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The herald., 1897-03-27
Never Closes
being made by those whose lives they
were striving to save.
Yukon Indian Customs

There were formerly many curious
traits Of character and queer customs
that prevailed among the tribes inhabit-
ing the upper Yukon country. Perhaps
the most barbaric of all was in the treat
ment of the female infants. Just after
the child is born she is entrusted to some
of the opposite sex of advanced age, who
has selected her for his future wife. Dur
ing the time before arriving at that age
when she becomes wife, her male
guardian. for such he now is. has to
contribute a certain portion OF his spoils
of the chase to her support. II. before
she arrives at that age. she displeases
her lord. or he tires OF supporting her,
she is given no more food and is starved
to death. Should a female be born and
no man wants to provide for her and
claim her as his future wife, then she Is
not allowed to live. All the male infants
are, however, brought up. as they VIII
make good hunters. Consequently, 1t
is estimated that for every female there
are a hundred males.
Curious as II may seem, the two sexes
live separate a greater portion Of the
time. Both men and women dress alike,
and one unaccustomed to them Is unable
to distinguish one from the other unless
very close. During the winter these
people travel together with dogs and
sleds and in the summer by birch-bark
canoes. Tney also convert tncir uosS
and even their squaws into pack ami
mails. and II is q curious sight to see a
long pack train of dogs loaded with
twenty or thirty pounds each. and the
line broken here and there with hu-
man being laboring under her pack or
100 pounds. Their canoes are very di-
minutive in size and of inferior con-
struction, and it is an impossibility for
one not accustomed to their use to sit
in them without upsetting. They are
built to hold but one person. and then
sitting Hat in the bottom with knees
curled under so as to occupy the least
space possible.
The indians are very moral in their
habits and strictly honest. If one is
hungry and finds a cache OF provisions,
he seldom molests it. But when he does
he always leaves full value in skins for
what food he appropriates to his own
use.-Alaska News.
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ExTORTIoNATE FREIGHTs

In 1895 $4,000 miles of railroad in the
United States reported as gross earn
ings the stupendous figures of 81, ,093, ,1S9,-
sos, an equivalent of s61O1 per mile Of
main track The operating expenses, in
cluding taxes to do the business, cost
s769,94S.151, or S4297 per mile, leaving the
net earnings in the hands of the railroad
corporations the sum of 1929, 1876, ,454, or
profit of s1sO4 per mile.
To raise this vast revenue let us see
how the railroads tax the farmers and
producers.
in Antelope valley this county, in 1890,
some three hundred families raised
about 5000 tons of barley and wheat.
upon which they paid the railroad 25
cents per hundred. or s. per ton, for
transportation to tidewater, the same
rate being charged TO Port Los Angeles,
San Pedro or Port Costa. 1t is held that
$3.50 per ton is more than enough to
transport the grain to either Port Los
Angeles, San Pedro or Los Angeles, a
distance of about eighty miles.
Now, 1t costs the railroad less than
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A Progressive Combination

"All Of us remember the white horse
and red-haired girl theory which had
such a rum a few years ago, and many
of us still notice that the combination
holds good" said philosophical wheel
man, "but did you ever observe that the
same thing is true Of red-haired girls
and white bicycles? If you have not,
do SO, and you will be surprised at the
result. The matter was under discus.
sion among a party Of young fellows at
the Arlington hotel last Sunday and
they all agreed to make observations
and report results three days later.
There were seven in the party and each
of the seven agreed to get three others,
making twenty-one in all, to carry out
the experiment. They were all surpris-
reported on his honor that every time he
saw a red-haired girl he saw a white
bicycle in the immediate neighborhoSd; i,s iS 3D.
The red-haired girls seeme0 10 ENJOY
the white horse combinations and 90
not think they will seriously object to
this new enc. for 1t ID ~ true IN every
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Headquarters for California Blankets
particular" - Washington Evening
Glass Type May Be Used

