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The herald., 1898-06-20
PhotographY in Army and Navy

''There will be no lack of photographs
this time remarked a well known army
officer to a Star reporter, "and already,
though we have only entered 1t, thousands
of fine photographs have been filed in the
war department, and even more by naval
officers in the navy department Every
conceivable view is instantly photograph
ed, there being hundreds of the Maine in
all her stages of life and death, as also all
of the other vessels, crews. guns and other
belongings. Photography has in recent
years been a study at West Point and the
Naval academy, and many of the leading
officers are now as expert at taking pic
lures as they are at the other branches of
their profession. A photograph explains
many things that officers who are pos
sessed of the most voluble descriptive pow
ers would be unable to explain without it.
When the reports Of the war with Spain
are prepared they can be most thoroughly
illustrated by these photographs.
Besides, the volunteers are equally well
equipped as photographers, there being
one or more fine photographers with each
company, and with the 10000 soldiers now
at Tampa. Chickamauga and other places
there are at the lowest calculation several
hundred who are thoroughly prepared tc
take snap shots, with double that number
of skilled amateurs. which will be the
means of permanently preserving in pic
toriai way every scene and incident in
which they will take any part. Blessings
they say. always come in disguise, and-this
war will prove a blessing to the various
makers of cameras and other parapherna-
Nd vi hot tc ;vo
with the up-to-date Photographic art. The
soldier boys are already loading down the
mails with the photos they have taken. and
it will not be long before the government
will not only have picture of each organ.
ization in the service. but also of every sol
dier and sailor who is participating in the
war, and every temporary and permanent
camp and camp outfit. washington Star
The herald., 1898-06-20
DOG LOOKS OUT FOR RATIoNs
Stores up Supply of Bones for Long
Sea VOYAGE

Aboard the Portuguese bark Industria,
now taking a cargo of oil at Point Breeze,
there is an intelligent little mongrel dog,
which always attracts attention among the
people at the point whenever the steamer
comes there. They call the animal "Scav
enger," by reason of his peculiar trait of
gathering to himself all the old bones he
can find and boarding them up to serve as
food on his long voyage home to Lisbon.
The Industria pulled into Point Breeze
early last week and the dog was ashore
before she touched her wharf. Scavenger
was impatient to get after his bones, and
when the opportunity offered he jumped
from the steamer TO tug, thence to
lighter and from there to the shore. He
found a good, likely bone by the time his
floating home had tied up to the wharf and
hurried aboard to hide it. His great sa-
gacity leads him to the most out-of-t the-way
parts of the shilt where he knows his
treasures are not likely to be found and
disturbed. All week Scavenge- was as
busy laying in his stores as the men were in
loading the cargo of oil, and he'll keep his
work up until the last whistle blows. One
of the workmen who has been watching the
dog expresses the opinion that Scavenger
has not less than $50 bones stored away
aboard ship.-Philadelphi Record.
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number. indeed. The plain people of Ger
many have nothing in common with ths
people of Spain. while they feel that Amer
lea, where all of them have relatives, Is
their second home.
France, 1t is true. has many traditional
and intimate ties with the neighborinS
spaniards; but neither the French people
nor the French overnment--especiallyt the
existing republican regime-would willing
ly abandon the tradition of friendliness
toward the American republic.
AS for Russia, the maintenance of q
thoroughly good understanding with the
United States has for more than a genera
ton been one of the fixed principles of her
imperial policy.
On our part we have no possible occasion
to develop any friction or i'll will in our
relations with any of the great European
powers. An offensive and defensive al
liance with England at this time would
revolutionize all the principles of our old
time policy. In order to play our par
ticular part in the affairs of the world, 1t
does not now seem either necessary or de-
sirable that we should bind ourselves by
any alliance whatsoever.
The best kind of an immediate entente
with England would be effected by the
adoption of an arbitration treaty-not so
much because the treaty is specifically
needed as because of the testimony 1t
would bear before the whole world, of mu-
tual confidence and esteem between the two
most powerful and most highly developed
of nations.
1t is perfectly true, undoubtedly, that the
growth of the most friedly feeling between
England and America will be mutually ad-
vantageous in high degree. And 1t is to
be encouraged in eevry reasonable man.
ner. But such a relationship will not be
improved by indiscreet and clustering talk
which can only arouse the jealousy and III
will of continental Europe.
Because we are willing to love England
the more, there is no present reason why
we should love Germany or France or
Russia any the less.-Review of Reviews.
The herald., 1898-06-20
An Illogical Theory

