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Hot-Air Balloons.

Chief Crowley has received numerous COM
laints that hot-air balloons have been sent
Up in all parts of the City. and the faggots at
tache6 to raise them having fallen upon and
ct fire to roofs of houses The Chief yester-
lay notified the captains of the different
iistr.cts 10 arrest ali persons engaged in the
ractice.
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Total assets

The election resulted in the choice of
he following board of directors: 81. M.
La Rue, Z. S. Pilisburv, Uriah Wood, IL.
!. Lewelling. Seneca Ever, Thomas Nc
]. Dalzell Brown, F. w. Lougee, August
Muenter.
The bank will resume the payment of
eposits on Monday.
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GRAND MASTER c. L. J. W. PIERCE

OF the Grand OF who presided Yesterday afternoon Its
field black above below
cenraly Teutonc surrounded
band of yellow conspicuously emblazoned
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CHANGERS BANK AFFAIRS.
stockholders Assured That All Liabil
ties Will Be Paid in Full.

ties Will Be Paid in Full.
The stockholders of the Graneers' Bank
ED their annual meeting yesterday, and
eceived assurances that the settlement of
he banks affairs was progressing salts
actorily and that the liabilities would all
)e paid in full. The statement of the
Janks condition was as follows:
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A tower 1870 feet in height is to be erect
ed in Hartford, Conn.,, in memory of the
late Henry and Walter Keney OF that city.
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ruary. Upon that occasion number of
fine speeches are expected.
The new ice-presldent, Colonel John G.
Currier, states that their society IS one of
the most potent factors in the promotion
of harmony between the orce opposing
sections of the Union. There are about
225 members and there is a branch asso-
citation in Southern California.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-14

JEwELRy store TO Third street, removed to
303 Kearny street.
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WRAPS.

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We guarantee every reduction,
and every description is accurate.
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large buttons, never sold for 6p $50
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early as posi- Bile.
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binding. great value at clear ID u
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The herald., 1897-03-21

pie, but for all that, he should have the
moral support cf every one. At least
there should be no captious opposition
to him in congress or out Of it. He was
fairly and honestly commissioned to do
certain things for the public good. and 1t
is to the interest Of everyone to cooper
ate with him. The Herald is not in accord
with a single one of President McKin-
ley's economic plans of administration,
especially concerning the monetary and
tariff questions, but we are more than
willing to help hold up his hands, and
If he can demonstrate that his theory is
right, and greater stability to the busi-
ness situation and largely increased
volume of commercial operations follow
as the legitimate result, why, all would
admit that his policy should be con-
tinued. What the people want is better
conditions of existence. but while we do
not believe that President McKinley's
policy will widen and deepen the chan
nels of business as would sound Demo-
cratic policy, let him have the hearty
support of all the people for, after all,
the purpose of all parties is the same, l. e.
to secure the greatest good to the
greatest number of the people.
The herald., 1897-03-21
THE HERO, OF THE ASSEMBLY

Assemblyman Melick is not only a
man of nerve, but man of convictions.
A trap was laid to defeat the coyote
scalp scandal committee of which
Melick is chairman, but with boldness
and dash possessed by few, he complete
ly turned the tables and got possession
of all the damag ging kilograms. which he
subsequently submitted to the assembly.
When the box containing the tele-
grams reached Sacramento, Chairman
Melick boarded the express car, forcibly
took possession of the box and bore
It in triumph to the committees room,
but he was so pressed by the officers of
the telegraph and express companies
and the sheriff of the county that he had
to bolt and bar the doors. Even then the
doors were broken in, and not until
Melick threatened everybody with ar
rest did the opposition desist.
But the gallant Melick won at every
point Of the struggle, and the conse-
quence Of his daring determination to
do his whole duty in unearthing the al
legged steal was the laying of the tale
telling kilograms before the assembly,
which will, no doubt, cause the defeat
CT the coyote scalp swindle. Our special
dispatch from Sacramento this morning
is very choice reading.
The herald., 1897-03-21
CLOSER RELATIONS WITH JAPAN

