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The herald., 1898-03-06
PLATFORM

Tho Herald believes that the city OF
Los Angeles should own and control a
complete system of waterworks.
The Herald believes that the city
should acquire such q system at the
earliest date possible and on the most
advantageous terms possible. consistent
with contract obligations and fair cal
lng.
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., 1898-03-06
Two Faces

Deep in the quiet of my heart
There lives a face that once was mine
Mine only by the mystic art
That Love around our lives entwines,
And thrills with magic power.
Mine only, as the stars are mine
That from their blue depths look on me
And calmly in my spirit shine.
AS mirrored in the silent sea
At midnight's quiet hour.
o! silent face, whose wondrous power
That DER me filings its witching spell.
Wilt thou, through all the lonely hours.
Forever in my spirit dwell
And brighten all the way?
Or. as the days go trooping by.
And memory fails and eyes grow dim,
Wilt thou, too, with the vanished lie.
And sing no more thy low, sweet hymn
That thrilled the earlier day?
know not what the years may bring
From out times cistern, cool and vast:
But DER me beats the mighty wing
That brings from out the grave at last
Birth of the oversoul.
Dim on the eternal heights afar
Another mghtier face l see;
Kingly and grand, its outlines are
The friendly face of Bethany.
That made the broken whole.
'Twixt these two faces slow I pace:
l yearn to hear the low sweet song,
And gaze into the witching face
That made my heart throb deep and
strong
In days not lost, but past.
wait for times unfolding touch
To bring me to the Kingly One,
Nor fear the change that brings me such
A friend as Gods Eternal Son,
And find my own again.
o. P. s.
Los Angeles, March 3, 1898.
The herald., 1898-03-06
THE HERHLD'S MUSE
Draw Poker in the Jungle

Draw Poker in the Jungle
In shady, grassy dell, in Afric's sunny
A young and foolish calf was gamboling;
Just why, he couldn't tell, for he couldn't
understand
What made him want to dance the High
land fling.
Hid within the jungle dark, lay a tiger,
Endeavoring to calm his timid nerves;
For the warbling of a lark or the bleating
of a sheep
Would wind his tail in forty-seven
curves.
Soon sounding. roaring blat from the
overjoyed calf
Disturbed the nervous tigers sweet re-
pose.
And he said: IT think that that must have
been a nigger's laugh,
And judging from the sound, he tore his
clothes.
I'll go and take look, and I'll bag him If
For ]. feel the need of something for my
lunch"
And not a twig he shook as he sought the
niger man,
And not withered leaf was heard to
crunch.
playful calf he spied,
And the tiger lay a-trembling in the
grass.
And the calf, in hopping round, came
a-skipping to his side,
When the tiger up and made vicious
pass.
III go it blind!'' he cried. II see you'll"
said the calf.
"I'll raise you one" the tiger coolly said.
You most surely would have died just to
hear the bovine laugh,
When he saw the little bet the tiger led.
I'll raise you," he remarked; then he
raised him with a rush;
"Ill call you," said the tiger, quite at
ease;
While his eyeballs fairly sparkled, for he
held royal flush,
And he thought the calf was betting high
on threeS.
But the hand the calf laid down. 1t was
equal so they say,
To that the tiger held within his paw
But the tiger gave frown, as he dragged
the calf away,
And remarked: II guess I'll call this
game a draw"
ALFRED I TOWNSEND.
The herald., 1898-03-06
Los Angeles, March 3, 1898.
Where Is John Shermanp

All the symptoms go to show that the
official candle of John Sherman has been
snuffed out. He is still holding on to his
office with the bitter resolution that is a
part of the equipment of an Ohio politician
but, as political factor, he has actually
passed away while yet in life. Nobody
knows where Mack and Mark have the
poor old man hid. His name is never
heard, and all the transactions of the state
department are carried on by Mr.. Day
who, if he did not know, has rapidly
learned, how to talk Spanish.-Atlanta
Constitution.
The herald., 1898-03-06
FOR PARIS IN 1900

The state board of trade, at recent
meeting, declared that in all efforts
made for the purpose of advertising the
resources of the state of California para
mount consideration should be given to
the creation of new markets and the ex-
tension of existing markets for our prod
ucts; that an exhibition which furnishes
a knowledge of the resources of this
state to the people of the civilized world
will accomplish the maximum good.
In view of these fundamental consid-
erations, the state board of trade will
at once enter upon the work of collect
ing an exhibit to form a part of the
United States exhibit at the Paris eX-
position of 1900; also of the financial re-
sources necessary for the carrying out
of the plan upon an adequate scale.
These matters will be made the subject
of special considerat ton at a meeting of
the board to be held in San Francisco
March Sth, and all persons interested are
invited to attend. Southern California
ought to be represented at this meeting
Her resources form no small proportion
of the wealth of the state, and their
omission from an exhibit presumed to
represent the commonwealth would rem
der it incomplete indeed.
1t is none too early to begin the work
of preparing for the Paris exposition
The tendency in such matters is to put
everything off until the last moment
If this is done in the case of the Paris
fair the interests of the state will surely
suffer-
The herald., 1898-03-06