To the Editor of the Los Angeles Herald: !:
The popular theory regarding taxation IS
that every man should be taxed accord
ing to his ability to pay"
This is about as absurd as the equally
popular theory that legislation should be of
such a character as to insure ''the greatest
good to the greatest number"-as If the
smaller number have not the same natural
rights as the majority.
A little careful and candid investigation
of the theory of taxation based Oh ability
to pay" ought to convince any person that
II is utterly illogical and therefor inde-
fensible.
No private corporation ever thinks of tax
ing or assessing its stockholders on the
basis If each ones ability to pay. Let cor
poration adopt such system of discrlmina-
tion and the concern would soon go to
pieces wealthy member of corporation
may own two shares of stock only, while
another man, who is comparatively poor as
to other property, owns ten shares of the
same kind of stock.
Suppose the board of directors should as
sess the rich man on his two shares the
same amount as the poor man on his ten
shares. No person with sense would say
that such assessment was just. Nor would
any one expect to see such corporation live
thirty days, unless 1t receded from its un-
just and untenable business method.
Each stockholder is assessed on the priv
ilege he holds in the form of certificates of
stock, and with no reference whatevr to his
wealth or poverty. That is as it should be,
and the method is sanctioned by reason and
justice Individual business methods are
ON the same plan.
A civil government, whether great or
small, strong or weak, rich or poor, is sim
ply public corporation, and every citizen is
a stockho.der therein. Hence each one
should be taxed not according to how much
property he may own, but according to the
special privileges he holds
Now, the only special privileges any citi-
zen controls Is either land, directly or some
franchise based upon the exclusive use Of
natural opportunities. Therefore, AK
on land values, exclusive of improvements,
is the only just and logical tax that can be
applied. Furthermore, no other tax but
land value tax is needed in any community.
Try it, RALPH HOYT.
The herald., 1898-06-20
WAR VETERANS
A Column That Has Never Been Bro
ken Since the Nation Was Founded

my eye has just fal.en,' said an old SOL
der, upon a badge Of white ribbon pinned
up in my room along with a lot of other
traps, this badge being one that was worn
few years ago at the twenty-hfth annual
reunion of my regiment, which served III the
civil war.
"And what I'm thinking OF is that, with
the unfailing march of time, it won't be
very long before we shall be beginning an
other series of reunions in this country,
those of the Spanish American war. And
they'll have many strange new things to
tell these veterans, of service IN far-of
countries, in strange lands and different cli-
mates And these reunions. year after year,
of many regiments in all parts of the coun-
try, will be, in every state, OF men VINO
served in a common cause and under one
flag.
when you come to think of 1t, there
never has been time in this country since
it was started when we haven't been hav-
ing army reunions. We seem to go to war
about once In so often; long before the vet
Grams of one war have disappeared another
set appears. Thus the veterans of 1912 came
upon the scene long before the last of tho
revolutionary heroes had gone. The veter-
ans of the Mexican war came while there
were many of the veterans of 1872 still liv-
ing. And then came the veterans of the
civil war with their reunions while there
were yet living many veterans of the Mex
lean war and some still Of 1872 And now
with great numbers of the veterans of the
civil war still living, we shall have before
very long the veterans Of the Spanish
American war.
I'm fact, for a peaceful and isolated ma
tlon we seem to be tolerably warlike af-
ter all.-New York Sun.
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Rival Colored Undertakers

We have in this city couple of colored
undertakers, and competition between
them is quite keen. Most of the colored
people of any social pretensions belong to
some of the large benevolent orders which
flourish here, and under whose auspices the
members are buried. Both the undertakers
belong to one of these societies, and 1t is
tacitly understood that the first one who
gets to the residence after the services of an
undertaken is needed shall have the job. A
brother was very Ill recently, and his death
was regarded as the outcome in very
short time. In order to be there first one
of the undertakers took his cooling board,
etc., and placed 1t in a conspicuous place by
the fence to warn his rival that the Job
had already been pre-empted; having done
this he waited patiently and with due mani
festatons of sorrow for the breath to leave
the body of the dying brother. Contrary
to all established rules, this brother refused
to die, and has about Observation-Disclosures
ter (Ky) Democrat.
The herald., 1898-06-20
THE MIDDLE-AGED MAN
He Recalls Picturesque House Illum.
nations of Fifty Years Ago