Something more than curiosity is be-
ing directed toward the novel invention
brought forward a short time since by
Wilhelm Pilz of johannesburg near
Gablonz. the center Of the Bohemian
glass industry, who has made type ma
terial subject of much study and ex-
pertinent. His plan is, as described, to
make the body of type of hard rubber or
celluloid, which when locked in the frame
will resist the pressure without difficulty
and to place glass-topped letters-glass
being the real Eace of the type-upon the
rubber body, cementing them solidly by
the use of cement. In order to prevent
any disadvantage arising from the pres
sure, the face of the type is somewhat
smaller than the transverse section of
the body and in this way the touching
of the face of the type in the form is
prevented or course the peculiar mer-
II of using glass for this purpose is. as
claimed. that 1t will keep its sharp
ness for a much longer time, not being
subject to the wear that metal is.-New
York Sun.
The herald., 1897-03-27
Gifts to the Church and Her Maid

The will of Mrs. Mary Bradhurst
Field, who died in Rome in October last,
was filed in the office of the surrogate
this week. She was the mother of the
Princess Brancaccio of Rome. She
leaves $30, 900 to the st. PauPs American
Protestant Episcopal church in Rome.
for the support of aged women, and to
her maid, Maria Christofaro, 1920 annu-
ally.
The Field palace in Rome Is left to her
grandsons, Carlo and Marco Antonio
Brancaccio. subject to the right OF her
daughter, the princess, to reside in the
palace. Should 1t be sold, her daughter
is to receive annually $4,000. Mrs. Field
says she leaves her daughter only
small bequest because she inherits a
large estate from her father. the late
John N. Bradhurst.
To the Prince Brancaccio she leaves
an annuity af $3000 and to her grand
daughter, the wife Of the Prince OAR
soil, s14O0 annually. She had already
given this granddaughter dowry Of
$120, 900.
All the residue Of the estate is left to
this granddaughter and her brothers,
Carlo and Marco Antonio, the shares Of
each to be held in trust. The grandson.
Carlo, the Prince d'Arsoli of Rome. and
Colonel William Jay and Edwin A.
Cruikshank of this city are appointed
executors.-New York JourneL
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PROTECTION FOR PROJECTIONS
SAKE

