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The herald., 1896-08-01
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Men and Firms


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erson, atty.
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There are undelivered kilograms at
the Western Union Telegraph com
pany's office in this city for Hon. Jerry
Millay
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The sooner the Mckinley Hobart
bari Is turned loose the sooner it will
be empty.-Kansas City World.
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TIMBER LAND, ACT JUNE 3.1S7S-NO-
tice for publication.-tlni States Land
Office, Los Angeles, Cal, July =. 1896. No
tice is. hereby given that in compliance
with the provisions of the act of congress
OF June g. 1873, entitled AN act for the sale
OF timber lands in the states of California.
Oregon, Nevada and Washington Terri.
tory" as extended to all the public land
states by act of August 4, 1892, Chester Z.
Blain, of La Canada, County of Los Ange-
les, state Of California. has this day filed
in this office his sworn statement for the
purchase of the Sc of SW14 OF section No.
"A, in township No. N, range No. 10 w,
S. B; NJ. and will offer proof TO show thai
the, land sought is more valuable for its
timber or stone than for agricultural pur-
poses and to establish his claim to said
land before the register and receiver Of
this Office at Los Angeles. Cal. on Thurs
day. the 18th day of September 1896. He
names as witnesses: S. German. La Cam
ada; Dana d.. Bowman, La Canada: Ar
thur I. Blain, La Canada; Dexter Gray, liz
Canada. Cal. Any and all persons claiming
adversely the above described lands are
requested to file their claims in this Of
flee on or before said 18th day of Septem-
Der. 1896.
TT. BOLTON, Register.
4at-Q12
The herald., 1896-08-01
Our Agricultural College

If there ever was any doubt about the
inability and incompetency of Prof. E.
w. Hilgard to occopy the high position
of director of our agricultural expert
ment station and chief officer of our
agricultural college. the professor him
self has furnished the proof, in the pro-
duction Of his voluminous report just
published, entitled, Report of the Work
Of the Agricultural Experiment Station
for 1S94-95''
In the first place, there is little or
nothing new in the work; scarcely any
thing that is not more than one year old,
and that has not been published previ-
ously.
He says in his Introduction or letter Of
transmittal, that the college has been
attended by the usual number of stu
dents. but he fails to state that the usual
number graduated annually is less than
one and one-half students, and that he
has been in charge of the college some
twenty years and that ne has made his
course of instruction so unpopular and
so uninstructive that our youth, in this
greatest of all agricultural states, are
not attracted to him, his methods of
thoughts or his college. There is the
usual complaint about lack of funds,
but little is said about the 100000 per
annum that it costs to graduate less
than one and one-half students.
Here is a list of the professors, in
structors and officers that it takes to
graduate them, together with their sal
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The Public Service In China.

Ex-Secretary John w. Foster, who
was the confidential adviser Of the en-
peror of China in the peace negotiations
with Japan, contributes paper ON
"The Viceroy Ii Hung Chang" to The
Century. Mr.. Foster says Of tho vice
roy:
He does not regard the competitive
educational system Of admission to the
public service as perfect method. and
more than once he has recommended to
his emperor material notifications III
the existing system. But it must be
confessed that it has stood the test OF
centuries with much benefit to China,
and its practical operation has demon
strated that IL possesses two merits OF
inestimable value to any nation. First,
1t brings all the offices Of tho empire
within the reach Of the lowest subject,
and, secondly, 1t diminishes the incen-
tives to and opportunities OF corruption
and fayoritism In securing entrance
into official life. But i'll China the com
petitiye examination ends with the adj
mission. Beyond that step promotion
must come though other methods. LII
Hung Chang secured the right OF ad-
mission to Office through his assiduous
application to study, and every succeed
ing step Ia his upward career has been
attained by his own genius and capacity
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VOLTS DO NOT HARM PEOPLE.
1t Is the Amperage That Does the Deadly
Damage,