The plant of navy officials, that the
sale of warships to Spain upon the part
of France or England, would at this time
be in violation of neutrality laws, is
ridiculous, in view of the fact that we
are at peace with Spain, and of the addi-
tional fact that the administration has
not yet discovered the existence of a
war in Cuba. There will be no traffic
in stock battleships after war is de-
clared. The Alabama incident Is not
likely to slip the memory Of any Eu-
ropean power for some years to come.
The herald., 1898-03-06
Quite Too Much

Impassioned Lover-Tell ME, my angel
what to do to prove my love. Oh that I
might. like some knight of old, suffer for
you, die for you.
Sweet Girl wish you would give up
smoking.
Impassioned Lover-Oh, come, now
that's asking too much.-New York Week
ly
The herald., 1898-03-06

The Herald would like to announce,
in double leads, that some rich citizen
had decided to donate hundred thou
sand dollars toward the Improvement of
Griffith park. What a monument it
would be to his generosity and public
SDirit!
The herald., 1898-03-06

The Herald this morning takes occa-
sion to felicitate Mark Twain upon his
escape from the incubus of debt that
has hung over him since the failure of
his publishing house. The last farthing
was paid yesterday, as our London cable
chronicles.
The herald., 1898-03-06

When Griffith park is improved and
beautified, and Los Angeles contains a
quarter of million people-consumma-
tions that may not be long postponed
we may begin to make preparations for
an international exposition. That is
surely a very modest ambition.
The herald., 1898-03-06

The senate foreign affairs committee
held a secret session yesterday to con-
slider a change in the program necessi-
tated by the failure of the friends of
ratification to secure the requisite two
thirds majority. 1t is stated that the
committee decided not to abandon the
treaty at this time, but to push it to a
vote after the appropriation bills are
out of the way, circumstance warrant
ing the belief that an agreement could
not be reached, in committee, to resort
to a joint resolution as means Of COM
passing annexation.
The herald., 1898-03-06
A Struggle

"There are some men who would rather
fight than eat"
'If you lived at our boarding house you
would have to fight to eat. at."-Philadelphia
North American.
The herald., 1898-03-06
Undoing the Plan of Creation

1t may be that 'all men were created
equal and endowed by their creator with
certain inalienable rights" but the trusts
and monopoies appear to be dissatisfied
with the plan Of creation and are attempt
ing to undo it.-Columbus (Ohio) Press.
The herald., 1898-03-06
Appreciation

Brief-There goes the greatest benefactor
our profession ever had.
Jayson-And what did he do; endow a
library?
Brief-No; he wrote Every Man His
Own Lawyer. brooklyn Life.
The herald., 1898-03-06
Different Methods of Robbery

The burglar who accomplished his rob-
berries by passing himself off as a gas in
spector should be punished with the full
severity of the law. The methods Of the
burglar and of the gas company are to-
tally different-New York World.
The herald., 1898-03-06
Commercial

"What Is investment, grandpa?"
"Well, it is giving man hve-dollar
dinner, and then selling him a two-hun-
dred d-dollar bill of goods. detroit Free
Press
The herald., 1898-03-06
At the Information Bureau

Traveler-The New York express leaves
this station, does it not?
Gateman--It has done so daily for the
past ten years, and 1 don't suppose 1t will
take it along today-Chcago News.
The herald., 1898-03-06
De LONE suflciently Punished

1t is punishment enough for De LONE
to be compelled to go back to Spain, II
he loves America as much as he pretends
to.-Kansas City Star.
The herald., 1898-03-06

Now for few parked streets ant
boulevards! Los Angeles can easily be
come the Paris of America.
The herald., 1898-03-06
Different Aspects

1t is we who have what We call self
confidence. The other fellows are filled
with Observation-Disclosures Transcript.
The herald., 1898-03-06

deer when Secretary Alger holds his bar
gain sale.
The herald., 1898-03-06

A dispatch from Washington this
evening indicates that state rights may
become an issue of the Maine incident
although it is very improbable that Sc
rious complications will ensue. The
Key West authorities have announced
that. beginning April 1st, they will en-
force the state quarantine law against
all craft arriving from the outside, as
protection against yellow fever. Should
this interfere with the free movements
of the government vessels the govern
ment at Washington will be heard from.
The state of Florida will be asked, as
matter of courtesy, to abate its regu-
lations in the instances of the naval
vessels. The warships have always sub
mitted to quarantine when returning
from infected ports, but this has been
merely concession and not recogni-
tion of the right of the state to inter-
fere.
The herald., 1898-03-06

