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The herald., 1897-08-22

gard to government In a new as In an old
country. Early settlers are too busy ir
their private affairs to give taat attention
to public matters which Is common 10
people who possess competency and
leisure.
At the time California donned state
hood political feeling was intense, and
more attention was given to the great
question which threatened to disturb
the peace Of the native than to devising
model system of local government. 1t
was time, too when the idea was domi-
nant that party success was more GER
tainly assured by providing a multi
plicity of offices with liberal salaries as
inducements to the performance Of eff
fective party work than through wise
and economical government.
1t was undoubtedly difficult for the
wisest and best to rise above the de-
moralizing environments, and to sue
cessfully arrest the rage for govern
ment and institutions that would satisfy
the thirst for spoils, and to carry out the
idea which should subordinate every
considerable to that Of the public well
fare.
The result was the establishment of
cumbrous and expensive system. The
public gave so little attention to
public affairs that they did not inform
themselves as to the quality of govern
ment which was instituted, and as
money was easily acquired they bore the
burden of taxation without complaint
and with apparent complacenoy.
There has been some change. but legis-
latures have not as yet discovered
that the olden theory is inapplicable to
present conditions, and that it is wrong
under all circumstances. The majority
in the late legislature was more jealous
in providing places for partisans than
in devising wise legislation. 1t is time
that it should be understood that "oid
things have passed away and all things
have become new" 1t is our opinion
that the people of California will here
after elect men to office who will con-
slider the honors of Office as more de-
sirable than it's emoluments. The
country demands abolishment of un-
necessary offices, reduction of salaries,
and that no money should be expended
for which the people do not receive an
equivalent in benefits
The herald., 1897-08-22
THE STAFF OF PROSPERITY

The changing customs Of japan. and
also, though in a slower ratio, those Of
China, are bringing about rapidly in
creasing demand for the cereals of the
United States. The reduction Of freight
charges has brought wheat into promi-
nence as a desirable return cargo for
the big steamships that bring goods
from the Orient to the Pacific coast.
Appetite does grow by what it feeds
upon, and the present favorite diet of
watery rice may soon be supplanted
among the little brown men by the gen.
erous life and health giving qualities OF
American wheat. The surplus of this
cereal is going to be large in the United
States. Bradstreet's estimates the crop
at $50, 900 bushels as a reasonable
figure. Private experts go as high as
600, 900, ,0C0 bushels. The estimate of the
government is 100000, 900 bushels. After
deducting for the home demand ii is
estimated that we shall have about 16O.-
600, 900 bushels for export. For the
year ended June 30th the exports
amounted to 14O,OOO,OOO bushels. The
European shortageis estimated by Beer
bohm at more than 100. 100000 bushels
as compared with last year. The result
ing prosperity to the American farmer
will therefore not be traceable by any
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tail. And the gain to either nation ?

tail. And the gain to either nation ?
Nothing
1t by no means follows that we, in the
shadow of the menace of even such a
war, should submit to national insult,
or loss of our territorial or commercial
rights. There is no fear of that. No pen
can picture losses and suffering, in a
war with any other nation under heav-
en- sufficient to act as deterrent upon
the American people where their rights
are infringed upon or the honor Of their
flag is involved. In such a case they
would joyfully accept any contingency
or consequence; for they are today, as
their fathers were in days past. still
ready to expend millions for defense
but not one cent for tribute. That point
Is settled.
But as rational men let us abandon the
puerile chip on the shoulder character
istic. Let us show our confidence in our
national strength by the silent, digni-
fed self-respect that comes from such
confidence, and let us cultivate wide
awake appreciation of the relations we
sustain not only to England, but to ev-
cry nation that favors liberty and just
ice and that is willing to share with us
the blessings of mutual prosperity found
only in the cultivation of the arts OF
peace
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EXPENSIVE GOVERNMENT IN
CALIFORNIA

