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SPECIAL NOTICES

LOS ANGELES CITY
Water Co. will strictly enforce the fol-
lowing rules: The hours for sprinkling
are between the hours of and o'clock
u. m. and and o'clock p. m. For a vio-
lation of the above regulations the water
will be shut off and fine of 50 will be
charged before the water will be turned
on again. If
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FOR EXCHANGE
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Lodging Houses

FOR EXCHANGE-$150o HOUSE AND
lot to exchange for rooming house. This is
first-class income property, and clear of
incumbrance; want about 90 rooms in
good locality. For particulars, see
T. NJ KILLIAN,
q 235 West First street.
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Business Property
Country Property

FOR SALE-CHEAP, FINE ORANGE
and lemon land; easy terms; in blocks OF
II acres; near Altadena; four shares of
stock of the Precipice Canyon Water
company goes to each acre. Apply l.. r.
GARRETT, Bryson block. If
FOR SALE-LAND IN PARCELS TO
suit at Colegrove a near suburb of Los
Angeles, on Santa Monica electric road.
COLE e COLE. attorneys, 232 N. Main
ST.. Los Angeles. If
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FOR SALE
Houses

FOR SALE-GREAT BARGAIN-NEW
cottage, b rooms, bath, water closet, en-
ameled sink, pantry, closets. front
pofch, screen porch, mantel with plate
mirror, pine finish, 8 bedrooms, 40-foot
lot, fenced, cement walk, sidewalk, Take
Vernon car to see the besi value in a home
for $3.50; $500 cash, on White street, 140
feet west of Central avenue. WIESEN-
DANGER CO., 427 S. Broadway II
FOR SALE-FOR $3.50 \ MONTH AND A
small cash payment L will build you
new 4-room cottage plastered and paint
ed to suit in my Third Addition, Eighth
and Mateo SITS. Why pay rent, when you
can own your home? c. A. SMITH. 2l3
W. First st. If
FOR SALE
$J00-Neat 5-room house and good lot
on Carolina street, near Fifth ST., near
Arcade depot: worth $500.
POINDEXTER tS WADSWORTH,
90 30S Wilcox block.
FOR SALE-WE SELL THE EARTH
BASSETT & SMITH, Pomona, Cal. If
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CAL. GOLDEN BRAND HYGIENIC)
coffee is not common cereal, but health
beverage CT pure ingredients and rich fla
vor made in three minutes. Cures indiges-
tion Newmark & Co., wholesale. Ask
your grocer or write 5151s S. Main
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Miscellaneous

WANTED-HIGHEST PRICES PAID
for household goods carpets etc. MAT
THEWS. 454 s. Main. 'Phone green 524. U
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Miscellaneous

FOR EXCHANGE - A HIGH GRADE.
Grown" piano for old-style single-tone
pianos. f. G. ROBINSON, SOL S. Broad
way. %
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Money

WANTED-LOAN OF $500 FOR YEARS
on first-class residence property; will
pay per cent net, or Sl2 per cent gross.
Address T., box 20, Herald. p
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RING UP THE EXCELSIOR LAUNDRY
if you want your laundry done quickly
and rightly. Phone 367 Our wagon will
call when you say. If
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CENTRAL AVE AND VERNON
II. l.. SCHEKB, Adams st. and Central
avenue.
and Twelfth st.
j. V. AkEY, corner Central and Ver-
non avenues.
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FOR RENT
Furnished Rooms

FOR RENT-SUNNY ROOMS, Csc. PER
night; 81 per week and up. 519 S. Spring.
2-2S
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PATENTS AND COPYRIGHTS

DAY & DAY OBTAIN PATENTS FOR
inventions. designs, register trademark
and copyrights. Offices. 233, 2s4 aud 235
Gt1m1on block, Estahlisked 1SlQ 1-S-99
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EXCURSIONS

ROCK ISLAND PERSONALLY CON-
Quoted excursions every Tuesday and
Wednesday; low rates; quick time; I'm
ion depot, Chicago; unequaled service.
y o6icos ~ &. aptlnE. st ~
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MUSICAL INSTRUCTION

PIANO HOUSE-A. G. GARDNER, lis
Winston st, near the Postoffice building.
Briggs Pianos. new and second hand:
also. other makes. If
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SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
HERALD SUB-AGENCIES-

