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The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-08-28
CITY NEWS
INDEX OF LOCAL EVENTS
Chronicled on Pages 6, Z, 10 and

= Hon. James G. Mcguire fires the
= opening gun of the campaign.
+ Electric car turns over a covered
= wagon and bruises up two old men.
Real estate men push their claims
: for revocation of the license tax.
Annual budget of appropriations
completed by the council finance COM
mittee.
The first state convention of the Sill
= yer Republican party a great success;
= the fusion ticket Endorsed.
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Look Out for Freckles

George II. Cunningham. a 14-year-old
boy, has been missing for some days from
his home at 12S South Main street. His
parents fear that he has gone tramping.
He wore set Of blue overalls and SOM
brero, is blonde and his face is very
freckied.
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who died from the effects Of a wound he
received while in the Miners Exchange
saloon, 10 North Alameda street, Wednes-
day night. The jury decided that the wound
had been accidentally inflicted by william
WILL
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Judge Ross Goes North

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 27-Judge Ross
Of the United States District Court for
Southern California arrived today and will
lear number of cases next week in con-
JUNCTION with Judge Morrow of the Circuit
court.
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= Church of Christ, Rev. David Walk,
= THE Eternal Mystery"-11 a. m.
= First NJ. e. church, Rev. r. S. Can
= tine, Heroes on Bloodless Battle
7 fields"~-11 a. m.
= Church of the Unity, Rev. John
= Snyder, 1.-THE White Stone and the
\ New Name"-11 a. m.
= st. James Episcopal, Colegrove, Rev.
= B. w. R. Tayler, "A City Which Has
7 Foundations"-10:3O a. m.
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FUNERAL NOTICE

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F. OF A. FUNERAL.-The funeral Of
Brother Frank Blatso of Court Olive, No.
80, will take place Sunday morning, August
2Sth, at 10 o'clock. All Foresters are re-
quested to appear at hall, 1071a North Main
street, at 9 a. m. to attend.
BY order of JOHN HAMILTON,
Chief Rqnper
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Scarifyinr the Mobiles

The Hooley testimony is still being drawn
out In London. 1t is long, lingering and
lacerating agony for the peers.-Boston
Herald.
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The Jewish Year Book estimates that
there are, in the world about II zoo, 900 of
that race. more than one-half being under
Russian jurisdiction.
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brary, $21S6.77; general park, $70S.16; street
sprinkling, $4O76.9O. The treasurer's bal
ance is $16,239.12.
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EVENTS OF TODAY

Orpheum-Vaudeville.
Burbank-"A Prisoner Of War"
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THE WEATHER

TEMPERATURE-Rec Of observa lions
Taken at Los Angeles, August H.-The
barometer Is reduced TO sea lever.
Tine Ear. 1h'r. X. II. Wind Vel. Weather
ssss%%. s g 81 y g ss%$ ! Clear Sls:;
Maximum temperature. So.
Minimum temperature, 81.
Forecasts
SAN FRANCISCO, August 27.-Weather
conditions:
For Southern Internationally fair
Sunday; warmer in the interior; brisk west
wind.
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An Accidental Tragedy

An inquest was held yesterday at Orr
& Hines undertaking rooms on the re-
mains of Henry Thomas, the brick mason
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Only nine more days
at the "old stand" If
you are wise you'll
take advantage of this
All of our present
stock now in the Slim
son block is NOT to
be moved into our
NEW BUILDING. but
must be sold quickly
at some price. In or
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: Coursing, Agricultural park-10:30
a. m.
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Two Petitions

w. H. Cook and others petition the coun-
Gil for the vacation of an alley in blocks
B and c of the Adams street tract. Petit
TONERS claim to be the owners of all the
property affected by the vacation prayed
for
Abraham Jacoby and others have filed a
petition for a storm drain from the Arroyo
de los Posas at point near Also street
to the river. Petitioners state that the
property in that region is in danger from
each heavy rain that occurs and that the
conditions prevailing are menace to both
the health and welfare Of the residents.
Weekly Trial Balance
The auditors books show the following
balances remaining in the city treasury at
the close of business yesterday: Salary,
sz7O1. 03; common school, 69491; new water,
Al; street lighting, s5Ss1; outfall sewer,
s12S1; redemption, $1O95.3s; refundng,
$3,01.77
The overdrafts are as follows Cash,
sci. 6s1.1S; fire department, $1O.4S2.4O; IL
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Nine
More.
Days

der to dispose of what remains of the stock, we
will sell FURNITURE, beginning Monday morn
ing, at from
The age-herald., 1898-08-30
Greater Mobile.