1t will not be controverted that gov
ernment in California is inordinateIy ex-
pensive. The circumstances under
which the state government was formed
were unusual, and they were not favor
able to economical ideas. California
was never placed in territorial tutelage;
the people, in their original right,
formed a government and congress
without much delay granted admission
into the Union.
At the time of the acquisition of Cali
fornia by the United States the civilized
population of the state amounted
to but thirteen thousand. The dis
covery of gold caused rush
hither of people from every state
In the Union and from some foreign
countries, and all were animated by the
passion to acquire wealth. They So
journed without homes, or the influence
Of good society, and they endured hard
ships and deprivations In order to real
ize what was their highest ambition.
Happiness was sought in a restless and
wretched scramble for gain. Amid such
environments 1t was inevitable that the
idea should have become prevalent that
money-getting is the highest occupa-
tion. and that he who accumulated most
was greatest.
At the time the state was organized the
great majority Of the population consist
ed Of newcomers, brought hither by the
spirit OF adventure which the gold excite
ment engendered. Undeveloped re-
sources seemed unbounded; enterprise
was extraordinary, prices of all kinds of
property were enormous; employment
was plentiful; wages were phenomenally
high, and all classes were prosperous. 1t
was land Of large ideas in regard to
material matters and living was ex-
travagant to the very boundary of prod
igality.
Many of the delegates to the convention
which framed the first fundamental law
and formed the state government did
not intend to remain in the country
longer than was necessary to acquire
fortunes, and it was the same with a
considerable percentage of their constit-
uents. 1t may almost be said that the
first constitution was framed and rati-
flee by those who had no permanent in
tsrest in or attachment to the country
1t was case Of carpet-ba bagging greater
than in the southern states after tha
war of the rebellion. A state govern
ment was created to suit existing condi-
tions and ideas, with little or no thought
Of the changes that time would pro-
duce.
Nothing is apt to be SO we'll done in re-
The herald., 1897-08-22

Talk about romance in real life. A
man in Chicago has told how physician
in that city hired him to destroy the good
looks of the physicians wife by throw
ing vitriol In her face. The man pre-
pared to carry out the bargain, but was
so smitten with the beauty and graceful
ways Of his intended victim that he not
only relented, but rushed to the police
and confessed ALL If that had been
pasasge from a penny dreadful maga-
zine it would have been called pernicious
literature; but all things are possible to
Chicago. The lady could not have been
a native of that city, however.
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A Boyish Practice

1t Is boyish practice into which some
Of our San Francisco contemporaries
have fallen of boasting Of the exclusive
ness of every bit Of news they happen to
fall upon. 1t is absolutely childish to
says, LAS was exclusively announced in
yesterdays Bladder" etc. It is in
initely more creditable to publish the
news. The great mass of the reading
public are quick to ascertain which jour-
nails are most newsy, and which Of all are
most trustworthy. The public wearies
of constant boasting about Scoops
Sacramento Record-Union.
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CALIFORNIA OPINION
Whittier Had One Too

The strikes in this state lately have
been rather Of an amusing character
than otherwise. First, there was the
strike of jute mill workers in the San
Quentin prison; now the prisoners in the
Santa Clara county Jail have struck
Not long ago the supervisors of Santa
Clara county, in looking aroud to see
where they could economize without in
terfering with the public service Of the
county, concluded they would cut off
the supply of tobacco furnished the
criminals in the county Jail. The re-
suit was that the pump gang, cooks and
TRUSTEES quit work, and the jailer is do
ing the cooking.-Sacramen Bee,
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Liquor Question at Riverside

II the proposed ordinance becomes a
law 1t will only be a question of a few
weeks when it will be declared unconsti-
tutional, and the trustees will have all
their work to do over again. Why not
leave the liquor ordinance just as it is ?
There have been but few complaints
lodged against it. and it has proved by far
the best ordinance that the city trustees
have ever passed. There has been less
drunkenness during the period that it
has been in effect than at any previous
time in the Prohibition history of River
side.-Riversde Enterprise.
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By the Ocean Side

