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The herald., 1898-03-14
He Guards Washington's Tomb

Edward Parker, the little old colored
man who occupies the sentry box at the
tomb Of Washington at Mt. Vernon, lives
IN Washington. That is, his family lives
here. and he comes over by special permit
of the organization which has control of
the old home of the first president of the
United States.
For years the tomb of Washington has
been constantly before this old colored
mans vision. He has never missed day
from that dingy sentry box since Mt. Yer
non passed into the charge of the ladies.
and before that. dating from 1s41 he had
lived on the place. He was slave OF
John Washington and is the last of the old
servants row living.
Every other Saturday Parker comes over
to Washington. always carrying with him
an old-fashioned carpet bag. so common
in the days Of reconstruction. The follow
ing Monday morning he may always be
seen half hour at least before the train
starts for M. Vernon waiting around the
corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Thir-
teenth street.
Parker is indeed a character. He assist
ed the last person consigned to the vault
in Washington's tomb After that the key
TO the vault was thrown into the Potomac.
This was in the early '5os.-Was shington
Star.
The herald., 1898-03-14
LIONESS AND BAGGAGEMAN
Only His Stony Stare Saves Trair
Hand From Sudden Death

Pittsburg, PA loness that had bro
ken out of its cage was the companion
of G. T. Lapham, baggage master of the
Baltimore and Ohio train No. 6 that left
Chicago Saturday afternoon for Pitts
burg. Just before the train left Chicago a
large iron cage containing the lioness
was brought to the baggage car, but the
cage was too large to be taken into the
car, so a crate. made of one-inch pine Stats,
was procured. the lioness transferred into
the frail affair and placed in the center of
the car. where Mr.. Lapham could have full
view of her. She belonged to Frank c.
Bostock of Chicago. and was consigned to
a menagerie show in this city.
About eighty-live miles out of Chicago
Lapham looked up from his work and
there. in the middle of the car. glaring a t
him, was the lioness loose. She looked
very hungry. But MIR. Lapham had not
read books of adventures in the tropics for
nothing. He returned the stare. Then he
backed toward the door. Just as he
reached it the lioness sprang towards
him. and the baggage master disappeared
through the door.
The animal had the car to herself for the
rest of the trip and clawed several pieces
of baggage to bits. The people here to
whom she was consigned removed the beast
from the car without observation-disclosures
City Star.
The herald., 1898-03-14
Boiler Explosions in England

The fifteenth annual report on the work.
ing of the boiler explosion act, presented
to the secretary of the English board of
trade, shows that during the year ended
June 80, 1897, the total number of cases
dealt with under the act was so, and by
these explosions 27 persons were killed and
rs injured. This represents a total of 1o2
persons killed and injured during the year,
and exceeds the average (S0,5) for the Is
years during which the act of 1882 has been
in operation by about 1871 per cent. The
loss Of life taken alone closely approxi-
mates to the average esq for the same
period. The causes of explosions show no
important variation. OF the so cases dealt
with, 2S were attributed to the defective
condition of the boiler or of its fittings. SO
to defective design, workmanship mate
rial, or construction, or to undue working
pressure, and IL to ignorance or neglect of
the attendants. In AZ cases the boilers were
under the inspection of some public asso-
citation or were used in vessels provided
with board of trade passenger certificates
but in many of these cases the explosions
were not due TO defects which existed when
the last periodical inspection was made
Westminster Gazette
The herald., 1898-03-14

crable to remonetize silver than it was
to demonetize 1t in the first place? If
the demonstration Of silver reduced the
value of all property below its normal
rate, can it be unfair or dishonest to
restore it? In the one case, the hard
ship fell upon the producing classes and
paralyzed their energies. In the other,
the restoration of silver to coinage would
operate to the disadvantage of the money
owners and money changers alone. 1t
would be taking from that class an ad-
vantage improperly gained and unjustly
enjoyed by them during these years of
the gold standard.
The restoration of silver is sometimes
denounced by thoughtless persons as re-
pudiation, but the only sense in which II
can be subjected to that charge is in re-
ducing the value of money in which pay
ments can be made. 1t would not inter-
fere in the slightest with the number OF
dollars to be paid, but only with their
value. Nor would it interfere with their
normal value, but only with their abnor-
NAL or fictitious value, as we have seen.
Increasing the volume Of lawful money
by any means might work injustice to
certain creditors by cheapening the
money of payment, but such injury
would be trifiing compared with the de-
thronement of one of the only two pre-
cious metals of the world. That move
ment has actually brought upon us all
the calamities that were portrayed by
John G. Carlisle, when he said it would
"entail more misery upon the human race
than all the wars, pestilences and fam
ines that ever occurred" 1t confirms
the statement of Horace Greeley, that,
while boasting of our noble deeds, we
are careful to conceal the ugly fact that
by our iniquitous monetary system we
have nationalized a system of oppres-
sion, more refined but none the less
cruel than the old system of chattel
slavery
The herald., 1898-03-14
NO HOPE FOR HIM
Neither the Widow Nor the Train
Waited for Him