The proclamation made by President
Mckinley declaring the sixteenth arti
Gle of the treaty of commerce and navi-
cation negotiated with Japan in 1894
to be operative, Is of great Importance
to merchants and manufacturers gener-
ally. The article provides that the citi-
zcns or subjects of either of the two
countries shall enjoy in the territories
tive citizens or subjects in regard to
patents, trademarks and designs, upon
compliance with the provisions and for
malities prescribed by law. The other
provisions of the general commercial
treaty with Japan do not take effect un-
til July II. 1899.
The commercial relations of the United
States and Japan will also be drawn
closer together by circular lately is
sued from the bureau Of navigation, in
which Commissioner Chamberlain gives
notice to customs cffiers that his
office being ratisfied that the Jp-
anese government has adopted rules
for the measurement of tonnage which
are practically the same as those in
operation in the United States, Jap
ese vessels hereafter arriving in this
country shall be deemed to be of the
tonnage denoted in their registry GER
tificates, or other national papers, and
that upon the production of such certifi-
Gates any re-measurement shall be dis
pensed with.
Thus, one by one, the links are being
welded that will unite this country COM
mercially with the little brown men who
have proved themselves not only good
fighters, but shrewd, progressive, enter
prisng business men whose policy is in
strong contrast with the characteristics
usually attribated to the Oriental races.
The herald., 1897-03-21
HAWAIIAN TRlBULATION

Unless the new administration takes
speedy and decisive steps toward re-
yiving the Hawaiian policy of President
Harrison there is just a chance that the
enterprising Japanese will have gath
cred in the island republic by sheer
force of colonization and occupation. 1t
is already shown that immigrants from
Japan comprise only a few thousand
less than half the entire population, and
they are still forcing their way thither
in, apparent defiance of the immigration
laws of the government There seems
to be a pretty decided opinion abroad
in Honolulu that the students" from
Japan, who are arriving there in great
numbers, are not of the class that they
would fain appear, but that these immi-
grants would run a very fair chance of
disclosing to the interested investigator
the disguised veterans of the Chinese
conquest.
The Dole government is just now en-
III CONTROVERSY WIN ei4S sAeAA-S
portation companies that are engaged
in bringing those undesirable immi-
grants to Hawaiian shores, and the
trouble is intensified by the threat of
the Japanese resident population to re-
sort to violence if the government per-
sists in its purpose to enforce the law
of exclusion against imported laborers.
The white population have anticipated
this or some kindred trouble ever since
the abortive attempt of the last admin
istration to restore the monarchy, and
have made the best preparation in their
power for such emergency, but they are
compelled to admit that the Japanese are
probably too strong to be overcome in
case of a conflict.
President Dole and his government
have, however, buoyed themselves with
the hope that the Mckinley administra-
ton would accept the gift Of their young
republic, which they hold themselves in
readiness to deliver if the gift will only
be accepted. In view of the attitude
of the parties there and of the newly de-
veloped aggressive ambition of the
mikado, it would be quite interesting
to know the views of President Nc
Kinley upon a question that evoked so
much enthusiasm in this country during
the closing days of Harrison's admins
The herald., 1897-03-21
THE EASTERN QUESTION

The news cabled from Athens, convey
ing the information that the opinion Is
gaining ground in court circles there
that Russia is secretly urging Greece to
war. created profound sensation on
this side of the water. This contingency,
however, was outlined in Jerome *.
Jerome's London weekly magazine
journal as early as December, 1896. A
translation from the st. Petersburg No
vosti of December also. contains the
following striking confirmation: IF
England and Russia are now again con-
fronted by the necessity of solving the
eastern question, their present relations
differ sensibly from what they were on
the eve of the Crimean war" The arti-
Gle goes on to speak of the present
friendship between Great Britain and
Russia, and to point out that rivalry
does not divide them now. Nor does
this rivalry exist in regard to Constanti-
nople, even if Russia were led by the
course or events TO seize Sohstah
nople. This is remarkable language.
The Novosti points out what would hap
pen under such circumstances: Ger
tainly not" it argues, war with Eng
land" The English journal quoted con-
cludes that English statesmen, as re-
suit of cowardice and stupidity, having
failed to do their plain duty when the
massacre of Armenians was taking
place, lost England's prestige, and that
England must now be content to see
Russia acquire what for half century
England has fought to keep her from.
These eastern views take on especial
interest at this time, when the question
of the hour is. What next?"
The herald., 1897-03-21
An English View of Chauncey