Lightning of every description" said
the middle-aged man, ''is brighter, more
brilliant and more striking now than ever
before; but there was in vogue. say fifty
years ago, a method of illumination. for
purposes of celebration that it seems to me
was more picturesque than any one of the
methods that have supplanted it, l refer to
the illumination of houses by placing can
dies in the windows.
"Windows in those days were not made
as they are commonly nowadays, with one
or two lights, but they were made with
six or nine lights of glass to q; sash, Sc
window had usually twelve or eighteen
panes of glass. Candles were placed at the
windows, one at each pane, in holders espe-
cially made for the use, u little triangular
piece of tin with a short socket soldered
upon it. This holder was held in place SIM
ply by crowding the sharp corner of it
into the sash below the glass. The candles
were not lighted until the approach Of the
procession.
"A house front with light twinkling at
every pane of every window was pctur-
esque sight indeed, and a whole street of
houses thus Illuminated made fairy spec
tacle."-New York Sun.
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Alliance Not in Order

The plain people who constitute the bone
and sinew of the British nation are today,
as they almost always have been, in SYM
pathy with the United States But it is
also true to a very great extent that the
intelligent citizenship of Germany IS
friendly to America. The Germans are in
much closer relationship with American
life than are the English.
We have millions upon millions of people
In this country who, If not born in Ger
many themselves. are descended from
parents or grandparents of German birth
The naturalized Americans born in Eng
land, on the other hand. are very limited
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Sight of the World

The union is such a union now as 1t never
was before. for the rights of the states
have been buried in the common fealty
owed the nation. From ocean to ocean and
from the gulf to the lakes never was such
a united front presented to a foreign foe
The diplomat who has figured on a dis
rupted nation in time of trouble recognizes
now that America Is a new problem to
him, and that 1t is power greater through
its perfect homogenety than 1t has. ever
been rated by any but the citizen himself
Pittsburg Post
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Generosity to Spain

We may be generous to Spain in allowing
her to retain few ships, perhaps, for pa
trolling her European coasts. We may re-
fuse to demand an indemnity in cash. We
may offer to support some schoolmasters
in her benighted territory for term of
years. But our generosity in her behalf
will not be exercised at the expense of.any
people over whose heads the American flag
shall wave during the present war.--St
Paul Pioneer Press
The herald., 1898-06-20
First Run on a Bank

The first run" on banking institutions In
London was in 1867. Many Lombard street
goldsmiths and bankers had lent out the
money intrusted to them, and, being called
upon for payment were unable to meet the
demand. crowd of creditors and others
assembled and a riot followed, in which
four bankers were hanged at their own
doors before order could be restored and
the angry creditors persuaded that they
were not being sWindled
The herald., 1898-06-20
China Sale in Boston

Boston.-Not many persons appeared to
desire the dinner service which was used
for the first time on the occasion of the
visit to Boston in the fall of 1850 of the
Prince of Wales. The service has lost
many of its original pieces, yet nearly 700
of these remain intact and were offered Al
one lot by auction. 1t Is a large enough
service to make three or four sets for fam
fly use.
1t was secured at s275 by DIR. E. A. San
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OUR SPELLING SCHOOL

Nobody is too old to go to school,
but many lack both the time and the
opportunity. The Herald has ar
ranged partially to supply the lack
by conducting spelling school. Read
the advertisement elsewhere in this
mornings paper headed, "The Her
AIDS Spelling School," A gold-flled
hunting-case watch is offered as prize
this week.
The herald., 1898-06-20
Los ANGELES HERALD. MONDAY MORNING JUNE 20 1898

condition of affairs, deliberately undertake
to rob the government, or that imposes out
rageous terms for the use of its corporate
property. Is entitled to no consideration by
the authorities or by the courts. Such cor
porations are the creatures and beneficial
ries Of the government, and when they as
sumo to embarass the government In time
of war they ought to be made to understand
that the government is still superior to its
creatures.-Detroit Journal.
The herald., 1898-06-20
OUR SPELLING SCHOOL

Nobody is too old to go to school,
but many lack both the time and the
opportunity. The Herald has ar
ranged partially to supply the lack
by conducting spelling school. Read
the advertisement elsewhere in this
mornings paper headed, "The Her.
AIDS Spelling School," A gold filled
watch is offered as prize this week.
The herald., 1898-06-20

born of Meredith. N. II. The china, al
though of French manufacture and trans
parent is rather thick, even the cups being
unlike the thin ware in use at the present
time.
The decorations are of purpish tint, re-
sembling in color that of wistaria. The
design is a conventionalized Virginia creep
er leaf, with the monogram III. r. H.
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THE PUBLIC PULSE