When the waves are inward bowling,
When the pebbles get to rolling,
And the seabirds glide;
When the breeze is softly signing,
And you really feel like lying
Do it by the ocean-side.
If you love the blue Pacific.
And the sky so beatific,
Viewing the expanse so wide;
There is nothing so enhancing,
While the fretted waves are dancing,
AS lying-by the ocean-side.
G. v. FRARY.
Los Angeles. Aug. 20, 1897.
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THE HERHLD'S MUSE
Then and Now

Once beside the hearth stove bright,
Her cheek aglow with rosy light,
With air demure and lissome grace,
She sat, and with averted face
Heard her young lovers fond appeal,
While swiftly flew her spinning wheel.
Now, bloomer-clad, through shady lane,
Oer wooded slope and fiowery plain,
With airy grace, she cleaves the wind;
Her lover pedals just behind,
And tandem-wise his love words steal,
While swiftly flies the spinning wheel.
w. M. p.
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camera in her hands, and anything that
pleases her eye she photographs. sne mas
several hundred pictures OF the comic sort
In her collection and during informal after
noon entertainments shows them to her
guests. 1t was the intention of Mr.. and Mrs.
10. H. p. Belmont to go abroad after the
Newport season, late in August. now now
ever that the negotiations for the pur-
chase of their lot at Fifth avenue and
Seventy-seventh street have been con-
summated, 1t is understood tnat MI. pei
mont will remain. Mrs. Belmont will go
across to visit with her daughter, the
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Duchess of Marlborough, nee Vanderbilt.
1t Is probable that she will not remain
during the winter, as she is especially in
terested in the building of the new town
house and her country house at Hemp
stead. The country house is rooted in
and will be ready for occupancy about
Oct. 1st. 1t is surrounded with picturesque
grounds, including golf links and trout
ponds, and Meadowbrook runs through the
property. 1t has always been regarded as
one of the finest places in the Meadow
brook region.-New York Mail and Ex-
press.
The herald., 1897-08-22

Harry Bates is dangerously Ill from
the effects of mosquito bite. Harry
lives in Morristown, New Jersey. A de-
tail of militia with a gatling gun and
are nting the mosquito.
The herald., 1897-08-22
SUNDAY, AUGUST %, 1897
THAT LITTLE BOOK

Another consignment of that little
1O-cent book, "Klondyke Nuggets" :"
reached The Herald last Saturday,
and we are again ready to fill orders.
The supply may not last very long,
and those who wish to secure the
book should apply at The Herald
counting room early.
The herald., 1897-08-22
Los Angeles Bargain Week

AS time progresses and its mellowing
influence is allowed to eat away the gilt
ter of gold from the proposition to have a
great bargain week in Los Angeles, the
good sense of that community is being
made manifest to degre that one would
hardly expect of our big neighbor.-San
Pedro American.
The herald., 1897-08-22

And now Terminal island is clamoring
for postal facilities. The good people
might apply to Secretary of War Alger,
who always gives San Pedro people eve
rything they want. Don't bother the
postoffice department about little thing
like that. Go right to Alger.
The herald., 1897-08-22

The dispatches say that capitalists are
fiocking into Mexico to take advantage
of the high premium and invest their
gold. They would not be doing that if
bankruptcy and to the dogs generally.
The herald., 1897-08-22
Legislation and Sea Marriages

The next legislature should pass a law
legalizing all sea marriages heretofore
contracted, and place a strict prohibi-
tion on any in the future. This will
save interminable litigation over the le-
gitimacy Of heirs and property rights in
many cases-San Bernardino Times-In-
dex.
The herald., 1897-08-22

Uncle Horace Boies has started an
other straddle. For the present he is IN
favor of bimetallism, but not at the ratio
of 16 to 1. Don't worry yourself about
little matter like the ratio, Uncle Hor-
ace; you could not get another office i'll
Iowa If you should Live to be as old as
Methuselah
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process of reasoning to the passage OF
the Dingley bill, although, as matter
of course. there will a great shout of
exultation go up attributing every ad-
vantage obtained by the farmer to the
tariff legislation just enacted.
The herald., 1897-08-22

