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The herald., 1898-03-20
DE LOME'S BUNCO GAME

1t is not little strange that the gov
ernment should, at this particular juno
ture, display Willingness to enter into
negotiations with the Spanish govern
ment looking to the formulation Of a
commercial treaty affecting Cuba, in
view of the damaging disclosures of the
De Lone letter to Canalejas, that the
raising of a commission, ostensibly for
that purpose, had really as its object the
creation of propaganda to influence
congressional sentiment
Neither the letter nor any of it's con-
tents has yet been disavowed by its
author and it should be taken as an
earnest of the Spanish ministrys in
sincerity in the premises.
But the commission is on the ground,
and Mr. Kasson, the federal agent for
the negotiation of reciprocity treaties,
is participating in the mock proceedings
already instituted
With both countries on the verge of
war, the absurdity of the movement
looking to an agreement upon treaty
which, if ratified tomorrow might be
vitiated by the events of next week, is
obvious.
1t is also accentuated by the fact that
two of the commissioners are accredited
to the autonomous government of Cuba,
bunco machine that has not yet sue
ceeded in securing recognition anywhere
The herald., 1898-03-20
THE PATHETIC SIDE

There is a pathetic side to the rush
to the gold fields of Alaska. There is
something more than the greed for
riches that has possessed the adven-
turers.
| 1t has come to pass in this country,
as in older countries, that gold hunting
is almost the only channel left open to
the poor man by which he may achieve
riches quickly. Nearly all avenues to
great and speedy wealth have been
usurped by those who have allied them
selves together in various forms of
monopoly. The average man sees the
rich growing very much richer. There
is a great and constantly increasing
class who are growing poorer. Others,
whose condition Is a class has slightly
! improved, find themselves still at the
mercy of the monopolist. That it takes
money to make money does not now COR
rectly describe the situation. 1t takes
great deal of money to make money.
and the influence of capital is a money
maker is directed against those who
do not possess it. There is community
of interest that is exerted with ire
sistible and merciless power.
The average laboring man sees and
| feels these things. He may not under
stand exactly how things operate, but
he knows the effects and feels them.
He sees that as matters are going at
present it is useless to kick against the
pricks. He can neither oppose monop-
Alaska and the Klondike opened up
a new opportunity to escape from be-
tween the millstones and achieve great
and sudden riches. The man who owns
a gold mine worth million and who
secured it at comparatively small cost,
does not begrudge Rockefeller and Sage
their millions so much as the man who
is willing to work for a dollar and 6
half a day. but who cannot get a job
He sees men no younger, no stronger,
no more willing to encounter danger
and hardship than he, go to Alaska.
remain a year, and come out of the
frozen north with enough to maintain
himself and his family in comfort for
the remainder of their lives. What an
other man has done he can do. 1t seems
to be his only chance. 1t is an oppor-
tunity to get out of the rut, away from
the grind. 1t inspires hope where hope
had long ceased to spring.
These are the motives that have sent
thousands of workingmen to Alaska, and
the same motives will send thousands
more. That the great majority who
make the venture will fail is certain.
But let it not be said that the inor-
dinate greed for gold that has cursed
humanity for ages is the sole cause that
has filled the Arctic regions with des-
perate treasure seekers.
The herald., 1898-03-20
IDEAS WANTED

In this rushing age of competition there
is always great demand for ideas
Anything without an idea is useless
broadly speaking; at any rate it cannot
compete with something that appeals
to people who think, and which offers
new features.
The state board of trade, which is
working energetically to bring about
public sentiment that will insure cred
table, representative California eX-
hibit at the Paris Worlds fair of 1900,
wants some help from people with ideas.
To this end it is sending out the follow
ing appeal:
The state board of trade will receive
gratefully and consider thoughtfully
written suggestions as to how best to
exhibit the products of California at
the Worlds International exposition, to
be held in Paris in the year 1900, with
view of extending the markets for Cali
fornia products. Communications In
response to this may be addressed to
the California State Board of Trade,
cially solicited from the producers of
the state.
Those who favor the board with re-
sponses to this request will please study
brevity and append their signatures.
Let it be remembered that the exposi-
ton is to be distinctively a market
seeking proposition.
1t is to be hoped that the board will re-
ceive many responses to the foregoing
request. 1t is plainly to the interest of
the producers to assist in the matter,
since, as is pointed out, the fair is to
be "a Misunderstanding exposition The
producers and exhibitors should have a
general idea of the methods to be fol-
lowed that will produce the best results.
There is no need, at this late day, to
expatiate on the advantages to be de-
rived from great show like the Paris
Worlds fair. 1t is sure to be the most
effective market-creating scheme Of the
end of the century, and we all want to
be "in it with our best foot foremost.
The herald., 1898-03-20
A SPECIAL NEWS SERVICE