II Mr.. Chauncey M. Depew does sue
coed Mr.. Bayard in London he may make
a most ideal minister. At least, he has
the making of one. He is railway King
and a millionaire. He is born society
man. He really loves the old country.
which he visits every year with the reg
ular;ty Of the season. He is first rate
speech maker, especially after dinner.
and one of the best takers going. He Is
highly cultivated, though not with the
culture of a James Russell Lowell. He
is only 62 and he can work like ten horses
And lastly. he is one Of those Americans
who hold that 1t would be good thing
for the world If his fellow countrymen
and the English people knew each other
better and were better friends
This last is the point upon which the
interviewers should go for him. They
would have no difficulty with him, for
an Interview is as easily got from him
as a post card from Mr.. Gladstone. Mr..
Depew has rather a weakness for being
made fuss about. Often he twitted the
big British dailies for what he has cand-
idly called their unintelligent and SEN
sational way of dealing with American
AFFAIRS. You will give columns to
lynching case or a train robbery, says
Mr.. Depew, but you do not enlighten the
British public on, American life and poll
tics-Londou Echo.
The herald., 1897-03-21
ABOVE PURCHASE

In these days, when so many will do SO
much for money, it is great satisfac-
ton to those who still have hopes of
human nature, and who believe there is
still enough purity left to maintain the
republic, to find the decision in the San
Pedro harbor matter confirming their
position. There never was greater non
sense than the statement so often made
that all men can be bought. Nor did
Walpole ever make the statement, as
generally quoted. He did not say that
all men have their price. 1t was:
Those fellows (over there) all have
their price, No man who ever knew his
fellow man ever made the statement in
any other way.
All men may, indeed, be influenced in
some way not exactly the best, and
friendship Is often stronger than money
No one is free from prejudice, and tears
often overcome reason. Under the cleo
tive system, the most upright judge can
hardly help thinking about the effect of
some decision on the next election, and
many a juror has been led away by
sympathy for the wife and children of
the defendant. None of us is free from
such influences, nor ever will be.
But there are men almost by the mil
lion who cannot be bought with money.
The fact that every one likes money does
not even tend to prove it. There are
thousands who value many other things
quite as much as money, and at the head
of the list is self-respect. Men who are
poor are as well supplied with this as
those who are better off, and perhaps the
number of poor men who have refused
bribes is greater than the number of
those who were we'll able to refuse them
To many money is no compensation for
the loss of self-respect, while thousands
more would not take the risk Of discov-
cry and loss of reputation involved in it.
even if they were willing to sacrifice their
own dignity.
1t is not at all likely that any presi-
dent ofthe United States ever took dol
lar, directly or indirectly, Improperly,
or that any one ever had the boldness
TO offer it. When man gets to thatposi-
tion, it is probable that he has but one
ambition left, which overrules all else
to leave good name. No amount of
money could compensate for the loss of
that. One in high position has many
powerful friends about him, who will
give him many tip on the stock mar
The herald., 1897-03-21
How Depew Lost St. James

There are already those who assert
that Mrs. Mckinley Is neither equal IN
health and strength, in the long run, 10
presiding over the White House nor dis
posed to share or abdica.e in favors OF
any one else. Thus, there was no allu-
sion in the luckless Chauncey Depew's
after-dinner speech at the Metropolitan
club (on the occasion Of the entertain
ment given by Col. and Mrs. Cruger IN
honor Of Mr.. and Mrs. HobarD that
caused more annoyance than poor
"Peach's" direct reference to Mrs. Ho-
bart as the lady likely. In view of Mre.
McKinley's disability, to do the honors
at the White House.
This extraordinary discourse, which.
in all probability, cost DIR. Depew the
appointment of ambassador at the court
of st. James. since 1t incidentally ridi-
culed the honorable poverty Of the NC
Kinleys-"that library without book;
that sitting room without a chair!"-
this alleged humorous effort is under
stood to have reached Canton by grape
vine telegraph and to have resulted in
strained relations, in spite of Hanna's
"jollying Washington Letter to Bos-
ton Herald.
The herald., 1897-03-21
SPECIAL SESSIONS

