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The herald., 1897-05-20
On the Sick List

President Silver of the city council has
been unable to attend to his duties for
about week now, and yesterday City
Attorney Dunn was unable to leave his
house, owing to sewers attack of rheu-
matism. Mayor Snyder's health is not
satisfactory, but he managed to get
through his duties in the forenoon and
went home.
The herald., 1897-05-20
The Bank Assessments

City Assessor Seamans wac not at his
office yesterday afternoon, being con-
fined at home by illness. Chief Deputy
Lewis stated that the officers of the va
rious banks would be cited to appear and
make oath to their statements the latter
part of the week. or early next week.
The herald., 1897-05-20
To Change the Grade

Achsah Elizabeth Smith yesterday
filed with the city clerk the petition to
the city council, asking that the grades
of Fourteenth street and Paloma ave-
nue., between Central and Stanford ave-
nues, be changed in accordance with
lines submitted.
The herald., 1897-05-20
Assessment Ready

The assessment for the sewers on
Sixth, Wilmer, BiXel and Fourth streets
are now ready in the office of the street
superintendent. The total amount of
the assessment is $780, The contract
has been assigned to w "A. Frick.
The herald., 1897-05-20

mental suffering endured. $4,000 as
damages is asked from the jury.
In the answer made by the defendant
company all the specific allegations of
the complaint are denied, and today the
defense will put in its case.
The herald., 1897-05-20
Accepted His Franchise

John c. Lynch yesterday filed with the
city clerk his written acceptance Of the
electric railway franchise over San Pc
dro and other streets by the city council,
and for which he paid something over
$4,000.
The herald., 1897-05-20

slight cold. If neglected. often attacks
the lungs. Browns Bronchial Troches"
give immediate and effectual relief.
The herald., 1897-05-20
California Limited on Santa Pc

The last train east-bound this season
will leave Tuesday, May 25th.
The herald., 1897-05-20
.JOTTINGS
Our Home Brew

Maier & Zobelein's lager. fresh from their
brewery. on draught in all the principal
saloons: delivered promptly in bottles or
kegs. ONCE and brewery. 440 Also street;
telephone 81.
The herald., 1897-05-20

Largest variety Concord business wag-
ons and top delivery wagons. Hawley.
King G. Co.
The herald., 1897-05-20

Hawley, King & Co, cor. 5th st. and Bwy..
agents genuine Columbus Buggy company
buggies and Victor bicycles.
The herald., 1897-05-20

Everything on wheels. Hawley, King &
Co.. cor. Fifth street and Broadway.
The herald., 1897-05-20

Agents Victor. Heating, World and
March bicycles. Hawley, King & Co.
The herald., 1897-05-20

Joe Arnold, agent for celebrated Mexican
cigar, 1858 S. Spring st. Tel. main 9S6.
The herald., 1897-05-20
Law. for E,ine Locstors and stockholders

The new mining laws go into effect soon.
Price 10 cents. n. A. Wolcott & Co., print
ers and publishers. 12S S. Broadway, Los
Angeles.
The herald., 1897-05-20
For Mirrors or BeveIed PIate Glass

Go to H. Raphael & Co.. who are the man
ufacturers of them. and you will make a
large saving. No. 43S and 440 South Spring.
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ually engaged on the different levels, else
the water would collect in such quanti-
ties as to render work impracticable and
ultimately flood the mine.
A dreadful accident occurred by the last
car of one of those trains becoming de-
tached from it's fellows. At a point where
the fifth level branches from the slope one
of the workers was standing when the
detached car went rushing down the slope
with almost the velocity of a cannon ball.
Those who heard the roar of the oncoming
car shouted to the man to move. He
either did not hear them or became par
alyzed with fear; in any case the car
ground him to pieces against one Of the
pillars.
Ultimately with my conductor | reach
ed the ninth level of the mine and was
then standing more than 1000 feet be-
meath the surface of the earth, over which
the warm sunshine was playing. 1t was
warm enough, however, in the mine, al
though the air in the slope was pure.
In the Mining Chambers.
In the chambers where the miners we're
blasting, the atmosphere was heavy with
the smell Of powder and laden with dust.
One could see even in the dim light of the
lamp he carried the very air he breathed,
or at least the admixture which with the
air he took into his lungs. Here then
and in similar chambers in thousands Of
collieries the precious coal that contrib
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-08-12