The Herald has a special and exclusive
telegraph service that is unequaled by
any paper west of Chicago with the
single exception of the San Francisco
Examiner.
Not only is to be found in these pages
the full report of the Ass ociated Press.
the greatest newsgathering agency in
the world, but an exclusive service from
special correspondents at San Francisco,
Chicago, New York, and Washington, l.,
who have exceptional advantages by
their connection with the greatest news
papers in those cities.
The full reports ofthe Associated Press,
day and night, amount in all to an aver
age of $4,000 words. These are daily
supplemented ID in The Herald by exclusive
dispatches, which vary from 500 to 1000
words per day,
The herald., 1898-03-20
DON'T SHOOT GRAY SQUIRRELS

There is a severe penalty for shooting
the gray squirrel found in the mountains
of Los Angeles county. The fine ranges
the discretion of the court People gen
orally do not seem to know that there
is such law in existence, and hunters
are in the habit of going to the noun
tains and bagging this kind of game
unlawfully. There is a movement now
on foot to watch this kind of work and
prosecute all who indulge in it. Squr-
rel soup may become very expensive
luxury
The herald., 1898-03-20
PULPIT EPIGRAMS

True poetry is unforgetable.
Jesus words seem like outdoors.
Cadence thrills us with exaltation; rhyme
belittles.
Cadence Is the music Of nature; rhyme
the music Of man.
Homer and Jesus needed not to write;
just to say such words was enough.
Jesus is the earth's truest poet. He
translated mankind's innate convictions
into plain words.
Rhymes have killed more sense than they
have made and they have smuggled many
piece of doggerel into the house OF fame.
Great epochal sayings, like "Give me
liberty or give me DEATH" seem to fall
naturally into pentameters or other noble
verse forms.
Men see the spiritualities out Of the cor
ner of the eye, as If they were spooks the
poet looks at them squarely, giving them
voice and shape.
You cannot know French until you live
in France; so poetry is the very idiom and
natural accent of the land of high thought;
YOU cannot speak it until you have lived
there.
Jesus sayings impress us, not as the ex-
coeitation of the student, but as inspira-
tions that have come to one lying under
broad trees or sitting on mountain tops to
think.
REV. Frank Crane.
The herald., 1898-03-20
THE COUNTRY PRESS

The man who proposes to drop "a from
the alphabet and substitute "ku" makes Q
curious suggestion.-Boston Globe.
Man is made of dust; dust settles; there.
fore. to be in accord with nature, delin.
quent subscribers should settle-come
down with the dust" as it were.-Sprine
Valley, Minn., Sun.
The leprous, red-headed, dog-faced misfit
that controls the destinies of the Tuscols
Rearview opened his facial oriflce and
puked forth about two-thirds of a column
of filth last week.-Hindsboro ILL.,. News
Some men try advertising as the Indiar
tried feathers He took one feather, laid Il
on board and slept on it all night
white man say feather heap soft! white
man id foo" ."-Springfeld, Tenn, Leader
Those who have ever been so unfortunate
as to suffer with an old-fashioned ear.
ache will readily sense why the editor has
been almost minus quantity for the past
three days.-Scott County. Minn.. Argus
Editor Goddard of the Glendale Leader
has just thrashed. He famed out one goco
postoffice. He is all right, doesn't need
watching either at home or abroad. and
will hand postal cards out to the people
butter-side down.-Grafton Minn.. Record
You may hive the stars In a nail keg
hang the ocean on a rail fence to dry, put
the sky to sleep in gourd, unbuckle the
bellyband of eternity and turn the sur
and moon out, but don't think you can es
cape the place on the other side of Halifax
If you don't pay for your paper.-Centra
City, Neb., Democrat.
We was in Memphis last week intending
to call scorpion editors to personal accoun,
for criticising out pulchritude. but we me
General Tracy and the entertainment
wound up in blaze of booze. We are tenn
porarily defeated, but truth crushed t.
earth is the root of all evil.-Hardemar
KY, Free Press.
The signs of prosperity and march Of i'm
provement are becoming more noticeable
every day. Last night the city council
ordered half a dozen fine cuspidors for US,
in the police court room. and the habitue'
of that sacred precinct will be warned t.
quit splitting on the radiators.-Ottawa
H., Free Press.
We cannot live exclusively on paten
medicines. and our employees refuse point
blank to eat hay and wear fly nets, an,
hence 1t becomes our moral duty to obtaii
money, the filthy lucre which passes cur
rent for happiness in this world and 10
tangible hope for prolonged earthly q
istence.-Perry. Mimi, Reporter.
The herald., 1898-03-20
THE HERALD'S MUSE
Wen I Ride Acrost a Sidewalk Ager
It'll Be on a Flyen Mashine

