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The herald., 1896-03-01

Civ ~zlm ten of her precious millions
she would probably do it, no matter
how acutely it would wiring her heart
strings. In her confidential moments
she has told her few friends what
clever man her boy Eddie is.
The other day Mrs. Green appeared
in New York court room with new
feather in her bonnet. black silk dress
and plush dolman. The average woman
would rather have died outright than
wear any Of these clothes, because they
we're all about ten years behind the
fashion. They were new. however, and
people who we're acquainted with Mrs.
Green marveled at her extravaganza.
Perhaps a reason for it existed in
Texas. Eddie Green is president of the
Texas Midland railroad, owned mainly
by Mrs. Green. He makes his head
quarters in Dallas, and has lately been
taking an active interest in politics.
He has become power in the Repub-
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YE MISSION BELLS
lSANTA BARBARAl

SANTA BARBARA)
Ye mission bells, love to hear you Ginning,
Though something sad is sounding in your
Like spirit voices from the past you're calling,
Whilst trying to clear the rust from out your
throau
Cling, clang, cling, you sadly cry,
While swinging to and fro;
Clang, cling, clang, you speak to me
OF days long, long ago.
Visions strange before my mind are thronging;
see the altar where the padre stands,
With eyes upturned. the holy mass repeating.
The crucifx aloft within his hands.
Cling clang. cling, your song you sing
From alcoves high in air:
Clang, cling, clang, now resting are
The hands that placed you there.
Dusky forms upon the ground are kneeling.
While from the choir strong chanting voices
ring;
In praise to God a solemn hymn they sing.
Cling, clang, cling in monotones
You umurmur as in pain;
Cl4ng. cling, clang, you mourn the past
That never comes again.
"pray for us, oh, holy Virgin Mother"
The jealous converts reverently say,
"And all ye angels bright and saints i'll heaven.
We ask your prayers to guide US OH our
way"
Cling, clang cling, how great joy
To ca IL to worship then!
Clang, cling, clang. to move the souls
OF simple, holy men
Drowsy incense through the chapel's floating.
AS slowly to and fro the censers swung.
And dropping forms their breasts are gently
beating -
Cling. clang. cling, your echoes rang
Within each open heart,
Clang. cling, clang, what reverencs
Your tones could then impart!
"pominus vobiscum,' and the answer
"Et cum spiritu tuo,' soft hear,
From fervent lips, in oeep resounding murmur.
And God and Heaven unto them seem more
near!
Cling, clang, cling, the years have stilled
Tho beating of those hearts;
Clang, cling, clang. in silence gone
thus all in life departs!
Yet here is still the mission where they wor
Within its walls few pale monks reside;
Unmindful of the world in meditation.
Like brooding ghosts from out the past they
glide.
Cling, clanc, cling; prayer or mass
They deem the greatest good;
Clang, cling. clang; they count their beads
And love their solitude
The quaint adobe dwellings are in ruins;
Time leaned too heavily on them aud they
fell;
| Vet here and there a few remains are cher.
ished
The history of the past to mutely tell.
Cling, clang, cling, you all belong
Unto bygone day;
monks aud bells, and sturdy walls,
| Now Fastening to decay.
| Oh, mission bells, love to hear you tolling.
| Though something sad is sounding in your
notes.
Like spirit voices from the past you're calling,
| Whilst trying to clear the rust from out your
throats! r. MAURICE MCMAHON.
| Ventura, Cal, February 70, 1896.
The herald., 1896-03-01

more, W. F. Wharton and Stanford
White.
1t can be readily seen from this that
the social standing of the cats cannot
be questioned. They have money and
society behind them and the rest of the
world is bound to follow in the wake of
these potent influences. Last years
show was success, and this years
pramises to be more successful.
The cat is not altogether without
governmental recognition either. 1t is
not generally known that there are be-
tween ten and eleven hundred felines
on the pay roll of Uncle Sam. They do
not get their pay in the hard coin of
the realm like other government off,
cials, but there is an appropriation
made annually for their particular ben
eft and they earn every cent of it.
This numerous army OF cats is. en-
ployed in the large postoffices of the
country to protect the mails from visit
alton by rats and mice. It takes money
to feed these animals properly; hence
the appropriation.
The back yard variety of feline may
not amount to much in the popular
estimation and it will play no part III
the coming show. The plebeian feline
would be out of place in the society Of
aristocratic 1homases and Tabithas,
the cats who are given warm
bath every morning by a dainty
French maid and who sleep
in beribboned wicker baskets on pill
lows Of silk and down. These cats
have never known the excitement of
lodging brick by scrambling down
the safe side of fence and have never
been mixed up in nocturnal fight.
The cost Of some of these cats would
pay off the mortgage on an average
farm. Mrs. Bolton Hall, the daughter
in-lsw of the Rev. Dr. John Hall, has q
black Angora cat called Sigfried. This
is famous cat, and If any one offered
The herald., 1896-03-01
GOLD STATISTICS

