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The herald., 1898-01-12
THE CALL REBUKED
The L. B. G. g. Denounces It's Un-
called for Attitude

Ine u. d. ". ". OenounceS Its Un-
called for Attitude
At meeting of the board of directors
of the League for Better City Govern
ment last night the following resolution
was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That we call the attention
of the business men and taxpayers Of
this city to the treatment which the
school board scandal is receiving in the
San Francisco Call, newspaper which
processes to be friendly to this section
and which has some circulation in this
city, but which has persistently misrep-
resented the facts, to the disadvantage
of the forces at work for municipal re-
form and to the detriment of this city.
Resolved, That the League for Better
City Government, an organization
which has for it's object a business ad-
ministration of the city's affairs with
out regard to party, hereby emphatical-
ly condemns the San Francisco Call for
its impudent and baseless attacks on re-
spectacle citizens and it's attempted
defense of boodlers.
The herald., 1898-01-12

Another Of the Wiesendanger cases
In court.
Forecast: Cloudy, unsettled, south
srly winds.
Formation of the Hawaiian annexa-
tion league.
Handeps messiah" rendered by
the st. Cecilias.
How Carl schlitz worked suscepti-
BILE ''landladies."
Durrant's body to be cremated at
Pasadena tomorrow.
a Congressman Barlow will vote
against annexation.
Young hackman severely burned
BY lamp explosion.
Two Santa Barbara burglars ar
rested by police detectives.
Officer Ritch under investigation on
p charge Of browbeating Chinaman.
Contest over Creede's will in the
superior court; Mrs. Creede confesses
TO six husbands.
The Southern Pacific has finally
pulled out of the San Pedro fight;
statement from prominent official.
Director Webb prefers charges
against Director Braly; the defense in
the Webb investigation to conclude
tonight.
The herald., 1898-01-12
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

Drink Glen Rock water, Tel. Main 26
Read the Trinidad Rubber company's
notice on this page.
Call Tel. Main 24S for ambulance.
Kregelo & Bresee. Sixth and Broadway.
Robert Sharp & Co.. funeral directors,
f61 and 1853 S. Spring st. Tel. Main 1929.
Watches cleaned, rs cents; main
springs. so cents: crystals. 10 cents.
Patton. 214 South Broadway.
]. Ross Clark was yesterday elected a
director in the Citizens bank and will
henceforth take an active part in the
affairs of that institution.
A. the regular monthly social meet
Ing of the Ebell society Thursday, at
2:S0 p. m. DR.. Norman Bridge will read
an address on 'uneducated Educators. !"
Adams Bros, dentists. 239h South
Spring street. Plates from $4. Pain
less extracting. so cents. Filling a
speciality. Hours. 8 to s; Sundays. 10
to IL.
The board of managers of the Ladies'
Benevolent society will give its annual
reception Wednesday, the 10Th inst, at
the residence of Mrs. N. Mueller, 700
Burlington avenue.
Clearance sale Of framed pictures left
over from the holidays at H. c. Lichten-
berger's art emporium. 2o2 South Spring
stree. Closing out a choice lot of beauti-
fully framed goods at 81 each, worth
from SO to IS.
A f1ve-room cottage at Electric and
Globe streets, the property of Amer
Globe, was destroyed by fire at $50
o'clock yesterday morning. The fire was
caused by the explosion of a gasoline
stove.
The social at the Silver Republican
club, which was to have been given to-
night. has been postponed until Thurs
day evening. the Goth. on which date an
elaborate entertainment will be given by
the club to its members and friends.
DR.. Rebecca Lee Dorsey, Stimson
block, first floor. rooms 1873, 1874, 1876.
Special attention given to obstetrical
cases and all diseases of women and
children. Electricity scientifically used.
Consultation hours. to S. Tel. 1927.
An alarm from box So at 7:45 last night
called out the department to an exploded
coal oil stove In frame house at 42o
Temple street, owned by Mrs. s. c..
Brown. The fire was extinguished, how
ever, before the engines arrived. Loss
nominal.
The following committee has been ap-
pointed to select directors of the Young
Mems Christian association for the
coming year: Dr. VIM. Brill, A. P. Hoff-
man. A, B. Benton, G. ]. Lund. M. d..
Prof. j. w. Hood, Rev. J. w. Ball. 7. w.
Fowler, e. w. Forgy,
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had been signed and he thought this