Among the dozen of us who left the train
at Carter's junction to catch the west
bound on the road was red-haired. red
whiskered man, who was very nervous,
and who went to the agent at once and
inquired how long we would have to walt.
The time was first put at ten minutes
then at tewenty-then at thirty, and the
agent finally announced that there had
been a wreck on the road and We might
have to wait for five hours
Good heavens!" exclaimed the red
haired man. but I'm expected in Plum
vile at s o'clock tonight"
YES" calmly replied the agent
us there no possible way for me to get
there?"
II don't see none, being you can't fly"
"It's almost a case of life or DEATH"
continued the passenger. after walking
around for a minute and mopping his per-
spring brow.
I'm sorry" replied the agent, with a
yawn.
"I couldn't hire a locomotive?'
Nope"
"Gracious me! But this breaks me all
up" sighed the passenger. Il was to be
married this evening at o'clock. 1t puts
me in an awful position"
"Well. ] dunno. Going to marry some
one in Plumville?"
"Yes, of course; and what will she think
of me. Heavens! But why can't fiy?"
perhaps l know the party" suggested
the agent, ''as Plumvile is my home.'
Its the widow Atkinson, and it has just
struck me to use the telegraph"
| mo use. old man."
"But l can explain the situation"
"There amt no situation. sir. The widow
| Atkinson is my sister,"
80! What condolences" gasped the
| red-haired man.
There is no coincidence, sir"
| "But / must explain things"
| mo explanations are necessary. The
widow Atkinson passed here on the east
bound train this afternoon. She was no
longer the widow Atkinson. She was mar
red and on her bridal tour.-Kansas City
Journal.
The herald., 1898-03-14
Salaries in France

Il is always pleasant to read of the in
comes of others, and some may find con-
ISOLATION in learning what the intellectual
proletarlat of France-as the Eclair puts
it-sa.ns yearly. According to the same
newspaper there are in France from - 600
to 1850 doctors, of whom 300 are found in
Paris and about 10000 in the provinces. Of
this number only i've or six make incomes
of from $4,000 to $GG. 600 a year; from ten to
fifteen make from $50 600 o $50 eco year, iOO
make perhaps $1,000 a year 800 make from
5000 TO 5000 a year. 800 make from $500 10
5000 While 1900 earn less than $500 a year.
Coming to the lawyers, of whom there
are S0l0 in Paris alone. we find that there
are not more than AGO OF them who make
as much as 5000 year. A couple of score
make incomes of $1,000 a year. 1t appears
that when one of these advocates is made
a magistrate his salary is only from $500 to
500 a year. while for the Justices of the
peacefully qualified legal practitioners
the salaries range from 500 to $500 year.
Think of it. And an English judgeshp is
worth from So, G10 10 $600O0 1t seems that
a college professor is paid from $500 to $500
a year, a lycee professor from $50 to $1,000
a year. An English university professor
earns an average of s3500 a year.-Bosto on
journal.
The herald., 1898-03-14
PLATFORM

The Herald believes that tho city of
Los Angeles should ow n and control n
complete system OF waterworks.
The Herald believes that tho city
shonld acquire such system at tho
earliest date possible and on the most
advsnta geous terms possible, consistent
with contract obligations and fair deal
ing.
The Herald believes that the con-
tract with the Los Angeles City Water
company should be enforced to the let
ter, and that, at the conclusion of the
pending lease, the plant should be taken
over in accordance with the provisions
Of that contract.
The herald., 1898-03-14
FRUIT GROWERS AND THE POOL

The great truth that the American sys-
tenn of protection, so called, is being op-
Grated mainly for the benefit of the
tions, is being illustrated in very prac-
tical manner right here in Southern Cal
ifornia, and the effect is artlessly ex-
plotted by that conservative newspaper
and ardent defender of a high tariff, the
Sam Francisco Chronicle.
The Chronicle begins with the self
evident proposition that "the fruit grow
The herald., 1898-03-14
THE NATURE OF MONEY