HERALD SUB-AGENCIES-
ADVERTISEMENTS left at the fol-
lowing agencies will receive prompt at
tention, and will be printed as quickly
and with the same care as if left at the
main office, 13S S. Broadway:
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CEYLON TEAS. S5c 5Oc 75c; GENUINE
Mocha and Java. S5c. J. D. LEE & CO.,
lSO w. Fifth. between Spring and Main.
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WANTED-STRANGE IN THE CITY
who appreciate good laundry work to
leave theirs at our office. THE EXCEL
SIOR, Ill w. Second st. Phone 367. If
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A PROGRAM PARTY

The practices of the Republican party
are utterly destructive Of individuality
and independence Of thought. A few
men form junta, prepare program
issue their ukase, and the delegates tc
conventions indorse 1t in a perfunctory
manner This was done in at least the
last two Republican conventions of this
state. Hanna in Ohio, Quay in Pennsyl-
vania, Sewell in New Jersey and Plat
in New York control the conventions OF
their respective states in the same way
that Dan Burns has managed the Re
publican conventions in California.
There was a man in Indiana who
moved SO often that, whenever there
was an unusual stir about the house
the chickens came up, lay down and
put their legs together for tying. Dele
gates to Republican conventions. espe-
cially in California, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
New Jersey and New York. are as we'll
trained as were the Indiana mans chick
ems. The habit of programing has be-
come so common that the Republican
party has become vast machine.
The house Of representatives at Wash
ington is in no better plight 1t is not
deliberative body. The Republican
members are simply drill squad and do
as they are commanded. They shoulder
arms, trail arms, ground arms, right
face, left face and about face as ordered
from the speakers chair. Reed once said
he was subject to the orders of the house,
when the truth was the house was SUBJ
ject to his orders.
This anti-Democratic. anti-Republic-
an, un-American and ridiculous way Of
doing political business cannot continue
long. The politicians and strikers may
endure 1t. but the people will not. When
men sink their individuality in their par
tisanship there is peril to free institu-
tons. 1t is certain that there will be
no reform.
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are that there Is more confusion and
more just cause for complaint than dur
ing the period for preparation for opera
tions in the field.
We would not do injustice, and we
therefore admit that mistakes will be
made by the wisest men; but mistakes.
such as have been made, cannot be gen.
.eral- and serious without weakness or
something worse on the part Of the man
to whom the general direction of the
war has been committed. The manage
ment has been so bad that the country
is aroused to the highest pitch Of in
dignation.
Alger should not remain in the depart
ment a day. 1t is not a good defense
of his retention to say that the war Is
now over and he cannot do any more
harm. He should be removed as pun
ishment for what he has done and has
failed to do. If reports are true, there
is an effort being made to dispose Of
him without dishonor, by retiring him
into the senate. To put him in that
place would dishonor that high and dig
nif1ed body. The only consolation for
such an act would be in the reflection
that the great loss to the senate would,
in a great measure, be compensated for
by the immense gain to the war depart
ment
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THE CASE IN A NUTSHELL

Here is the whole case of the Seventh
regiment and its colonel, clearly ano
tersely stated:
Now that there Is no need OF our
services, we object to being made con-
venience of in order that some fifty
officers in this regiment may enjoy their
nice, easy commissions with nothing to
do but draw big fat salaries.
That statement is an extract from a
communication in San Francisco paper,
signed 1.-THE Enlisted Men"
There we have the naked truth. The
men would still be glad of chance for
active service, but since that Is now alb
solutely out Of the question, they see nc
reason why they should longer endure
the suffering and sickness incident to
their wretched camp life. If they can
not be useful to their country, they would
like an opportunity to be useful to their
families. 1t is not only their personal
sufferngs, but the knowledge Of anxiety
and distress at home that makes them
eager to get to the end of their miserable
experience.
AhC AiOhthiy pay VI q PtlNatC SoidlCi
is thirteen dollars. The pay Of colonel
Is twenty-five times that of a private.
Even that discrepancy tells only the
financial part Of the story. An officer
can live in luxury, while private must
rough it through thick and thin.
No wonder that an officer in the posi-
ton of Colonel Berry, and with his man.
ifest selfshness, should desire to keep
his job. He has probably been we'll sat
isfied for weeks that the career of his
regiment would end at San Francisco
and it is silly fustian for him to pretend
to be chatting the bit in his eagerness to
fight.
The boys at least have one thing to be
thankful for, and that is that they have
escaped active service under a colonel
who has shown his unworthiness to COM
mand them. We hope that the energetic
efforts now making will soon cause them
to be restored to home and friends, and
that ere long they will all have recovered
from their terrible camp experience.
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PASSING PLEASANTRIES