had been signed and he thought this
one should be.
Webb signed II with the remark that
he was not afraid to do so even II the
league was afraid. When the vote was
taken all Of the members voted for it
Mr.. Braly of course did not vote. There
was nothing else to do, for however
much the other members may have
doubted Webb's good faith in the mat
ter, the resolution had to take is reg
ular course. The question who was to
take charge of the prosecution of this
new case came up and Bartlett moved
seconded by Webb, that the League for
Better City Government be requested to
take charge of the matter, which mo-
tion prevailed.
The herald., 1898-01-12

Pacific have agreed to give a rate OF
one and one-third fare from Southern
California points to this city for the
merchants parade on the oath inst.
Colonel N. A. Baldwin of New Haven
Conn.,, arrived in his special car Con
voy" yesterday from the east. He is one
of the New York Central owners
The Mount Lowe railway is operating
excursions today and will continue them
tomorrow for the benefit of those who
wish to indulge in snowballing and to
view Klondike scenery in Southern Cal
ifornia.
SUNSET LIMITED PASSENGERS
The Sunset limited from the east
which arrived last night was the larg-
est of the season. The passenger list
was:
l.. jerks and wife, c. F. Kinsman and
wife, W. Magee, C. Walker and family
of six. Chicago; Eugene Gerwig, Pitts
burg; Thos. Vandebing and family,
Scranton; A. Jackson, NJ L. Bent, New
York; l.. J. Holiday, Randolph; ]. Kirk
patrick and family Mr.. L. Heirmager
S. Seemanger. Clay Halz, r. N. Knafa
r. c. Lewis and wife, Chicago; A. c.
Kyburn, Miss Lewis, Miss M. Lewis
Pittsburg; j. w. Crislain, Mrs Bird, R.
Cooper and wife, ST. Louis: S. Wood
bury, Chicago; H. Vanderon and wife
Rose Shoam, New York; A. Bowman
st. Louis; ]. A. Thall, Dallas. Texas j
w. Taylor and family, Philadelphia
Miss B0onell, Victoria, B. c.. H. Ben
ley, Philadelphia; Mrs. Bergen, Cincin-
nati Thos. Enlard and wife, Cincinnati;
Fl. T. Watson and wife, Miss Watson,
Philadelphia; Miss M. Newell, Sweet
water, Texas; G. w. Dodd, Miss Dodd
]. w. England. e. G. Taylor, DR.. Rock
hill. Philadelphia; w. G. Jones and wife
Knoxville, Tenn; Al. Hinman and fam
lily, Dunkirk; e. w. Taylor and wife
Miss Myer, Philadelphia; S. c. Denono
Philadelphia; r. Davis, C. S. Shank
land, Chicago; Mrs. e. Kirk and daugh-
ter, Atlanta; c. H. Anthus and wife,
New York; T. @. Bowman and wife, St
Louis; L. w. Bowan, st. Louis; Mrs
Hall, Minneapolis.
EXCURSIONISTS ARRIVE
The following tourists arrived in Cal
ifornia Monday, via Phillips -Judson ex-
cursion, most Of whom came direct to
Los Angeles:
l.. P. Tape, Troy, N. Y; E. ]. Flume-
der, H. Allison, Miss M. Allison, Toledo
Ohio; Mrs. NJ. Leonard, Chicago; Miss
Kate Lester, Greenview, ILL.,; Mr. and
Mrs. H. L. johnson, New York; Mrs. E.
Brown, Mrs. Remittell. Lima, Ohio; w
w. Bess, E. Douglass, Warren, Ohio;
A. ]. Scherdler, Angola, Ohio; Mrs Kate
Sanborn, Cleveland, Ohio; Mrs. B. w
Murray. John Kelley Painesville, Ohio
w. B. Reese, H. A. Barlow, Thornton
Ohio; Mr.. and Mrs. F. H. Hardy, Fitch
bury. Mass; Mrs. Sarah Klein, Miss
MymaKlein. Miss Mary Klein, Battle
Creek, Mich; Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Scott
Mr.. and Mrs. M. w. Howard, Miss
Howard, Boston; Mr.. and Mrs. r. d.
Jones, Chicago; Mr.. and Mrs. P. L. Mink,
Stevens Point, Wis; Mr.. and Mrs. r.
Smith, Boston; Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Penturf, st. Louis, Mo-; Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas. ]. Slower, Miss Mary Beall, Colon,
Mich; Mrs. A. Butz, Fort Wayne, Ind. :;
Chas. G. Goodwin, East Douglass, Mass. !;
Miss Sophia White, Eincoln, ILL.,; Mrs.
w. H. Westfield, Oakland, ILL., John F.
Truman, Port Huron, Mich; Miss Emma
A. Miller, Miss Mary Bosemyer, Chicago.
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elect at the regular meeting the night
before. There are a number of appli-
cants for the place." said he, land it Ia
sometimes relief to be able to say to a
man that nothing will be done for a cou..
pie of weeks" 1t was agreed that no ac-
tion can be taken in the matter until the
regular meeting of the board to be held
on the oath inst.
The old committee on high school Ii
brary was made a special committee to
complete certain work it had In hand be-
fore the new committees were an
nounced. The board then adjourned.
The herald., 1898-01-12
Stole Carpenters' Tools

