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The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-04-02
PUBLIC WORKS
Third-street Tunnel Again - Street
Work Recommendations

At its meeting yesterday the principal
topic discussed by the board of public
works was the Third street tunnel, a petit
ton for the construction of which was last
Monday referred to 1t by the council Sew
eral parties appeared advocating the i'm
mediate construction of the tunnel. The
property to the west and north of Third
street was declared to be unstable owing
to difficult communication with the city.
All heavy traffic is now forced to go almost
around the city in order to get on street
that is passable toward the west. A bond
issue was suggested as the proper way to
raise funds, as the property affected would
be unable to stand an assessment for but a
small portion of the total cost After dis
cussion the board decided to further con-
slider the matter before reporting upon 1t,
in connection with the city attorney and
engineer.
Recommendations were made as follows:
That proceedings for improving Sapphire
street be abandoned, provided the property
owners pay expenses incurred.
That the city attorney be directed to pre-
pare an ordinance for the abandonment of
an alley between Vernon street and Union
avenue.
II. l.. Hugunin, 1t was recommended, be
granted permission to put up street signs
on certain corners under the direction of
the street superintendent.
1t was recommended that an ordinance
be passed for improving Ceres avenue, be-
tween Sixth and Seventh streets.
The same action was taken in the re-
quested improvement of Carolina street,
between Palmetto street and East Fourth
street; also that an ordinance be passed for
the improvement of Jasmine street, be-
tween Eleventh and Pico streets.
An ordinance was recommended for lay
Ing cement sidewalk on Hope street
between Fourth and Fifth streets
The request of the Fiesta committee that
the park and street department force be
turned over to the Fiesta authorities for
three days for decorating the streets was
referred to the heads of the two depart
ments with instructions to turn over such
of the force as can be spared.
1t was recommended that w. A. Frick
bid be accepted for constructing a SO-inch
cement pipe line for a portion of the Ar
royo de los Reyes. The bid amounted to
$1152.
In connection with the finance committee
recommendation was made that those
portions of Also and Third streets paved
with porphyry be swept once a week at
cost Of $40 for Also and SIS for Third
street each sweeping.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-04-02
Bismarck's Birthday

FRIEDRICHSRUHE, April 1.-Prince
Otto Won Bismarck today celebrated the
eighty-third anniversary Of his birth, civ
ing banquet to twenty-five guests. Bis
marck was in excellent spirits and walked
with the aid Of a gold-handled sick, the gift
of Emperor William.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-04-02
PERSONAL

8. H. Friedlander Of San Francisco was
among the arrivals yesterday.
]. H. Flagler, father of Baroness Harden
Hickey. was In the city yesterday.
w. J. Young. from Adelaide, Australia,
is making tour of Southern California.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-04-02
At THE THERTER


(The following notice was unavoidably
crowded out of yesterdays issue on ac-
count of the extraordinary pressure on
space caused by the arrival OF Geographic
war news.)
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-04-02
Undelivered kilograms

There are undelivered kilograms at the
Western Union office for Joseph Shinski,
Mrs w. Bartlett, Mrs. s. E. Files. VIM.
Duggan, Mrs. H. L. Shute.
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-04-02
MRS. PETERSON'S STORY,

so sick when I
began with her
medicine, I could
hardly be on my
feet. I had the
backache con-
The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1898-04-02

VIM. H. Day, jr., mining operator Of
Dubuque. Iowa, arrived in the city yester-
day.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-02-19

Some time ago the Atlanta Consti.
tuition called the attention of its read.
ers to the fact that the various Euro.
pean powers were engaged in making
extensive naval preparations regard.
less Of the talk of arbitration in which
both hemispheres have glowingly in.
dulged of late. In recent document
presented to the British Parliament
the annual naval expenditures Of the
leading Nations Of the globe were set
forth in the following figures: Great
Britain, $126, 900, 900; France, 1884,
900, OOO,; the United States, $50, $780,
900; Japan, $29, 700, 900; Russia, $685.
100000; Germany, 100000, and
Italy, 0,5OO,0oO. These figures are
hardly in keeping with the dreams of
universal peace in which philanthropic
minds are wont to indulge. as they
show that the day is still remote when
the gatling gun will be exchanged for
the olive branch in settling interna-
ional disputes.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-02-19