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It'll Be on Flyen Mashine
I'm q wild galoot an 1 ride a wheel. whes
the wheel amt a-riden me.
An 1 kick the earth tn my rubber heel II
way tibet is wild an free;
I never shy at a can, r rock, but trundls
along my way.
While an eight-inch curb amt even 9
shock, an I rode along Spring one day
But the other mornen' come to town an
wuz goggen' crost lot
Wen struck a snag an ct turned me down.
in manner amt fergot;
Some dog-on company stuck up a sigr
kinder biasen crost the trail,
So I had to ride in devious line, tn the
furder end in jail;
You see some develish sort O. a chap. he'd
furnished a walk NV cement,
So slick an smooth it worked like a trap,
an into the trap went,
Fer the sign wuz high to ride acrost, so
angled around the end,
And angled along that walk to my cost, to
my cost, tell YOU. my friend!
1 saw not sign NV cop in sight, but be-
hind the sign wuz a cop;
Ez turned the corner he gave me fright.
SO Dau tnet heu 10 stop,
An another cop came a sidlen long 'th a
twitchy sort NV smile,
An seen thet sumthen wuz goen wrong;
SO sez 'th a tech NV bile
Say, wot in the doose hev don to the law,
thet you're blocken the road?" says J;
"Ef you've got rag at you want to chaw,
don't chaw wen I'm passen by;
I'm sufferer now from nervousness, an
want to be getten on:
You won't grieve wen 1 leave, I hardly
guess you'il be happier wen I'm gone.
The cop he smiled tn bitter smile an he
twiddled his club a few;
Says he, in an offhand kind NV style, Say
wat are the name O. you?"
MY initials" says I, ''is A. I. T.. an
might be native SON."
Says he, THE jedge'll be looken' fer thee,
wen the clock strikes half past one."
The jedge were a fiddlen' 'th pen wen I
moseyed along to court;
The room wuz middlen' full NV men thet
hedn't appeared fer sport:
An feiler he ratified his nuckle-bone on a
table a cleared hiz throat,
An seq in musical kind Nv tones. Keep
still: don't twitter a note"
The jedge he shuffled his cards an dealt a
hand fer friendly game,
Then asst some fellers jist how they felt.
an told 'em they wuz to blame:
An every card he turned wuz trump, an
the rest NV the fellers lost
So the jedge'ld say. You air up stump;
three dollars air wat it COST
Then after awile he had new deal. twenty
nine Wv us played tn him,
An every one Nv us he'd to squeal, our
hands wuz so doosed slim:
An the jedge he says, 'th friendly air.
Come. gentlemen. now you find
That I kin beat you an beat you fair, fer
I've got twenty-nine of a kind
I'll fine each one dollar" he said, that's a
wheel of a cart-wheel style;;'
An he rubbed his chin as he split his head
in a twenty-nine dollar smile.
An l thunk for a thought right thar an
then, an this are the thought / mean
wen I ride acrost a sidewalk agen, it'll
be on a fiyen mashne."
ALFRED I. TOWNSEND.
The herald., 1898-03-20
THE WAKARUSA BAND

You talk about your Brooks band, an
Sousa at his best
An Thomas big orchestra, an Boyer, ar
the rest
Their hifalutin' music, suppose, is goo
enough
For city folks who educate on operati
stuff;
But when you want to reach the heart an
make 1t laugh an sob.
An be in touch with nature like, an max
it thrill an throb
With melody an music that child can un
derstand.
You ought to hear concert by the Waka
rusa band.
They amt up on concertos an cantatas an
the like,
But you can't beat 'em grindin' out quick
step on the pike;
An when they play "Old Nellie Gray" an
where the Daisies Grow"
NV memory goes slidin' back to the long
long ago;
An music that'll work like that an strik
your very soul,
An flood you full OF memories an all you
That kind of music playin' fills its highe,
mission, and
That's why likesto listen to the Wakarus
band.
I saw the great directors in Chicago at IL
fair,
With all their fine musicianers annihilati
air;
A drum d bang, horn d blat, a clarin
d Shrek;
An eff you call that music, say, you oug
to hear me speak.
I want the kind of music that'u melt in
the heart;
L wouldn't give a picayune for all thu
classic art.
Let educated critics gulp 1t down an call
grand,
But I'll just sit an listen to the Wakaru
bandJ
Dave Florence in Chicago Record
The Way Of It
Wants the Office
Cash, an sich.
'VOte fer me;
I'll make you rich!"
Gets the Office
Awful poor!
Enters 1t and
Locks the door!
Atlanta Constitution
In the Car
She wished she stood within his shoes,
Because he had seat;
But since that was impossible,
She stood upon his feet.
The herald., 1898-03-20
An Inference Denied

