The herald., 1897-09-30
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
5 ON THE STREET

A cook and a coachman got into
trouble the other evening out at West
lake park. The cook screamed and the
coachman was arrested by passing
patrolman who witnessed the incident
The coachman offered the officer $50 to
allow him to escape, for he was arrested
on very serious charge. The officer
had a conscience and refused. Strange
to say, when the case came to be consid-
cred by superior officers the informa-
tion was altered to one of much lighter
caliber-from rape to battery. Is 1t
possible that the coachman still has that
$50 about him?
A short time ago I drew attention to
the stategy of members Of the medical
profession who object to direct adver-
tising on principle, but who grasp for it
indirectly as practice. AS Stanley
Whiting and his colored assistant de-
clare at the Orpheum, "There are 9TH
ers;" in fact, the hotel men run the
medicos close second. If business men
could. obtain the same amount of free
advertising as do the proprietors Of
up shop Naturally enough the bonifaces
are spoilt by SO much kindness, and
when their hostelries are mentioned in
the news columns some half a dozen
times per diem, why should they con-
tribute to the Golfers of obliging papers?
OF course, If you try a similar game on
the hotels yourself and ask for board
and lodging free. you will get left.
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am glad to see that the coming race
meeting at Agricultural park is to be
the "best ever held here" That means
I presume, that the bookmakers and
booksellers will not be countenanced in
insisting on impossible prices and that
the honorable judges will have no "un-
derstanding' with the aforesaid gentry.
Plenty Of good horses are entered, and
/ am assured that the management will
this year be of as high standard as the
horseflesh. If this is so, the meeting
should certainly be the "best yet"
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The following from the sprightly but
occasionally spasmodic Record is well
worthy Of reproductions:
Spring street ought tos change Its
name to Fall street. or fill up the holes.
There is more truth than punetry in
this.
A number Of the prosperous and we'll
fed members Of the chamber of COM
merce, who visited the county farm last
Tuesday, were 80 pleased with the prem
ises that they expressed desire to stay
there. Some went so far as to ask DR..
Burdick for a pre-emption on certain
choice quarters in which they thought
they would like to spend dignified old
age.
By the way, what demand is there on
such an excursion as that for series
of so-called impromptu speeches? Do
they really add to the gaiety Of the occa-
sion or are they intolerable tasks for the
speakers and irksome impositions for
the audience? My own idea is that on
such expeditions Frank Virgins should
be the only man who is allowed to open
his mouth-except, Of course, to drink
c. of c. punch,
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A Los Angeles physician who recently
settled here, preferring California to
Missouri, Is not content with having
been innoculated with the germs of
tuberculosis. diphtheria, glanders and
other virulent diseases, but is now anx-
ious to breakfast off the germs Of yellow
fever on toast. He does not believe in
the theory Of bacteria as generally ap-
piled to diseases and positively courts
contagion. Before, however, the enter
prising physician plays any pranks with
Yellow Jack germs I hope he will shake
the dust of Los Angeles from off his feet.
BYSTANDER.