The Mobile Item is wholly and fully jus tified in it's anticipations of the greatness of Mobile. It sees in the dawning day Greater Mobile looming up. There are nearly two millions of people in Cuba, and their gateway to the granaries or the northwest, the provisions of the west Tn central lines of latitude, the timber supplies mills of the Birmingham district, is plainly to be Bobile. And this alone will be the making of Greater Mobile. It will become a great port of export. It is only 600 miles from Hayana-or a little over one days sail of fast steamer
 But Mobiles dreams will not be fully materialized until the waterway to the coal and iron districts of this state is completed to the point of slackwater navigation all the year round. Sugar mills and heavy machinery can be most economically manu- factured where the iron is made. The coal of this district can not be furnished at rates that forbid shipment alike from Eng land and from West Virginia, unless the Warrior SlackWater naVlgatlon IS mucn lIil- proved. With waterway upon which barges and tow boats can steam from the Mobile to the bridge of the Kansas City railroad, near this city, every pound of coal consumed in the Antilles and in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean sea will pay tolls to Mobile, and that city will rapidly be- come a great port. And so 1t will be in the case of Alabama iron and steel. The pro- duction of the furnaces of this district is now one million tons a year, and the pro- duction would be doubled if the product could be carried to tidewater at the rate of 50 cents ton.
 Mobile, in other words, can more quickly gain a great tonnage for export by con- centrating her energies upon the early inn provement of the Warrior and Bigbee rivers. True, the possession of Cuba and Porto Rico, and the building of the Nica- ragna canal, will soon compel the improve ment of those rivers, but the sooner the Alabama rivers are improved the better for both Mobile and for the Alabama min- eral district.
The age-herald., 1898-08-30

steps to invite the cooperation of the vet erans of other states. particularly those of Georgia, Mississippi and Tennessee, and General John B. Gordon, their commander, should be an honored guest.
 It would be a gracious act on the part of the soldiers of the confederacy if on this occasion they would invite the Grand Army of the Republic to march side by side with themselves-if for this occasion, the two organizations could fall in, and the veterans of the north and the veterans of the south could join in a welcome to the new soldiers of reunited country. The very act would make this Peace Jubilee of rare interest. It would show anew that we are now one people, under one flag. Such a scene would be one that an artist would delight to paint a poet to sing.
 If this were to be done, in the interest of peace and patriotism and a reunited coun- try the invitations to the Grand Army of the Republic should sweep in all within five hundred miles. Invite the old soldiers of Chicago and Cincinnati Let them meet here confederate veterans all the way from Virginia to Texas, from Kentucky to the gulf; and then let all join in welcome home to the soldiers of the war of 1898.
 The old sol1'ars md the y .ung sold srs will thus become close friends, and that friendship will endure until the veterans rest in Fames eternal camping ground. The soldiers of the Spanish-American war would then be veterans. and perhaps some new lot of the great republics defenders will come marching home from battlefelds that cannot be foreseen. It would inaugur- ate a custom that would never be given up, and the confederate veterans of Ala bama would always be known as the men who began the happy and patriotic move- mo
The age-herald., 1898-08-30
POINTED PARAGRAPHS