CThe Herald under this heading prints
but does not assume re-
sponsbility for the sentiments expressed
Correspondents are requested to cultivate
brevity, SO far as is consistent with the
proper expression of their views.)
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Feeds Its Young on Mice

When the barn owl has young family
it hunts diligently and brings to its nest
about five mice in an hour. AS both of the
parent birds are actively employed both
in the evening and at dawn, forty mice
day Is low estimate for the total capture.
The herald., 1898-06-20
Hobsons Galore in the NAVY

To get back to Lieutenant Hobson's bra
very again, 1t seems to us that the fact
that 1900 other men in the navy were
anxious to go along with him proves that
the navy. is made up almost entirely of
Hobsons.-Philadelphi Inquirer.
The herald., 1898-06-20

Horace Ewing. prominent N. Y. actor,
will give lessons In elocution, oratory and
dramatic art. Hotel Aberdeen, 80 N. Brdwy.
The herald., 1898-06-20

DR.. Max Wassman, dentist, rooms 225 and
22S Potomac block, Broadway. between
Second and Third Tel. Brown 1073
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Granite ware at wholesale prices. Harsh
man & Dietz, Ala S. Spring.
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Holding Up Uncle Sam
The corporation that will, In the present
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l. w. HELLMAN. President H. w
MAN, Cashier; G. HEILMAN. Assistan
A. GLASSELL, T. L. DUQUE. I. w.
Special Collection Department. Co
partment offers to the public safes for r
which is the strongest. best guarded al
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SITUATIONS wAxTED-FEMALE.

WANTED BY a colored woman. day work or
washing 10 take home. Call or address l72T
Superior ST NV. 1t
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Southern Ry.

CSchcdule in effect May 1. 1851
All trains arrive and leave Pennsylvania P>S
senIer Station
s:I2 A. M-Daily. local for DanTiIIs. Char
IOtte and way stations at Manassas daily for Strss
burg and HarrisOnburg and at Lynchburs with
the Norfolk and Western daily.
Ills a. N-Daily. the UNITED STATES
FAST MAIL. carries Pullman Buffet Sleepers,
New YORK and Washington to Jacksonvills,
Asheyiilc and Hot Springs, v c., Knoxville, Chat
tanoCga and Memphis, Tenn. and at Charlotte
with Pullman Sleeper for Augusta Pullman Buffet
SIeener New York 70 New Orleans, uniting at
Charlotte with Pullman Sleeper for Birmingham.
Connects at Lynchburg with Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad fo9 Lexington daily except sunday, and
Natural Bridge, daily Solid train. WashingtOa
to New ORLEANS without change. Sunset person
ally conducted tourist excursion, through sleeper
on this train every Wednesday to San Francisco
without change
and Harrisonburg. daily. except Sunday.
4:51 p. M--Dailv local for Charlottesville
IO.45 P. M.-Dsily WASHINGTON AND
SOUTHWESTERN. YESTlBULED. LIMITED.
composed Of Pullman Vestibuled Sleepers. Dining
Cars and Day Coaches. pullman sieepers New
York to Nashville. Tenn via Ashevilie, KnOx-
via Charlotte Columbia, Savannah, and jack
sonviIie, New York 10 Memphis. via Br-
mingE1m; New York to New Orleans. via Atlanta
and Montgomery. Vestibuled day coach. Wash
ington 10 Atlanta Southern Railway Dining Car
TRAINS ON WASHINGTON AND OHIO DIV
lSiON leave w aSalnSIch S-Ul A. u uAll!. =. "
ard 4:45 p. NJ daily, except Sunday, and SIS ~
Sunday only. for Round Hill; 4:S2 P. NJ. daily
except Sunday for Leesburg, and 6:25 P. ~
caily for Herndon- Returning, arrive al Wash
ington, s:26 A ~ and $50 P. NJ. daily.
and 800 P ~ daily, except Sunday, from
Round Hili and ;O6 \. NJ daily, except Sunday.
from Herndon, and s:S4 A. NJ daily. except
Sunday from Leesburg-
Through trains from the South arrive at Wash
inrton 6:43 A NJ. 2:20 P. NJ and 9:S5 P "
Harrisonburg. u noon daily. except Sunday. and
9:S5 p NJ daily, ard $50 A. NJ daily from
Charlottesville.
Tickets sleeping car reservation and infor-
Pennsylvania ave- and Pennsylvania Rail-
road Passenger Station
FRANK s CANNON, 81 Vice President and
General Manager
J. n CULP Traffic Msuager-
W. A. TURK. General Passenger Agent
L. s. BROWN. Gen Agt Pass Dept
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CO eassapiat' = e1ip AL:
Through the Grandest Scenery of
America, All Trains Vestibuied,
Electric Lighted, Steam Heated.
All Meals Served in Dining Cars.
Station sixth and ID Streets.