It is great thing to be a writer
from State that is proud Of itself and
Of its people, exclaims Life. That's
an immense advantage that novel
list has who was born in Massachu.
sets, Virginia or Kentucky. He
knows that, however cold at first may
be the rest Of the country toward his
work, there will be one fine constitu.
ency that will open his book with a
heart predisposed to receive him gra-
ciously. The consciousness of such
good will warns the writer while be
works, and the glow remains in his
pages. It is contagious, and the
reader from IN alien State partici.
pates in it-proud that ct least no
belongs to the same federation.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-02-19
On the NIissisSipDi River.

The first vessels that ever entered
the Mississippi from the sea were the
French frigates Renommee and Cir.
onde, January 9Th, 100. These YES.
sells proceeded as far as the Tenesas,
which they reached April II. The
first vessel built on the banks of the
Mississippi by white men was launched
in l541, shortly after the death and
burial of De Soto. The >boatmen and
early navigators Of the present century
were long in danger from Indians and
pirates. A notorious resort for these
was Crows Nest or Stock Island, and
many hatboats and crews were sacrificed
there until these pests were exter'
minated by mob law, in 1909. For
the five years following 1922, however,
the destruction by snags on the Ohio
and Mississippi amounted to $780,.
500, though the next five years showed
but 1881, 900 loss from the same cause.
In 1912 there were $50 steamboats, on
the Mississippi and its tributaries,
with an aveplBe burden Of 200 tons
and an aggregate value of 81, 200, 900.
In operating these boats about 3d..
$50 persons were employed. The
average value Of the products carried
each season was something like $780,.
900, or an aggregate of 500, 900, 900 up
to 1912.
Previous to the adoption of steam
navigation the whole commerce from
New Orleans to the upper country
was carried in about twenty barges,
averaging 100 tons each and making
but one trip year. There were not
over $50 keel boats on the upper Ohio,
carrying about thirty tons each and
making the trip from Pittsburg to
Louisville and back in two months, or
about three voyages a season. From
1911 to 1850 576 boats were lost,
valued at over $7,OO0,OO0. In 233
cases the killed and wounded aggre.
gated 1850. The average age Of all
the boats lost was FIVE years. From
1916 to 1871 there were SO explosions.
involving loss of life in each Varying
from 1 to 1649.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-02-19
Published Weekly at
A Kansas City woman who speaks
feelingly on the subject says that the
heaviest work any woman ever under
took was light housekeeping.

The remarkable way in which civ.
ilization is increasingly coming to in.
terfere with paganism is illustrated
by the fact that the car Of Juggernut
cannot pass through the streets OF
Colombo owing to the interference OF
the overhead telegraph wires. But
that paganism is not yet dead is evil
dent to the New York Observers sat-
isfaction, by the circumstances that
petitions have been sent to the Gov
ernor by the Ceylonese, requesting
that the celebration might proceed, as
twenty-five persons desired to throw
themselves under the idols car.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-02-19

However Mr.. John Fox, Jr., may
seem to maintain that Kentucky-bar-
ring some counties in the mountains
us very much like other civilized
districts, with differences in favor Of
Kentucky, things do happen down
there that surprise persons who are
not centaurs or lineal descendants Of
Daniel Boone, writes E. s. Martin, in
Harper's Weekly. The ardor with
which eminent Kentuckians enter into
disputes is always somewhat astonish'
ing to effete Americans in other States.
Where else could have developed such
difference as lately obtained as to
which of two Kentucky ladies should
christen the battleship Kentucky? It
was settled finally, but not until the
din of it had penetrated the extreme
confines Of the Union. How painful
It all was; Miss Richardson claiming,
under a patent from Secretary Her.
bert; that gentleman's embarrassed
disclaimer; and Major Baruk Thomas
lamentation over the loss of a quart Of
Dan Swiggert 1856 whisky, conse.
Grated by him to patriotic uses, and
believed to have been absorbed by the
Cleveland administration! Eheu'
Alas! Why has Kentucky no Hans
Breitmann to put its epics into verse:
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-02-19
SEED SOWING.