Too much has not yet been said on
this subject. 1t has purposely been be-
cIouded by interested parties. A prin-
cipal difference between money and 9TH
er kinds of property consists in this, that
money is more generally sought after
than other property. 1t is unlike other
property, also, in this, that it can never
be acquired in quantity sufficient to
satisfy the desires of man. A common
error relating to money is that its value
is stable and uniform, whereas, in fact,
it fuctuates in value the same as other
things, and for precisely the same rea-
sons. The actual value of money at any
time, like any other commodity, depends
upon the demand for it and upon the sup
ply. Scarcity increases its value and
abundance cheapens it, just as wheat,
cotton, horses or any other thing what
soever is affected in value by the guam
tity on the market. When the supply
of money is adequate to the require
ments Of business it is neither dear nor
cheap, but has certain normal value,
of it to satisfy the wants of the commun-
ity. Any considerable reduction in the
quantity Of lawful money increases its
value, the same as the value of grain
is increased by failure Of crops. AS an
increase in the value of money neces-
sarily results from reducing the guam
tity in circulation, such reductions are
naturally sought by money dealers for
purposes of gain.
Strong evidence of this is found in the
extreme sensitiveness Of moneyed men
over any proposition to enlarge the vol
ume of the currency, as, for example,
by the restoration of silver to It's former
place as lawful money. Upon no one sub
ject in modern times has so much bitter
feeling been aroused as upon this, and
for the simple reason that upon no prop
osition in modern times have such vast
pecuniary interests hinged. How en-
tirely certain it must appear to re-
flecting mind that no such disturbance
could possibly attend the agitation of
the silver question if money possessed
a uniform and stable value.
This extreme solcltude of the money
dealers over the subject of the restora-
tion Of silver proves also that the value
of money may be seriously affected by
legislation. The Importance of such leg
islation, therefore, to them cannot be
overestimated. 1t must necessarily re-
sult in lowering the value of money and
money demands.
But as money changes in value so also
does everything purchasable with money
change in value, but in exactly the re-
verse ratio. If money is enhanced in
value, all things estimated in money are
cheapened, and when money is reduced
in value the price of all property ad
vances. No law, human or divine is
more invariable than this, and flnanciers
understand it, though vast numbers of
the people seem to be entirely oblivious
of it.
1t is asserted that the reconciliation
of silver would be dishonest, but the
only basis for this assertion is that by
increasing the quantity of money, it
would be rendered of less value, and
this is true; but was not money rem
dered of more value by the demonetiza-
ton of silver? And was that honest?
Was not the value of all money, except
gold, greatly reduced by that act?|
Would it be more unfair or more dishon-
The herald., 1898-03-14

The first number Of the University
Chronicle. published by the University
of California at Berkeley, has been re-
ceived. 1t is intended to furnish rec
ord of such events in the life of the uni
versity as may be of general interest,
and will be published six times year.
The contents of the current number in
clude "The True Idea of a University"
by Prof. Joseph LIE Conte; 1.-THE Univer-
sity Sobrante," by w. r. Davis; "a
Years Review" by Martin Kellogg, and
sides numerous shorter articles Of a
news character
The herald., 1898-03-14
Praise For General Lee

Gen. fltz Lee appears TO be all right as
the diplomatic representative of the United
States in Cuba Some years ago consider
able fun was poked at F'itz because he rode
the saddle of his uncle Gen. Robert E.
Lee in parade at Washington, but his
record during both the Cleveland and Nc
Kinley administrations has demonstrated
that he is possessed of the most admirable
qualities. President Mckinley evidently
knew his man when he refused to accept
his resignation.-Ohio State Journal
The herald., 1898-03-14
Too Much Thought of Wall Street

We hear altogether too much of the sug-
gestion that the journals of the United
States ought to keep the interests of Wall
street uppermost in their minds in the
handling of what is called sensational
news No right minded editor desires to
see stock values impaired in the least, but
facts are facts, and they cannot be ig-
nored through any tender consideration for
the men who buy and sell in the stock ex-
change.-Rochester IN. " Herald.
The herald., 1898-03-14
Hanna Calming Public Agitation