John Bixby, dilapidated specimen of
humanity was arrested early yester-
DAY morning by Officer Walker on a
charge OF burglary. He is accused of
having broken open the premises of one
Van Wyck on the San Fernando road.
near the city limits, and to having stolen
thereffom a box OF carpenters tools.
Bixby was arraigned in the afternoon
before Justice Morrison and his exom-
ination set for Thursday afternoon
The herald., 1898-01-12
PERSONAL

DR.. Weldon of San Pedro, ex-coronel
Of this county, is in the city.
DR.. Baldwin, president of the Univers.
lty of Texas, who has been spending a
few days in Los Angeles. left for his
home yesterday.
James p. Mccarthy, prominent San
francisco real estate owner and dealer
arrived yesterday morning on short
visit with his brother, Charles Nc
earthly of Oswego. N. Y, who is spend
ing the winter In Los Angeles,
The herald., 1898-01-12
A Pupils Recital

The junior pupils of the Willard Music
school will give piano and voice recital
Saturday morning, the 18th inst, at 10:S0
o'clock at the Friday Morning club
rooms, 3301s South Broadway. Miss
Grace Hersee, vocalist. and Miss Mary
Gard, accompanist (seniors), will assist.
The morning promises to be specially
ENJOYABLE
The herald., 1898-01-12

Board Of fire commissioners meets
10 a. m.
Annual election chamber Of COM
merce-9 a. m. to 8 p.m m.
Lecture, "What to Do," Guild hall
st. Paul's church-S p. m.
Investigating committee, board of
education, council chamber-7:3Op pm.
Horse training and tanning by
Prof. Gleason, Hazards pavilion
6:15 p. m.
The herald., 1898-01-12
Beekeepers Meeting

Yesterday morning the Beekeepsrs'
association met In the chamber Of COM
merce, finished their business and ad-
journed subject to call from the chair.
In the afternoon the Beekeepers' ex-
change met and transacted routine busi-
ness In the same place.
The herald., 1898-01-12
Any Law Sule