One Of the characteristics of yellow
Journalism is that it overdoes every
thing. One of the eXponents of the vel
low in New York City really succeeded
in accomplishing something brilliant
recently. In four days from the discov-
cry of the dismembered fragments of
man in the river it had identified
him, proved that he had been murdered
and pointed out the supposed guilty
persons. It's reporters gave rapid and
brilliant aid to the police, and for that
much the paper was entitled to credit
although many persons will believe
that it is not the province of news
paper to usurp the duties of the detec-
tives. However, no fault might have
been found with that if the yellow
journal had not spoiled it's coup with
an anti-climax. 1t proceeded the other
day to tell how it did the work. Its
methods were plain to any Of it's read
ers from day to day, but it insisted on
telling how Jones called the office on
the telephone and informed the office
boy that another leg had been found in
the river, and how the office boy start
ed back in horror, and how the city
editor acted with dispatch by assigning
Brown to the morgue, Jones to police
headquarters, and Robinson to drag
the East River. The public was told
how the piece Of oilcloth which sur
rounded the fragments of the murder
ed man was photographed in colors
and used as evidence, and let into all
the petty details of the investigation
step by step. At the finish everyone
knows what the reporters had for
lunch. and the seething brain of the
city editor is an open book to the for
tunate readers Of the yellow journal.
The account reads for all the world
like an installment for one of those
penny dreadfuls which engage the
rapt attention of messenger boys. The
whole effect of the newspapers work
is spoiled. But that is the way of yell
low Journalism.
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secutive minutes. 1t does not appear
that this remarkable effort was the re-
suit of any wager or q trial Of Smok-
ing endurance, but just an ordinary
episode in the young mans day. only
in this case nature had reached the lin
it and collapse followed. 1t would seem
superfuOus to hang any moral on this
episode. 1t would seem that every per-
son who can read or has the sense of
hearing must know by this time the
deadly character Of cigarettes. Yet the
fact that this Jersey City boy has per-
mitted himself and has been permitted
by his friends deliberately to kill him
SCI indicates that a warning is still
needed. Parents must shoulder the
chief responsibility for occurrences Of
this kind. They are too prone to look
upon cigarette smoking as merely an
obnoxious habit, and their boys accord
ingly soon learn to take the same limit
ed view of it's nature. The fact must
be impressed that the cigarette is
poison. 1t brings death in it's wake,
and even if death is resisted for time
the life given up to this practice is be-
reft of most of it's pleasure and useful
ness. A weakened constitution and
mind are the inevitable immediate con-
sequences.
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1t Tasted Good Still.

Some lively college girl, 10 doubt
from the sunny South. relates in the.
Wellesley Magazine novel variation.
upon the theme, long popular with the
funny man. of the newspapers. es-
pecially at Thanksgiving time. Of the
little boy who wants to eat more than
he can. Little Sammy, on the porch of
the great house of the netZhbDrhoOd,
had just inquired in<.uuatingIy:
Didn't de white folks have ice-credfn
fo' dinnah. Miss Kate:''
This small negro reminder Of happy
s. 'fo'-de-wah days" had never pleaded
with me in vain for goodies. proceeds
the narrator. Very soon he had eaten
full saucer of cream. which ! had
given him, and with the spoon poised
on Il sticky fOrefinger, was looking AT
me with eyes that begged for me; and
he got it, even to the third saucer.
/ watched him till / fell to dreaming
again, and my eyes sought the river
Only the clink of the spoon against
the saucer and q satisfied sigh now and
then broke the stiffness of the Southern
Suiiiii0I ui!. 11S>SlItlH ill WIS ulISl,
and L looked round to find the happy
Sammy with the most diScOnSolate ex-
preston Oh his face, his head turned a
little to one side, and his eye fixed
gloomily on about a quarter OF a sDoon-
full of cream.
What is it, Sammy? Isn't Il goCd?'
'Yas'm." in a sad tone
''Then why don't you eat il? Have
you got enough"
He looked at me. as he straightened
up and unbuttoned the little worn
jacket. "Yas'm," he sighed. got
'nough ey'y whar 'cept my mOuf,''-
Children.
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The Retort Courteous.

