit on
he worth about the every % cents worth
same as two silver of bullion. over ana
or paper dollars. The above the profit they
national bank cur would have made IN
reucy. which is re- mining the bullion.
deemable ''iu lawful =
money of the United
States" would Of
course drop TO the
same level as the sill
Yer and paper cur
rency. In other
words. gold would
go to premium Of
nearly or quite 1901
per cent as compar-
ed to other forms OF
currency.
on the one side we are told that one
gold dollar would be worth two silver
dollars and on the other that fifty-three
cents worth of silver bullion would
bring the full value of a dollar. On the
one side we are told that one egg would
be worth two cents and on the other
that half a cent will purchase one egg.
Here is stupendous reasoning! Here,
in the vain endeavor to annihilate the
cause of silver. are advanced PROPOSE
tions. the transparent faliacy of which
a child can perceive. Verify it is reduc-
ito ad absurdurn. The first article main
tains that at is evident if the present
commercial ratio were maintained one
gold dollar would be worth about the
same as two silver or paper dollars :"
but ignores the self-evident fact that
Sucn 1dLlO COulu HOT pt lHdllldlIeI, II
the mine owner could receive back
and pay out coined dollars lat the full
value of a dollar" When silver has
| been endowed with such functions
neither the mine owner nor anyone else
could keep down the price of silver.
In Yet another article in the same
issue. maintaining that Protection Is
the Real Issue" the wonderful wizards
of the Times sagaciously declare: The
/ free coinage fallacy cannot stand the
| light OF truth. In the alennbic of reason
| it viii melt and disappear"
| If the above is to be taken as a fair
| sample of the reason that is 10 distin =
| Suish the arguments of the sound"
money men III this campaign of educa-
| ton" it is time to reveal to them that
their parodoxes are pretenses and their
logic lieA TIE assumption of superior
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PASSION WORKERS AvAUNT

One of the most unfortunate features
of the present campaign is the disposi-
| tion so frequently displayed to appeal
| to class or sectional prejudice. Demo-
! Gratis, Republicans and Populists, are,
alike, loyal citizens of our great repub-
lie, no matter in what part of 1t accident
or choice may have located them. Any
attempt on the part of political orators
or newspapers to array section against
section, or class. against class. is de-
serving of the severest condemnation.
A spirit of mutual confidence and for
bearance is necessary to the best re-
suits in overnment-without 1t no re-
public can exist, much less prosper. 1t
follows, therefore, that acts distinctive
of such spirit constitute high treason.
During the past few months the press
and stump speakers have given forth al
most daily violent appeals to the prejudi-
ces of their readers and hearers. The an
tipathies most frequently aroused are
those existing or supposed to exist be-
tween the peopls of the west and south.
and those of the east. On one hand we
have the silver miners denounced as
being engaged in a gigantic conspiracy
to swindle the balance of the people OF
the country. and, on the other hand,
bankers are accused of participation
In devilish plot to squeeze the life
blood out Of the producing classes. We
can but pity those who are Influenced
by charges and countercharges,
and detest those who are responsible for
their circulation. We think the great
majority of the bankers of this country
are mistaken in their opposition to free
coinage Of silver, but that does not alter
the fact that they are as a class as hon.
est. philanthropic and patriotic as men
engaged in any other commercial pursuit.
No one who has learned from actual ac-
quaintance the sturdy integrity and
open-h handed generosity of the miners
of the west will believe for a moment
that they would put up bunco game on
their countrymen. The west, in its rapid
development, unparalleled in history,
has relied for aid upon the accumula-
tons of the east. When enterprises
have proved judicious and profitable
eastern lenders and investors, and west
ern borrowers have prospered. Reverses
and hard times have injured both, but
1t Will not help matters any to charac-
terize eastern lenders as Shylocks, or
western borrowers as bankrupt swim
dlers. The issues of the campaign are
not to be decided by such pretenses for
argument. and the less we hear of such |
talk from any quarter the better it will !
be for the country.
The herald., 1896-08-09
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! THE POLITE WORLD ;
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. &4AAAAi

Among the few delightful affairs of the
week was the gathering of little people
at the home of Mrs. II. b. Fits on West
Twenty-ninth street Friday afternoon.
when Miss Nadia Fits celebrated her
seventh birthday. The guests chose
their own pleasure of amusement on the
lawn and in the house. but all departed
with the memory of a happy afternoon.
A dainty repast was served on a long
table made pretty with La France roses.
The little hostess was the recipient OF
many lovely remembrances presented
by her playmates, who were for the af
ternoon the Misses Helene, Laura and
Sabina McVay, Fannie Carpenter, Mar
garet Orr, Dorothy Dean, Dorothy
Brown, Margaret Fits. Masters Geo.
Fits. Maynard, Lyman and Willie Nc
Fie, Jack Greyson. Granville Howard,
Edward Dean. Arthur Walstead.
Another very pleasant event was the
luncheon given Wednesday by Mrs.
William Reed at her home on Thompson
street to number of Arizona friends.
The table was artistic with pink roses.
and after the enjoyment of the delicious
menu served, the guests We're enter
@@AhSu ourlHS tne AFTERNOON with a
guessing game ara several charming
piano selections by the hostess. Those
present were Mines. Berry, Gage. Philips.
Ben Goodrich. w. l.. Graves and Dannin.
Mrs. 8. B. Caswell entertained with
dinner Friday evening in honor of Mrs.
de Szigethy; the other guests were Mr.
and Mrs. j. S. Osgood. Judge and Mrs.
Hubbell, and Mr.. George Pike.
The other social functions of the week
were the meeting OF the Monday Musi-
cal club. which had for its hostess Mrs.
scarborough, the exceptionally delight
full luncheon over which Mrs. J. A. Fair
child presided, and the Queen Esther
Circle of the Boyle Heights NJ E. church
were entertained Thursday evening by
Mrs. j. NJ. Harris at her home on East
First street.
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A ,JoIIy PARTY

A Jolly party of about sixty members
of the G. A. r. and friends went to the
soldiers home Thursday evening They
were met at the station by Commander
w, Fl. Shaeffer, the drum corps and a.
large number of comrades and escorted
to the assembly hall, where Mr.. James
Booth gave a very fine song recital,
after which the comrades served the
party with delicious coffee and cakes.
They then returned to their car and
went to the beach, where a short time
was spent. The party reached Los An
geles at II 80 each and every one claim
ing to have had a very enjoya BILE time
and regretting that the evening had
been SO short