We will take and make no charge unless
we win It, Legal advice free to c,,...N'
out-of-town correspondence so,,o,.s,
Established since 1888 Notary in of,ca .S :,
no charge to our clients. Damage suit.
OF every nature, mechanics liens. NOR,
gage foreclosures cases in equity, probat -
practice and will contests our specia,,,.s
h~Asworthy o., ass South Spring street
The herald., 1898-01-12
HANDEL's "MESSIAH"
Presented at Simpson Tabernacle by
the st. Cecilias

When Handel's inspired masterpiece,
the oratorio Of ''The Messiah" was per-
formed at Westminster abbey in 1884
forty-three years after 1t was composed
the singers numbered 267, the orchestra
242. Last evening the major part of it
was presented at Simpson tabernacle
by the st. Cecilias, their ranks aug
Eented by nine tenors and six bassos,
and supported by an organ, two pianos
The herald., 1898-01-12
EVENTS OF TODAY

Orpheum-Vaudevil
Burbank-"Rip Van Winkle.'
Los Angeles-Matinee, "Le Grande
Duchesse;" evening, "The Black
Hussar."
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THU bur IHr.I Il. n. WIND Vel Weather
oa. m. 30.0l Al 81 NV Clear
Pm. 1910 As TO Pt cldy
Maximum tempera ture, 53
Minimum temperature. SO.
Forecast for Southern California for
wednesday: Cloudy and unsettled
weather, probably rain in northern por-
tiop; southerly winds
The herald., 1898-01-12
THE WEATHER

TEMPERATURE-Rep Of observations
taken at Los Angeles Jan. llth. The
barometer Is reduced to sea level
The herald., 1898-01-12
THE sECRETARYsHIP

At the close of the session Webb de-
manded to know whether 1t had been
the intention Of the board to defer the
election of secretary until the nsxt
regular meeting. He said that had been
his understanding, and for that reason
he had not insisted upon lis motion "a
The herald., 1898-01-12
CITY NEWS
INDEX OF LOCAL EVENTS

ChronicIed ON pages 8. Q. 3 and 10
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Time Bar. Th'r. R. H. Wind Vel. Weather
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-05-18
Pigtail PecuIiarities.

"There are some curious things about the Chinamen in this city that 1 have observed, , said one of the conductors the other day on the Pennsylvania ave nue street car line as the car stopped and two Chinamen got off. "They al- most invariably take a car when they have any distance to go. 1 suppose that it is on account of the peculiar shoes they wear. Another thing that I have observed about them is that they always buy tickets. have been on this line for a long time now and I have the first nickel to receive from Chinaman yet. They travel, as a rule, in company, gen. erally two together.
 "They are great people for paying one another S fare When I come around to collect fares, both Chinamen put their hands in their pockets as soon as they see me, and it is always race be- tween them to see who can hand the ticket to me first 1 have never known of a case where each Chinaman paid his own fare. They seem to take the great est delight in offering this little cour- tesy to one another Watch and see if this is not the case when you see two of them get on a car together. "-Wash. ington Post,
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CivlIizing a Chimpanzee.

Its wonderful, :" said the man who is always earnest. ito see how they can develop the intellects of the lower ami. mals There is no telling how much we may be able to benefit them by system atic education. n
 "What suggested that idea?''
 "A chilnpanzee that I saw. He was ono9 in q perfectly wild condition. Now they have by patient training taught him to smoke pipe, play cards and drink whisky r'--London Answers.
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AGURAl IN MAROCCO.
rhe Whole Population of the Town n
 Descended From Renegades.