Damage.
Newspaper reporters. copy readers
and head writers are in need of pri-
mary education in electricity. Every
now and again the newspapers record
the death of somebody from the effect
Of o given number of volts, or tell Of
another's wonderful survival after re-
ceiving tho shock Of many thousand
volts Strange enough; in the news
paper accounts nobody Is ever killed,
nor has remarkable escape from am
peres of electricity been chronicled,
nor is the damage often done by cur
rent, nor has anybody ever seen
"watts" figure in the matter. The num-
Der Of volts in current of electricity
is its speed or pressure. The number OF
amperes is its volume. Volts with
out amperes would be speed without
substance.
A light molecule moving with u
speed or voltage Of 1856. 900 miles per
second strikes the eye without injury,
but If the moleculo had o weight or
ampeIage of ono two-thousandth part
of "A grain 1t would have tho same effect
as an ounce ball moving 900 feet per
second Any number Of "amperes" with
out voltage would be dead engine in
roundhouse.
An article in New York paper was
headed, mot Killed by 1000 Volts. y
1t told Of boy who had become locally
famous because "2. 900 volts Of electric
ity had passed through Joe's body with
out killing him." Without the am
perage Of the current being known the
statement means nothing. Another story
of escape from electricity was headed,
"Shocked by 1850 Volts. "
The electrical current used In the Ed
ison Horoscope has minute fraction
of an ampere. but an almost incalcula-
Bile voltage Of perhaps above 100. 900.
To receive these 100, 900 volts in the
body would feel like the prick Of u
needle
At the state penitentiary tho victims
Of the law are given about 1880 volts
Of electricity, but 1t is the electrical en-
ergy, as expressed In watts, that kills
Tho amperes multiplied by the volts
give the energy Of the current, or watts.
He who would caress "live wire"
need care nothing for the volts or am
peres 1t may have concealed about its
person, but let him carefully calculate
its watts before he grabs hold. New
York Mail and Express.
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POSTAGE ON WEDDING CAKE.
Miscarriage of an Attempt to Economixe
Prevents q Marriage.

''Do tell me all about Nell's we'd
ding" said the girl In tho crash suit
Ibid it all go off wellf And howl
''Oh, boantifullyi'' cried the girl in
the white frock. my dress was perfect
ly lovely, my gloves were an ideal fit,
and my hair kept Its curl as we'll as II
I was only attending an old maids tea
party
chow NIGEL But tell me about Nell.
Was she''--
''She was horrid. Actually wanted
me to help her dress for the oeremonyi
As if hadn't my bridesmaids toilet
TO think Of. / am afraid that dear Nell
Is too selfish to make o really good
wife. -
''Then she will naturally have an
upselfish husband, dear. I"
Perhaps So On, It was delightful
to walk mp the aisle feeling that every
eye was fixed on
eyes, I know. But tell me, how did
Nell get through the ceremony"
at renliy DON'T know. My mind WINS
full of the one awful thought that
was standing with my back to all those
people, while there was no telling but
that my gown was crumpled after that
long drive to the church.
"Oh. probably 1t was all right. Was
Nell's gown
And wasn't it too bad that Harold
was out of town and unable to see me
in my lovely new dressp
"oh, well, you can send him a photo
graph"
''Not unless he apologies. "
"For what, going away? But then,
even an engaged man must attend to
business.
lit wasn't only that. 1t was his sub
sequent behavior. You sec, wanted
him to share some Of the festivities, SO
/ sent him box of wedding cake. You
should have seen the letter got in re-
turn.
but perhaps it disagreed with him. !"
at wasn't that You know. /
thought it would be nice to write him q
sweet little note and slip it in the bot
tom Of the cake box, so that when he
had eaten it all he would have q pleas
ant surprise. p"
Good gracious, do you mean to say
that you gave the box away and never
knew
"No, l don't. The-well, the truth
is that those horrid, mean postoffice
employees actually opened theNbox and
found the motel Oh, how ! doNdespise
such prying inquisitivenessl Not salts
fed with that they
Goodness. can-oan they send you
to Jail for violating the postal LAVISH
mo, they can't But they actually
made Harold pay letter postage on the
box before they would give it to him.
Four square inches of wedding cake cost
him just $1.5O, and now he--he says
that he is afraid that l am n-not eco
nomical enough to make g-good wife
for poor mani After l had put the
note in the box to save extra postage
tool'-Chicago Times Herald.
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JOHN DOE AND RICHARD ROE
Two Prominent Legal Names and Their
Origin In England.