From 1924 up to the meeting of the Re-
publican convention of 1888 there had
never been party in the United States
which advocated tariff except for rev.
enue purposes. The Republican party,
being a lineal descendant of the old
whig party. always favored a high
tariff, but never tariff simply for pro-
lection. A tariff for revenue, with Incl
dental protection, was all that they dared
ask congress to grant.
Daniel Webster as far back as 1924 said
the "manufav turers no longer needed
the fostering hand of the government"
and in his great speech at the agricul-
tural fair at Rochester, N. Y, in !Septem-
ber, 1S43, he said that to talk of protec-
ton was a misnomer. 1t was agricul-
ture that needed protection.
Henry Clay never believed in protec-
ton as a permanent policy of the gov
ernment. When the agitation of the tar
iff question in 1888 almost kindled the
fires of civil war in the union, Mr.. Clay
said in the United States senate: cease
all agitations for nine years, and the
manufacturers in every branch will sus-
tain themselves against foreign compe
tition,' and at that time the tariff was
only 20 per cent
No living man in public life in the
TTnited Stated ha Q haan poora nronounced
on both sides of the tariff issue than
John Sherman. When the tariff bill of
1867 was before congress, he said on
January 23d of that year: "The wit of
man could not possibly frame a tariff
that would produce s140,OOOO 900 without
amply protecting our domestic indus
tries. They the manufacturers) do
not ask protection against the pauper
labor of Europe. but they ask protection
against the creation of our laws. Take
the case of the manufacturer of iron. II
he were at liberty to hire his labor,
buy his provisions and the articles which
enter into the production Of iron, he could
compete Win the laDOr OF Europe. Inc
advantages of freight and other ad-
vantages would enable him to do it,.
But if you add largely to the cost of
everything that enters into the elements
of his production, as matter of course
he cannot compete with those who are
not subject to similar burdens" Now
| these We're the views of John Sherman
in 1867, and they read very much like
the speeches of those who framed the
Wilson bill. Three years later, in 1870.
Mr.. Sherman offered in the senate the
| following resolution:
Resolved. That the committe on finance
| is hereby instructed to prepare some way
| to simplify, revise and reduce, both the
| internal tax and that on imported goods
now in force, in such manner that the ag-
gregate of such taxes shall not exceed the
| sum required to execute the laws relating
| to the public debt, and the current ex-
| penses of the government"
Here Mr.. Sherman plants himself
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sQuarely on Wnat mas Always DeeH ens
1 cardinal doctrine of the Democratic
party. This doctrine has never beer
more closely stated by any Of the leading
men of the Democratic party. Following
this same train of thoughtMr. Sherman,
in his speech in the United States senate
on January 25, 1871, said:
| ION such goods as enter into competition
with domestic industry. would levy q
specific duty equal to, but no more than the
average rate of duty demanded by our
! financial wants on imported goods. This
is ample protection to all domestic indus
! tries not unnatural, or forced by a hot
1 house process. If, under 1t, any branch Of
industries cannot survive foreign competi-
| tion, ii is the highest evidence that such
industry is forced and foreign to our soil,
climate. or conditions"
Not a hint is here given, or desire
expressed for any kind of protection, ex-
cept such as is given by tariff that will
furnish revenue sufficient for the sup
port of the government.
In 1880 Mr. Garfield said;. 81 am firmly
of the opinion that the wlsest thing the
protectionists can do is to unite in
moderate reduction of duties on imported
articles" Continuing at later date Mr..
Garfield said:
II hold that properly adjusted competi-
tion between home and foreign products is
the best guage by which to regulate inter
national trade. Duties should be so high
that our manufacturers can fairly COM
nata with the foreipp prndrofs huf p0t en-
high as to enable them to drive out the
foreign article and enjoy a monopoly of
the trade and regulate prices as they
please. This is my doctrine of protection"
During the years from 1870 to 1888, our
congressional literature abounded in
speeches made by Senators Frye, In
gals, Allison and others, AID or annual
reports of Secretaries Folger, Gresham,
Mccullough and Sherman were filled
with sentiments proclaiming a tariff for
revenue only.
The Republican convention in 1868, the
first held after the war. when the tariff
was not so large as now, declared in
their platform for that year: "It is due to
the labor of the nation that taxation
should be equalized and reduced as rap
idly as possible"
In 1884 the Republican party in its
platform severely criticised the Demo-
cratic party because of its failure "to
relieve the people of the burden of un-
necessary taxation" and pledged itself
to correct the inequalities OF. the tariff
and to reduce the surplus"
The idea of protection for protectors
sake had not then taken possession of
the Republican party. when they framed
the Mckinley bill, for that bill was not
framed to protect the manufacturer, but
in order to relieve the government from
an excess of revenue.
Today the idea of protection for the
sake Of protection, or, in other words,
for the benefit of the manufacturer, or
against the consumer, is the basal fact
of the Republican creed, and the present
schedules now before congress have
been outlined by the leading manu-
facturers of the country. Nothing is more
conclusive of the fact that the great
manufacturers, corporations and trusts
have congress by the throat; hence the
demands that these industries have
made in the tariff bill now under dis
cussion.
The herald., 1897-03-27
Nothing to Do But Live

It is something worthy Of special mem
tion to have had in Southern California
the Oldest resident Of the United States.
Senior Garcia, who died a day or two
since at Los Angeles. He was not ,
man of letters, art. science or business.
Had he been engaged In any of the great
activities of life he might long since
have worn himself out and died without
distinction; but as he seems to have
had nothing to do during the past sew
enty-five years but live, his name now
passes into history carrying with 1t the
prestige of years. If not of high honor
or great usefulness.-Redland Facts.
The herald., 1897-03-27

