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The herald., 1896-12-02

the science of money and the philosophy
of political economy. The average far
;ne- or wage-earner knows as much
about what is best for the country as
spectators in the product of his LABOR
does. The question Of determining what
is best for the people is altogether
political one, and the producers of mer-
chantable articles should and will have
as much voice in shaping the monetary
and tariff policy of the country as those
whose business it is to stand in the mar
ket place and sell the products OF In
dustry. The elimination of the great
questions of finance and tariff from
politics would deprive the people of the
only defense they have against the ag-
gressiveness of capital aggregations.
The action of the boards of trade at In
diarapolis should be notice to the peo-
pie that little more vigilance is needed
on their part.
The herald., 1896-12-02
BY THE WAY.

There has been no complaint recently
in New York of the operations of the
green goods men, but at a recent art sale
a genuine Rembrandt was put up and
brought SIS.
The claim put forward by Alaskan EN-
thusiasts that living mastodons are to
be found up near the head waters of the
Yukon is reproach on the enterprise of
the American Snowman.
The French government has decided to
prosecute Arton of Panama notoriety for
having bribed deputy. although the
deputy has been tried for receiving the
bribe and has been acquitted.
The popularity of football at Harvard
college is attested by the fact that In
electing class day officers the senior
class recently took four out Of the eight
cen officers from the football team.
| The Partisan idea of a canard is illuiH
| trated by the prominence given to the
story that Emperor William was IN
| Paris in disguise during the visit of the
| czar. and that his presence was known
to the French government.
William E. Kettles is the name of the
operator in Washington who on April g.
1865. received the telegraphic message
from Gen. Weitzel to Secretary Stanton
announcing the capture of Richmond.
Kettles was then only Is years old.
In Maysviile, KY, they have taken the
result of the election so seriously that
the free silver Democrats thraeten to
refuse to buy goods of a gold standard
merchant and talk of importing Dem
ocratic barber to shave them.-New
York World.
The moral about ill-gotten goods not
prospering does not seem to apply to the
case of the conscience-stricken thief in
Oregon who on his deathbed handed over
to Louis Davenport the sum of $4,000,
which represented the accumulations of
$4,000 worth of gold dust stolen from Dav-
export thirty years ago.
The herald., 1896-12-02

ed Mr.. Snyder as their candidate have
read the attacks Of the Times upon him.
They have seen how that sheet has called
him an ignorant and a dishonest man,
and their answer is seen and heard in
greater determination than ever to elect
him. Every vote cast for Mr.. Snyder
will be rebuke to the Times and the
vindication of the good name of the peo-
pie of Los Angeles. The people of Los
Angeles do not believe 1t would be dis
grace to vote for either Mr.. Snyder or
Mr.. Martin, but they do feel that the
Times is disgracing the whole commun-
ifu
The herald., 1896-12-02
IN THE PUBIC EYE.

Mrs. Jefferson Davis and her daugh-
ter, Winnie. were the guests of honor at
the Daughters of the Confederacy ball
at the Merchants exchange, st. Louis,
last week.
Two men of Madison. o., have been
going to the polls together for sixty
years. Now they are each 81 years old,
with but a months difference in their
ages On November they cast their
fifteenth presidential vote.
Major Edward Schofield. the govern
or-elect of Wisconsin, is the son of a
Pennsylvania farmer. At the age of IA
he became printers devil" in a coun-
try newspaper Office, later becoming a
typesetter. He served through the war
with great gallantry, coming out as
a major.
George Bernard Shaw, the London
novelist. who has been q vegetarian for
fifteen years. says that "the enormity
of eating the scorched animals-canni-
balism with its heroic dish left out-be-
comes impossible az soon as 1t becomes
The herald., 1896-12-02
IRRIGATION AS A CIVILIZER.