The Whole Population of the Town gs
 Descended From Renegadcs.
 Agura Is small town surrounded with walls of from 40 10 90 feeT ln height and built of tabia, or con- solidated rubble. Ii owes it's existence to Mulai Ismail, who held the throne of Marocco from 1722-1757. One gate alone gives entrance to the place, and in this respect, as well as in its archi- lecture within and without, it much resembles the "ksor" of the Sahara de- scribed in the writer's ''TafIet But 1t owns one feature of curiosity which was lacking in the desert, for almost without exception the entire population ere descendants of the renegades and Christian slaves of the time of Mulat Ismail, with the addition of stray rena- gades who have been sent there since. Probably no such cosmopolitan place exists in the world. for it's 300 or 400 inhabitants are representative of no less than 13 uationalities. Each family re- members and is proud of it's origin, tha Arab equivalent being applied as sur names.
 The family in whose home the writer spent the few days of his visit were Flemish, while the next door neighbor on one side was an elderly female. whose father, an Englishman, had be- come a renegade some 80 years since, and who quickly tired of it. leaving a wife and daughter, the neighbor in question. The other neighbors were the fe Cf GTo,,ieh %ha head of the family being "Absalam ben Mohammed el Gitano el Espanol They were particularly proud of the 'Gitano" (gypsy) part of the surname and begged me not to confound them with the ordinary Spaniards, of whom there were many descendants in Agurai The ancestor of this gypsy family waa two generations back. He had left his country, they naiyely told the writer, because he was not on good terms with his sultan, who wanted to imprison him, being afraid of his influence. Prob ably it was more of an affair of the po- lice courts than political intrigue.
 The "UIad el AIuj' (t'sons of the converts ), as the inhabitants of Agurai are called, have entirely, except in one or two cases, lost the type of their Eu- ropean ancestry, and through marriage, no doubt, are as largely Berber in ap- pearance as the wild tribes that sur. round them. They speak among them selves both Arabic and Berber, and both, ouriously enough, with strong foreign accent, easily distinguishabIe They are exempt from all taxation, but have to serve in the sultan s army, where they perform the duties of cooks and butchers. Geographical Journal.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-05-18
DREAMS oE TIE DAYS CONE BY. :.

 Dreams, come home to my heart again With the memory of the past, Come with your pleasure and your pain And your hopes too bright to last. Come from your hidden graves that lie In the beautiful realms of the days gone bys Come from your glorious graves that lie In the realms of the days gone byi will welcome ye all again,
 As once in the halls of Eld, Welcome the pleasure and the pain
 For the beauty your brief lives held. Dreams, come out of your secret graves In the woodland wilds and the dim sea
 caves;
 Dreams, come cut of your myriad graves In the wilds and the dim sea cavesi Ye throng the halls of my heart once moro With faces sad with pain. Oh, faded ghosts of the dreams of yore, The joy comes not again. Go back to your mournful graves that lie In the shadowy realms of the days gone by; Go back to your voiceless graves that lie In the realms of the days gone byl Emma A. Browne in New York Ledger.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-05-18
Came to Grief.

MT. Topnoody went to minstrei show last night, and the funny conun- drums and jokes he heard set him think ing. So at breakfast he began on Mrs. Topnoody. She was fretful and not very much in the humor for pleasantly, but Topnoody slashed away.
 ''I say, Mrs. Topnoody, can you spell money with four letters?"
 "No, I can t, she said.
 ''Ha, ha, that's good. A woman never can get at this sort of thing ln the same clear headed way man can. We'll, the way to spell it is Cash. Isn't that money?"
 Mrs. T. failed to smile, and Topnoody started out with another.
 "Wait a minute" she interrupted, i've got one. Let's see if you can get it. Spell Topnoody with five letters
 Topnoody puckered his brows awhile and gave it up
 "Ha, ha, laughed Mrs. T, that's good. A man can never get at this sort of thing in the same clear headed way woman can Well, the way to spell 1t is idiot. Lsn that popnoody?
 But Topnoody never smiled, and the breakfast was finished in silence, ex- cept an occasional chuckle from Mrs. Topnoody s end of the table. Pearson $ Weekly
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-05-18
4 Dr. Johnson Story.

In glancing through the recently pub. lished work on that worthy bore, Dr. Johnson. failed to discover the follow ing anecdote. It is carefully preserved by family whose Scotch ancestors took rise out of the great lexicogra. pher:
 Hostess-Dr. Johnson, what do you think of our Scotch broth?
 Dr. Johnson-Madam, in my opinion it's only fit for pigs.
 Hostess-Then have some more. - London Figaro.
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The Old Buck Heard.

