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The herald., 1897-12-29

warmth and mild north wind alternate
ing with calms.
Tustin-The weather continued cleal
and dry with frosty mornings. The tenn
perature fell as low as 2S degrees on
three mornings, the coldest being be-
tween 6 and a. m. On several nights
light winds helped to avert damage.
Navels and seedlings do not appear to be
hurt; small proportion of latest varie-
ties may be, also some small lemons.
Some tender vegetation does not show
effects of frost.
Westminster-The past week had cold
nights and bright, sunshiny days; ex-
posed citrus trees are frosted; celeryis
all right where banked wet or young,
but ripe unbanked celery, especially
where dry, is frosted, but how much
time will only show.
Capistrano-The damage done to cit
rus fruit turns out not to be so serious
as expected on low lands which were
irrigated late. There was no damage on
higher lands. Highest temperature GA,
lowest .3S degrees.
SAN DIEGO COUNTY
San Diego city-Reports from the cit.
rus fruit region show that groves adja-
cent to the bay or ocean and on mesa
lands suffered no damage from frost,
where advantage was taken of weather
bureau warning and liberal smudging
practiced. The damage in other locali-
ties was nominal. Highest temperature
60, lowest 36 degrees.
Escondido-The cold frosty mornings
have not damaged citrus fruit to an ap-
preciable extent. Rain is needed; early
sown grain is growing slowly and grass
and forage is at standstil.
| Santee-El Cajon-Unusually cold
weather prevailed in this locality, but
there has been no damage so far as can
be ascertained. The temperature in the
citrus belt. hill slopes, was down to 27
degrees and ranged there three morn
ings. Smudging was freely resorted to
as protection.
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ANGELES HERALD. WEDNESDAY MORNING DECEMBER q, 1897

the Seventh ward, in convention assem-
bled, that we reiterate our devotion to
Jeffersonian Democracy and we pledge
ourselves to the principles laid down and
enunciated in the platform of our late
national convention at Chicago.
THAT we belive that the common
school system Of this country is the best
devised by any country at any time, and
that purity and efficiency in it's manage
ment should be the care of every good
citizen.
I'VE deprecate the late scandal in our
school board and heartily endorse every
effort that may bring the guilty mem
bers to Justice"
On motion G.. Furtsch, b. Mckinley
and M. Eichhorn were appointed a COM
mittee to interview the Populist con-
vention said to be in session. After a
short recess the committee returned
with c. o. Hawley, J. J. Lawton and J.
e. Mathews, q similar committee from
the Populists. After conference the
two committees reported that they had
agreed to abide by the nominee Of the
convention then in session.
Nominations being in order A. M
Bragg was placed in nomination and
unanimosly selected as the Democratic
nominee for member of the board Of
education. On motion the chairman Sc
lected M. Eichhorn and r. w. Ready
to circulate petitions in order to get Mr..
Bragg's name on the official ballot.
On motion the chairman selected
George Furtsch, M. Eichhorn, r. w.
Ready, Walter Spring and Frank Welt
zell as an auditing committee under
the purity elections act. The secretary
of the central committee stated that he
would prepare the necessary papers for
the various committees and have them
ready by Thursday morning at 10 o'clock.
On motion the convention adjourned
gu Inject to tho call OF tho nbo ir,,ao.
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sell to the city Of Los Angeles the prop
critics which they possess, II we can
agree upon the terms Of sale.
They will. II you desire. appoint per-
sons to meet you upon the subject, aqd
see what, II sny. terms can be agreed
upon, what properties the city desires to
purchase, what price 1t fs willing to pay;
and 1t would be very agreeable to the
said companies II they can manage am
icably with the city and settle all ques-
tions that have arisen between us by q
sale to the city. (Signed)
8. H. MOTT, Secretary.
A meeting Of the water supply COM
mittee will be held today for the purpose
Of deciding upon q. time when the repre-
sentatives Of the city shall meet those
OF the water company.
The herald., 1897-12-29
Booth-Tucker,s Visit

Staff Captain Durham, the leader of
the Salvation army in Southern Califor-
nit. received a telegram from Command
er Booth Tucker yesterday saying that
through unforeseen circumstances he
will have to postpone his visit to Los An
geles until Friday, January 7th. The
First Congregational church, corner of
Sixth and Fill llstreets. has been secured
for that date, where the commander
will deliver an address on the "Coloniz-
alton Plans" ats p. M. The commander
will also dedicate the Working Meh's
-Metropole, 759 Upper Main street. at
p. m. --,- u. rsr
The herald., 1897-12-29
ELUSIVE GEORGE
Makes a Successful Sneak From the
Toll Of the Chain Gang