From the Chicago News.
 A $20 gold piece is a nice round sum.
 The happier the men are the more money they possess.
 The elevator in department store Is merely a shop-lifter. e. Popularity often wins new acquaintances and loses old friends. OBI Kentuckians would never water their lawns if all flesh were grass.
 It's easy, for men who drink to break themselves-but not the habit. Many an officers shoulder-straps are due to his wisdom in selecting a father s It frequently rains on the just because the unjust has carried off his umbrella.
 When young man squeezes an heiress she is apt to find herself pressed for money
 A pessmist is one who is always expect ing bad luck and is surprised when 1t comes
 Gorilla warfare is the kind that has en- abled the Spaniards to make monkeys of themselves 4 Aitkii After spending two weeks vacation in the country but few men are patriotic enough to fight for it.
 A fisherman says fish should not be per mitted to lie when they can be hung. The same might be said of fishermen.
 When a woman can speak three or four languages f1uently she is foolish to throw herself away on a man who understands but one.
The age-herald., 1898-08-30
Bring the First Home.

The war is over. The conquests of the war remain, but the First Alabama did not enlist to become an army of occupation. They did not enlist to become professional soldiers. They enlisted to fight the war out, and the war is ended. It is mere tech nicality and redtape to say that the war is not over All the world knows it is. And all the people of Alabama know the First Alabama has a moral right to discharge from the service.
 Let the boys be mustered out. They were among the first to respond to the presi- equations in the month of May. This city readily recalls the Sunday morning in May when they went away to fight wherever they might be needed. It is a gallant and downright shame to hold such a regiment for garrison duties after the war is ended. It would be most unjust.
 The members of the First largely live in erable part of the young men upon whom the active work of this district must soon fall. Every one of them has duties at home. Positions of responsibility are held open for many of them. If action is not soon had looking to the mastering out of the First he Age-Herald hopes a public meeting of the citizens of Jefferson coun- ty will be called to give voice to the desire of the district from which the regiment went.
 This district has no young men to spare for camp and garrison duties. in Cuba or Porto Rico. We has and have men who will give their services to the country -when>ft fmperatively needs them; but those men do not desire to become cooks and servants in times of peace, however much it may please a few in higher positions to hold them in such menial positions.
 This matter goes deep, and can not be brushed aside North Alabama wants the boys of the First at home Bring them hack. The war Is over. As soldiers with guns in hand they are no longer needed; as mere camp servitors they should not be compelled to remain It is not just, honest, or in accord with the spirit of the terms of enlistment.
The age-herald., 1898-08-30
MT. McKinIey's Successor.

To the Editor of The Age-Herald.
 The ticket for 1900 should be Dewey and Bryan. Colonel Bryan is young ann, and he can afford to wait for the greater honor that awaits him. Dewey and Bryan would sweep the country like wildfire.
 NORTH ALABAMA.
 It is entirely too early to form the lines for the contest of 1900. Our correspondent is too much ofsan early bird. The issues upon which that contest will be fought out are not yet defined. Those issues may not relate wholly to the war, as our corres- pondent seems to think they will. There are war matters too, that remain to be determined. If, for example, the work of the peace commission should be unsatis- factory to the country, the republican party will be readily beaten. If the island of Luzon be given up, it certainly will be It should be remembered that the appoint ment of MT. Justice White upon that com mission is an act of the republican admin istration. The other four commissioners are republicans. In no way can the demo- | cratic party be held responsible for the | outcome. On the contrary, the republican | party must go to the country upon the result of the commissions work. It ai- ready has the bunders and incompetency and needless cruelties of Secretary Alger to answer for, and if to these be added an unsatisfactory compromising at Paris of the heroism and legitimate fruits of our war, it will not be difficult to defeat the republican ticket.
 But on the other hand, if a satisfactory recompense be obtained at Paris for the gallantry of our soldiers and sail ers then, indeed, the democratic party will have a serious task on its hands. The re- publican ticket in that case will doubtless be Mckinley and Roosevelt, whether the latter be elected governor of New York or l not. MT. Hobart will be permitted to re- | turn to the corporation work from which I he was taken. Against such a ticket, un- l der the circumstances named sacrifice may I be necessary. The south may have to l yield place, and the greater sacrifice named by our correspondent may become l advisable; but until circumstances plainly I demand it, The Age-Herald is convinced l that North Alabama" is too sudden in his | conclusions He is at present ahead of the before he comes to it.
The age-herald., 1898-08-30
NO CHEERS FOR ALGER

