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The herald., 1898-03-13
A VERY IMPORTANT DECISION

When the country gets time to con-
Justice Harlan's decision in the Nebra ska
maximum freight rate case is one of the
most important findings ever rendered
by the United States supreme court.
The courts have for years quite generally
held that the regulation of freight and
passenger rates within a state is legis-
lative rather than a judicial function.
Justice Harlan's decision appears to
that when a state establishes a maxi
mum freight or passenger rate a court
may examine into the matter, and If the
rate, in it's opinion, does not afford fair
margin of profit, then the court may de-
clare the act unconstitutional, and for
bid it's enforcement. That is to say,
when the justice of a rate is called into
question the state legislature may not
enforce it without due process of law.
The railroads were given quite a set
back in the decision Of tiie United States
supreme court against pooling, but gil
gantic consolidation schemes and few
such decisions as that in the Nebraska
case will give them all the power they
need. 1t would not be surprising, in
deed, If the anti-pooling decision were
reconsidered in one way or another. A
regular newspaper and circular pooling
propaganda has been at work for sew
The herald., 1898-03-13

from Havana to Santiago and Sagua
Grande and Manzanillo, upon her er-
rands Of mercy-feeding the hungry.
clothing the naked. bandaging the
wounded. soothing the sick, and admin
lstering comfort and consolation to the
dying. Sixty-nine years Of age, and yet
the most active parsonage today on the
island, wholly Indifferent to weariness
or fatigue. and scorning all suggestions
that she moderate her endeavors!
How like romance is this wonderful
woman's life of self-sacrifice and devo-
tion to humanity, covering more than a
third Of century of time. and connected
with the most stirring events of that pc
riod on two hemispheres! Let us
briefly epitomize it: Born at oxford,
Massachusetts, 1880; while quite young
opened a school with six scholars,
and increased it to six hundred;
"a to '63 clerk in the patent office; ga
appointed by General Butler to take
charge of the hospitals of the army Of
the James; IS sent to Andersonville to
identify and mark the graves of Union
soldiers buried there; commissioned by
Lincoln to search for missing soldiers
on southern battlefields; '66-67 lectured
on war experiences, devoting the pro-
ceeds to charity; sojourned briefly in
Switzerland for her health; 20 assisted
the Duchess Of Baden in hospital and
field work during the Franco-Prussian
war; II appointed commissioner of the
French and German governments in re-
lieving the distress Of the poor of Stras-
burg; 70 performed like mission among
the poor of Paris; 81 organized the Red
Cross society in the United States, and
became its first president; "a took charge
Of the relief measures for the sufferers
by the floods in the Ohio and Mississippi;
later in the same year she represented
the Red Cross society in the conference
at Geneva; 'S3 was appointed by Cover
nor Butler to take charge of the Massa-
chusetts reformatory prison for women,
and again took a prominent part in the
Geneva conference of that year; 'S4
served as special commissioner for for
eign exhibits at the New Orleans exposi-
tion; IS, upon the request of the senate
committee on foreign relations, wrote
history Of the Red Cross society. This
was printed at the governments expense,
but we believe she has never been reim-
bursed for the private fortune she ex-
pended in the work of transferring the
remains of the unknown Union dead from
southern battlefields to the national
cemetery at Arlington.
The herald., 1898-03-13
INITIATIVE MAN