To the Editor of the Los Angeles Herald
Your reference to the action of New
York life insurance company's non-re-
striction as to those policy holders who
may enlist in the United States army or
navy seems to imply that other life insur-
ance companies do so restrict The Man.
haitian Life Insurance company OF New
York was the first to introduce the 'incon-
testible feature and eliminated even
suicide (this in March. 1850, and the poll
cies of the Manhattan contain no restric-
ton against military service or other call
ings. CHARLES A. WILLIS,
The herald., 1898-03-20

outside Of Madrid and Havana, unless
the administrations apparent willing
mess to treat with It is construed into
a recognition.
However, in view of the unanimity OF
congress In all matters affecting the
public defense, abundantly assured by
it's vote on the Cannon and other bills,
It is not likely the real mission Of the
Spanish agent rises to the dignity of a
menace. The country has been heard
from since De LONE evolved the cum
ming scheme, and the exploitation Of it
now may be regarded as harmless. at
all events.
The herald., 1898-03-20

rated one from the other, and within
each inclosure was native patriot with
gun. peeking through the interstices
his hand on the trigger, looking for his
neighbor. Below was the legend: "Give
to every man a bit of land and let him
cultivate it,"
Such a condition would speedily OBJ
tain in Cuba were Mr.. Proctor's plan
carried into effect. Cuba isn't big
enough for Cubans and Spaniards. The
former are likely to remain.
The herald., 1898-03-20
ROWDY BASEBALL

Popular interest in the American ma
tonal game has never suffered very
serious decline, and the action taken by
the league managers last week against
''rowdy BALI will remedy the only bad
feature of the game as it was played last
year. Several disgraceful riots occurred
last season, and it had become evident
that something must be done if the game
is to retain its popularity.
The agreement signed by the managers
is of such a character that every player
who INDUCES in rowdy ball will be Sc
verely disciplined. There are but few
chronic rowdies among the players, but
their example was so contagious last
season that the trouble attained the pro-
portions of an epidemic. The captains
and managers were to some extent to
blame, in that they sometimes not only
allowed their players to indulge in
rowdyism, but even encouraged them,
on the ground that it was required in
order to win games.
The public also shares the responsible
ity. The language heard in the grand
stand and on the beachers is often on
PAR with that so condemned in the player
When a ball player is roundly abused in
a disgusting and insulting manner, and
cannot defend himself, it does not i'm
prove his temper nor encourage him
to play good ball. If the ball players,
the managers and the baseball "cranks"
will unite against rowdy ball. the ma
tional game will be entirely free this year
characterized it so often last season.
The herald., 1898-03-20
PARTITION OF CUBA

Almost incredible is the suggestion
that United States senator seriously
proposes, as a final settlement of the
Cuban question, the partition of the
island, giving each of the contestants
the territory held by it. And yet Mr..
Proctor, after a months sojourn, has
evolved no better solution than that.
Conceding, for the sake of argument,
that both parties would agree to it, how
could it be practically compassed? Ma
tanzas is one day in the possession of
the federals; the next it is overrun by
the patriots. Possession of some of the
provinces is divided between the con-
tending forces, and they not infrequently
alternate positions. How could the lines
be drawn?
But waiving this difficulty-really in
surmountable, since each party claims
to practically possess the whole island
who is there that can conceive of the
Cubans and Spaniards dwelling together
in unity upon that narrow strip OF land
out there in the ocean? In view of all
that has passed, the Atlantic is scarcely
wide enough to separate them, so bitter
and deep-seated is their hatred, one for
the other.
The suggestion recalls a cartoon pub
lished many years ago, and at the height
of one of the periodical crises in home
rule agitation, intended to satirize the
capacity of the Irish for self govern
ment. Obviously overdrawn, it is yet
apropos. 1t represented the Green Isle
divided into small tracts of land, held
in severalty by the inhabitants, one to
each. A very high board fence sepa-
The herald., 1898-03-20
The Message