The noted French writer, Piron, was
a wit whose reputation for brilliancy
of speech was unrivalled. He was
famous for his flashing retorts; but
even the best of us sometimes have to
bow to superiority, though it be only
temporarily.
A lady once thoughtlessly asked
Piron in company whether he could tell
her the difference between a woman
and mirror.
s'It is. madam" said Piron, instantly,
sthat mirror reflects without speak
ing. and a woman speaks without re-
fiecting.'
.Very we'll. Monsieur Piron." she re-
piled, a little nettled by the remark,
but can you tell me the difference be-
tween Il mirror and a man."
NO" answered the poet
"Oh," was the reply, 1T is this, Mon
sieur Piron. \ mirror is always pol
ished, but a man is not always so.''
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DOWN IN A COAL NINE
TRIP THROUGH GLOOMY CAV
ERNS OF THE EARTH.
Going Down a Slope to the Working
Chambers Where, Amid Powder
Smoke and PeriIs, the Miner Digs
Coa1-Discovery of the Mineral.
About Coal.
Pittsburg, Pa, correspondence:

fllISDurS, IA, correspondence:
Not many Of us think as we sit by COM
Portable fires in the zero days Of winter
Of the difficulties and dangers experienced
in mining the coal that contributes so
much to our domestic happiness and onr
national prosperity. Yet the handspring
Of our very civilization is the coal the
miner digs in the gloomy caverns OF the
earth. There ages ago the heat Of the
sun, absorbed by the plants from which
coal is derived, was treasured up and to-
day we have that same heat, in the form
of coal, at our disposal and subject to
our control. Without it we would be liv-
ing in the past-in the days of the stage
coach and the sailboat, with out present
conditions of life, if dreamed Of, another
Utopia. By it we can travel almost as
comfortably as if seated in our own
homes over thousands of miles of noun
tain and valley and Thousands Of leagues
of ocean, and enjoy conveniences such
as were not within the reach of the
wealthiest and greatest of ancient times.
Such is the value Of coal to the modern
world, and it is an interesting subject
how it is mined.
To a visitor to the coal fields one of the
interesting sights is the huge breakers
that are dotted over the region and the
mountains of refuse-the "dumps''-that
have been extracted from the mines.
These breakers are generally, though not
always, erected over the mouth Of the
shaft, or entrances to the mines, and it is
in them that the coal, after having been
mined, is graded by passing through diff
ferent screens, and cleaned by having
the Impurities picked out by hand, those
employed for that purpose being mainly
children. The impurities are the con-
stituents of the dumps" and some Of the
latter contain hundreds of millions of
tons.
1t was my good fortune recently to
spend several hours in the colliery known
rs the Little Schuylkill in Mahoning City,
Pa. While the midday sun was shining
glorious!y and all nature seemed joyful,
l entered the cage and was rapidly low
cred to the bottom of the shaft, where
all was dark as blacklist midnight. Here
and there appeared Pickering lights in the
c.ps Of the miners and when the eyes be-
came more accustomed to the darkness I
saw the outlines of cars on the tracks,
some full of coal, to be presently lifted
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discovery in Pennsylvania was made in
1791 by hunter named Philip Ginther
Ginther's hunting grounds were on the
eastern slope of the mountains drained
by the Lehigh River, and one evening
while on the summit of Sharp Mountain
he stumbled over the roots of fallen
tree and kicked before him a large black
'stone.'' Thinking that possibly it
might be coal, of which he had heard
something, he picked up the lump and
turned it over to a Col. Jacob Weiss, who
lived near the present site of Mauch
Chunk. The Colonel, after satisfying
himself tliat the specimen was anthra cite
coal, organized the Lehigh Coal Mine
Company, one of the members of which
was Robert Morris. the celebrated
fnancier. The work IF mining was be-
gun at the very spot where Ginther STUN
thousand acres of land We're purchased
But what to do with the coal that was
mined was problem. There was no
market for it. The surrounding timber.
and what with the low price of wood and
the abundance of charcoal. there seemed
little prospect of marketing the coal for
many long year to come. The work
Of mining was consequently soon aban-
doned.
Col. Weiss, however, determined in
bringing the coal to the attention Of the
people. He filed his saddle bags with
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1897-08-12
The story of Kaiser Villa,