George Thompson, druggist by pro-
fession and 30 days man on the chain
gang by accident, calmly walked away
from the dump on the Downey avenue
cut yesterday afternoon without so
much as word as to his destination.
Thompson, who was expiating an Of
tense Of battery. was working on the
dump some four hundred yards away
from the gang, with two other TRUSTEES,
their job being to keep the dump even
and empty the wagons. When Guard
Cochran came to round up his men at
& o'clock he found two only in place OF
three and the two obstinately declined
to give any information as to Thomp-
sons escape, claiming that they did not
notice when he had left.
The herald., 1897-12-29
Cost Of Pasadena Avenue

The cost Of the improvement of Pasa-
dena avenue, which was recently COM
pleted and accepted, has been computed.
The work consisted Of grading, gravel
ing. guttering. curbing. sidewalking and
crosswalking. G. Rheinchild is the con-
tractor. The total cost of the work as
computed in the street superintendent's
department was $13,0S1.36, which is to
be apportioned among the property own
ers along the street.
The herald., 1897-12-29
Street Commission Meeting

The commission. consisting Of Mayor
Snyder, Street Superintendent Drain
and City Engineer Dockweiler, met yes
terday afternoon in the office Of the
mayor for the purpose Of making up its
final report upon the assessment of
damages and benefits resulting from
the opening Of Sixth street west from
Fremont avenue. The report will be
made to the city council next Monday.
The herald., 1897-12-29
SEVENTH WARD DEMOCRATS
Unanimously Nominated A. M. Bragg
for Board Of Education

vention Of the Seventh ward WAS held
last night at No. $40 East Fifth street.
Telfair Creighton, chairman of the
Democratic City Central committee,
called the meeting to order at PM,
with thirty-one out Of thirty-four dele
gates present.
John Nerney was elected chairman
and r. w. Ready secretary of the con-
vention. AS there were no contests the
roll OF delegates as prepared by the sec-
retary Of the city committee was ap-
proved. George Furtch presented the
following resolution which was unanl-
mously adopted:
BE 1t resolved by the Democrats Of
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rournamsnt Of Roses st Pa..d.n.

Saturday, January 1st procession be-
gins at 10:S0 q. m. Take Santa Fe trains
at 7:S5 a. m. 900 a. M. $3.50 a. m, 1o:oo a.
M; returning, trains leave Pasadena 200
p. M. 2:25 p. M. $50 p. M. Round trip, Is
cents.
The herald., 1897-12-29
An Edge-Tool Trust

PITTSBURG, Dec. 2S. - Eighty per
cent Of the edge-tool manufacturers In
the United States have consolidated
their interests and agreed upon the
erection of new plant near Charleroi,
about forty miles south Of this city, on
the Monongahela river. The concern will
be known as the American AK and Tool
Company, and will be capitalized at
$2,0O0,00O. It will employ over 1000 skilled
workmen. The consolidated plant will
be in operation next week. AZ
The herald., 1897-12-29

All prices Of wall paper greatly reduced.
A. A. Eckstrom, 34 South Spring street.
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dow, and that the little girl, and often
the sweet lady, too, should watch. The
shy wife might have told you that
some Of the shreds woven into the
snug home had been found hanging
conveniently on the twigs, as though
they had fallen from the window, this,
not to mention an ever-ready supply
of crumbs, only waiting to be gathered
when no one.Was at hand. In the bird
world, as in ours, fortune distributes
her favors unevenly.
When the bright-eyed husband re-
membered how many Of his friends
had to support their families from the
ash-barrels, there was pulled feeling
in his heart which he did not try to
suppress.
So time went on, and by and by the
birds nest hung complete. The little
girl had waited as patiently as the
builders had worked, and their joy
was one. They also serve who only
stand and watt great Milton said
they, too, perhaps, who only love and
wait. aE
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asked, dreamily; who, dear loye?''
and she used the very name, though
she knew it not, that the little mate
had just called his bride, for love is al
ways the same.
'The robins" answered the child.
you are too high, mamma! Be soft!
Right here, do you see? The dearest
husband and wife, and he has the red
dest breast, and they have been talk
ing SO! Listen, mamma, just hearr'
In her excitement she spoke SO fast
that the mate-robin heard, and stop
ped short, with a long straw in his
bill. which was to serve as a founda-
ton for the house. He rolled his
round eyes awhile, then turned and
looked at his wife, but she was hop
ping about with the utmost unconcern;
so after some reflection, he. too. went
to work "Oh!' breathed the little
girl, with long sigh of relief, "he is
going to stay, after all. 1 thought ]
had scared him away"
The robins did not go, however, and
in some mysterious way it came to
be an understood thing that they
should build their nest below the win
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son was still alive that dropped the

