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The herald., 1897-09-19
RIVERSIDE

RIVERSIDE, Sept 1S.-(Regular Core
spondence.) The new telephone line which
will connect this city with San Diego will
be completed within a few days. The line
was completed from San Diego to Co.
roma couple of weeks ago, and the crew
of men at work on the line between the lat
ter place and this city has covered half the
distance. The new line is most substan-
tial one. The very best of forty-foot poles
are used, strung with heavy copper wire.
The line is pronounced by the representa-
tives Of the Sunset Telephone company
the best it owns.
Chas. Woelker of this city a well-known
fruit buyer and shipper, who has just re-
turned from Irvington, where he has pur-
chased large quantity of raisin grapes,
states that the crop of that fruit at that
place is the very best he has ever seen in
all his thirteen years. experience in the
raisin vineyards of Southern California.
He tells of one four-acre vineyard that
will turn off ten tons of raisins. Mr..
The herald., 1897-09-19
TERMINAL ISLAND

TERMINAL ISLAND, Sept 1s-(Regu-
lar Correspondence.) There is a queer lit
tie raft moored off the island in the inner
harbor of the future. The name of it is
Chow, something or other, and her masts
and rigging and tiller have the appear
ance of being built hind part foremost,
national trait of the little brown men who
navigate her. She is Chinese fishing
junk, and her cargo is sheepshead from
Clemente island. Her crew of two has
been busy several days discharging the
unsavory mass. When the junk reaches
port the fish, after having been salted,
are laid on racks to dry in the sun. Then
John stacks them like cord wood with
their repulsive heads and grinning tusks
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journed until october L. at which time
the tax levy will be made.
Rev. w. Martin of Michigan will Off
ciate at the Episcopal church tomorrow.
Mrs. A. Watt Of Te1unga. who has been
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. Bar
rie, of this place, returned to her home
today.
A social hop will be given by the Blan-
|chard- d-Schoneman orchestra at Foresters'
hall Wednesday evening. ,r.a
The local lodge Of the Fraternal Broth
erhood will give select social at Foresters'
hall Thursday evening.
A joint Sunday school picnic Of the Re-
dondo churches was held at Verdugo Park
today.
The last stick Of lumber Of the Willamette
Lumber company, lately purchased, by the
l.. w. Blinn company. was shipped to Los
Angeles yesterday.
The herald., 1897-09-19
SANTA MONICA

SANTA MONICA. Sept. 1s.-(Reru,sr
Correspondence.) The "man yacht" is
billed to sail tomorrow.
Ine school bonds were sold this after
noon to the Oakland Bank of Savines
she same institution that bought the sewer
ponds. 1t took the fifteen school bonds
OF slc0O each. the last two payable in ten
years, giving premium Of $1701.
ine steamer Sunol Dettmers. from
Greenwood, has finished discharging a car
60 of S036 ties
The steamer San Mateo, Fletcher, de-
parted yesterday for Comox. B. c., in bal
last.
+ stsame: Santa Rosa departed yesterday
The herald., 1897-09-19
Live canaries for cotillion Favors

A large cotillon was given recently at
Bar Harbor by Mrs. Pulitzer, for Miss
Lucille Pulitzer and Ralph, eldest son of
the house. The terrace and grounds
were hung with colored lanterns; the
dancing room, which is hung with GRIM
son satin, was transformed into a ball
room, with traceries of smilax forming
an empire fringe, and curtain of the
same delicate vine screening the or
chestra from view. Music was in the
conservatory, just off the ballroom.
The cotillon was led by Mr. Morrell
favors being live canaries in gilded
cages, X-ray skeletons tied up with gay
ribbons, fishing rods, clusters of roses
and all sorts Of conceits to help the fun
Of the moment. Supper was served at
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thinks the plan to incarcerate her In the
asylum at Highland for life by her hus-
band has been abandoned: =
Miss Elizabeth Bert and Miss Mabel
Meredith left Friday for q short stay at
Santa Monica
Mrs. DR.. g. A. Rene returned Friday
evening from her summer outing At Ocean
side.
w. T. Harris. assistant postmaster. has
returned from his outing at the coast.
Ex-Supervisor John c. Turner Of Vic
tor is in the city on business.
The herald., 1897-09-19
REDONDo