Camp Wikoff Letter to the New York Sun
 Perhaps no better exemplification of the camps lstlessness could be mentioned than lies in the circumstances of Secre- tary Alger's arrival At the arrival of every train there are at least five hundred soldiers in and about the station. Thurs day there were somewhat more than that. Yet when the secretary of the war depart ment of the United States stepped from the car there was not a cheer. In dead silence, except for the ordinary hustle and conversation of people coming off the train, General Alger, with his officers accompany ing him, drove up the roadway. The hum gry men standing two deep at the lunch room counter did not even come out to witness the secretary's arrival. Food was, for the moment, the more important thing in the world to them. It was hard to realize that the man who had just disap- peared up the roadway was second in mih- tary importance to the president of the United States alone. Ill-feeling was not the cause of the silence It was simply that as one spectator put 1t, the men hadn't enough blood in their veins to rise to the point of enthusiasm.
 Couldn't get 'em to cheer the paymas- ter himself" said an officer on the station platform.
The age-herald., 1898-08-30
THE EXPANDING SOUTH
Richard H. Edwards in the New

Richard H. Edwards in the New York
 Commercial Advertiser
 Coming to iron, I believe it is univer- sally admitted that the south is today mak- ing iron at lower cost than any other country in the world, and Alabama is now dictating the price in the worlds markets for iron. What it has done in iron there Is reason to hope that it is destined to do In steel. And Alabama in this resnect is but a type of the south England's tlpremacy in the worlds affairs, its vast shipping busi- ness (almost exceeding our comprehension it's vast manufacturing industries, have been mainly based upon coal and iron and cotton. In these three industries it's su- premacy has passed; this country controls them, and the south can take the lead over any other section of this country. The field for expansion in the development of south ern cotton, iron and steel is as limitless as are the worlds requirements for centuries to come. But even this is not all One-half of the standing timber of the United States is reported by the United States authorities to be in the south, and this will furnish a basis for great woodworking business in every southern state. When We come to agriculture, we find that the south is pro- ducing at the present time nearly $1000,- 0O0, 900 worth of agricultural products. al- though 1t has as yet barely scratched the surface in it's agricultural development as compared with what the future may be. With the increase of manufacturing, the creation of home markets for agricultural products, intensive farming, the reduced cost of fertilizers the south seems to be preparing for as radical change in it's ag- ricultural as 1t has accomplished in the last ten years in its industrial advancement.
The age-herald., 1898-08-30
THE INTERPRETATIONS FIRST HOME
From the Boston Evening Transcript.


 The watermelon, or in botanical terms, citrullus vugaris, is not native of America, but comes to us from Asa It is known as a prostrate plant, and the creeping stems strike out in all directions from the center, and make quite large patch, covering the ground with their deeply-lobed leaves, which are again divided. The leaves are of a pale green or bluish color. The pale vel low flowers have short calyxes, which are bell-shaped, and wide-spreading corollas. They look quite pretty, peering out from the green leaves.
 But we are more interested in the fruit, which we find growing below the flowers bearing the pistils. Larger and larger grow the melons, till finally we wonder if they are ripe. Someone has said that if the ten- dril just back of the fruit appears dead, the melon is ripe. The pulp we eat is the enlarged and 1eshy surface on which are fastened the seeds. As these ripen they become loosened from the red flesh.
 This plant has been cultivated in Pales- tine and in Egypt and was known in Bible times. And there is tradition of the Arabs that melons are found only in Paradise. Sebastian, a Roman traveller in the Holy Land in the seventeenth century, says that he saw a field of melons that had turned into stone by the wrath of Elias, who cursed the field! There is a curious story of Tuscany concerning the melon The wife of young king bore him three children, whom the queens jealous sisters said were a cat, a piece of wood and a snake. Their wicked story was believed, the queen cast into prison and the children put into box and thrown into the sea- A gardener res- cued them and brought them up aided by a good fairy One day the king had a watermelon for dinner. In it he found pre- cious stones instead of seeds. He said: ''How can melon produce gems?" The fairy, who was present, said How can a woman bear a cat a piece of wood and a snake? Here are your children. Release your wife" He did, and had the sisters burnt at the stake,
The age-herald., 1898-08-30
CONCERNING HOT WEATHER