The administration, apparently for
getful of it's admonition to the people to
calmly await the finding of the court of
inquiry in the case of the Maine disas-
ter, now manifests impatience itself and
calls for an intimation as to when the
report will be forthcoming. We do not
believe it's solicitude is based upon the
expectation that it may be used as a
preteXt for a declaration of war or an
excuse for suspending the preparation
for hostilities, but is rather inspired by
the supposition that war may be pre-
cipitated by some wholly unlooked-for
incident before the truth regarding the
Maine disaster is developed. The avoid
ance of that is of course desirable.
The herald., 1898-03-06

The latest proposition of Ell Nacional
for a settlement of the Cuban question
is Enthusiastically Spanish, and yet
it will probably meet with some favor
in certain quarters on this side. 1t
wants to compromise on a dollars and
cents basis, the United States to guar
antee the dollars and cents, agree to
protect the Spanish flag on the islands
and consent to the perpetuation of diff
ferentials which Spain now enjoys in
the customs regulations, 20 to 80 per
cent minimum and maximum, respect
lively, but practically prohibitive as to
many productions of this country. AS
Rip Van Wrinkle would say: "I'll yust
put dat in mine game bag"
The herald., 1898-03-06

may accomplish much good in teaching
housewives the chemistry Of foods and
in teaching them how best to prepare
them for the nourishment of families.
Few are aware that there is less nour-
ishment in glass of jelly than In
slice of bread or spoonful of rice, and
even a smaller number are conscious OF
the possibilities of economy compre-
hended in knowledge Of the rudiments
of chemistry.
We trust the people of the great cities
may continue to indulge in their jellies
and other morsels to the palate sweet,
but 1t will do them no harm to acquire
information leading up to cheaper
healthier and more nourishing diet than
most of them are familiar with
The herald., 1898-03-06

The bimetallist section of the British
house of commons. as announced in our
London cable this morning, will soon
offer resolution demanding the ap-
pointment of a royal committee to take
up and consider the whole question. pro-
testing against the adoption Of the gold
standard for India and demanding the
reopening Of the Indian mints. (The
cable reads CLOSING" but this is an OBJ
vious error, inasmuch as the mints have
been closed since 1881 The British BIZ
metallic league is also out with an ad-
dress. reviewing the whole situation and
asking the government to resume nego-
tiations with the United States and
France with reference to an interna-
tional agreement. The news is signifi-
cant only as showing that the last word
in regard to international bimetallism
has not been said, as prophesied by Sem
ator Wolcott in his late speech.
The herald., 1898-03-06