Let the low-growling dogs of war stink
to their kennels. mo" says Mark Hanna,
~ honestly and frankly do not see any
reason for the excitement that is being
created. There will be no war" Little
things, like the blowing up of an American
battleship, shouldn't disturb anybody, and
an honest and frank expression from Sem
ator Hanna should soothe the nations
troubled breast.-Louisville Times.
The herald., 1898-03-14
Gw3Ydi:Xs1EysW EXrNI AYSIEY&7
CALIFORNIA OPINION
Contract Laborers

immigration Commissioner North
stand in refusing to allow the landing OF
a batch of twenty-three japanese laborers'
who had come here on the pretext OF be-
ing agricultural students. has been sus-
tanned by the authorities at washington,
who have refused to entertain the appeal
made on behalf of the orientals. The con-
tract labor agents in California will have
to try some other scheme in future.-Oak-
land Tribune,
The herald., 1898-03-14
Rebuking the New Yorkers

There is in Forty-second street, near the
Sixth avenue IL" station, a little booth
with white awning, which is kept by a
man who all day long draws pictures with
patented mechanical arrangement. But
sign on the other side of the booth be-
speaks his real claims on your attention.
1t reads:
: Novelties in Collar and Cuff Buttons :
+: Buy of an American for once in :
: your life. :
The herald., 1898-03-14

Willis j. Abbot, Mr.. Hearst's hired
man, was interviewed in Chicago the
other day, and unbosomed himself
without reserve. He would have Cuba
made free at once-in order that the
16 to 1 Democrats may not sweep the
country like cyclone in November. Mr..
Abbot's humanity and patriotism were
evidently moulded in one of Mr.. Kohl
saats pie pans.
The herald., 1898-03-14

There is no market like the home mar
ket with armor plate at s544 ton. That
is what the government paidfor the plate
used on the Kentucky and the Kear-
sarge. although experts have testified it
can be produced in this country at a
profit at S2hO
The herald., 1898-03-14

Democratic leaders in the house-men
like Bailey, Sulzer and McMullen-no
longer have difficulty in securing recog-
milton at the hands Of the speaker when
they have a motion to make regarding
Cuban affairs. Mr.. Reed has evidently
had a tip from the people.
The herald., 1898-03-14
Taking Turns

This time Fresno and San Diego got the
rain. They needed 1t more than Santa
Clara valley. and we congratulate them.
May they and all the intervening sections
receive an abundance of it before the end
of the month.-San Jose Mercury.
The herald., 1898-03-14
Would Take the Risk

A young fellow in Eureka has just gone
crazy through falling heir to a fortune.
There are a lot of people who would brave
ly dare a chance of lunacy from the same
cause-San Francisco Bulletin.
The herald., 1898-03-14

The Times Herald (court organ) in
sists that congress at once repeal it's ac
ton limiting the price which the govern
ment shall pay for armor plate to $500.
suspend" would be better. The coun-
try may need some armor plate, but il
is not quite ready to make an assign
ment to Andrew Carnegie.
The herald., 1898-03-14
An All-the-Year Resort

We would like to see our city filled with
visitors the year round. We are sure of a
fairly good crowd of summer guests with
out much effort but what we need and
should strive for is the tourist patronage
of the winter months as well.-Santa Mon
lea Signal.
The herald., 1898-03-14
Wife-Beating

The proposition to punish wife beaters
with the whip meets the approval OF nine-
tenths of the California press. We hope
the legislature will yet mold this sentiment
into a statute 1t is true that such law
was once passed and that 1t was declared
unconstitutional by the supreme court. But
it is doubtful If the present supreme court
would follow the precedent.-Stockton
Nail
The herald., 1898-03-14

The Bank of France is holding it's gold
at a premium, and New Yoi-i bankers
have arranged for five million dollars
for shipment next week at the advanced
rate of five millemeters premium. ca
millemeter is equivalent to one-tenth of
a cant
The herald., 1898-03-14

There is little comfort in the weekly
report of the commercial agencies, the
activities noted being confined to the
continued foreign demand for American
breadstuffs and the Alaska movement
Only two cities show decreased bank
clearings, but the weak spots are the
places whose chief industries are highly
protected by the Dingley tariff law, and
where the greatest activity would nat
urally be looked for.
The herald., 1898-03-14

The Chicago Times-Herald boldly de-
clares that foreign war is preferable
to free silver. 1t doesn't appear to
have occurred to this pie-counter states
man that the country may have both.
The herald., 1898-03-14
The Universal Sentiment

In the time of threatened danger there
are no Republicans, no Democrats. no
Populists-but all Americans.-Antelop
Valley Gazette
The herald., 1898-03-14
BUILDING COMPARISONS