The San Joaquin Valley Railroad COM
pany has scored distinct advantage in
securing terminus for freight purposes
at Point Richmond, a short distance
north of Oakland, instead of going
further inland. The towage and pilotage
tariff from the Golden Gate to Port
Costa has been a severe tax upon the
expectation Of grain, and the Valley road
will depend largely upon the wheat-car-
rying trade.
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one-half a cent per ton mile to haul
freight. as that is the charge for hauling
their railroad material. While 1t costs
the railroad less than one-half cent
per mile, they charge the producers In
Antelope valley cents per ton per mile,
or ten times the cost. This must have
given the corporation very fair return
on its investment. In other words,
the railroad levied the immense
tax on 300 families of $4,000, when
the charge should certainly not
have been over five time the cost or $3.50
per ton, representing an extortion from
300 families of s37,500.
Would this occur were the railroads
in the hands of the government and run
after the manner of the postal system?
The herald., 1897-03-27
Handball VS.. Trigonometry

Our old townsman. ]. r. Newberry.
told the teachers of Los Angeles the
other day that If 1t came to a choice be-
tween the two he preferred hand-ball
to trigonometry in the schools. OF
course, Mr.. Newberry meant that he
would sacrifice the higher mathematics.
if need be, for the sake of maylel and
physical training. There is little doubt
that there is too much cramming In
our schools and too little symmetrical
training of mind and body. But 1t seems
equally certain that we are very near
the danger line in another direction. In
fact, we are extremists in methods, SO
that the athletically inclined is apt to
turn out professional football or base
ball player-even prize fighter-as the
studious boy is to cram" himself to
death. What we want is to get on good
middle ground But until we can get
there let us pray that our young peo-
pie may idealize books rather than
Drawn. Clearly the higher culture lies
in this direction.-RiversideR Reflex.
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A Pioneer Gone

In the death of DR.. Lewis Leach Of
Fresno probably the oldest pioneer Of
the San Joaquin valley passed away.
He had resided in the territory now
comprised within the counties of Mari
posa. MADEIRA and Fresno nearly fifty
years. In all these years he was not
more than once. il at all, beyond the
limits of those counties. He was .
staunch adherent of the Democratic
faith and an exemplary citizen. He fol-
lowed the practice Of his profession to
the end of his days. though he had ac-
cumulated a snug competence.-Stock-
ton Mail
The herald., 1897-03-27

What fearful thing must be min
isterial mustache! According to the
testimony of a reverend gentleman at
a convention of Free Methodists yester-
day such hirsute adornment on the
ministerial mouth not merely "obstructs
clear enunciation, but hinders the
preachers usefulness and cripples his
work" 1t must be a cumbrous OBJ
struction indeed. No wonder, If all this
be true, that Tom Reed found it expe-
dent to shave his upper lip.
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Looks Like Cleveland

Grover Cleveland's most famous
double may be President McKinley's
private detective. This double is Frank
Stible Word came from Washington
yesterday that Stible Is as good as
picked for the White House position, and
everybody who knows him was pleased.
Stible, besides bearing remarkable
resemblance to Grover Cleveland. is re-
garded as a man who was born under q
lucky star He always appeared to fall
into fortunate places. and now is likely
to get the best job any policeman In the
land will have for four years.
Stible began his police career in Chi
cago as a Columbian guard. Later he
was a bartender and then Central de-
tective. He once lived In Ohio. where
he was at one time an assistant warden
in the Columbus penitentiary. He 10
said to be. a personal acquaintance OF
Senator Mark Hanna.-Chicago Times
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to remove it's works to England unless
the new tariff bill grants a certain rebate
on tin used in the export of it's products.
That is the best argument in favor of
the Dingley bill yet offered. Don't grant
tho rehata
The herald., 1897-03-27

If is true that Cecil Rhodes has bought
the London Saturday Review there will
be some of the new journalism in Eng
land, for Rhodes hates Labouchere, and
Labouchere owns Truth and is not afraid
to print what he thinks.
The herald., 1897-03-27

A drilling plant has been taken to
Randsburg from Summerland, with
view of seeking for artesian water, the
discovery of which does not seem i'm
possible. Recent developments seem to
indicate that Randsburg and the ad
joining district will assume permanent
importance.
The herald., 1897-03-27