1t would appear reasonable to the
average mind that rule established by
congress and tried for more than hun
dred years ought to be changed if It
does not meet the demands of the coun-
try. Attention has been so frequently
called to the doing away with a cause
which makes it necessary for special ses-
sions of congress that it should be clear
to every representative that the date
of assembling at the national halls of
legislation ought to be changed.
The newly elected president takes his
seat March 4, and the members of con-
gress go about their private business for
thirteen months after their election,
The herald., 1897-03-21

ket or some other thing, where he can
make "sure killing on small invest
ment. without any Of the danger run
by the common greenhorn who takes
points from dear friend. But. be-
yond that, it is probable that the public
men of the country are as pure as they
ever were here or in any other land.
If there is anything our country needs
1t is more respect. We can maintain a
republic only by retaining our own re-
spect. If we have no men who cannot
be bought, we can have no self-respect
as a nation, and the change from democ-
racy to monarchy is but question OF
time In the trying times through which
we have passed, we have been very
querulous and inclined to blame to We
nality many things that the weakness
of human nature made unavoidable. But
if it were true, as so often charged, that
most all our public men can be bought,
it would be high time for the poets to
begin work on the dirge of the last OF
the republics. They represent us. and,
though we make some mis- takes, we are
not wholly wrong. What they are we
are. and we cannot divorce the two. One
cannot be pure and the other impure.
Fortunately we do not have to make
such a distinction. 1t is only the ignor-
ant who are eternally charging some
body with selling his opinion. We have
enough others who know better. These
are the hope of the republic, and to them
the decision of the harbor board was no
surprise, while the many who predicted
that the money of Uncle Coils would set
tie the business would better suspend
further operation of the lower MAXI
larry until they learn something of the
world
The herald., 1897-03-21
A Strange Legacy

A dispatch from Brussels says that an
original individual of Mons, who, during
his lifetime, was fond Of good living, has
lust died leaving legacy Of $4,000 to five
friends under the following extraordi-
nary conditions: The legacy must De
snent on dinners served in different res
taurants and the deceased has sttpu-
lated that at each meal certain special
dish and particular wine, Of which ne
was very fond, shall be served, and that
at dessert his memory shall be drunk
Furthermore, the five companions mus.
dine in black clothes and black gloves
and must enter the dining room pre-
ceded by a flag and the music OF an &C.
Brussels last week and the injunctions
were carried out to the letter. or the
ave friends, two are from Brussels, one
from Antwerp, one from Mons and one
from Charleroi-Pall Mall Gazette.
The herald., 1897-03-21

The proposed city census, under the
state law, as suggested by Postmaster
Mathews, will probably be taken in
connection with the annual school CEN
sus, to save expense. The finance COM
mittee of the council yesterday adopted
a recommendation providing for COM
mittee of three to consult with the board
of education with that object in view.
AS has been stated 10 The Herald. the
direct benefits to the city would much
more than balance the comparatively
trivial expense, to say nothing Of the
indirect advantages that would result
from having the city rated at its proper
standing
The herald., 1897-03-21
Long Lost Brother Found