The evolutionary process of the last
twenty years has brought out some very
valuable lessons for the future of Cali
fornia. 1t has demonstrated that irriga-
tion Is essential to the highest standard
of civilization. The census of 1890 re-
vealed the fact that two thirds Of the
gain in rural population stood to the
credit of eight counties where irrigation
prevailed. The counties which rely upon
rainfall had about reached a standstill
or scored a loss. The people have al
ways been divided on the question as
to whether irrigation is necessary
Those who oppose urge that it breeds
malaria and Injuries the quality of the
fruit. Those who favor insist that it is
essential to the most scientific agricul-
ture and to the maintenance of dense
population. The last twenty years have
answered the question forever. The an
swer consists of comparison between
the south and the north. The one was
born of the irrigation canal; the other of
the mining camp and the wheat ranch.
The one is characterized by a high civ
ilization; the other by a low one.-"Our
Great Pacific Commonwealth" by Will
lam E. Smythe in the December Cen
tury
The herald., 1896-12-02
A GREAT DISCOVERY

In discussing DR.. W. w. Jacques
article in Harper's Weekly for Decem-
Der on the problem of taking electricity
direct from coal. the New York Times edi-
torially says: 1t is valuable as brief
and very clear statement of partial
solution of the most important Industrial
problem of the day. For long time now
the brightest minds in the world of sci
ence and invention have been intently
and patiently at work trying to discover
, the means of getting electricity direct
from some form of chemical action, in
stead Of as now, from the use of the
force of steam produced by the evapora-
ton of water by the heat resulting from
the combustion of coal.
Dr. Jacques states that he has sur
prsed nature in her secret and discov-
cred the way by which we may abandon
even combustion and heat itself and
convert the stored-up energy of coal di-
rectly into electricity" The apparatus
first used was very simple. A platinum
crucible was partially filled with COM
mon potash, kept liquid by suspension
over a gas flame. A lump of coke was
hung in the potash by platinum wire.
Into the molten potash stream of air
was blown through tube. The wire
holding the coke was the negative pole,
and a second wire attached to the cru
chile was the positive pole of the gener-
ator The oxygen of the air combined
with the carbon; the production of heat
was prevented by the liquid; conduct
ing path was afforded in which current
of electricity was developed; the two
wires were attached to a small electric
motor which moved in proportion to the
current of air blown into the liquid.
Defining an "electrolytic carrier" as
LIQUID which allows atoms Of oxygen
and a current of electricity to pass
through it, DR.. Jacques says:
STATED scientifically. my discovery is
that if the oxygen of the air be caused
to combine with carbon, not directly as
in combustion, but through an interven-
ing electrolytic carrier the stored-up
energy of the carbon may be converted
directly into electrical energy, and not
into heat
Stated crudely, my invention consists
in generating electricity by causing the
oxygen of the air to combine with coal
beneath the level of suitable liquid"
DR. Jacques does not claim that this
o.
point where it is commercially avail
able though he thinks that he has made
substantial progress and believes that
the object can be attained. If his be-
lief is justified, there is, of course. moth
ing less than a revolution impending
more important in its ultimate effects
than the discovery of steam power and
the invention Of the steam engine. Elec-
tricity is already not only a motive
1t is now produced according to DR..
Jacques, at an average waste of 97.4 per
cent, and by the use of only 2.6 per cent
of the energy theoretically obtainable
from coal, though the maximum results
are at least three times as good as this.
DR.. Jacques two-horse-power apparat-
us, he says, saves 80 per cent. That IS
an enormous gain. Imagine the value
Of the coal supply of the world multiplied
by four, taking the best results now got,
or by tewelve, taking the average; then
imagine even that gain doubled, 1t
makes Aladdin's lamp pale its ineffect-
ual" glow.
The herald., 1896-12-02
NOTES OF THE DAY.