REDONDO, Sept. 1S.-(Regular Cores
pondence) Mrs S. M. Thompson Of 1908
East Eighth street, Los Angeles, died this
morning, aged SO years. Mrs Thompson
was the mother of Hugh Thompson of the
Los Angeles firm of Hutton, Thompson &
Co.
s. Rogers left today for the Randsburg
mining district.
Mrs. DR.. Kellogg Lane will preach the
evening sermon at the Congregational
church today.
me board OF trustees met last night and
audited number of bills, and then ad-
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the Farmers National bank. have got
some of the prettiest nuggets you ever
saw. have one worth $2O9.60. and sew
eral over 500 each. Come and get some
for yourself"
1t is cloudy here today and no sunshine.
This may be owing to the immense crowd
In attendance at the colored folks picnic
at the springs. A trainload came over
from Riverside. 1t may well be called a
dark day.
Mrs Ada Richards OF Redlands was in
the city Friday; looking in excellent
health. She was calling on friends, and
The herald., 1897-09-19

number Of small tables in one Of the
drawing rooms, which is hung with rose
pink satin, and elaborately decorated
with butterflies. Mrs. Pulitzer presiding
at a table liz the center. The decora-
tions were pink.-New York Herald. je'
The herald., 1897-09-19

Tenant demand rebate on my rent,
Your darned old water pipe burst. flood
ed my cellar, and my chickens were
drowned. H. d
Landlord-But, my dear sir why didn't t
you keep ducks?-Philadelph North
American
The herald., 1897-09-19
Asphalt Paving Popular

There are said to be asphalt streets
enough in the country already to make
highway twenty-six feet wide and 1900
miles long.
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ORANGE COUNTY

matter Of settlement with Gardiner &
Howe.
The times., 1897-04-25
Tie GiIsonite Trust.

To a considerable extent the gilsonite
sussion Thursday. Mr.. Lacey, OF Iowa,
argued against any arrangement through
which the valuable deposits OF the Tn
compahgre Reservation would pass under
the control OF spectators; he favored a
lease policy in the matter. Mr.. King, Of
Utah, regarded Mr.. Lacey's proposition as
'socialistic and communis tic,'' and declared
that the extent of the gilsonite beds was
much Smaller than it had been reported.
OF Mr. King contention by quoting from
the reporter the special Goyemmentexpert,
showing that the prospective product Of
the mines would amount to $4,000, 900
tons, from only six OF the veins SO far
defined He showed that the spectators
now figuring on the control OF the products
could deliver gil sonite in st. Louis or
Chicago at $40 ton, and sell it at from
. $40 to $50 This would give them
lluAInun pI otib VI S-ouSouOrOOO de
declared that il these lands were to be
opened it should only be after the question
had gone to the Public Lands Committee
and given full consideration.
After further discussion of the CnConl-
pahgre section on Friday. the understand
ing was reached that it should go to ron-
ference, with the House pledged TO insist
upon the leasing of the asphaltum lands
for limited terms of years; but il is doubt
full if even that will be effective in killing
the job.
Mr.. Underwood has done well to bring
out some Of the facts in this scandal, and
we are mistaken IL he could not shed
further light on the subject. 1t hardly
need be hoped that Democratic exposure
of the job viii much hamper its accom-
plishnent. There is powerful combine
behind it, and, as the gentleman from
Birmingham has demonstrated, millions
In it, All the same, such an outrageous
scheme OF public plunder should not be
allowed to escape its proper record in the
Newgate Calendar OF Republican rule and
legislation. 1t viii make excellent his
tory 10 refer TO later.
The times., 1897-04-25
The Fall of Larissa.

Yesterdays news from the seat of war
was indeed gloomy. 1t is as yet impos-
sibe to analyze the situation in any way
explanatory OF the disaster in detail. As
nearly as can he gathered from the dis
patches. on Thursday the Turks made a
furious attack from the eastern end of
AIilouna Pass upon the Greek right at
Matt, and, after six hours fighting, de
fested it. This seems to have offered an
opening FOR Edhem Pasha to reach the rear
OF the Greek army, and to move bctwAenit
and Larissa, a danger which Prince Con-
stantinc could only avert byfalling back
In retreatinG from Tyrnavo and Matt the
Greek commander must have decided that
q successful stand could not be made at
Larissa, and SO that position also was
abandoned, the entire army Df the crown
prince falling back on PharSaIa, at the
foot Of spur Of the Chassidiari Moun:ains,
about twenty miles south of Larissa. Phar-
sala is the center Of the last Greek line Of
defense in ThessaIy. II dslodged from
that line. there appears to be little that
could oppose the march OF a Turkish Grmy
20 Athens
The times., 1897-04-25
One Good American Move.