Roll back a hundred years
Through forests grandly dim,
Beset with deadly fears,
Rang Freedoms morning hymn!
Roll back hundred years
Where cities rise in pride,
Midst smoke, and shouts and jeers,
The red mans captive died;
Nor knew his awful doom
A beacon light should be,
Through tangled ways of bloom,
A guide to Liberty!
Through canyons dark and deep
The matchless rivers glide,
And dare the rocky leap
To smiling valleys wide
Roll back a hundred years
There dipped the Indians oar;
What thing of life appears
Shot now from yonder shore?
Across the level sea
OF verdure, rank and high.
The iron coursers flee
Ger narrow tracks, which lie
Across each banded state.
From Plymouth's storied rock
To where the Golden Gate
Breaks grand Pacific's shock,
o land of Freedoms own,
Won from the forest wild,
Hath love of Country flown.
BY Greed of Place defiled?
For us. in those dark years,
This heritage was won
Midst, blood, and, groans, and tears;
Be faithful, then. each son,
Nor yield the costly prize
To hands of men unclean.
When low our banner lies,
Flash out each sword blade keen
And dare to do and die!
Though strewn the land with graves
Death for sweet Liberty
Is more than living slaves!
And DER old oceans pearl,
Beleaguered, toss'd and torn,
Uplifted high, unfurl
The starry banner. borne
On many a field of hate,
And let the old world see!
Let not veXed Cuba wait
This message DER the sea:
"Thy baptism Of blood
Midst death and groans and tears
Hath bridged for thee the flood:
Roll on a thousand years."
SYLVIA LAWSON COVEY
The herald., 1898-03-20

Lord Salisbury's illness has come to
be regarded with apprehension in Lon
don. A change in the ministry at this
critical juncture in Great Britains for
consequences.
The herald., 1898-03-20

Secretary Gage says the people are
getting used to war talks, and to under
stand that "they mean little or nothing"
We greatly fear Mr. Gage is not good
mind-reader. He certainly has a very
poor appreciation of the sincerity Of
American patriotism.
The herald., 1898-03-20
THE PUBLIC PULSE

Crhe Herald under this heading prints
communications, but does not assume re-
sponsibility for the sentiments expressed.
Correspondents are requested to cultivate
brevity as far as Is consistent with the
proper expression of their views)
The herald., 1898-03-20

The magnificent battleship Oregon
with a possible Atlantic destination, is
expected to pass Los Angeles shores
some time today, having left San Fran
cisco yesterday morning Her speed ca
pacity is about eighteen knots.
The herald., 1898-03-20

Our dispatches this morning intimate
that the president desires to make con-
gress share with him the responsibility
of war, should one become imperative
Now we are getting at an understanding
of the matter. Congress is more than
willing. 1t has voted the money. Let
the president use it. That will evenly
allot the responsibility.
The herald., 1898-03-20
The Skating Girl

Oh, there was a little girl
Who dearly loved to skate,
And she skated very early
And, she skated very late.
And in the dead of winter,
At last, I've heard them say,
She skated on the bathtub
. Until the break Of day.
= - ~-New York Herald.
The herald., 1898-03-20

In consideration of the abatement of
about four millions of war indemnity,
ciled to George of Greece as governor of
Crete. The price seems high, but it must
be remembered the Russian claim was
not gilt-edged.
The herald., 1898-03-20

There are two occasions when citizens
country really needs their services, and
when they approach the polls on cleo
tion day.
The herald., 1898-03-20

We are this morning advised that
within a very short time San Francisco
coast. This is indeed reassuring. If her
people could now be safeguarded from
the yellow journals they would have
little of which to complain.
The herald., 1898-03-20

A daughter of the inventor Of the
Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine was
yesterday admitted to an almshouse in
Connecticut. 1t is sad, but have not
many women before her been sent there
by reason of her fathers invention?
The herald., 1898-03-20

United States As. 1221a; Spanish As
55. But an American guarantee is count
ed upon to raise the latter to par at
least.
The herald., 1898-03-20

Mrs. Herman Heinzelman of Sheboy-
gan, Wis, has lain in a trance for twen-
ty-two days. That's nothing. Look at
President Mckinley.
The herald., 1898-03-20
Money! No Object

"Have you any stylish neghbors?"
stylish! Mrs. Toozle, next door, Is just
getting over 5000 attack Of typhoid fever"
Chicago Paper.
The herald., 1898-03-20

Senor Romero Robledo thinks Spain
prefers war to humiliation. Conceding.
as he does, that Blanco "is unable to
subdue the insurrection" after three
years Of endeavor, Spain should be able
to endure almost any added humiliation.
His fear that 1.-The queen and her dynasty
may be swept away" constitutes cheer
full suggestion that two birds may be
killed with one stone by American inter
vention at this time.