Two Prominent Legal Names and Their
Origin In England.
The houses of York and Lancaster
began and ended with strife within a
decade, Napoleon and Wellington pur
sued mutual carnage for only few
brief years. but two belligerents. IA
NOUS in legal circles, seem to have been
predestined for eternal combat and dis
sensions.
They are John Doe and Richard Roe
Twin brothers, creatures of the crea-
tive British legal mind, these two men
of mystery have puzzled the astute
minds of judges and lawyers and have
caused juries to hang in the jury room
while attempting to pour oil ON the
troubled waters of litigation.
Under the reign of Edward Ill, when
the patient and plodding Saxon was
picking his way out of feudal gloom,
new form of legal procedure was enact
ed by parliament for his relief
John Bulls love of dominion over
land is only equaled by his desire to
secure dominion over the high seas, and
in the past, as it is now true Of the
present, whenever he got q hold,
leasehold, oopyhold of any kind upon
spot of earth, great or small, he
would cling to it as though the spot
was hallowed heirloom. To repossess
the Englishman of his real estate
wrongfully withheld from him writ
of ejectment was invented.
Hitherto his means of redress lay
through a writ of right or writ of en-
try-writs wrapped in a cobweb of maze
and technicalities. This writ of eject
ment was the mother of John Doe and
Richard Roe These sons, twin boys,
were to her as Punch and Judy are to
wandering mountebanks, and under the
name of one she gathered all the COM
plants of the plaintiff and under the
name of the other all the defenses of the
defendant, and thus two armies meet
in legal form, while hoodwinked Justice,
in wig and gown, shakes the dicebox.
Slowly the power of monarchy wan
ed and the power of tho people grew in
strength in old England. The maternal
colonies left the maternal roof and set
up housekeeping, but both in England
and America these two brothers. John
Doe and Richard Roe keep up the fam
lily quarrel with fratrioidal intent ~
Atlanta Constitution.
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BuIler's Obstinacy.

An English journal tells a story to
illustrate the obstinacy of Sir Redvers
Butler. During the last Nile campaign,
when descending through one of the
cataracts ON board river steamer. he
got into discussion with Lord Charles
Beresford as to the proper channel that
should be taken. Each obstinately de-
Tended his own course, but in the end
that which Butler insisted upon was
adopted, and the steamer got through
without accident "You see was
rightl' cried Sir Redvers. Mime was
the proper channel. tThat was mine.
too" ooolly replied Lord Charles. II
only recommended the other because l
knew you would go against whatever
I said -
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cATcHlNeiCopuN MAINE.


In, thelherringi fishery everything Is
done with the seine. Insfshing for cod,
halibut and hake hand lines arc used to
q ,limiteds extent. but most Of ,the cap
turessare. made by. travis. All of the
craft are schooner rugged, and but few
Of them carry stopmasts. This gives
thems Oh sloyeniy appearance aloft. .but
they do away with the spar, because, the
craft rolls less in sea when .at4anchor.
There IRE no fine lines about 1.-THE hulls.
The sobject is room, and stabiAtys and
while they are goodsseaboats they are
not fast sailers. The owners Of the craft
find travis. small boats, salt sand pro-
visions, and two,tripsla year is the av-
erage for the craft which salts her fish
On board.
Out.of the feet few take ice and re-
turna to- market with. fresh fish every
tWo,or three. weeks, but tthe majority
catch and salt down. The crew go on
shares. When the craft returns, the
owners figure up the expense Of the
outfits and add to it half the value of
the catch. What is left is divided pro
ratatamong the crew. If the catch has
been good, each one Of the 10 or IS
men lhas made about $40 per month,
but it is quite as likely that he won't
have made dollar day, though he has
had,freesboard valh the time, and good
boardsat.that. Fishing on the banks at
anyttime.of the year is hard and dis
agreeable work.
Goldfish are very erratic in their
movements. A schooner may have fish
aroundrher for 80 days, sone day. being
Us good us another, or she may sail and
drift for three or four days without
getting bite. II luck ia with her,
down goes the anchor, and the trawlers
begin to work. A traw1. may be de-
scribed as rope many hundred feet
long, to which at intervals Of 88 inches
flshhooks are attached by lines about
two feet long. There are 5000 hooks to
the average trawl, which is attended by
two men. Each man has 900 hooks to
bait and care for. The rope is weighted
to sink within n few feet of the bottom
and is then buoyed. The trawl is gem
orally set late In the afternoon and
overhauled the next morning.
III luck is with the fishermen, 500 cod
may be taken from trawl. They are
voracious fish, and in seizing the bait
firmly hook themselves. 1t often hap
pens that the 8, 900 hooks may be over
hauled without securing more than 90
fish, but again the catch may be 1880.
The boats of the trawlers look some
thing like ordinary river skiffs, but
are very buoyant and easily handled. A
schooner with 10 men aboard puts out
A travis and men. The rest are
left to work the craft and attend to the
fish as they come in. Lewiston journal.
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If you are so unfortunate as to be COM
PEELED to wear eyeglasses or spectacles,
see that they fit not only as regards the
glasses, but tho frames. There is moth
ing uglier than the marks of i'll fitting
glasses ON either side of the nose. An
optician who understands his business
measures the bridge of the nose, the dis
lance Of the eyes from it and tho width
of the temples, and bends or fits the
glasses accordingly. Apart from tho
discomfort and Disagreement Of badly
fitting frames, it is hardly possible that
the glasses which they hold are right.
They are almost certain to be out Of
focus. In choosing glasses, although the
oculist or optician Is bound to provide
you with what is right, much depends
upon yourself, for he cannot see with
your eyes. The great mistake of those
not accustomed to lenses is to get them
too strong. 1t is such q pleasure for the
moment to see things clearly that we
exclaim ooh, yes, that's just right"
whereas the proper glass would be one
of considerably less power. Brooklyn
Eagle
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That Sinking Feeling.