son was still alive that dropped the
subject. / had incurred their displeas-
ure to such an extent that the younger
daughter would not even speak to me.
I saw the wife soon afterward and
asked her, too, if she had ever heard
from her husband. She seemed much
surprised by my question.
Heard from Harry she exclaimed.
How can / hear from a man that has
been dead for seven years p
Soon afterward left Iowa for Cali
fornia. During all that time absolute
" nothing had been heard of Harry
Evans. People had almost forgotten
him and everyone but myself firmly
believed him dead.
arrived in Los Angeles early one
morning and after registering and dis
posing of my baggage took a stroll
AS was walking up Main street, near
the ST. Elmo Hotel, came face to face
with Harry Evans. knew him in an
instant. The same old handsome Harry
grown even handsomer than ever. He
knew me, too, for he turned and
abruptly entered barber shop. fol
lowed him, but he had escaped
through side door and was gone.
The next day at about the same time
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-04-29
WORTH READING.

At the end Of each hair of a cats
whiskers is bulb of nerve fiber which
makes that particular hair a very
delicate "feeler.''
1t is proposed in Finland to abolish
the press censorship, on the ground
that it is needless, and only fosters by
pocrisy and deception.
The oldest. and, perhaps, the heav
lest cyclist for his age, is ]. w. Ar
mold, of Providence, now .inshis eighty
sixth year, weight 1876 pounds.
Nearly 100000 women, or is per
cent of all women in the United States,
were in 1890 engaged in earning their
own living in some trade or employ
ment.
Some of the lumber trade journals
are writing In favor of soft elm for
the finish of buildings, and assert that
wherever it has been used in western
cities it has proved very satisfactory.
The poor laborers in the Sicilian sui
phur mines compel their naked chill
dren from the tenth year to assist
them in their hard work, their only
| food being coarse bread dipped into
| Oil.
George PeabOdy's donation Of ST.
100000 for London workingmen's
houses has increased to $4,000, 900 in
the twenty-four years since his death.
Last year the trustees Of the fund pro-
vided II, S67 rooms, besides bath rooms,
lavatories and laundries; 1854 per-
sons occupied them. The death rate
of infants in the buildings is 4 per
cent below the average for London.
/ Horses are valuable in Alaska They
are driven up over the divide from
the Canadian plains, and then have to
/ be transported eight to sixteen miles
by water. The freight on them for this
distance is 40 cents pound, SO that
a 1,000-pound horse gets to be worth
81 pound by the time he nears a
place where he can be OF good service,
i A good strong dog is valued at SIS.
4 A Polish chemist named Eisenberg
is said to have invented an anaesthetie
which Yolatilizes rapidly on exposure
to the air, rendering the persons neal
unconscious for a long time. "A pellet
broken under mans nose put hin
to sleep for four hours. It is asserted
that in warfare bombs charged Will
this material will make large bodie.
! OF an enemy incapable OF resistance
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Heard from Harry" exclaimed the
father. why do you ask such a
question: Harry is dead.''
well, now, Mr.. Evans, I don't be-
lieve he isl protested the friend.
shall give the Tory in that friends
own words:
Just then Mrs. Evans came into the
room. You're asking about Harry
again, aren't you?" she asked. ..Why
do you constantly do that? How can
we hear from Harry? He is dead.
Why should he have left his wife. his
father and me all these years without
letting us know he was alive? There
was no reason for it. =
Then Harry's father spoke up:
Harry is dead. You don't suppose
that he would run away with anyone's
money, do you? Harry didn't have, to
steal q paltry $4,000. never raised q
boy that would steal"
They seemed so panied and troubled
by my asserting that ! believed their
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day1eaving a void in the old white
house thatsnothings on earth could I'LL.
The one who was left stood very Still
at the window, and looked through
the apple boughs with eyes that saw
them not. There was no need now
that love should hide the pain. As
she turned away her glance fell on the
robins nest. Lo! it was empty only
a broken shell lay where five birdlings
had nestled beneath the mothers
wings. Then the tears came to eyes
that had not Wept. and a great thanks
giving to an aching heart her
darling, who had Weakened early, !"
and for the robins, who had waited te
fly with her.
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Dinners at the white House.