"A horse named Manifesto won the
grand national steeplechase in Liver
pool, England. yesterday. over a course
which is incomparably a test of pluck
and endurance. The Salisbury ministry
might with advantage accept this as
an omen and promptly declare itself
in regard to the miserable vacillation
of the powers in Crete.
The herald., 1897-03-27

Not an indigenous forest tree should
ever be cut down on public lands unless
ample provision Is made for the growth
Of another. The rule should apply also
to all private lands within the water
shed of every river. The present waste
of timber is a crime against prosperity
and posterity.
The herald., 1897-03-27
All Are Models

California has model legislature.
model assemvly clerk, molel state
printer, model newspapers-the Exam
iner and the Call; and California's pa
tient and long-suffering people are ac-
customed to such model afhictions ana
appear to enjoy them.-Santa Rosa
Democrat.
The herald., 1897-03-27

"Have you ever been to Naples, Smyth?"
Eyes; twice"
'Is Vesuvus as fine as 1t is said to be?"
Pretty fine; yes, quite as hne as It is
Lasted a great many years. eh?"
at has. indeed"
what impressed you most about it?"
"Oh, we'll, / think possibly that-its 8
smoked for two centuries. and isn't In bad
shape. after all. Have cigar?"-Harper's 5
Bazar.
The herald., 1897-03-27

The seizure of the kilograms which
passed relative to the coyote scalp bill
will no doubt result in the removal Of
several political scalps, for which no
charge will be made by the sage Of
Antelope valley.
The herald., 1897-03-27

Merchants can greatly assist home in
dustry by recommending home products,
and by adding to the prosperity of the
state add to their own.
The herald., 1897-03-27

The Riverside Fruit exchange has
completed arrangements for securing
daily bulletins from the weather bureau
at Washington. showing the tempera-
ture and weather of the principal east
ern cities. This will, no doubt, be of
service to shippers of fruit. The prin-
cipal cities and towns of Southern Cali
fornia might cooperate very profita-
bly, for the purpose OF having posted in
prominent places in every eastern city
of Importance daily record Of the tenn
perature and weather in various Sec
tions of California. Persistent recording
of sunny skies and pleasant weather is
a forceful advertisement in lands where
unpleasant weather is the rule and sun
shine the exception.
The herald., 1897-03-27
The Santa Barbara Independent states

The Santa Barbara Independent states
that the Santa Fe company has con-
tracted for 5000 barrels of Summerland
oil. to be delivered as soon as possible
While the contract price is not stated
it Is "believed to be better than 81 per
barrel" The question as to whether
coal or OIL shall be used seems to depend
upon whether oil can be had for more or
less than 81 per barrel.
The herald., 1897-03-27
Encouraging

Autonomy seems in the east to be an
other word for coercion.
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In view of past experience, one is
tempted to ask if Ezeta is really dead.
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lorn hope to lead an attack against
them. But the attack was finally made,
and has succeeded for the time being.
OF course. with the precedent Of the in
come tax decision upon the question Of
the value of rehearings, the case may be
overturned in a month. but for the pres
ent it looks as though the traffic man
ayers might have to retire from busi-
ness.
The fact that the associations do not
intend to calmly bow to the decree
might, perhaps, be inferred from the
remark of Chairman Tucker of the Cen
trail Freight association, to the effect
that the decision would have to fall be-
fore the combined attack OF the rail-
roads But the facts of the glaring ille
gality of the associations in their organ
ization, and the consequent difficulty of
taking even a plausible stand in their
behalf, are having a depressing infiu-
ence. The more conservative opinion
favors the prompt acceptance of the sit
uation and united lobby to secure IA
vorable legislation.
Altogether, this is one of those calam-
tiles that the people can view with fine
indifference, If they are generously in
clined, and with a grim satisfaction. if
they feel vindictive. The traffic COM
binations, which were neither more nor
less than trusts in the business of
freight and passenger transportation,
have reaped great profits from busi-
ness that is declared unlawful. The
people have been pIundered to the extent
of the lawless exactions. amounting to
many millions, but there is no redress.
and the conspirators are about to petit
ton congress to legalize their business.
They will find abundant sympathy with
the majority in the present congress.