A good story is being told ON one of
Louisville's most prominent homeo-
pathic physicians Several days ago a
young woman called at his Office. and
after discoursing ON all the topics Of In
terest of the day settled down to tell
him her ailments. Among other things
she said that she was greatly annoyed
with sinking feeling. Tho physician
prepared little bottle Of pills and gave
them to her. with minute directions as
to how they should be- taken. The wom-
an again began to talk, and after many
vain efforts TO get her out she started
for the door. She had just opened it
when she turned and said, "Oh, doctor,
what shall do if these pills do not cure
meP" Take tho cork he retorted.
"They tell me that's good for sinking
feeling" And he called the next patient
into his private Office. Louisville Post.
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During last autumn q pitman was
asked by friend who was very bow
legged to purchase, when next 81 the
toon," pair of stockings for him. On
tho following pay Saturday the pitman
entered the shop of we'll known
hosier to make the purchase.
The shopman was most obliging. but
having shown tho intending purchaser
nearly every pair in stock he at last
thought it time TO ask Of tho man a
more minute description of what was
required.
He said he had shown nearly oil they
had, and he was sure their shop was
second to none. and as they had hither-
to given satisfaction to all classes it
was strange that they could not now
suit customer. The pitman laconically
replied. "What want is pair o. bow
legged yins. STRAND Magazine.
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TORTURED BY THE TONGUE.
Some Men Who Read This VIII Sym
pathize With Poor Junius.

Some Men Who Read This VIII Sym
pathize With Poor Junius.
"H'mr' murmured Mr. Junius from
his paper. "a man falls dead while
smoking his pipe, and
"Therei" cried Mrs Junius. raising
her needle and voice with the same ges-
ture. "Isn that what I've always said?
And yet you will go on, day after day,
with those horrid old cigars and me
shaving my life away doing up lace cur
tains that mother gave us out of the
very money she saved up with her own
hands keeping hens, and hard enough,
too, can tell you, with eggs only a
cent each the very moment hens began
laying rs they ought to, and I'd like to
know where you think you'll land,
Julius Junius, If you keep on smoking
your life away? Oh, but it is only q
step-and for PHYS sake l wish you'd
fix that one to the front door before
some caller trips over it and breaks the
knob with her homeland you know
I've begged you on my Bonded knees to
leave off before it's too late and not die
suddenly, like this man you're reading
about, with your life insurance run out,
and bringing everlasting disgrace on
your wife's family. But what a provok-
ing creature you are, Julius Junius, to
sit there grinning and refusing to say o
word, and you know want to hear the
rest of the particulars just as well as
you do"
AS his wife stopped to coal up Mr..
Junius laid down the paper.
1.-THE man was 90 years DID," he said
softly. Somebody put a cartridge in
his pipe for joke, and it went off and
shot him. "
And when Mr.. Junius came in from
the evening club his wife was still flow
ing on unbrokenly. -Tacks.
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SLOWING AWAY.
A Foolhardy and Dangerous Method Of
Getting an Ocean Voyage.