Ex-President Harrison asserts thai
state dinners cannot be wholly Invested
of the repression and stiffness which
are the accomplishments of all state
affairs. There is no opportunity fol-
general conversation, he writes in thu.
Ladies Home Journal, sand the che.
and your neighbor at table have your.
fate in their hands. But there are man,
other dinners and luncheons to which
the elect and the congruous come; ans
twenty such, seated about the round
table in the private dining-room, make,
goodly and a heartsome company
These are the dinners that endure the,
supreme test you think well OF you,
host and Of the company when yos,
wake up.''
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WOMEN SMOKERS.

A Writer Who Approves of the Fair
Sex Using Tobacco.
a recent writer on tISe subject OF
Women Smokers" has something to
say that may prove interesting reading
to dramatists, stage managers and
theater-goers generally, says the New
York Telegram. Here it is:
When in play a well-dressed wom-
an produces cigarette case and begins
to light up you know at once, she is
the adventures Of the piece. The
dramatist would never dare to endoW
her with any moral qualities after that.
She may possibly be divorce; at the
very least she has designs on the hero's
purse and on his general happiness.
Who ever saw a virtuous stage heroine
smoking? The very idea would be re-
voting to all conventional notions Of
propriety and the men would fiercely
discuss this horrifying lapse on the
part of the dramatist over their own
cigarettes between the acts. The sup
posed degrading effect of tobacco on
women is purely a bourgeois notion.
It affects middle-class women only.
The highest and the lowest do as they
please in the matter. Now and then
there arises some strong and indie
pendent woman who follows her own
course and is perfectly Indifferent to
outside opinion. Such a character was
the late Miss Emily Faithful, a most
noble, admirable and withal womanly
minded woman, who soOthed her
nerves after her work was done by
smoking full-favored cigars.
The peasant women, especially in Ire
land and Scotland, enjoy their whiffs
from short pipes filled with strong to-
bacco. - No! I'm not advocat-
ing the use of short clays among the
! wide class covered by the word ladies,
but for the life of me cannot see what
harm is done to these peasant womer
| by the process of putting of tIeil
cares in their own way. In the bes
houses nowadays when cigars arr
handed around to the gentlemen ciga
rettes are offered to the ladies' Tht
1 hostess, as a rule, sets the necessary
example to her lady guests. The rank!
of the regular cigarette smokers in
clude the dowager empress of Russia
| the Princess Of Wales, Princess Beat
rice, Princess Charles of Denmark, til,
Queen of Italy, the Queen of Roumani;
and the Queen Regent of Spain.
have no space for a list of prominen
members of the English aristocrae,
who indulge in the fragrant weed
= 1t is only the middle-clas
person of would-be intensely respect
able manners who raises all this rack
ct against the feminine consumption
of cigarettes"
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some respects; it
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-04-29
Is the story