The story of Kaiser Williams late
injury to his eye is exceedingly charac-
'teristic Of that eccentric potentate. As
told in a cable dispatch, it was due to
his insisting upon the performance of
a difficult and dangerous task on board
his yacht in face of the protests of the
officers under him. The work was avow-
edly designed to show that nothing
was impossible" with HIM. e., when
performed by others-and. while it was
successfully accomplished with consid-
cradle injury to the vessel and great
peril to the crew. there SENS a sort Of
Apoetical Justice" in the fact that he
was the only person actually injured.
If he has learned, as the result. that q
German emperor is as likely to be hurt
BIZ a blow from 81 ropes end as any or
dinary mortal the lesson may not ba
without its value.
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Each car when loaded is hauled to the
slope, up which, with others, it is drawn
to the foot of the shaft and hoisted to the
breaker.
| had no desire to prolong my stay in
the atmosphere of the chambers; but
when 1 saw man testing the air to see
if gas was forming and remembered the
numerous disasters that have occurred
in the coal regions through explosions l
was more anxious than ever TO reach the
pure air and sunshine.
Notwithstanding the dangers attending
coal mining and the poor reward for the
miners work, the occupation seems to
lend strange enchantment. Children
first enter the breakers to pick the i'm
purities from the coal, then they become
drivers in the mines, next miners assist
ants and finally miners themselves. They
are reared in an atmosphere of coal min
ing. seeing little else and having few other
avenues of employment open to them. 1t
is as natural for them to enter the mines
to work as for the farmer to go into his
bayfield, or the shopkeeper into the store,
and they think no more than these of ac-
cidents. And yet minor accidents and
fatalities are numerous. We are all more
or less familiar with the great disasters
Of the coal fields, in each of which ten,
twenty or more persons have been killed.
But outside the coal regions themselves
the news of the minor tragedies seldom
penetrate, or if it does it is overlooked or
forgotten. But they are always occur
ring.
Surely the coal miner is engaged in
perilous work. He deserves better fate
tion-a fate that is confronting thousands
Of miners and their families in the anthra-
cite regions Of Pennsylvania to-day.
Considerable Of a romance attaches to
the early use of coal in this country It's
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The death of H. NJ. Higgins at san
Diego, Cal, removes from the world
of music a man who played a some
what important part in the early mnSi-
cal history of Chicago He was not
the first musical dealer in the city, as
has been stated There were two or
three who preceded him. but he was
to any extent. Prior to his location in
Chicago he had taught music both in
New York and Wisconsin. In 1855. in
connection with his brother, A. F. Hig-
gins lie opened a music store on Ran
dolph street, which soon become the
musical headquarters. The trade was
largely devoted to sheet music, and
the firm published many songs and bal
lads of the popular sort. Though rot
a trained musician in any sense, he was
sufficiently up in the business to know
what suited the popular taste, and the
firm made some money The business
was closed out about 1871, and II. NJ.
Higgins went to California, where he
invested his earnings in fruit ranch,
which he named Bonnie Brai," a few
miles south of San Diego. He became
quite well known in Southern Califor-
mia by seedless lemon which he rails
ed, though for some reason it never
made the success in the market he had
anticipated. He was a man of eccen-
tric disposition, had been for years q
radical spiritualist, had domestic trou-
bles, finally lost much of his property,
and died comparatively poor. His
death will cause much sorrow in the
region where he lived, as he was wide
ly known and was much esteemed for
his geniality and hospitality, notwith-
standing his many reverses and disap.
pointments.
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utes SO much to our every comfort is
mined.
Around were the possibilities of danger
and death. A body Of gas might be ex-
ploded, caye-in might occur; in multi
plicity of ways danger might hover near
But the miner, with the confidence which
years Of experience gives, does not allow
his mind to be troubled by these fears,
unless, indeed, some fellow worker be
stricken down. Then the dangers for q
while appear in concrete form, only grad
ually to be forgotten.
In mining coal the miner must natur-
ally follow the vein of mineral and this
often runs at an angle of So or more de-
grees. As he progresses timbers are
used to uphold the roof and platforms are
constructed upon which TO stand. When
q quantity of coal is dislodged by eXplo-
sives, it falls to a platform where the
miners assistant breaks it up into man
ageable sizes and loads it into the cars
standing on track ready to receive it.
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it from time to time and rode around
among the blacksmiths, earnestly solicit
ing them to try it. Many refused to hayei
anything to do with common stones,"
and those who tried it met with only par
tial success. Accordingly the coal COM
pany relaxed its efforts to obtain q mar.
ket and were about to dissolve when. in
1913, the Legislature chartered Il COM
pany to improve the navigation of the
Lehigh River This work was completed
in 1902 and the coal company renewed
their efforts to bring their products to-
market. In 1903 six boats, each contain
ing 100 tons of coal, started from Mauch
Chunk for Philadelphia. Four of the
boats came to grief on the way and two
of them reached the city of Brotherly
Love. After much delay the coal was
sold to the municipal authorities, who
were then working steam boiler to pump
water into tanks for the use of the city.
But all attempts to burn the coal failed
and it was broken up and scattered over
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His Choice.