The San Francisco Argonaut, in re-
cent well-intentioned article, comments
favorably on the telling pamphlet issued
by the local chamber of commerce, en-
titled rs Los Angeles Growing?" The
folder showed that building operations
amounting to more than si,O0O0O0 are
now in progress in this city. The Argo-
naut says:
The claim IS that the showing offers
flattering evidence Of substantial
growth in city of 100000 inhabitants.
The evidence is admitted, the claim al
lowed, and our neighbor has our hearty
congratulations
our San Francisco contemporary is
then impelled to take account of the
building operations in San Francisco,
and, summarizing them, makes a COM
Portable total of s5,177 900 1t is rather
unklnd to criticise the figures of the
Argonaut, after it kindly comments upon
our own building operations, but in the
interest of eXactness The Herald can
not refrain from calling attention to the
Ae'NN 'i4e'e III tiC san It IdHtlSCO
the new federal building is included at
$25OO,00O, one-half the total amount.
Now. if the federal building at San Fran
cisco is actually under construction it is
welcome news. The bulletins for long
time past have asserted that the con-
tractors were digging through to China
in order to get a foundation firm enough
for the building, with small hope of
early success. The construction of fed
eral buildings is proverbially slow, and it
is probable that the San Francisco post
office will figure in the annual editions
and building estimates for an indefinite
number of years to come. As $500. 600
is invariably estimated for this one item
alone it is a material help in talking
large.
Eliminating the postofice building.
there is more building in proportion to
the population going on in Los Angeles
than there is in San Francisco. Never
theless, the northern metropolis is doing
very well, indeed, and it has the best
wishes of the people of Los Angeles.
The herald., 1898-03-14

The only possible way for the Repub-
lican administration to redeem itself is
by speedily adopting and carrying out
in good faith the Democratic policy of in
tervention in Cuban affairs on broad
humanitarian grounds.
The herald., 1898-03-14
Some Bank Wreckers Still in Jail

The statement is made that President
Mckinley has at last refused an applica-
ion to pardon bank wrecker-several of
them, 1t is said. Let us hope that the pres
dent has turned over new leaf in this re-
Herald.
The herald., 1898-03-14

When bad men combine" said Ed
mund Burke. 'the good must associate,
else they will fall, one by one, an un-
pitied sacrifice in a contemplate strug-
ole"
The herald., 1898-03-14
What Puzzles the Trusts

II wonder" quoth one president of
trust to another II wonder where the peo-
pie get all the money we take from them."-
Des Moines News.
The herald., 1898-03-14
A New Theory

None of the yellow journals has yet ad-
vanced the theory that the Maine was
blown up by torpedo dropped from an
airship.-San Francisco Post.
The herald., 1898-03-14

scattered few pesetas among the beg
gars of the capital. But has he sub
scribed to the fund for the erection Of a
monument to the dead of the Maine? We
have not heard that he has.
The herald., 1898-03-14
Senator Mason. for Instance

A German scientist declares that man is
merely condensed gases. Some men are
stalking refutations of the condensed
feature } this theory.-New York Journal.
The herald., 1898-03-14

The Spaniards will never forgive
Christopher Columbus for having dis
covered America
The herald., 1898-03-14
Echo of Billy Mason's Cry

Let US on to Moro castle!" cries SEN
ator Mason, waving his windmill. And the
president softly asks: "To Morro?"-Min-
neapolis Journal.
The herald., 1898-03-14
hereafter License in the Pulpit

Rely. Sam Jones, who announces that he
will De a candidate for governor Of Georgia,
will Hardly dare to be as abusive on the
stvfnp rs he is in the pulpit City
The herald., 1898-03-14

Wall street probably has all the Span
ish bonds it wants just now, and the new
loan will have to be placed elsewhere.
The herald., 1898-03-14

General Woodford has visited Span
ish cemetery at Madrid, shed tears over
the grave of dead toreador, and has
The herald., 1898-03-14
a Set Back

We have not heard confounded thing
about women suffrage since the war ru-
mors.-San Pedro News.
The herald., 1898-03-14

The United States is beginning to as
sert itself. 1t hopes eventually to be as
big as Tom Reed.
The herald., 1898-03-14
An Extra-Hazardous Risk

1t is a significant fact that when man
announces his intention Of going to the
Yukon country he interests the life insur-
ance hustler no more.
The herald., 1898-03-14

American ship builders think no war
vessels should be bought abroad. Nat
1,ra11x-
The herald., 1898-03-14
One Consolation Of tho Hour

uniform are getting their pictures IN the
papers. anyway. Minneapolis Times