Mulhalls tables give the total amount
of gold in the world in 1890 as 1885,
100000 coined and $2,l61, 100000 un-
coined. Thus it is estimated by expert
engineers that there is enough gold in
the Transvaal alone, which could be
worked profitably, to equal the guam
tity Of coined gold in the year 1890.
The gold region of the United States,
30 far as discovered, is less in area
than the South African district, but
the ores on the average are much rich
er, and some enthusiastic predict that
in time the yield of Colorado alone
will equal that of South Africa.
In the decade from 1910 to 1850 the
The herald., 1896-03-01
FeIines of Social and Financial
Standing on View
THE PROGRESS OF THE CAT
The Sacred Animal Of the Ancient
Egyptians
Has Been Raised to Position OF Dignity and
Prominence by the Smart Folks
Of Gotham

New YORK, Feb. 21.-Ordinarily cats
are treated with contempt. Most peo-
pie abuse them, few tolerate them and
very few admire them. But cats are
coming into prominence. Bricks and
other hard things may be SHE'D at
them, secret kicks may greet them for
good part Of the year, but for few
days, beginning March next they will
be lauded and petted and admired.
The cat world will be placed on pc
destal and every one will be invited to
bow down to them. And tens of thou
sands will do 1t.
All this means that the annual cat
show is near at hand. 1t has become
settled institution in metropolitan life
as it has been in London for many
years. It is not as popular as the horse
show, or as pleasing as the dog show,
but the public is a strange animal and
no one can tell to what heights of pop
ularity the humble cat may climb in
the future.
Three hundred of the finest cats in
the land will be exhibited in the Mad
ison Square Garden and about seventy
five of them will capture prizes. This
means more than the average person
would think. There are no accurate
statistics at hand regarding the cat
population of the country, but no one
doubts that it Is enormous. If there
we're only one cat to every ten persons
il would mean 100000 felines, and
when the three hundred best cats are
gathered into one bunch the glory of
it all can be understood.
The show is not frivolous in any way.
1t is marked with dignity and dec
Drum suitable to the reception of
prime minister. The cats have list
of patronesses which would grace a
ball at the White House. This list is
formidably headed ty Mrs. John Jacob
Astor and includes such familiar names
as Mrs. August Belmont, Mrs. Fred
erick Gebhard, Mrs. Richard Irwin,
Mrs. Prescott Lawrence, Mrs. w. Sc.
| ward Webb, Mrs. Stanford White, Mrs.
Albert Stevens, Mrs. Frank X. Sturgis
and Mira. L. X. Wilmerding.
The cats have an advisory committee
also, which in makeup is above re-
proach. In fact, it could handle gov
ernment bond issue ten times as big as
the recent one, without trouble. The
committee includes such financial and
social giants as Frederic Bronson. F. 0.
De Luze, J. G.. X. Duer, H. H. Hollister,
Thomas Hitchcock, Jr., Colonel Law
renee Kip, Adolph Ladenburg, Charles
Lanier, D. 0. Mills, ]. Pierpont Morgan,
A. Newbold Morris, Hermann Oelrichs,
F. K. Sturgis, George Peabody Wet
The herald., 1896-03-01
HITY GREEN IN POLITICS
The Rich Woman's Son Has
Gubernatorial Aspirations
A SHREWD YOUNG MAN
Eddie Has Pull With His Eccentric
Mamma
Hopes to Get the q. o. p. Nomination In Texas.
A SHREWD YOUNG MAN
Hopes to Get the @. o. p. Nomination In Texas.
Will Inherit the Millions Of His
nother

Great fame is in store for Hetty
Green. She is not altogether unfa-
miliar to the public eye, as it is, bs-
cause of her weakness for millions,
lawsuits and shabby clothes.
Hetty Green has only one other
weakness, and this weakness makes her
kin to the rest of womanhood. Her
only son is the weakness last men,
toned. She has husband and daugh-
ter, but they do not penetrate the
armored covering of her affections.
She tolerates them, and that is all. But
with her son Eddie that is different
matter. If he asked the old lady to
The herald., 1896-03-01
r oS ANGELES SAVINGS BANK.
230 n. Mai II 81.