A Spanish bullfghter's fee for a spe cial
performance is about $1,000.
The salmon pack In British Columbia
| this year exceeds 100000 cases.
| A foot OF newly fallen snow changes into
| an inch of water when melted.
The advance in the price of wheat has
made Manitoba very prosperous.
| The phyloxera is working havoc in the
| vineyards of Sacramento and Napa val
leys in California.
Montana produced 81. 1.5sO0 0s pounds of
wool this year and leads all other states
as a woll grower.
London Crystal Palace Saturday con-
certs have entered upon the forty-first year
of their existence.
Fifty-nine fshhooks. all baited. have
been found 6side of a Goldfish caught off
Flamporough Head
The trade returns for September show
large increase in Canada over those for
the same month of 1895.
Water is SO scarce at Broomtown Ala.
and vicinity that farmers have to haul 1t
a distance of three and four miles
The ore in the Kansas. gold mines" at
Russell Kan. taoken from depth of
100 feet, is said TO pan out 500 to the ton.
In Melbourne a woman gets two pence
half penny for making shirt. while
Chinaman gets five pence for washing 1t.
In the village of Southport, Ct, is pre-
served piece of cedar post which General
Washington helped to set in the ground al
Harrington.
The biggest poultry ranch in the world is
pected to yield $1,000 broilers and 100000
eggs year.
Millions of men in India live marry and
rear apparently happy children upon an
income which. even when the wife works,
is rarely above 80 cents week.
From Scotland the reports of crops are
for the most part of one uniform type.
The crops have been magnificent, but they
were ruined by the continuous rains.
There is tribe in Central Africa among
whom speakers in public debates are re-
and to speak only as long as they can so
stand.
A Liverpool policeman, who, as he
thought. swallowed a siXpence thirteen
years ago, recently had a severe pain In
his throat A fit of coughing came on
thickness. was released from his tSroat
Paris policemen have been supplied with
electric dark lanterns, by means of which
they can see $50 feet away. They were en-
ployed successfully in the recent raid in
the Rois de Boulogne on the homeless per-
sons who sleep there at night.
The National Congress of Mothers which
IL TO be held in Washington in February. is
novelty. Among the subjects to be consid-
cred are the moral mental and physical
training of the young kindergarten work
No part of tree can be removed from
the grounds of Holyrood palace without
the permission of the queen. One, dating
from the reign of Queen Mary. was recent
ly blown down. and before the gardeners
could touch it a photograph had to be for
warded to the queen, who formally ordered
its removal.
The largest mirror ever brought to Amer
lea has been placed in the dining room in
the wing of the Hotel Savoy of New York
room. being twelve feet high and thirteen
and a half feet long. Several attempts
had to be made by the manufacturers to
CbrOuicla
The herald., 1896-12-02
consciously instead Of thoughtlessly
habitual"

consciously instead Of thoughtlessly
habitual."
DR.. Temple. the new archbishop of
Canterbury. Is old, and though his eye
sight is described as quite good enough
for ordinary purposes" it seems that
one of the extraordinary uses for which
it does not suffice is the guidance of his
own footsteps.
DR.. Nansen's Arctic exploring trip was
an excellent stroke of business. He is
to receive S50000 for his book, and a
London paper has paid him 100000 for
| some preliminary articles. This is prob
ably the first time on record where an
Arctic explorer has made anything out
of his perils.
Soon after the marriage of the crown
prince of Italy to the Princess Helene of
Montenegro the former presented to his
brotherin-law, Prince Danilo of Monte
negro, sword bearing an inscription
which, translated, means: Victor EN-
manuel, Hereditary Prince of Italy, to
Danilo, Hereditary Prince of Montene-
gro.
Mr.. Julius NJ. Price, the we'll known
travelling special artist of the London
Illustrated News. was with the Bechu-
analand expedition in South Africa: he
went on voyage to the Arctic coast of
Siberia, and he journeyed up the river
Yenisei, traversing Mongolia and the
Cobb desert to Pekin. More recently he
went to Coolgardie.
The Austrian Archduke John, who be-
came a sea captain, adopting the name
of John Orth, and is supposed to have
been lost at sea several years ago, left
100000 francs on deposit in bank in
Frieburg and another million in St. Gal
len. Switzerland. The relatives of his
Wife, who disappeared at the same time,
have now put in claim for the money.
Frau Orth was a Viennese woman
named Stubel
The herald., 1896-12-02
A LITTLE VISITOR