The London National Review refers
to the "unceasing oratory" Of Mr.. Bay
ard, until recently our ambassador at the
court of St. James. What, hasn't the
man quit yet? He must have filled a
phon ograph just previous to his depart
The herald., 1897-08-22

This weeks weather is simply a gen.
tie reminder Of the eastern climate. If
the heat wave should roll from the Pa
cific to the Atlantic. gathering fire and
dryness as it goes-whew!
The herald., 1897-08-22

The Los Angeles bank clearings for the
last week show an increase of rs per
cent over the corresponding week Of last
year. If prosperity is right at hand, Los
Angeles seems to be getting her share.
The herald., 1897-08-22

Senior Sagasta has sounded the note
of warming against the horrible Spanish
atrocities in Cuba. He sees that the pol
icy Of cruelty will make it impossible
for Spain to raise more money, and
without more money Cuba is lost to the
mOuarchy
The herald., 1897-08-22

On corner Of Broadway there Is a
stand where two or three express wag-
ons are allowed to ply for hire. The
drivers are colored men and they have
some children who, with sundry colored
chums, make up happy group of Dark
est Africa, whose only black feature is
skin deep. The men discuss current
events, the state of the nation and the
silver question. with as much earnest
ness as if they were councilmen, and
their language is never offensive to pas
sers by. Their regard for recent city
ordinance is shown in placard which
they have put on the building at their
corner, on which is printed in crude
characters Don't Spit On This You
Sidewalk"
The herald., 1897-08-22
LOS ANGELES DAILY HERALD
SWORN STATEMENT CIRCULATION


State Of California, County Of Los Ange-
less.
L. M. Holt, superintendent Of circulation
of the Los Angeles Daily Herald. being
first duly sworn. deposes and says: That
for the five months from February 1. 1897,
to June go 1897 Qnclusive), the total circu-
lation Of the said Daily Herald was 1890, ,6S5
copies, being an average daily circulation
Of e6OA.
That tho weekday circulation during the
above time was 1,071, ,567, being daily aver.
age of $500 copies.
That the Sunday circulation during the
above time was N9,059, being an average fol
each Sunday Of 1O;A31.
l.. M. HOLT,
Superintendent Of Circulation.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
18th day of July. 1897.
FRANK ]. COOPER,
Notary Public in and for the County OF Los
Angeles, State of California.
The herald., 1897-08-22

Riding the blind baggage" of the
new railroad from Juneau to Dawson
City will be cold work. but tourists will
not be troubled much by the dust.
The herald., 1897-08-22
Gossip Of Newport

Miss Virginia Fair, the great heiress and
beauty has gained considerable distinction
as an amateur photographer. She is fire.
Quently seen on Newports streets with =
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A St. Louis woman who has been di-
vorced twice within three months holds
the record up to date. She will have to
come to California to live If she wishes
to avoid temptation.
The herald., 1897-08-22

1t is getting so that there are about
as many DDS among the preachers as
there are colonels and majors in the pro-
fame walks Of life.
The herald., 1897-08-22
ON THE STREET