4. Platter, Pres H. W. IIeIlHan " Pres
w. N. Caswell, Cashier.
rectors-I. w. Helman, ]. f.. Platter. H. w.
Aellman, l. W. Helmau, jr, W. N. Casweli.
Interest paid on deposits Money to loan on drst'
class real estate.
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lican party of the Lone Star state, and
carries the vote of Kaufman county in
his vest pocket. The straight Republi-
can vote does not amount to much in
Eddie Green's district, but in these
days of unholy alliances with the Pop
ulists its value is not as uncertain as
it used to be.
At the recent Republican convention
of the Sixth Texas congressional dis
trict, held in Kaufman for the purpose
of selecting delegates to the national
convention in st. Louis, there was a
clash between two men. One of them
was young Green and the other was
J. M. Mccormick Of Dallas. II ended
in Green and his friends boiling the
convention, because their delegates
from contested counties were not al
lowed to participate in the primary
organization. Two delegations from
this district will therefore go to st.
Louis. One will be headed by young
Green. and is pledged to support the
nomination of Speaker Reed. The
other will be headed by Mccormick,
and is pledged to support Mckinley.
It was pleasant news to Mrs. Green
The herald., 1896-03-01

he cats, short-haired she cats, short
haired gelded cats, long-haired he cats,
long-haired she cats, long-haired gelded
cats, and are subdivided into forty.t two
classes, each class specifying the vari-
GUS colors and markings by which cats
are generally known.
The prizes offered are chiefly re.
markable for their oddity. They in
clude silver spoons suitably engraved,
silver bonbon boxes, silver bowls, sill
yer and gold medals and silver collars.
From this it would seem that the aris-
tocratic cat was in the habit of eating
with spoon and Of gorging himself
with costly bonbons.
The cats will not be exhibited in the
large amphitheater of the garden, as
they wuld be too lonely in such large
space. One of the smaller rooms will
be used. that is generally utilized for
restaurant purposes. and the stall Of
each cat will be embellished with stands
of growing palms and flowers.
Stuffed tabbies and toms of all kinds
will also be exhibited, but not with the
| idea of showing that there is an end
The herald., 1896-03-01
Dainty Little Bits

China tea bells are very pretty.
Daintily kept hands betoken the lady.
Gus.
Lamp shades of opalescent shells are
new.
Many turnouts are seen in the park these
fine afternoons.
Terrapin is frequently served in place of
the regulation fish course.
The smart summer girl will have white
broadcloth tailor costume.
The herald., 1896-03-01

even to the niue proverbis. lives of
cat. Cat paintings by famous artists
will be on view and everything possi-
BILE displayed of pussy flavor.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23
Doing Ones Best.

That is all you can demand of people
and all one can insist upon from
ones self-to do ones best in every
sphere and situation. In the shop or
factory, at home or at school, in the
pulpit or ON the bench, the inexorable
law is the law of doing ones best.
AS to what is the best, that
Is left to the individual, and il is not
our business to set down canon or
standard as to our neighbours conduct.
Let us sweep the snow from our own side
walk first; let us do the nearest duty
to be done; let us breathe into our
work all our manhood or womanhood.
ali our earnestness and determination.
Then we can peep little at our neigh
Dor and see how he is getting along
and whether the result is worthy or
nworthy.-Detroit Free Press.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23
THE BLOUSE WAIST.
In Spite of Determined Opposition 1t Is
Popular as Ever.