Many Of the parks Of Europe were
once the possession of the feudal lords.
subsequently sequestered and adapted
to public use.
The tendency of modern times has
been toward smaller areas in greater
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classes-frst. those that breed in the tenn
perate zones; secondly, those that breed
In the Arctic regions, and, lastly the par
tlal migrants. Taking these classes In the
order l have enumerated, those birds
which breed in the temperate zones MI
crate mostly to countries on the equator,
and even very far south of it, In Europe
such birds as the martins, swallows.
swift, warblers, quail landrail, storks.
and many others migrate to Central and
South Africa, even as far as the Cape OF
Good Hope. In Asia the bulk of the mi
grants take up their winter quarters in
Southern India, Ceylon Southern China.
and the Malay archipelago, while some
even winter In Australia. including tho
BIRDS which come from Japan.
In the new world the birds from tho
temperate zone are rather perplexing in
their migratory habits. Many of those
which go north to Canada and Alaska in
the summer pass the winter in Mexico,
Panama, and even South Columbia; while
others, as well as a number of migrants
from the United States, 90 over to the
West Indies one of the most wonderful
instances of migration is that of the tiny
flame-breasted hummingbird (selasphorus
rufus) which breeds on the West coast of
America as far north as Alaska and Ber-
ing Island, and winters In Lower Callfor-
MIA and Mexico Thus, with unerring in
stinct this diminutive bird, scarcely two
inches long, flies twice a year the as
founding distance of over 5000 miles. The
birds which belong to the second class
those which breed I'm the Arctic regions.
comprise the swans, many Of the waders,
and a considerable number OF ducks and
geese. In Europe these birds spend the
winter In all the countries from England
south to the Mediterranean and Black
seas. some even going as far south as the
upper reaches of the Nile. In Asia most
or the waders, such as snipe, woodcock,
sandpipers, and plovers. as we'll as the
ducks and the geese, spend the winter I'm
india and South China. In America the
Arctic birds migrate to the Southern UNI
ted States and Mexico.
The partial migrants, which form the
third class, are rather more puzzling in
their movements, for among them we find
birds whose motives for wandering are
very diverse. Some are unwilling slaves
l. e., they set mixed up In the true flight
or migratory birds, and are irreslstab.y
hurried along with them; such are the
rocks, starlings. robins etc, which are so
frequently seen in Heligoland In the midst
OF a flock Of swallows, and other genuine
migrants, Another lot Of the partial mi
grants are those which perhaps most Just
iy deserves this name, viz, such birds az
larks, pipits titmice, etc. which, although
resident with us all the year round az
times greatly diminish In numbers owing
TO more than half the individuals chang
ing their abode. For instance, those which
breed IN Scotland and England wander i'm
the winter over to France but unlike the
true migrant, always leave some of their
number behind.
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with Spain. Our experience has taught
US IN most forcible way that the medi-
cal department should have charge of ev-
erything pertaining to the care of the sick
and wounded, in order to accomplish that
Tor which it is intended. The surgeon gen
eral should be given higher rank and
clothed with more executive power to en-
able him to discharge his duties with cred
II TO himself and greater benefit to those
VINO are now only nominally under his
charge. The Secretary of War is not sup
posed to possess much knowledge of san
itation, medicine and surgery or other
wants OF the sick and wounded, and vet
the surgeon general is powerless in the
execution of his orders without his CO.
operation. If the forwarding and distribu-
ton OF medical and hospital supplies were
directly under the control and manage
ment of the medical department we would
nave heard less of criticism regarding the
scarcity of medicines and hospital sup
plies. To make department strong and
efficient it must be independent and in
vested with the necessary power 1t is ex-
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war with Spain in Cuba would result
In greater loss of life and suffering from
the climate and disease than from the
Spanish bullets. The result of tlR war
has shown that this expectation has been
fully realized.
The war cloud came upon us so unex-
pectedly that certain amount Of confu-
sion and unpreparedness in the manage
ment of the campaign had TO be expected.
Considering what has been accomplished
We have every reason to feel grateful that
The prize secured was purchased at no
greater cost of life and suffering. 1t was
our hrst experience in fighting a foreign
Toe IN foreign land and the many lessons
taught and learned viii prove of the great
est value should we again be called upon
=, 70 cross swords with nation beyond the
units Of our country.
Higher Rank for Surgeon General.
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THE BIBLE or THE BODY.

Perhaps no greater gift was ever offered
than the Peoples Common Sense Medical
Adviser. 1t contains 1.0O8 pages, and has
over 700 illustrations, and is the life work
OF its author, DR.. r. V. Pierce, chief con-
suting physician TO the lnvalids Hotel
and Surgical Institute, Buffalo. N. Y. This
book has been wen called THE Bible Of
the Body" 1t is to the body what the
Bible Is to the soul "a lamp unto the
feet and light unto the path" II deals
with the great question Of physical life
so Simply that all may understand, ana so
purely that 1t is essentially the one med
ical work for the home library. The book
Is published in two forms. one bound in
paper covers, and the other In strong cloth
binding Send q one-cent stamps for The
paper edition to cover expense OF mall
ing only, or 81 stamps for the cloth bound
edition. Address Book Department,
Worlds Dispensary Medical Association.
Buffalo, N. Y.
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detailed for hospital duty, and were plac-
"a IN charge Of the sick. No wonder that
among so many some proved absolutely
useless in performing the trying duties
OF an army nurse. Nursing In the army
in times Of war is an occupation which
Is always attended by many difficulties,
and particularly so when the seat OF war
Is a foreign country. The unrest incci-
dent to the mobilization OF troops the
moving and erection Of hospital tents, the
limited facilities for cooking ana OFTEN TOT
u,aehfng the occasional over-crowding Of
the allotted hospital space, and the I'M
certainty OF supplies. are some OF the IN
conveniences which the army nurse must
expect to meet and 10 correct as far as
lies in his power to do So
Many shortcomings of Male NURSES.
1t must be conceded on all sides that
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tba Iy OF the well founded complaints Of
r. management of the war arose not
~ VI any dereliction OF duty on the part
In, 'i.e heads Of the different departments
M. we're due to faulty organization. and
ms particularly true of the medical de-
ois,I NJ which has been so sorely criti-
pst., ne executive power Of the surgeon
Of Iva. al is extremely limited. Everything
ba55I'ortance has 20 pass through his
NJ. ara by sanction Of the Secretary Of
te,. me Secretary Of War is busy in
de,.1'uD's track Of what Is going on in his
Az ls5nent outside OF the surgeon genor-
Ulee. Agdyp. the medical department
degeuas entirely on the quartermaster's
ir5 l ,'i,Ient for forwarding and distribut-
der ING. and hospital supplies. No won
den,r.lt many collisions between these
''i'sAts occurred during the war