Getting an Ocean Voyage.
In spite of the fact that the punish
ment usually melted out to those who
try TO stes. q free passage on q ship Is
several weeks hard labor, with the OPP
ton of fine, stowaways are even more
common today than they were 90 or 60
years ago.
Big passenger steamers, with their
hundreds of passengers and their scores
of stewards, sailors and stokers, afford
innumerable opportunities for slowing
away.
Three years ago stowaway was dis
covered aboard one of the Allan Liners
running between Liverpool and Mont
real. He was shabbily dressed, but be,
ing big, sturdy looking fellow he was
put to work about the ship. When the
ship anchored below Montreal, waiting
fer daylight before entering the harbor,
he. it is presumed, slipped quietly over
board and swan ashoare. In any case,
when the boat touched at Montreal and
was overrun by detectives looking for a
notorious jewel robber, 1t was Inn
mediately suspected that the stowaway
was the robber and that he had escaped,
taking the jewels with him. He was
captured some months afterward and
confessed that when he swan ashore he
had more than 81 0. 900 worth of jewels
ON his person.
The fayorite hiding places Of stow
Always are the coal bunkers and the mar
row passages left when the vessels are
loaded with bricks, tiles, iron pipes or
other similar cargo. These places are
extremely dangerous, and many cases
are recorded where the shifting of the
cargo has resulted in the death of some
unfortunate wretch In hiding.
During the passage Of cargo boat to
this country from England the sailors
were startled the third day out by a
curious scratching, which was immo-
diately attributed to supernatural causes
The scratching continued for three
days and then grew quiet and ceased.
When the matches were lifted at the end
of the voyage, the emaciated body of a
man was found lying on some bags Of
cement. The poor starving fellow had
struggled frantically to get out of the
hold.
AS for our American liners, it Is fol
" to try slowing away in any OF them.
The United States will not receive pau
per immigrants, and captains are for.
hidden to land stowaways in this coun
try under a penalty of 81. 500. A 'fret
passenger ON one Of these ships Ii
promptly clapped in irons and KEEP
there until the ship returns to Liver
pool, when no is brought before tn,
authorities. Cincinnati Enquirer.
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AUF WIEDERSEHEN.

Say not "Goodby." The sounds have all re-
greet.
cannot loose your hand with such word.
Our ways part here, and yet, o love, and yet
cannot leave you till my soul has heard
The charm to bring me to your side again,
The dear "Auf wiedersehen."
Say not "Adieu." The word has hidden pain
Within its foreign accents sweet and clear
That haunts my heart with sad and hopeless
strain
And pleads with duty Just 20 linger here.
Smile courage In my eyes, o Love, and then
Whisper "Auf wiedersehen."
Say not Farewell" If thou would st have 1t
SO,
The word, like a wan hand waves us apart
cannot leave. mein liebling-win not go
Until you whisper, lying on my heart
Tho golden bridge between now and then,
The sweet "Auf wiedersehen.
Grace fie-Boylan in American Jewess
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A mans own good breeding is the
best security against other peoples i'll
manners. 1t carries along with it a
dignity that is respected by the most
petulant Ill breeding invites and au-
thorizes the familiarity of the most tim
Id. No man over said pert thing to
the Duke of Marlborough. No man ever
said civil ono to Sir Robert Walpole.
chesterfield.
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AGREAT BOOK o rvpsS-t AWAY,

Few books printed in the English lam
guage have reached SO great sale as
has DR.. Pierce's Common Sense Medical
Adviser. 1t is book of 1908 large pages
doctor book. 1t is written simply and con-
cisely, and is indexed so that reference to
1t is made easily and quickly. Over $4,000
copies have been sold at the regular price
of ST. So The profits on this enormous sale
enable the publishers to distribute soc, 900
copies absolutely FREE; A copy bound p lin in
FREE to any one who will send II one-cent
stamps to cover cost of mailing only
Address, WORLDS DISPENSARY MED.
IcAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N. Y,