He Tin the grand stand)-Great Scott
Did you see how that ball curved over the
plate? She--Why DON'T they put somebody
in that can throw straight?-Chicag go
Tribune.
Colonel appearing at rifle practice)-
Who selected this range? Lieutenant-The
cook Colonel-Let him be the first thing
fred.-Phila delphia Record.
The best cooks are those who can't al
ways pronounce correctly the names Of the
fancy dishes they cook.-Atchison Globe.
Cant I begin to print some news?"
asked the Spanish editor. mo-" answered
the censor. decisively; mot until there
isn't ny."-Washington Star.
Our sheriff is attending camp meeting.
1t was said confidentially that he was look
Ing for the devil.-Dahlonaga (Ga.) Sig
nal
Boarding House Mistress-rll have no
more Of those college athletes around here.
Servant-What's the trouble? Boarding
Mistress-That pole vaulter we had has
jumped his board bill.-Philadelphia Rec
ord.
Maud-Poor Hankinson! Name CARING
horn threw him over the other day, but he
makes brave attempt to hold his head
up. Irene-Is that why he's wearing that
four-inch collar7-Chicaso Tribune.
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SHOULD BE RETIRED

When the war Of 1912 began William
Eustis was secretary of war. AS soon as
his unfitness for the position appeared
President Madison promptly dismissed
him and appointed General John Arm
strong. The unfitness of Eustis bore no
comparison to that of Alger. He was
simply incompetent, but not outrage
ously neglectful of duty. A soft place
was not provided for Eustis in order
to let him down easy.
Mr.. Lincoln made Simon Cameron his
first secretary of war. but the Civil war
had not proceeded far before it was dis
covered that Mr.. Cameron was not
adapted to the onerous work his port
folio imposed, and besides, it appeared
that he was not unmindful of personal
political interests in making appoint
ments and in otherwise bestowng ia
vors. Mr.. Lincoln did not hesitate to
depose Mr.. Cameron and place the de-
partment under the management of Ed
win M. Stanton. 1t is true that Cameron
was let down easy by making him min
lister to st. Petersburg.
If President Mckinley did not know of
the unfitness Of Alger for any RESPONSE
BILE place at the time of his appoint
ment, he was negligent In not discov-
erng it Immediately after the war with
Spain began. The work of the depart
ment was done in a slip-shod manner.
to put it mildly, from the start, and
experience not only did not indicate i'm
provement, but, on the contrary, affairs
were conducted with greater negligence
ind with increasing unfitness as the war
progressed. Mr.. Alger has conducted
nis department as a politician, rather
han as a war minister, and the results
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A DELUsIvE BAIT

| Just before Mr.. Gage announced his
candidacy for governor he submitted tc
an interview, in which, as reported. hi
said in substance that, taking the gov
ernor from the south would have no in
fiuence in preventing the election also
of a senator from the south. The pur-
pose in saying this was to disarm Bulla
and his friends. that they might not
exert themselves to prevent the nom-
nation of Gage for governor; and II
was also intended to placate Grant. who
was avowedly candidate for senator,
and his San Diego encourage.
Since the nomination of Gage the same
idea has been advanced, and Grant and
a certain newspaper have swallowed the
bait with innocent confidence. 1t may
be expected that the campaign down
here will be fought for Gage and Grant,
while up north 1t will be for Gage and
De Young, or some other San Franciscan
or northern man.
Possibly there may be some so gulible
as to really believe that the south may
secure both these important offices, but
they cannot have observed the proceed
ings that have taken place. or they have
failed to discover their meaning. Put
ting forward South Californian for
governor is a plan devised in San Fran
cisco. one Of the motives being to as
sure the senatorship to the north. That
1t Is so understood up there is proved
by the fact that several gentlemen have
candidates. for the senatorshp. Judg-
ing from the parties who put up the
program and carried 1t through the Sac
ramento convention, it seems certain
that it embraced, not only the feature
of Cages nomination, but the election
Of De Young as senator.
From appearances Bulla looks with
suspicion on the bait that has been
thrown out. Grant continues to nurse
his aspirations, but If he had the good
sense of his father he would hold them
in allegiance till the term of Senator
Perkins expires.
Should Mr.. Gage be elected governor
and the Republicans gain control of the
legislature, we wonder If he would use
the influence of the executive office to
secure the election Of South Californian
to the senate.
The senatorship Is immensely more
important to Southern California than
the governorship, and we believe that
intelligent men, who have at heart the
best interests Of this part of the state,
will not be deluded by the idea that a
Republican governor and Republican
senator will be conceded to US, in case
that party secures control of the legisla-
ture,
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Los ANGELES HERALD FRIDAY MORNING sEPTESHER = 1898