Sauntering along Broadway I peeped
in the window of jewelry store, one of
those places where the jeweler does
something besides wear big diamonds
and chat with his fascinating lady Gus
toners. This bright jeweler was work.
ing, his coat was off and his agile fingers
were employed on the intricacies Of some
watch adjustment He was suffering
from the heat. like the rest of us, but did
not seem to mind the porous exudation
by reason Of his pride in the success of
his device for keeping the flies from pas
turing on the summit of his Uranium,
where, to tell the truth, the herbage was
very scant Just above his head an or
dinary oval Japanese fan was fixed in
a socket that was moved by clockwork
arrangement, and solemnly the fan
f1icked off the flies with a forever
never" stroke, like the old clock on the
stairs, and the jeweler worked on.
The street cars monopolize the streets
and the dear women monopolize the
street cars. Yet how few of the saccha-
rine sex know how to alight from the We
hicle that bears them to their destina-
ton with electric speed. A careful OBJ
servation made in the last few weeks
has shown me that out of every hundred
women who descend from the street
car, eighty-five get off with their backs
to the motion of the car, fourteen get
straight off without an inclination to
right or left, and one gets off properly,
facing the direction in which the car is
travelling. 1t seems as if such simple
fact should be better known, that If the
car should not have quite stopped, or
should resume its journey sud-
denly, the person alighting is impelled
with the movement, and the danger Of
alighting backwards is therefore quite
evident. That more accidents do not oc-
cur is owing entirely to the vigilant care
Of the conductors, whose patience and
constant watchfulness deserve all
praise.
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The wave of economy which has been
brought about by the hard times has
been felt not only by the people who sell
articles Of luxury which may be dis
pensed with, but also by those who dis
pense the necessaries Of life. 1t has even
affected the men who provide one of the
greatest necessities, namely, a clean
shave. Not many years ago BARRIERS used
to charge 25 cents for this comforting
operation and later. when the price was
reduced to Is cents, many Of them de-
clared they could not live, and now the
increase Of the 10 cent shops threatens
to bring the charges to that level. The
fact is, the BARRIERS have two classes
Of customers. The man of one class is
not satisfied unless he sits long time in
the chair and has all the refinements
Of the BARRIERS art employed in his IA
vor; such man will wait half an hour
for his turn" and expects to spend at
least half an hour lolling at his ease in
the velvet chair. But there Is another
class Of men who want quick shave
and no foolishness; they become rest
less over the BARRIERS long g-drawn-out
proceedings and just want to be shaved
and have done with it. For such men the
cheap prices charged are quite enough
for them to pay. Why doesn't some en-
terprising barber advertise to give a
business shave and guarantee to turn
his customer out Of the chair in six min
utes? The tyranny of the ordinary slow
going system is submitted to in just the
same way as other impositions. 1t Is
not so much the charge in money that
a man has to pay for being shaved, but
it is the inordinate amount Of time that
that necessary operation consumes
which is the legitimate subject Of COM
plaint.
The success of Rosemary" is as un-
doubted as 1t is inexplicable. There is
nothing in the action but everything in
the actors. I asked my colleague, the
dramatic critic, who also deals in epi-
grams, how he could account for 1t. His
drew"
I met an old-timer on the street last
Friday afternoon and we stood swelter-
ing in the shade for minute or two,
both endeavoring to refrain from men
tioning the heat. At last, in the absence
Of other topics, I muttered: Say, you
know this country pretty well. What
do you call this wind? Is 1t a
Santa Ana, a norther, or what kind Of a
er, anyway" my dear sir" he replied.
"I can only call it regular sweater"
BYSTANDER.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1897-10-22

Lee surrendered at Appomattox, host
10 times as large as all the armies OF
the confederates have marched into
our citadel OF citizenship"
These must be converted and Amer
icanized. 1t is vast job but in the
name of God we must claim these needy
strangers of the old world for Him and
put upon them the sign and seal OF our
Christ. One word aoont money. Mon
ey is mighty but not Almighty. Con-
secrated souis are eager to goin Christs
name but there is little money to send
or support them.
Some conferences only gave , or 4
cents per member lastyear for the cause
of missions. The cause is too grea,
for ceusu-e. Some give, especially
preachers. and give until they see stars
in their crown. If only every mem.
Der OF our church would consecrate
and set apart single hen for mission
ary purposes there would be an income
of over 5000, 600 each year. If we fsil
to see our day. and opportunity the win
ter wind will bear up to the heathen's
Christ. 81 was naked and ye clothed
me not, ahuugered ye gave me no bread
in the prison of sin and and We visited
me not"