Joseph has gone into the service of two old bachelors. brothers, who are so much alike that they can hardly be told apart, but of whom one is deaf. Think. ing he was speaking to the latter, Jo- seph brings the letters and newspapers on his first morning and remarks:
 "Theres the paper, you old buck. "
 What is his confusion to hear the old gentleman answer beneyolently:
 sIt is my brother who is deaf, not Ip-Gaulois
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-05-18
The Timiditv of an Elephant.

Riding along a road in India saw the following instance of big ele- phant's timidity, which I venture to send you: The elephant, ridden by mahout. was followed by a small Mall tese terrier, which, intent on it's own affairs. trotted before its master, mak- ing occasional instinctive investigations by the roadside after the manner of dogs, without particularly noticing other travellers. From the first moment the elephant set eyes on the dog he never lost sight of him, turning from side to side always with an eye on the small animal and hurrying out of his way whenever he approached. The timidity of the one and the confidence of the other were irresistibly amusing Lon don SpectatcE
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-05-18
THE TRUTH ABOUT IT.
What Is the Use of Living if You Can't
 Be In It?


 Yes, Erastus, we have noticed that article ill a scientific journal advising people to sleep more i'll order to live long, and to tell you the truth we take but little stock ill 1t. We notice that Tesla, the great electrician claims that a man might live to be 200 years old if he would only sleep most of the time. And suppose he should. What would man amount to sleeping like fat dog in the summer? For all practical pur- poses Il man might as well be dead as to be asleep with this advantage in the way of being dead--he isn't in any body's road
 Suppose a man lived for 200 years and slept 160 of it. He can only figure out when the thing Is through that he has really lived 40 years, and in that 40 he neither cuts as much ice nor has half the fun the man has who passes in his checks at 60a and out of the 60 has only slept go years. Is there any particular object, my boy, i'll simply lying round asleep for 150 years, wearing out bed clothes and saving a trife on funeral expenses? We think not. All there is in life worth living for you get while you are awake. All the time you ought to spend asleep Is just enough to enable you to keep awake the rest of the time,
 Sleep is necessary evil, just so much good timo that you have to give up ill order to keep your stomach, liver and other organs i'll fair shape. Of course we have read a good deal about beautiful dreams, when angels hover overhead and all that, but our experi- ence is that this talk is almost alto gether rot. Vixen you are in good phys ical condition, you don t dream. When you dream, the angels aren't in that vicinity. It is when you have filed your interior with fatted swine and boiled cabbage that you retire to sleep, perehanee to dream. To dream-aye, there is the rub!-when you feel four headed dog sitting upon your vitals and know that the horned and eleven tailed whaagdoodle from the barren mountains of Hepsidam is crawling upon you, breathing smoke and fire, and you are paralyzed or you seem all at once to find yourself in the midst of some gay and cultured assembly with no clothing on your person except perhaps a paper collar and pair of hose supporters and utterly unable to explain to the ladies and gentlemen present why you are there in this decollete costume or to sake your departure.
 There is nothing angelic or heavenly about the average dream. On the con- trary, it is hades and repeat The young man who has to be routed out of bed at 8 or 10 o'clock i'll the morning may live good while, but thu chances are that he won't amount to aS much i'll life as a three legged dog ill a jack rabbit chase. The proper thing, young fellow, is to sleep less and get hump on your self, even if you should pass out before you are 90. One year of life spent in knocking rich, ripe. luscious persim- mons is worth five sleeping in the shade with the worms crawling over your per- son and the timber bugs trying to roll you out of their way.-Tom MoNeal in Topeka Mail
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They Are Friends.

Helen-I wonder why Kate doesnT nind her own business.
 Mattie--She hasn't any. Helen-Business?
 Mattie-No; mind. Chicago NewR
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Seven British regiments have been given permission to add the word "Chit- xxal" to their colorx