necessary for redemption purposes The
masses have never discredfted the silver
dollar, nor the paper money Of the gov
eminent. and they never will so long as
1t will pay debts by legal compulsion
The plain people see no reason why gov
eminent paper should be displaced and
bank notes substituted, nor why silver
money is not as good as gold. SO long
as 1t will pay debts as well.
The money question will not be set
tied until a system is adopted that shall
respect the interests Of the whole peo-
pie. The silver men propose no new
experiment. no radical change In the
policy that prevailed for eighty years,
and that without complaint by re-
spectacle number of people. They are
not like their opponents, financial revo-
lutionists. The ghost of Banquo would
not down at the bidding Of its friends.
and silver will certainly not down at
the bidding of its enemies.
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WAR AND POLITICS

The abrupt close of the war has
brought peace to the contendng nations,
and 1t has also brought distraction to
political booms by which the Republican
party had hoped to win the fall elections
This will be sad intelligence to the hordes
of ambitious Republican politicians who
are making calculations to secure fat
places through the prestige which war
naturally brings to the dominant party.
The disappointment attendant upon
the sudden conclusion Of the war would
not, in itself, be a matter of such Sc
rious Importance, were it not for the
equally disappointing and discouraging
facts that the gross mismanagement of
the war department is liable to subject
the whole Republican administration at
Washington to a searching investigation
at the hands of court of inquiry, if not
of a court-martial.
The incompetency Of the officials at
| the head of the war department, from
time to time, during the progress Of the
war, has been brought to the attention
| VI lAC PupICt Out ~ 40 olIiSC lhc al iIliS-
tice has been declared that the gross
Encouragement of that department has
been revealed to an astonished and heart
stricken people and the true state of
affairs made known.
The starvation of soldiers in camp and
field, when carloads of food were spoil
ing at other points; the lack Of medi-
cines, nurses, doctors and surgeons for
the wounded heroes, when a plenty of
the first and thousands of the others
were at the order Of the war depart
ment; the poor sanitary condition of
camps and hospitals and the scanty sup
ply of clothing, have been more disas-
trous to our gallant soldiers than the
bullets of the enemy.
The responsibility for this sad chapter
in our history is upon the war depart
ment, at the head of which Is Secretary
Alger To him belongs the discredit of
losing more of our men in the peaceful
preparation for war than were lost by
shot and shell at the storming of San
Juan, Ell Caney and in the battles of
Santiago and Manila.
Republican platform makers and Re-
publican politicians have already made
the claim that the war just successfully
closed was a Republican war, and that
the Republican party was entitled to all
the honors which had been won by our
brave soldiers for our country, and not
for the RapuhIican marty
This claim is made, of course, for po-
litical reasons, but it may be asked
whether, If that party shall appropriate
all the glory of d successful war, it shall
not also be held responsible for the thou
sands of helpless heroes whose lives have
been lost or whose health has been i'm
paired or destroyed through the GRIM
inal negligence and gross incompetency
of Republican secretary Of war. The
fault lies with him and the sons of
somebody whom he took from the guard
ianship of their mothers and from the
jurisdiction of their apron strings, and
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service or thus situated in military homes
or in any other institution. This situation
Is not only a safeguard to the federal gov
eminent on Its reservation. but to the COM
munities where these are situated. The
soldiers home as an institution under Fed
eral control and military law and paying
no taxes collectively or individually, can
not properly dominate the township cleo
tions of Santa Monica and impose officers
upon 1t that cannot command the home
inmates, or impose tax burcens which
they take no part in paying. This applies
to the school district where the home Is
and to the county itself. Neither is it law
full for the inmates Of the home to be per-
suaded or bullied into such injustice.
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UNTIL SEPTEMBER FIRST