There's busy little fellow,
Who came TO town last night,
When all the world was fast asleep.
The childrens eyes shut tight.
! can not tell you how he came,
For we'll the secrets hid;
But l think upon moonbeam bright
Way down TO earth he slid.
He brought the Misses Maple
Each a lovely party gown:
1t was brilliant red and yellow,
With a dash or two of brown.
And he must haze had Midas touch,
For, if the truth is told,
The birches all, from top to toe,
He dressed in cloth of gold.
Then he took glitterlng icice
From underneath the caves,
And with il. on my window.
Drew such shining silver leaves.
Such fair and stately palaces
Such towers and temples grand.
Their like. I'm sure. was never seen
Outside of Fairyland.
Who is this busy little man,
Whose coming brings us joy?
For I'm very sure he's welcomed
BY every girl and boy:
The little stars all saw him.
Tho they will not tell a soul:
But I've heard his calling card read thus
]. Frobt. ESQ.,. North Pole.
Helen, Standlsh Perkins, in the Inde
Dendent
The herald., 1896-12-02
THE HERALD
Has the Largest Paid Circulation
ir Southern California
THE TIMES" AND THE PUBLIC

In the bitterness if it's hatred for Mr..
M. P. Snyder personally, the Times
transcends the bounds of truth and de-
cency in opposing his candidacy; and
not only so, but it brands as things vile
and dishonest all who favor his cleo
ton. The Times says--it has said 1t
repeatedly-that the election of Mr.. Sny-
der would be disgrace to every citizen,
and it asks if the voters of Los Angeles
will deliberately disgrace themselves by
electing him mayor. The Times is not
guided by a standard of truth and vir-
tue sufficiently high to warrant its crit
icising the conduct of others; besides, its
opposition to Mr.. Snyder is inspired by
. low and base purpose to injure man
whom it has a personal grudge against
because he will not be made a conven-
fence of to further the interests Of the
Times.
Mr. Snyder was asked to become a can
didate for mayor by the several bodies
of organized labor, by the Populist party
and the Democratic party. Therefore
he stands as the chosen representative
of these three organizations, and when
the Times assails the character of Mr..
disgrace to the community it practi-
cally calls every man who participated
In his nomination scoundrel and an ig-
noramus. 1t is no little matter for an
Individual or for newspaper to publish
to the world that the majority of the
people Of community are a low, igno-
the Times wishes and sincerely wishes,
the world to have just exactly that opin-
ION of those who shall cast their votes
for Mr.. Snyder. So intense is the Times
hatred Of Mr.. Snyder personally that it
would not hesitate, seemingly, to hold
Los Angeles up as city of degenerates
!, Just for revenge If Mr. Snyder should
be chosen mayor.
1t Is unfortunate for Los Angeles that
!, 20 vicious and hate-bound a sheet as
the Times should find living support
within the borders of the city OF course
/ the residents proper know the Times too
well for It to exert the slightest inf1u-
ence with them, but not only Los Ange-
les, but Southern California finds great
!. profit in the influx of tourists every
winter. and to have them made to be-
1ieve they are coming to a community
20 thoroughly disreputable that the ma
5ority Of the people prefer man for
their chief executive who would be dis
grace to men and women of ordinary
virtue would not be calculated to in
duce them to come. or tarry long if they
4 did come. The Times has too much
OF the temper of the individual whom
Milton describes as one who would very
much prefer to reign in hell than serve
: In heaven to give. tone or character to
this community.
AS we have said, Mr.. Snyder is the
candidate of the several labor unions.
and of the Populist and Democratic par
ties for mayor He was officially and
! unanimously chosen to represent them
before the people. and in their name to
aek the support Of al the citizens of Los
Angeles to the end that he may have
~ direction Of the public affairs Of the
5unicipality during the ensuing two
!, TposA The several bodies which select
The herald., 1896-12-02
FEMALE WEAR.

representative Timberlake has intro
duced bill into the general assembly
of Alabama. seeking to make it unlaw-
full for any female to wear any article
of mems clothing. or any costume that
appeals to the passions of men, The bill
specifically prohibits the wearing of
boomers, tights. divided skirts and shirt
waists.-Terre Haute Gazette.
The herald., 1896-12-02

The Express, in it's report of Repub-
lican meeting held in the Fourth ward.
stated that City Attorney Dunn was not
there because he was sick: that Gish
could not appear because he was sick;
that Meredith was not present because
he was sick. 1t is probable that If the
remainder of the Republican candidates
do not get sick this week they will all
be sick from paralysis Monday evening
when they read the election returns.
The herald., 1896-12-02
TEETH AS A DETECTIVE.