is the story of deserted mother who
waits and hopes and prays for the re-
turn of an erring son.
About twelve years ago there lived
in the town of Pel1a, Ia, prosperous
merchant. He was married and had
six children, two daughters and four
sons. They were all exceptionally
handsome children, particularly the
eldest son. At that time he was yet
a young man, recently married to a
bright and beautiful girl, and in the
employ of large Southern house as
commercial traveller. He drew
large salary and was so trusted and
respected by the firm that in addition
70 making sales for them he often col
lected large sums of money from the
houses with whom they did business.
Several years passed and Harry Ev-
ans rose higher each year in the estl-
nation of the firm that employed MIN.
At about this time his father met with
business reverses, sold out his home,
and after moving to Montezuma, Ia,
went into the hotel business. He al
state, and kept the leading hotel there.
Soon afterward young Evans left
Muscatine, where he was then resid-
ing, to visit the smaller towns as had
been his custom. From day to day ne
wrote to his wife for whom he seemed
to have the strongest affection. All at
once his letters ceased. After short
time it became known throughout the
1 state that Harry Evans had disappear
| ed. Detectives were at once put on his
/ track, a large reward was offered for
/ any information as to his where
/ abouts, but to no avail. He had
! dropped out of sight as completely
i as If the sea had opened and closed
i over him forever.
4 The family were or had been very
/ prominent. They had many infiuen-
tial friends, and everything possible
was done to find trace of the missing
man. The governor of the state made
a special attempt to find Evans. The
whole country was excited over the
i strange disappearance. The family
i mourned him as dead. They were fully
convinced that he had been murdered
1 for his money and his body sunk II
the Mississippi river. The idea tina
he had absconded with paltry $1,000
4 that being the amount he had will
him at the time of his disappearance
was secuted as improbable. He hat
4 often had several times as much will
1 him.
]. His relatives were almost prostrate'
with grief for he had been the mos
promising member of the family A
time passed the young wife wen
bravely to work to pay off the debt
left unpaid by her husband and to sup
port herself.
Among the many friends of the fam
lily there was only one who believes
that young Evans was alive, and tina
some day he would turn up. On hi
suggesting such possibility, however
the family took exception, and eve
became highly indignant.
One day seven years after Evans
disappearance this friend stopped a
I the hotel kept by young Evans pa
rents, and was saddened to see tn
father prematurely aged by grief an
slowly dying.
Have you never heard from Hal
ry?" asked this gentleman, who, by til
| way, told me the story, and who is on
: of San Francisco's most promine1
business men.
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the wind carry the fragrance So hoi
On one of the sweetest mornings III
all the May came two birds to the tree
two robins, in their honeymoon, VINO
were out in search of a house. Iney
put their heads first on this side, then
on that; wished, perhaps, it had peen
cherry tree; calculated the probable
number OF small boys in the nelsn-
borhood who were making collectlons
OF eggs; the angle-worm crop IN the
heids below; in short, all those minor
details of house-hunting less interest
Ing to an outsider than to parties con-
cerned. Isl. $50.
Robin Red Breast bent his head very
near his wife, and they talked 1t all
over with great deal of 'tWltterlng
and many a tender glance!
$50 sweet a spot, dear love! Shall
1t be here?" Nobody heard what the
little bride-bird said. If she spoke at
all 1t was very low-there was need
that but one should hear-perhaps 1t
was only a look. Be that as it may,
the mate stretched his brown wings
twice, thrice for the Joy of 1t, and
darted off and away, down over the
meadow, his red breast twinkling above
the green. Home! home! homer he
sang over and over; 'home! homer
His heart was overlooking, and he
could not keep it to himself.
All this while his wee wife was TAX
Ing account of her surroundings. She
hoped on one twig, then on another,
twisted her head, and turned her
bright eyes, until one might justly con-
clude she had viewed the matter from
every side. She saw one thing, too,
that neither had noticed before.
Through the open window, framed in
with apple boughs, some one was
watching them-a child with great
dark eyes and halo of golden hair.
So sweet face-but, oh, SO thin and
white! If the little bird had been on
the bough just above she might have
seen that the child sat in a large wheel
chair-sat without moving, her hands
clasped in her lap, and hardly daring
to breathe for fear of frightening the
robins away.
The little bride-bird stood still, too
looked her all over, and waited. By
the time her mate had finished his tour
Of the fields, however. for reasons best
known to herself, she was ready tc
begin.
Should it be the crotch at the cor
ner, or the one right under the win.
dow between the two big boughs? The
crotch at the corner was wider, fine
a breezy locality, but the other was sc
sheltered, no one could possibly peer
from without. Some foolish people
you know, always will take to ''love il
cottage" They wasted very few
words over the matter-there is littl,
argument when both argue on one sid
it was all taken out in hopping AM
cbirping-
Mamma, mammal whispered tn
little girl at the window; come soft
ly! I think they are building a nest!
She turned her head by inches in he
fear of making a stir. There wa
light step, rustic of silken skirts
and a lady stood by the chair-a lad
who had eyes like the child's, dea
eyes! in which the love almost covere
the pain-quite hiding it when the lit
lie girl raised hers to look into then
Her hands played as by habit with tn
curly hair She, too, looked out, nc
at the birds, but way beyond throug
the apple-boughs. "They?' sh