Tho L os Angeles Daily and Sunday
Herald will be mailed to any address In
Southern California or Arizona for three
months for % 90, cash In advance. Are
you q Democrat Now is your oppor-
tunity. This offer does not stand good
after September 1.
The Los Angeles Herald 10 the only
Democratic daily in Southern California
publishing full Associated Press re-
ports. Ifyou are already subscriber
induce your political brethren to sub
scribe to tho best Dem ocra tic exponent
in South ern California.
Send in your subscription of $500 for
the campaign before September 1. Make
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able to The Herald Publishing Com
pany, Los Angeles.
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Is SILVER DEADp

sounded, and by the very men who will
not let it die. Secretary Gage, Banker
Hanna of Indianapolis and the banking
and currency committee of the house of
representatives will not let 1t sleep,
whatever its friends may do.
The financial measures Of Mr.. Gage
have not been abandoned, but are still
pending before congress, and the report
of the banking and currency committee
is on the calendar and in position to
be called up for consideration whenever
Reed and his rules committee will give
their consent. Banker Hanna gleefully
says that things are working satisfac-
torily. Yet the supporters of goldism
are attempting to lull the friends Of
silver to sleep by repeated assertions
that their bantling has demised.
What are the Gage, the Hanna and the
committee measures? The general prin-
ciple of them, as stated by Mr.. Gage, Is
to Commit the government more thor
oughly to the gold standard" The first
step Is to retire the greenbacks and
treasury notes, through funding them
into interest bearing bonds. The next
is to supply their place with bank notes,
fined, to retire the silver dollars. It
should be remembered that Mr.. Gage
and the Bankers Alliance propose that
ultimately there shall be no other Sc
hap nj ho Va tS
of the banks. Such will be the effect
of the bill of the banking and currency
committee, If 1t is enacted into law.
The intention is that, in as brief a time
as possible, our money shall be COM
posed wholly of gold coins, subsidiary
silver coins and bank notes redeemable
with gold coin. There will then be no
legal tender money except gold, for bank
notes have never been made legal ten
der and it is question of grave doubt
whether there is constitutional power to
make them legal tender, as they are the
obligations Of private parties and not of
the government.
1t is certain that it is not the inten-
| ZION VI tHt eHtHllSS OIL silver TO nave
any paper money not exchangeable for
gold coin, and hence the volume of paper
circulation must be limited by the stock
of gold available for redemption pur-
poses, because the world has been edu-
Gated to believe that paper money is
not good unless it can be snapped for
metal money. Whenever an impression
prevails that the volume of paper Is
redundant there will be dstrust and
dscredit of such circulation. To limit
the volume of circulating medium by
the ability to redeem with gold is I'M
natural and unscientific. The proper
basis is population and volume of do
nestle trade. The supporters of gold
ism answer by saying it is only neces-
sary to have confidence, but less con-
fidence and more silver for circulation
and redemption purposes would be surer
guards against monetary disturbances.
Free and unlimited silver coinage Is
necessary to the creation Of larger
money volume. 1t is a means in the
hands Of the people by which they can
enlarge it, at least as far as may be
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Our Manila Correspondent

John Knight Of La Canyada yesterday
had long illustrated article in The Los
Angeles Herald from Manila. This ambi-
tious correspondent gives one better idea
of Manila and the Philippines than we have
ever had before. He describes AguinaIdo
as a keen, impudent leader of the natives.
From the glimpses of the character Of the
natives as given by Mr. Knight It is evident
that the United Safes would have difficult
task to restore order and maintain stable
government on those islands II this country
should conclude TO keep them. No war corr
respondent at the front writes more enter-
tainingly than does John Knight for The
Herald.-Pasadena News
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Think Tank Drippings

A man may be dead drunk and be liv-
ing still.
Let me do the cooking for a nation and ]
care not who makes their pills
One falls no further from high grade
bicycle than from a low grade one-but
who ever heard of low grade bicycle?
A boy with a drum has lot of fun and
the neighbors take comfort In reading the
statistics concerning the mortality of chill
dren.
A better man than old Grant-the new
woman.
On time-very scanty raiment.
The favorite summer girl must be as long
on the long green as she Is short on bathing
suit. w. M. r.