Marks left in pumpkin pie by a
Pittsburg burglars teeth, says the New
York Times, have just led to the mans
him in prison for a considerable period.
Though bearing the honored name Of
Wash'rstcn-precede however. by
The herald., 1896-12-02

Boss Platt is very plain spoken
man. and he generally means what he
says. Therefore when he tells Nc
Kinley not to take the lid off of hell''
by giving Whitelaw Reid a cabinet po-
stion he is in hard earnest. Verify the
day of trouble for the Canton man is at
hand
The herald., 1896-12-02

dence that he is rot ignorant enough
to be nodded into shapes to suit the
water company, and that is what ais
the combine.
The herald., 1896-12-02

About fifty politicians visit Mckinley
every day, and singularly enough they
all drop in to make a social CALI and
not one is looking for an Office. OF course
they tell the truth,
The herald., 1896-12-02

If Mckinley is in the scheme to shelve
John Sherman and give his seat in the
senate to Mark Hanna, no doubt he
will wish he had let the 'old man" alone
before the game is played to finish.
The herald., 1896-12-02

The man of the Times has abandoned
Martin to the tender mercies of luck
He has gone east to tell Mckinley how
to run the government.
The herald., 1896-12-02
THE PUBLIC PULSE

(The Herald under this heading prints
sponsibiity for the sentiments expressed.
Correspondents are requested to cultivate
brevity as far as is consistent with the
proper expression of their views.)
The herald., 1896-12-02

The authorities of ST. Louis have con-
tracted for the sprinkling of 500 miles
of streets next summer. But ST. Louis
has no other use for water.
The herald., 1896-12-02

Martin is taking the faith cure, but
finally compromise on 1T might have
BEEN
The herald., 1896-12-02

Mr.. Snyder should feel under obugG-
tions to the Times for driving people to
his support by abusing him.
The herald., 1896-12-02


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Bradstreet's takes the position tina,
the only apparent cause for the firm
ness Of silver quotations is the enlarged
production Of gold. This means that
golc is getting cheaper II that be true.
what becomes OF the fixed value" OF
gold. which is the only argument ever
made In favor OF the gold standard,
If the production Of gold should con-
tirue to increase and that Of silver re-
main stationary. or decrease. there is
no doubt that measured in gold the
value OF silver will rise. But an in
creased demand for silver would have
tn same effect. The reopenlng of the
American mint to the white metal
would certainly increase the demand
for IL. and Just as certainly raise its
value. At the same time II would re-
duce the demand for gold and lessen
Its value. Thus silver would rise and
go'd fall. Hence II is rea sonable to be-
lieve that they would come together AZ
the rate OF 16 to 1.
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Follow American characterization.
The dispatches plainly indicate a
strong bimetallic sentiment in Ger
many. but they also show that there is
no earthly probability OF an interna-
ticnal agreement being reached in the
reasonably near future Prince Hob
enlohe recognizes the evils flowing from
the appreciation OF gold He has
not learned yet from the American
sound money" champion that gold
cannot appreciate" that its value is
fixed" and "unchangins" He knows
that gold has risen In value. and frank
ly says that II has jured the produc-
ing classes Of Germany. But he lodges
the issue by declaring that Germany
cannot act In the matter OF restoring
bfmetallism without England. Well. II
may be all right for the German EN-
pire to thus shirk a great problem, and
continue to act In the interest OF the 4
creditor classes. and against the vel
fare OF those who produce the empires
wealth. II the German chancellor
chooses TO take refuge behind the finan-
cia' policy Of England. regardless OF its
enect upon his own people. they may
stand IT. But the United States is a
greater industrial nation than Germany.
Our people can make their own laws.
and protect themselves II they will. ,
There Is just one way for the great .
question OF bimetal.sm TO be settled /.
That is for the American republic TO !.
let. II Is easy for men to shrink back .
Ind timorously exclaim. we can't do .
( alone" But that is no argument. !,
)f course I'VE can't" IL We don't try.
md the gold power is determined that :
W shall not try !;
But the people will be heard. and that :,
I TO distant day. II is about Zine for =
hem to arouse from their lethargy.
hake on the dominating influence OF ~
reditor England. and resolve that the .,
plendid resources Of this country shall ri
enceforth be used to promote the well "a
ire Of the American people-and they -
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