The appointment of the Hon. Harold NJ
sewaIl, OF Maine, is the best manifesto
tion OF vigorous American foreign pol
Icy, on the part of the President, yet
vouchsafed TO the public; and Mr. Sew
aIl's prompt confirmation by the Senate
is a good sign that at least one branch
of the Congress Is in accord with the
Executive on the Hawaiian question
A great deal is involved in the sending
OF AIL Sewall To the Pacific. What it
amounts To is Illustrated in bis record and
in the violent attempt that has been made
to prevent his going The most active in
fluence has been exerted by the sugar
and other anti-American interests to de-
feat his appointment, but he goes, and
that means speedy annexation.
Mr.. Sewall has a distinguished history
in connection with our interests in the
Pacific Ocean. He represented them vigor-
ously and successfully n the Samoan Is
lands, until Cleveland surrendered to the
Joint International control, and deliber-
ately sacrificed our position He was 100
good an American to he trusted as a
Cleveland representative abroad, and was
recalled President Harrison sent him
back again, but the Samoan situation by
that time had ceased to he any credit to
this country he was In Hawaii when
Cleveland tried to subjugate the republic
and restore the native dynasty. From that
time his views on annexation have been
clear and unmistakable, In a speech. de-
nvered at Portland, in 1894, he said:
/ am here to speak for an American
foreign policy, consistent and continuous,
which shall give to our Government its
proper ana becoming influence among the
nations OF the world. / am here to speak
Ior the honor and glory OF the American
nag, for the protection of American citi-
ZenS ana American interests wherever they
are, and Tor the extension of this great
repuhilc wherever In this Western Henri
sphere, natural right and national destiny
nave decrced that it shall GO
We most heartily ongrat ulate President
Mckinley and the country Harold NJ.
sewall is the night American stuff So is
the President, in the matter of our IN
terests rights, and honor, in relation to
the Hawaiian Islands.
We are encouraged by this action to
hope that soon We shall see a acorrespon ling
Executive movement in the matter Of Cuba.
The times., 1897-04-25
A Herald of Shame.

The New York Herald does what in it
lies to bring the blush of shame to every
true American cheek when 1T prints the
following:
The presence Of a Spanish war vessel
In New York harbor TO share IN paying
honor to a great American general is a
far more pleasant spectacle than would
be the presence OF United States war
ships in Havana harbor to enforce de
nands upon the Spanish government which
our Government would have no business
to make.
What? Is tt a pleasant spectacle to
see flying in the harbor of New York the
bloody ensign under which innocent Ameri-
cans are chained In foul Spanish dungeons;
under whose folds helpless prisoners of
war and wounded men are murdered; Ia
sight of which wretched women, chill
dren and babies are fiendishly tortured
and butchered?
Is it a more pleasant spectacle than
one would be OF an American warship
steaming into Havana harbor, OLD Glory
flying in the breeze and decks cleared
for action, to demand the release of
those Imprisoned Americans, and the
stoppage Of those hellish atrocities?
Would these be demands upon the
Spanish government which our Govern
ment would have no business to make?"
No, a thousand times no. unless indeed
the Government and people of the United
States are lost to all sense of national
dignity, American manhood, and com
mon humanity
The times., 1897-04-25
Hats Off TO Gladstone.

A London dispatch informs US Glat, in
q recent conversation, Mr.. Gladstone re-
marked that he hoped some Yankee
skipper would run a cargo into Cretan
mort. He imagined chat the blockading
squadron IN Cretan waters would not
dare to stop him"
1t would be a happy thing for our
country if Mr. Gladstone's kind and hearty
estimate of us, and of our foreign policy,
were justified by the facts. 1t would
have been before the reign OF Grover
Cleveland But under that regime new
and strange American precedents were
established. Yankee shippers who dared
to violate the paper Spanish blockade of
Cuba were violently stopped, not by the
navy Of Spain. but by the warships of
the American nation, acting as police
patrol for the Spanish government The
same thing might have occurred in con-
nectfou with the blockade of Crete, If an
attempt of the kind had been made before
the 4th OF March.
Since the advent of President Mckinley,
it NAV be that things are different. Per-
haps the old ideals are restored, and a
policy with manhood and national honor
in it re-established 1t is not yet In evil
dence, but everybody hopes with impatient
anxiety that it is there.
The times., 1897-04-25