Schedule In effect May /, 1903
x;D b. DA1LY-Clncinnati and SO. Louis
sPeciai-Solit train for Cincinnati. Pullman
sleepers to Cincirnati. Lexington Louisville, In
oianapolis and st. Louis. without change Con-
nection ior Virginia Hot Springs- P2rlor Cars.
Cincinnati to Chicapo
n;lo +. ". pAiLY-F. p " Hmited-solid
tTa:n for Cincinnati. Pullman aeepers TO Gin.
cinnati, Lexington and Louisville. without
change; open for reception Of passengers at 900
?. m Pullman Comnartment Car to Virginia Hot
springs without change, Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Ssturdays. Observation car Hinton 70 Cincinnati
sieepers. Cincinnati to Chicago and St Louis
Io:67 A. NJ, EXCEPT SUNnAY-Parlor Car.
Washington to Richmond and Richmond 20 Old
point Only rail line via Penn. z. F. r. and
@. e. o. Railways
2;2o ?. ~, 3AILY-ror Gordonsvtlie. Char
iottesvine staunton. and for Richmond. daily.
except Sunday
Reservation end tickets az Chesapeake and
Ohio efices 5lS and .&2i Pennsylvania avenue.
and at the station
q W. FULLER.
nc15- anti Genera. Passenger Agent
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RAILROADS.
Washington. Alexandria
and
MOunt Vernon Railway.
RAILROADS.
In Eject NAV 4 1895

In Eject May L, 1895.
For Alexandria (week days., $50. T:O5. 1885.
ea ea. 500. s:35 $3.50, 1000; 100. i;45 A. NJ;
5:25, 1853. ex.; AIS, ex; $3.50. sos, $50 ex. |;
9;4o, 9o5 ex; 6:sO, 7:os, $780, 9:Oo 1000. IL 20.
~ for 6a Alexandria (sundays>. 7:45, s:45. 9:45,
o;So u:l5 A. NJ. 1900 noon. l2:i5. 1;30, 2:15,
S;V, So'o 80 4So 5l5. 600, CAS- $780, sl5, 900,
For Mount Vernon (week daysl, $50. 500,
5o' 1o:oo' 100 A. b., 1905. 1:15 2:05, 800. 3:o9
1:08. $500 p NJ
- TOT 6a Mount Vernon (sundays). 7:45, s:45 a. M
iz;Vo noon, 2:i5, 3:45 and GAS. 600 P. N.
for Arlington and Aqueduct Bridge (week
daysl, $500. $3.50. 1000 and Hoo A. n. lz:05,
10. las. 2:05. 300, S:25, 4;l5, $50. 6:O5.
1903. and 500 p NJ
FOR Arlington and Aqueduct Bridge tSundays>,
!;45. s:i5, 9:45. 1880. 1l:i5 A. NJ, 1900 noon
H;45 l:3O. 2:15. 500, 3:45. 4:30. 5:15. 600.
Gas, 7:3o, S:15 p. NJ.
Parcels carried on all trains. Baggage checked
apl3tf
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OCEAN STEAMERS.
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TO ALASKA
GOidfieldS

BY new EMBlhE LINZ o,JJJ-tOn steamers ONO.
Pennsylvania, Indiana. Conemaugh Specially
fitted with Steam Heat, Electric Lights and all
modern improvements
Seattle to ST. Michael.
Appointed to sail about June Is. %, %; July
l3 20. q.
These large Ocean Steamers, so well known in
the Transatlantic business in connection with our
own feet OF IS NEW VESSELS for the YUKON
RIVER traffic furnish by far the best route to
DAWSON CITY and all other YUKON RIVER
points.
ALL WATER ROUTE"
Remember that this line enables passengers to
reach the heart OF the GOLD FIELDS without
enduring the hardships, exposure, severe toll and
danger TO life and property encountered on the
overland routes. Apply
Empire transportation Co..
607 First Avenue, Seattle. Wash. or to
international Nav. Co.,
1906 + st. n. W.. Washington. D. c.
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WANTED--Reliable white woman would like care
Of house for Summer. Address FAIR, this
Office. my25-3t-em