low the seed of soothing kindness.
To dispel the gloom and pain;
Sow bright words of warmth and welcome
That DER earth good will may reign;
Sow upon a soil prolific,
That shall bear an hundredfold,
Choking out the thorns and briers,
Turning weeds to stalks OF gold.
Scorn thou not, to SOW, moreover,
On the fields less rich in loan;
Should 1t bear not many measures
It will have it's harvest home.
If the sower will but harken.
He will Lear what God will keep
Whether good or whether evil.
What Ye SOW that We shall reap.
Though the soil be SC mt and sandy,
And the rocks be thick and keen,
With the hand of faith SOW broadly
Some stray soil may lie unseen;
This may nourish seed sufficient
To bring harvest time around;
And the hand or thrift may garner
From the uninyting ground.
What though wayside fowls fly over,
You can cover we'll the seed;
What through tares by satan scattered
Should arise In evil greed.
Wait II must be, till the harvest
Ripcns grain and tares in turn;
Then the grain thou mayest gather,
And the tares maYst bind and burn
Sow the seeds Of love and mercy,
Worthy work for angel hands!
Sympathy and truth and Justice
Fitting theme for heavenly bandsl
Sow good will among thy neighbors.
Reap reward for thee in store;
On the sower that is faithful
Blessings be forever more.
Virgil A. Plnkley, in Brooklyn Eagle.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-02-19

Some people who are. always on the
lookout for dangers and difficulties
have discovered that the employment
Of Japanese servants upon the men-of-
war Of the United States is likely to
prove embarrassing if we should ever
happen to get into row with that en-
terprising little country over the an.
nexation Of the::,.Hawsiian islands or
for any other reason. Formerly, re-.
lates W. E. Curtis, the favorite ser.
wants on naval vessels were Chinese,
but when the agitation against them
on the Pacific Coast commenced some
years ago they were rapidly displaced
by Japanese, who ore equally as skill
full, obedient and attentive. They are
better educated and often more intel.
ligent, although they do not rate as
high for honesty as the celestials. It
is as difficult to dehationalize Japan
csc as Frenchmsn. He may go to
the end of the earth and remain for a.
lifetime. He may be under any kind
of foreign influence aud form any sort
Of attachments, but he is always a
Japanese and the interests of his ma.
tive country are uppermost in his
heart. 1t would be easy for servant
on board o man-of-war to learn all
about that vessel, her arms and am
munition, her speed and horse power
and even the orders Of her captain,
but what good would it do? All i'm.
portant information concerning onr
ships is published annually in forms
that the entire world may read, and it
would be very difficult for a Japanese
citizen on board naval vessel to learn
whatever that need cause ap.
prehension if communicated to his
Governments
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-02-19

There appears to the New York Com
mercial Advertiser "to be no reason
for the assertion that the Cuban insur.
gents have violated the rules of war in
the reported execution Of Colonel Ruiz.
That officer Of the enemy was given
every opportunity to avoid a fate upon
which he rushed with blind foolhar di.
ness. His correspondence with his
Cuban friend, Colonel Aranguren,
whose reported execution is now de.
MED, carried to him exact knowledge
Of the general order condemning t.!
death all emissaries bearing the pro-
posal to accept autonomy. When Ruiz
persisted, his friend sent back to him
the order of General Rodriguez, If he
offers autonomy, do your duty, accom-
panied by the warning that if the pro
posed interview was confined to .
friendly chat, or to the independence
Of Cuba, all would be we'll; but If not
Tor Gods sake do not come Still
Ruiz persisted, and when he met hi
friend and pronounced the fatal wore
autonomy he condemned himself t
death. There was no way to evade his
execution, else the discipline Of the
entire Cuban army would have beer
destroyed"
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-02-19