Although writer's, importers and
modistes have condemned the blouse
waist, it continues to thrive and ap-
parently gain by its condemnation. 1t
certainly has not disappeared, for az
recent high class dress exhibits it was
one of the decided features of the ele-
CANT and wonderful display. Fitted
and draped blouses in silk, satin, chif-
fon, lace, Indian muslin, velvet and
brocade We're ,ariously shown. The
blouse, once chiefly recommended for
its economy, is now costly confection.
Once it was merely and strictly used
for neglige costumes, now it appears at
the most fashionable evening functions,
worn by the most fastidious, and made
of the most expensive textiles; and
granted that it's vogue in this domain
will be short and that the blouse has
really become too general to be elected
for by the very particular ones of So
cety, still it's trimness, usefulness,
freshness and adaptability will prevent
it from going out of vogue, or at least
out of very general use. Ultrafashion-
able women may possibly abandon it
after this summer, but for cool, neat
wear under the jacket of a travelling
costume, for tennis, boating, golfing,
cycling and indeed all simple uses,
what can take its place?-N. Y. Post.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23
DON'T sHooT!"

familias came in, though all the family
had all retired, locked the door and care
fully put on the burglar alarm.
At length the young man found he
must go, but, alas! he hadn't found the
necessary courage to propose. The
young lady accompanied him to the
hall. Standing with his back TO the
outer door he put the question and. to
his unutterable joy, she whispered
consent. Stretching out his arms to
clasp her to his heart he accidentally
struck the burglar alarm, and it went
off seemingly with hammer and tongs.
Immediately the father appeared at the
head of the stairs, candle in one hand,
a revolver in the other hand, which he
pointed directly at the young mans
head. The little general said, in tell
ing the story: 81 thought, had come
through the civil war alive to be shot
in a hallway at midnight as burglar?
My knees smote together, but l re-
covered myself enough to say: Don't
shoot, it is T." His father-to-be recog-
nized his voice and lowered the revolver.
Years after they had many a hearty
laugh over the midnight tableau.-N.
Y. Telegram.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23
Orange Cream Sponge Cake.

Mix by sitting three teaspoonfuls of
baking powder with 1Hs cups of flour.
In separate dish beat three eggs until
light; add 1Ha cups ot white sugar, one
half cup of water, and grated rind of
half an orange. For the cream use one
half pint of milk, one egg, one teaspoon
full of corn starch, one tablespoonful of
flour, and beat other ingredients to-
gether. Add the milk and boil till
thick. Flavor with grated rind of re-
manning half of orange; spread be-
tween layers
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23
WOMAN AND HOME.
TO COOK CORNMEAL.
When Properly Prepared 1t Is n Healthy
Article of Food.

When Properly Prepared 1t Is Healthy
Article of Food.
Women have always been more or
less willing to show their skill in MAX
ing cake and fancy desserts, but it is
only recently that they have appreci-
nted the value of good cookery. The
simple, everyday things are usually
considered of the least Importance, and
entirely neglected. Even the cook
books give little, and some no informa-
ton, about the things everybody should
know. Among these Is cornmeal. When
1t is properly prepared il is healthy
article of food. But as it is often cooked
1t is indigestible and unfit for even n
strong stomach. The usual way of
making cornmeal mush, for instance
is to stir the meal, without measuring
it, into boiling water until it is thick,
and when it has cooked five or ten min
utes it is done. BY this process it is
hard and raw, and wholly unfit to eat,
1t is surprising how much it is improved
by little extra cooking, and it can be
made delicacy with very little trouble.
Take one quart of water, add one
teaspoon of salt. When it boils stir III
y
1t boil for ten minutes, then set it back
on the stove, where it will cook slowly
and not burn, for one hour, stirring
occasionally. Pour into a mold and
let stand over night. In the morning
It will be firm enough to slice well, and
when it is dipped in grated bread
crumbs and quickly fried it will be n
pleasant surprise to those who have
been accustomed to eating it the old
fashioned way.
Corn-bread, or Johnny cake" as it
Is often called, is greatly improved by
the following directions:
Put the milk that the recipe calls for
on the stove, and when it is hot stir IN
the cornmeal and let it cook for ten or
IS minutes. An easy way to prevent it
from burning is to set the dish on ar
asbestos pad. This extra cooking re-
moves the raw taste of the meal, and
greatly improves the flavor of the
bread, besides making it entirely di-
| gestible.-Chicago Tribune.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23

prosperous. The boat of the other was
followed by an evil spirit, and though
the priest was called it still clung there.
Early and late it was always there. One
prospered and the other did not. Envy
is the root of all human evil nearly. The
one who prospered was forbearing; the
other had an evil tongue; he hated his
neighbor. For years this grew; they
became separated and detested each
other. The prosperous fisherman had
u daughter and she was such hand
some girl that the envious one hated her
for her beauty. He looked after her so
maliciously one day that she became
frightened and fell upon the hard
stones.
Jettatura; the evil eyel' cried the
neighbors.
"But at that moment boy ran up
and lifted the little girl to her feet; it
was the son of the envious one. The
evil eyes blazed and the envious one
boxed and cuffed the boy. The girl
looked back with pity, but he took his
beating bravely. Another time TO show
his power and hatred he looked at the
child when she was carrying pitcher
of goats milk The pitcher dropped
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23
BREAKFAST SAVED THE UNION.
Lees Hungry Soldiers Stopped to Eat and
His Plans Were Thwarted.