1t is all right, and is very much cheaper than
either sThis use for the vegetable down
OF the erplaht is said to have originated
in New Jfrsey here housewives have long
made cat-tail Bed quilts. and where the
plant is very plsntifui. 1t grows all along
Delaware Bay from Morris River to Cape
May. ana during the season, which lasts
for many weeks, the average amount gath
cred Is said to be ton day. The work
of gathering, transporting and preparing
the down for manufacture constitutes q
considerable industry.
The only objection to this innovation lies
in the fact that the consumers, if one may
call them SO. suppose that they are get,
ting real plush and down, or at least
things with plush and down somewhere
in them; and they would not buy the arti-
cies if they knew that oat-tail was then
terial. 1t is the same objection which at
taches to the traditional authorizations of
sausage. People might not know that the
sausage was made Of horse or dog. but
they undoubtedly would object If they did
know. Also there is the inference that
if we pay for plush and get ca t-taI, some
body is growing rich off the difference
between the two This also is bad. But
the cat-tail Industry will probably survive
and will cause the stork landscape to dis
appear from home art, which in itself Is
worthy object
The times., 1897-04-25

Walter II. French, who has been file
clerk OF the House 1or the last four Con
crosses. and was also tally clerk OF the
Forty-fifth and Forty sixth Con resses,
has a penchant for gathering historical
information concerning the service OF Mem
bers of the House, and interesting incidents
in connection with the history of the two
bodies. He has several scrap books full OF
newspaper clippings and also two manu-
script books, in which he has gathered
much unique information.
He said yesterday that the sta terlent that
Representative Holman had served more
years in the House than any other mem
Der OF Congress was not strictly correct,
as william Newton, an early member OF
Congress from Virginia, had served one
year longer. The late Representative Hol-
man, however, had served in sixteen Con-
crosses, which was equal to the number
in which Newton had served, for the lat
ter was unseated in one OF the Houses In
which he sat. Mr.. French has made the
following tabulation OF the terms Of ser
vice In the House of the most notable old
members of recent years: W. 8. Holman, / 6
terms; William d. X ely, 8 terms; Charles
O'Neil. 10 terms; Samuel j. Randall, Ii
terms; and Samuel ). Cox, II terms.
The remarkable fact about these long
terms is that they occurred in the House
of Representatives, where political vicissi-
tudes are much greater than in the Senate
OF course many public men in the history
OF the Government have seen much longer
service than this, counting their expert
ence in both houses Secretary OF State
John Sherman was member of the House
and Senate for thirty eight years, and
Senator Morrill,, OF New Hampshire, has
been member OF the two bodies for forty
years. Thomas Il. Benton, OF Missouri.
long regarded as the Senator of longest
service w only thirty years in the Senate
and two in the House. Henry Clay broke
all records of service in the House by the
fact that he was twelve years member
OF 1t, and all that time Speaker
Senator Mason, of Illinois, tells an tn
teresting story Of his acquaintance with
Judge Holman, in the Fiftieth and Fifty
first Con gresses He says when ne first
arrived here, Mr. Holman found IL very
difficult to remember his name, and final
Iy said to him one day: Young man,
am not going TO have any furtner trouble
about this matter. l am going to call you
Douglas, because you look much like
Douglas used to-
And" says the Totund Illinois Sena-
tor, for q long while the Judge called
me Douglas 1 am glad to say that he
finally found out what my name really
was, and thereafter identified me with
it,
The times., 1897-04-25

President are usually filled by men to
have good abilities of one kind or an
other, and must get some sort Of an
office Epgland's consuiships used TO be
a sort of dumping ground for undesirable
Engllshmen. They have the advantage
of keeping the incumbent ia office for life.
or until he retires on pension and, con-
sequently, when younger son does rot
behave himself, or witness turns up
in a lawsuit with inconvenient fnforma-
tion, or for one reason or another
man is to be got rid of without killing
him, the consulship is at once called to
mind, and the undesirable one is ship
ped off TO some unfortunate island or
foreign port, where he can be heard from
only once or twice year, and where he
frequently proceeds to raise particular
Cain with the unhappy natives Nothing
is expected of him except to keep away
as long as possible.
With the German consuls it is another
story. The German consular service is
the most efficient in the world The Ger
man genius for hard work and statistics
finds full vent here, and the government,
which is a cormorant in its appetite for
roth, requires from these servants Of the
public the fullest improvement of every
opportunity for pushing German trade.
They are emphatically the best friends Of
the German trader and producer, and they
do not ask any commissions.
Taking it all around, the consular ser
vice OF the world, with the exception OF
Germany, is certainly open to considerable
improvement The great defect in the
American system is the short tenure of
office Even if the consul works hard
to master the intricacies of MS business,
by the time he is really of much use
20 his Government he is removed and
new official takes his place There is no
induceTnent for the right man to go in for
such an office.
The times., 1897-04-25