Stephen Gale. who lives up in the foot
hills north of Pomona, has had strange
fortune come to him from long separ-
ated brother Gale has for years been
living in poor little shack and raising
Lima beans and other truck for his liv-
ing. Some thirty years ago he had a
good deal of property in Chicago. He
and his brother, Daniel w. Gale. quar-
relied and he struck out for the north
west. He never wrote but once to his
brother. He drifted down the coast and
finally came to Pomona, In 1878. c..
w Ford, agent for the Postal Telegraph
company in this city, when leaving Chi
cago few months ago, was told how
Daniel w. Gale had died In Chicago.
leaving great deal Of wealth and had
left request that his brother II found
be cared for Mr.. Ford found the miss
ing brother and corresponded with the
widow Of the deceased brother in Chi
cago She soon came to Southern Cali
fornia accompanied by Mrs. H. H. Blake.
wife of one of the managing editors Of
the Chicago Times-Herald. The long
lost brother couldsnot be persuaded to
return to Chicago, so It was arranged to
The herald., 1897-03-21
WE ASK TOO MUCH

written for The Herald.)
We ask too much in this sad world Of ours.
Too much of sunshine and too much OF
flowers;
Too fair a pathway life's long journey
through.
For forward glance. too bright future
view;
All, that is tive ask too much.
II we but could, we'd fight away the storms
OF woe that would o'erwhelm us with
alarms;
We'd beat away the sorrows that Oft
times
Would seek to be our sad funereal chimes
Unshadowed lives would be too much.
More often still 1t is not loads of pain
That crush us most and make our joys In
vain
But little griefs-a hurtful word, smile
That's vanished from face We love
while
And does not seem to us too much.
We bear not disappointments with good
grace,
Nor with our joys our saddest griefs efface;
And non-success and failures. all allied.
Wear US beneath their great, tumultuous
tide; Nf
But then II is, we ask too much.
Ios Angeles. March 16, 1897.
The herald., 1897-03-21
LET THERE BE COOPERATION

1t is evident that the tariff bill now be-
fore congress will become law without
material change in any of the schedules.
The st. Louis platform declared une-
quivocally for high protection and the
majority of the voters endorsed it, and
the Dingley measure is the fulfillment
of the Republican party's pledge. The
question, therefore, of whether the sew
eral schedules of the bill do or do not
form a piece of intelligent and we'll
considered economic legislation is not
now a debatable one. Very many ex-
perts in the science of political economy
believe that the results which will come
of the practical operation of the new
, bill will be disappointing to the admins
tration, but. on the other hand, there are
equally capable economists who believe
otherwise; hence in some degree, at
least, the Dingley bill may be considered
an experiment.
But Notwithstanding the bill is pecu-
ltarly a Republican measure the whole
country has interest in it, and every
sensible business man wants to see the
measure fortified at every point where
its operation could be nullified or weak
ened. The commercial affairs of the
people, which include every line of trade
and traffic, transcend in Importance all
questions of political party preferment
and individual theories Of government,
and business men of all parties are al
ways willing to vArk together for the
general good of the material concerns
of the whole country. and conform
cheerfully to whatever policy of govern
ment the administration that happens
to be in favor may think the most con-
ducive to national prosperity. 1t is in
this cheerful acquiescence and mutual
cooperation on the part of men of all
parties that the strength of the business
interests of the country lies. Stability
in the channels and avenues of trade
Interchange, and equality of opportu
nifty to employ capital, skill and muscle
are what the public want, and the peo
pie are not slow to indorse the policy of
the political party that secures those
conditions for them.
President McKinley's theory Of gov
ernment is not indorsed by the best
Judgment Of nearly one-haif of the peo-
The herald., 1897-03-21
Los ANGELES fERAIDs SUNDAY MORNING MARCH r. Is,7

November 4. No matter how urgent the
business Of the government may be; no
matter how how much has been done
that ought to be undone, there is no
help for 1t but call by the president for
a special session of congress. And. to
leave this to the power Of one man, sa-
vors too much of monarchy. in re-
public.
Because our forefathers established
the rule, it ought not to follow that 1t
must be blindly acquiesced in for a
century, any more than rule that we
should wear our forefathers' queues and
knee breeches.
The neglect of one congress ought not
to be charged to another, and the bill
offered in the last congress, but not
acted upon, had many good features. 1t
was in substance that the firI session
of every congress should begin March
after the election of congressman, and
the second session January 1, or the first
Monday thereafter. And that bill, IL
it had passed, would have saved much
valuable time to the country.