Within the last few years the put
ting up of canned goods has become
one Of the most important industries
Of the United States. Scattered
throughout this country at the pres.
emit time there are not less than 1000
canneries, representing the enormous
capital Of $75, 100000. The industry
Is divided into four main branches.
First comes the canning Of food prep.
arations, such as meats, cereals,
soups and the like, in which branch
some 5000 persons ore employed and
capital amounting to 100000 is
represented. Next comes the canning
Of fruits and vegetables. In this i'm.
portant branch Of the industry not less
shan 10000 persons are employed,
while the capital represented amounts
to $3O,O0O,OOO. This branch of the
industry is carried on mainly in Mary.
land and New York. Still anothe,
branch is concerned with the canning
Of preserves and pickles. In this
branch Of the industry several thou.
sand persons are employed. As to the
capital represented, it closely approx.
mates s25, OOO,O 900. Last comes the
canning of oysters, salmon and othe,
kinds of fish, which employs some u.s..
600 persons, and represents capita
of 100000. The hardships occa
stoned by the late war between the
States greatly stimulated the canning
industry in this country, but without
the least interruption since that time
the industry has steadily grown into
its present extraordinary proportions.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-02-19

The ease with which Colonel Ruiz
and Mr.. Tosca, q clerk in the office of
the United States Consul. General in
Havana, found their way to the camp
Of the Cuban insurgents near that city,
suggests to the Chicago Record that
"the commanders of the Spanish
armies in Cuba are not very anxious
to find the enemy. The members Of
the Spanish legation here explain that
it is comparatively easy for an indi-
vidual to approach an insurgent camp,
but it is impossible for body Of
troops to do so, for the same reason
that the Irishman could not catch the
flea. The insurgents have no wagons
or baggage, they are not incumbered
by supplies Of ammunition or commits.
sary stores, they have no tents or
camp equipage, they sleep on the
ground, with the sky for a coverlid,
and when it rains seek shelter Of
sheds, plantation houses or trees.
They move with great rapidity, and
scatter into small bands and retreat in
different directions whenever they are
attacked or pursued. With this guer-
rilla mode Of fighting it is impossible
for the Spaniards to overtake or sur
round them"
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-02-19
waiting till the day dawns and tho

waiting till the day dawns and tho
golden gates are opened"
"Then I must be dead, and those
must be the gates Of heaven, that
beautiful place I used to like reading
about when child. I will join the
throng and go in with them"
And when the day dawned she also
pressed forward towards those golden
gates, guarded by angels, but though
many passed through, more were
turned away. At last only Hilda and
another were left. That other was a
broken hearted woman, and the girl
shrunk back with loathing when she
saw it was Mrs. Chester! AS she re.
coiled an angel beckoned to the weep
ing woman, and she beheld her no
more. But now the gates were clos
ing. Hilda sprang forward and
stretched out her hands to those
white robed guardians.
'You have forgotten me-"
"There is no forgetting here" came
the answer.
"Then why do you not let me
through"
"Your sins expel you"
"My sins! Ny sins! What sins
have I committed? What command
ment have I broken?" questioned the
girl, with the surprise of self-con.
WINGED innocence.
1.-THE sixth commandment. Thou
shalt do no murder.
Hilda shrank back in horror, amaze.
ment, anger.
II commit murder! I, who could
never bear to see even bird shot"
eyes, you are q murderess," an
swered the angel, sternly. "You
who recoiled from that woman are
much more guilty. She, in great
temptation, in great provocation killed
but mortal bodies; you, in mere vani-
ty, in mere idleness, have killed i'm
mortal souls! Thinkest thou there is
no margin to a commandment. Know
you not that though the text be brief,
yet does it overflow beyond the limits
Of words on the broad margin Of mean.
ing labelling unwritten sins, and you
have broken a marginal command.
ment, Thou shalt do no murder. >"
''But I have committed no murder, u
reiterated the trembling girl
Behold and see," and the angel
passed his hand over the eyes Of the
belle of the London season.
eyes, she knows that young face
again. He had been one Of her boy.
ish suitors, whom she had Airted with
and then laughed at. He is holding
q dicebox now in his shaking hand, and
on that dicebox is written one word
'Hilda.' All! who is that drunken
man glaring at her with bloodshot
eyes? He lifts glass Of spirits, and
On that glass is engraved one word
'Hilda."
= All! poor wife of a loveless marriage,
made by the husband in a moment of
pique. Her tears as they fall form
one word-"Hilda."
Yet another face she sees-the face
Of a last years Irritation. It is pale
with the anguish Of death, and on the
pistol by his side is stamped one word
-"Hilda."
Then the girl falls at the feet Of the
angel with an exceeding bitter cry.
II am indeed murderess."
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-02-19

Italy naturally declines to enter
into land grabbing ventures in China,
partly, perhaps, because Of some I'M
Outstanding with her partners in the
Triple Alliance, but chiefly, suggests
the New York Tribune, because she
has had enough of that sort of thing
in Africa to last her while longer.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-02-19
New York's First Water SUNNY.