was decided that the deceased wheel
man did not make legal stop by cir
cling round and round near the track
1t was his business to disnount and put
himself in q position to look up and
down the track and make sure whether
train was coming or not; not to ride
around in the vicinity and watch his
chance to shoot across That was the
opinion Of Justice Mitchell, to whom the
case was referred after the PLAINTIFF
was non-suited in the common pleas; and
it is good, sound, common sense as
phalted and nacadamized opinion. With
out any disrespect to the departed bicy-
clist, he certainly had no right to sup
pose that any train could be stopped il
he persisted in riding in front OF 1t.
directly under the cowcatcher. There
is too much OF that sort of thing among
bicyclists and pedestrians. and it should
be discouraged for the comfort of all
parties concerned.
Something in human nature seems to
impeI it's possessors, in dealing with pow
ers too large for them, to see just how
near they can come TO getting killed
and not do 1t. 1t is the spirit OF the
small boy whenNhe plays a prank under
the very rose of the teacher, and when
he runs across the street under the
shadow OF the cable car or NEEDLES with
a mules hind feet. That same boy,
when he grows up, waits with fearful
curiosity outside door to see small
pox patient brought out; he makes point
OF getting on the railway train when it is
IN motion; he experiments with cleo
tricity, If he doesn't know anything about
it; he plays all sorts of pranks with the
law And when that boy, or that man,
gets overtaken by the Providence he has
tempted, it is hard to feel very sorry for him
whatever one may feel for his family and
when he undertakes to collect damages
for injuries received In his play. 1t
is tempting Providence little too far.
Hcyclists should take notice of this de-
cision in the ennsylvania court, for it
WILL in all probability, become precedent
They shouldnot ride across railroad track
in a hasty, unprecedented manner, in
order to save a few seconds OF time; they
should take care to see that train is
coming in either direction. 1t does not
make a man an old tabby to do this; it
can be done almost in an instant: and il is
much more agreeable for him, and his fam
iIy, and the railroad company or the cable
car stockholders for him not TO be hit by
the train No man likes to have his arm
or his leg amputated and his wheel
smashed, even If he does not get killed; no
family wishes to be deprived OF its head hy
such an untimely accident; and no railroad
company cares about having the bother
of a suit for damages on It's hands. Give
the :notormen and the conductors little
peace, and chance TO do their WORK, you
reckless people; and save your reckless
ness for time when it will be less
dangerous.
The times., 1897-04-25
Cat-Tail Fur.

Cat-tals, not the feline variety, but
the humble water plant Of aesthetic memo
ries. now prove to possess marketable
value. The slim, straight. graceful stalks,
with their sword-shaped leaves and shake
like heads, had sort of militar y look which
caused us in our youthful days to go after
them for drumsticks, and they filled that
office to great satisfaction. Year after
year the barefooted yomgster hopped from
hillock TO hillock. sometimes getting stuck
ignominiously in the swamp, in quest of
also good for arrows. Then there was an
endemic of cat-tail gathering, and the inn
naculate city boarder tried those self
same hummocks, getting cat-tails for the
young lady boarder to tie in bunch with
blue ribbon; but he seldom tried 1t more
than once. The small boy earned many sur
reptitious quarters In those days, and the
cat-tail was badly painted and badly used
for decorative purposes in general for sew
eIdL III VIC iei5h VI SSSdi
Lately. however. a really useful cat
tail industry has been established. The
down of the closely-packed brown head is
found to be useful for stuffing pillows
andcomforts For the latter, itissaid to be
nearly equal to eiderdown, and, Of course,
very much cheaper. Many of the very
cheap hammock cushions which have been
sold in department stores of late years have
been found, on investigation, to be stuffed
with cat-tail. tits not so light as down, but
nearly as soft, and it does not work itself
annoyin gly through the cover, causing
the rcposer In the hammock to look as if he
had been out In shower of goose feathers
Not only is ii of use in these humble ways,
but 1t is highly probable that so-called
plush is largely made of cat-tail.
This cheap and novel material is in
vadlng the cover of the parlor sofa andof
tie family photograph album, and the back
OF the hand-nlirror. and the plush head
rest and sofa-cushion When properly
dressed and treated cat-tail is not easily
to be distinguished from plush. 1t can be
called Alaskan plush or Shetland wool W hen