From the Detroit Free Press
 Tt makes me smile to hear you fellows say this is hot" remarked the old-time travelling man, as he sank into one of the big leather chairs over in the lobby of the Cadillac and bit the tip of fresh cigar
 "Well, it's hot enough for me-" said the man who carries fur collars as a "side line."
 And me, too,' agreed the tobacco agent
 ''Did you fellows ever wander out on the great American desert?" asked the old timer when he had gotten his cigar going fairly well.
 'No," answered the other two in concert
 'Well, that's where you'll find hot wealth. CT. I've been through that country half dozen times in my day, and if it's any hot ter in my future home, I'm willing to go there out of curiosity. I've got scar on by right side to this day that I acquired out there'
 ''How did you get it it?" inquired the fur collar chap.
 'The suns heat was so great that it melt ed my suspender buckle and the molten metal ran down my side and burned me clear to the ankle'
 "Why didn't you get it off you?'
 Didn't know what it was until went to bed in the hotel at Pawnee Junction. Thought 1t was precipitation"
 Well, that was pretty hot" remarked the tobacco man.
 Mot as hot as it was once, though" went on the old-time traveller. q remem- Der one trip through that country. I was riding with old Charley Evans He died about two years ago; travelled for notion house in Boston. We were lost In the des- ert out there. We intended to make a cer- tain point by noon and didn't so we knew we had strayed from the trail. We had nothing to eat and were nearly starved. We had drawn our belts up to the last hole but that didn't do any good We'd both made up our minds to die when all of sudden our horses frightened prairie chicken from under a little sage bush. I thought of eggs right away and got out of the blackboard and looked. Yes, sir, there were two prairie hens eggs under the bush. I was never so thankful in my life. I took them to the wagon and showed them to Charley. He never could eat raw egg. l was little put out for a minute then thought came to me. I took my little leather-bound Bible out of my hip pocket, and, building small pile of sand, laid the Bible on top of it. Then I broke the eggs on the cover. Inside of three minutes they were fried as beautifully as egg ever was fried. There was just enough taste of leather about them to make them pala- table, Now, when it's that hot down here you can afford to talk-'
 The man who sold fur collars a side line bought the next round.
The age-herald., 1898-08-30
ALAIsAMA'S THREE
From the Savannah News.


 Alabama contributes three luminous names that will live fin the history of the war with Spain. They are those of Major General Joseph Wheeler of intrepid cour- age and brilliant military ability, his daughter, Annie Laurie Early, of courage no less than that of her sire but employed in diametrically different manner, and Lieutenant Hobson. General Wheeler's mission was death to the enemy; that of the daughter life to friends. General Wheeler was at the front at Santiago cheering his men to an irresistible attack, even though so i'll that he had to be carried on a stretcher. Miss Wheeler was in the Siboney hospitals, devoting herself to nurs- ing the sick and wounded private soldiers. At one time she had ninety pateints under her care, and, as may be imagined, her strength was sorely taxed. But she never flagged in the work. She is now continu- ing her noble and successful work at the encampment at Montauk Point. Unques- tionably her efforts have saved the lives of many brave soldier boys, the thanks of every one of whom will forever be hers.
The age-herald., 1898-08-30
REFLECTIONS OF A lBACHELoR

From the New York Press.
 Every woman has her ideal and the most miserable ones have married them.
 A woman will still believe,in a man when all the men know he's so crooked he can't lie on his back
 When you meet man who claims he never lies to his wife, it is sign either that he isga fool or that his wife is.
 A man is never true philosopher till he comes to care more what he thinks about other people than he does what other peo- pie think about him.
 When man dreams of being out on the street with no clothes on, he feels most as mortified as a woman does after a certain date when company calls and the lace cur tains aren't down yet.