Charging is the last resort of brave
but baftled commanders" said local
critic of military affairs, land it almost
always results disastrously."
Thirty-one years ago the affairs of
the confederate army of northern Vir-
ginia were desperate enough to warrant
it's brave commander, Gen. Robert E.
Lee, to resort to charging.
So it came to pass on the morning of
the 25th day of March, 1865, he made
break through the union lines and
opened the way to City Point, which,
if he could have reached and held, would
have prolonged the civil war for at
least another year.
The preliminaries were we'll ar
ranged. First of all 100 men appeared
in front of our picket line and an
nounced themselves as North Carolina
deserters. They were all armed, but the
officer in charge of our pickets well
coined them and told them to bring in
their guns, as Gen. Grant had recently
issued an order commanding his quar-
termasters to pay for all guns brought
in from the rebel ranks.
So this 100 of armed men were gra-
ciously invited to march in behind our
pckets. When once there they turned
suddenly upon the astonished union
troops and requested them to surrender
in words too impolite to print. And the
picket had no choice but to obey.
In the rear of the picket line stood
Forts Haskell and Stedman, garrisoned
by the Fourteenth New York artillery,
several of whom belonged in Utica. In
tine early dawn of that mild March
morning the sleeping members of the
Fourteenth were awakened by the
sharp "Yi! Vii" of the southern troops,
who pounced in upon them 10000 strong
or more.
They were under the command of
Gen. William Malone, of Virginia.
After capturing the Fourteenth they
were expected to move forward to City
Point.
But here an obstacle arose that
neither Malone nor Gen. Lee had fore
seen. That obstacle was our supplies
of food. 1t was utterly impossible to
get the confederates, who were actually
starving, beyond our soft bread and
coffee, our fresh beef and salt pork.
The whole body paused and went to
eating, drinking and making merry.
without regard to the conclusion OF
that well-known saying: "For to-mor-
row ye die"
1t was all in vain that Gen. Malone
threatened and swore and coaXed his
men. They simply would not stir till
they had satisfied their appetites.
This pause was the salvation of the
union army. 1t enabled not oily the
majority of the Fourteenth to cape
from their captors, but the other -.ivis-
ions of the Ninth corps to come to their
relief, so that when the rebels were
ready to advance they found their way
blocked, and they We're compelled to re-
tire from the scene of their victory and
their breakfast table back to ! tiers
burg, badly beaten, and carrying moth
ing with them but full stomachs.
In u little more than week from that
day Lee evacuated Richmond and Pc
tersburg. and in less than another week
| he surrendered.-Utica Observer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1896-05-23

SILK CASE AND SCISSORS CuATELAIN.
and one which will prove it's usefulness
in the testing.
Prepare four pieces of cardboard, 2h
by sh inches, cover two with fine white
linen and two with buttercup yellow
satin. On one linen paint spray OF
buttercups and grasses and add the
suggestive lines in dainty lettering.
Leave the other linen plain. Take bands
of narrow yellow satin ribbon about
one-half inch wide and, laying the plain
linen back on the table with the uE-
finished side up, paste the ribbons toits
edge, leaving about three inches extend
ing to the left side; in like manner paste
to the inner side of one of the satin.
covered pieces other ribbons so slanted
as to cross each other, extending to the
right side.
Now lay the reverse pieces on each,
turning under the ribbons at the edges
pasting the parts together, and when
complete you will find you have a set
of hinges which will work either way
like a swinging door, and the case will
open from either side. In other words,
the ribbons should be attached to each
cover only at the places in the illustra.
tion indicated by the cross (X).
In one side slip piece of fine, white
flannel, pinled at the edges, for needles,
and under the crossed ribbons on the
other put one of the vari-colored silk OF
thread glove-menders so much in vogue.
If neatly executed this will make an
extremely dainty gift, and the little pc.
culiarity about the hinges will puzzei
the uninitiated and enhance the value
of the trifle considera5ly.-C Chicago Rec
ord