In 1898 the best drinking water was
procured at the Tea Water we'll. This
we'll received it's name from the fact
that it was the best to use in making
tea. It was twenty feet deep and four
feet in diameter. The average daily
supply was $4,000 gallons. In hot
weather as many as 28,080 gallons a
day were Sometimes used, New York
1esAld.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-02-19

Her own bitter cry awakens Hilda,
and she starts up trembling in every
limb, to find that the lace scarf around
her throat had caught in the wicker
chair, which perhaps accounted for
the choking sensation of her dream.
The next day the bell Of the season
said eyes, to Jack Armstrong, and
sealed with two loving lips the death
warrant Of the heartless coquette.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-02-19

"Where was she now? Who were
those?" she asked one standing beside
her.
"1hsy are w seall Of ths dead
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-02-19
The SIXTH
COMMANDMENT
) it nothing to You

s it nothing to you
that my whole
happiness lies ct
your mercy? Am
1 only one more
OF the many you
have firted with.
and then smiled
- ~
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-02-19

It ID expected that before long
Canada can sell annually $50, 100000
worth of butter and cheese to Great
Britain.
The times., 1898-01-25
WALL STREET GETS SCARED
Dispatch Of the Maine to Havana
Causes Declines.
Early Advances Lost in a General
Fall in the Afternoon-Few Or
ders From Foreign Houses.

New York, Jan. 24.-Until the middle
of the afternoon no very definite tone
was developed in the trading on the
stock exchange. Sharp advances in
New York Central and Consolidated
Gas made these stocks conspicuous
features, and their strength was not
without effect in steadying the general
market, where the trading was, how
ever, light in volume and professional
in character. In the afternoon there
was sharp and general decline in
prices which was ostensibly due to the
revival of uneasiness in regard to the
Cuban situation, positive reports being
circulated to the effect that a Govern
ment warship had been ordered to Ha-
vana.
The rapidity of the decline in the
market in the afternoon disclosed signs
of technical weakness. Stop loss or
ders were executed in many stocks,
causing sharp breaks, and supporting
orders We're apparently everywhere
withdrawn. Foreign houses had few
orders in this market, buying on bal
dilce Il lew lncuSdllu SidItS VI 4Nth
York Central and the Northern Pa
cifics, but the general tone of the Lon
don market was reported better by rea-
son of the more pacific outlook in the
Orient.
In the general decline of the after
noon the advances made in Console
dated Gas and New York Central were
lost, and with no important exceptions
the list closed at sharp recessions on
the days trading.
Apart from the local excitement cre-
ated by the advices in regard to the
dispatch of the Maine TO Havana, the
day was rather featureless. The money
market was unaffected by the pros
pective covering into the Treasury of
the Union Pacific balance now held in
the banks.
The only important railway company
reporting for December to-day was the
Southern Railway, which showed an
increase in net earnings of about 10 per
cent
The final quotations showed only
fractional recoyeries from the lowest
figures of the day.
The times., 1898-01-25

Men and women doctor their troubles SO
often without benefit, that they get dis
couraged and skeptical. In most such
cases serious mistakes are ma de in doctor
ing and in not knowing what our trouble is
or what makes us sick. The unmstakable
evidences of kidney trouble are pain or
dull ache in the back, too frequent desire
to pass water, scanty supply. smarting irri-
tation. AS kidney disease advances the
face looks sallow or pale, puffs or dark
circles under the eyes, the feet swell and
sometimes the heart acts badly. Should
further evidence be needed TO find out the
cause of sickness, then set urine aside for
twenty four hours, if there is sediment
or settling it is lso convincing proof that
our kidneys and bladder need doctoring.
A fact often overlooked, is that women
suffer as much from kidney and bladder
trouble men do.
Dr. Kilmer's swamp Root is the discoy-
cry of the eminent physician and scientist
and is not recommended fer everything,
but viii be found just what is needed in