1t is said that Charles Wesley was
sometimes easily annoyed. and or one
occasion, at a conference. ne became
50 irritated at the prolix remarks Of i
speaker that he said 10 his brother:
Stop that mans speaking. Let Us
attend to business
But the offender was relating his
religious experience. and though it WAS
at SO great a length. John Wesley
evidently thought that no one had Il
right to interfere with IT, He was
therefore allowed TO continue. but the.
moment came when Charles could con-
tain himself no longer
Unless he stops he whispered to
John. III leave the conference
By this time John was enjoying the
mans simple story. and he only turned
and whispered TO some one sitting
near:
Reach Charles his hat
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to the breaker above, and others empty,
to be taken down the slope to the differ
ent levels, where the miners were dig
ging the precious mineral. Close to the
bottom OF the shaft were the stables
where the long-eared, patient mules, used
in hauling cars in certain portions Of the
mine, are housed. Few of these mules
since their first entry into the mine have
seen daylight and some Of them very prob
ably never will. On another side of the
shaft was an engine room, and a pump
was laboriously at work, forcing to the
bright earth above the waters that are
ever collecting in these dark caverns,
Several Of these pumps are thus contin-
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HUMOR OF The INDIANS.
1t Runs to FantasticaI Jokes and Is
Not Always Appreciated.

II
"'Most everybody imagines that the
North American Indian is Il solemn
and dignified individual" said the ex-
army officer, as he leaned gracefully
back in his chair and lazily puifed
away at his afternoon cigar Before
L met q redskin don't know how many
times l had heard it asserted that as a
race they We're destitute of humor as
patent office report or a craven
image. But when / got acquainted with
the aboriginal in his native wilds L
found that this was a mistake
''Tbe Indian is n born Lumorist.,
There isn't the slightest doubt Of that
The great trouble is, however. that his,
lhumor runs chiefly to practical Jokes.
remember one time meeting Or rather
discovering = few rods Distant n big
Indian, when l was out walking alone
about two miles frCm camp
Well, he discovered me about the,
same time. and the minute Ire dill so
he let out q terrific war-wkO2p began
fiourishing his tomahawk. and started
for me on Il run. He chased u.p- IG>tA
l keeled over from exhaustion. ann
then instead of ScdIping me as I mats l
urally expected he would from his pre-
yious actions, he assisted ne 10 my
feet, with a broad grin on his face. and,
srunted: Ugh. Injun only yell for
fun. Too bad scare white mar Injun,
don't want scalp. Want chew ter.
backerr
The whole proceeding it seemed was
only his humorous method of striklg
a stranger for Il chew of tobacco. If
l had had something to strike back
with it might not have been quite fun
ny-for him-but unfortunately | had
left my weapons i'll camp
"And again, | remember the time a
lot of Indians, who had been foOifng
around on the warpath. We're forced to
capitulate and surrender their game
to Gen. Miles command at the Pine
Ridge Agency, and the last thing the
humorous cusses did before turning in
their shooting irons was 10 load every
old musket of the lot half way to the
muzzle with slugs and nails and scrap
iron, and other bric-a-brac Of the sort.
and then hang around, at Il safe dis
tdnce, to see the fun when q bonfire
was made Of the guns as VS. the usual
rule i'll such cases.
But, luckily for the soldieAs. they
discovered the trick in time. ana the
expected fun failed to pan out. StiIl
we must take the will for the deed.
and this little incident goes 10 show,
that as Il practical joker the willy abor-
iginal is not to be lightly sneezcd at
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