To very large extent man is an imi-
tative animal and the creature of his
environment. Boys and girls initiate
their elders, and men and women are but
children of larger growth"
Just now the war spirit is abroad in the
land-not fierce. passionate desire for
hostilities against another nation, but
the spirit that considers the possibilities
of war. Take your daily walk, and you
shall see children with their wooden
swords and paper hats, drilling and
marching as earnestly as if the fate of
the nation depended upon their actions.
1t is in the atmosphere. The stiff old
veteran throws back his shoulders, and
the martial spirit possesses him. He is
ready to fight again. He has consulted
neither his old wound nor his rheuma-
tism. Somehow he does not have suf-
ficient faith in the younger generation.
He forgets that thirty-five years ago he
was of the young blood himself.
Next summer you may attend the
races. The racing spirit does not cease
the wire. On the road from the park
you may see impromptu races the
veriest old plugs find the atmosphere
contagious, and their drivers try to hold
the reins as they have just seen the pro-
fessionals hold them.
Let a circus come to town, and the
youngsters will be breaking their necks
for the next month, initiating the aero
batic performances they have seen. If
there is prize fight in town, you may
stand on the street corners after it is
over and see men practicing upper cuts
and landing solar plexus hits on their
friends.
Chaplain McCabe could probably tell
you something about this initiative
spirit, this contagion that seizes at times
upon the most self-restrained of men, as
he develops it shrewdly at a church
debt-raising. Harold Frederic has
given US a sample of it in his Theron
Ware"
Sometimes this spirit of imitation is
good thing, and sometimes is has very
bad effect. The same contagion, di-
rected into different channels works for
both good and evil. 1t may at one
time induce a man to perform a good
deed, and the next day make him unit
in bowling mob bent upon destruction.
The herald., 1898-03-13
BAD FOOD PRODUCTS

| Germany will not be the only country
to have violent prejudices against Amer
lean meat products, if certain practices
are kept up. Sweden is falling into line
Horse meat is a recognized article OF
food in that country. and it appears that
quantities from the United States. Now
if our Swedish or our German or our
French friends like horse meat, why
that is the kind of meat they like; but
they have the same prejudice against
rotten, diseased meat that has been man.
ifested recently in Los Angeles sanitary
circles.
In one of the Gothenburg, Sweden
newspapers recently appeared the report
of a Stockholm veterinary surgeon on
an importation of American horse meat
in which it was asserted that the meat
originated ''from animals which, if they
did not die a natural death, were evil
IDENTIFY at least sick and dying" The re-
port goes on to say:
The muscular tissues in certain Of
these pieces of meat had undergone a
change; 1t was of grayish-yellow color,
in some places mixed with dirty-look-
ing, yellowish-red meat juice, which
copiously oozed out. In other places it
was of a fatty consistency, intermixed
with red spots of blood, with, in both
cases, a disagreeable smell. like that of
virulent pus. In couple of pieces I
found partly healed assesses. At the
microscopic examination of blood and
meat juice from the central parts of
these pieces of meat, 1 found that bac-
terra and pus corpuscles abounded.
This is disgusting. sickening, in fact,
and The Herald publishes it only be-
cause the case calls for heroic rem
edy, If our merchants and govern
ment permit such outrages to occur it
will soon result in material decrease
in the expectation of American food
products. 1t is perfectly amazing how
indifferent the American people are to
the sale of bad and aduiterated food
products.
Sometimes as in the case of Germany,
the pretext is made that retaliation is
the real policy. There have been
several such instances, but Sweden
is not attempting to indulge in tariff
retaliation against this country; nor
does the single item of horse flesh cover
the principle involved. We have d
great deal to learn from some of the
European countries in this matter of
pure food products, and the sooner we
recognize the fact, the better it will be
for the physical and commercial health
of our people.
The herald., 1898-03-13
IN THE PUBLIC EYE

The queens bodyguard for Scotland. the
royal company of Archers, contains the
pink of Scottish nobility, whose estates are
in the Lothians or on the borders.
The duke Of Norfolk. who Is an ardent
Roman Catholic, in a recent letter said:
THANK God, two Of my sisters are nuns,
and. thank God, one of my wife's last acts
was to found a convent"
In the French racing season, just closed.
the largest winner, including both fiat races
and steeplechases, was Mr.. Menier, who,
with 200 horses in training. has about $780,
900 to his credit, which represents a very
small proportion of his expenses.
Miss Ellen Terry can never sleep during
the day unless she Is read aloud to. and
her girl friends take turns at this every
afternoon during her long engagement, in
order that her health may not suffer from
the nerve fatigue occasioned by the work.
Mrs. Olive b. Lee. Texas woman who Is
a candidate for the Dallas postmastership,
is indorsed by ex-President Harrison, Gov
ernor Tanner of Illinois, Governor Culber-
son of Texas, Governor Taylor of Tennes-
see and number of senators and represen-
tatiVeS. ,.
The herald., 1898-03-13
CLARA BARTON, ANGEL

A composite picture of American SYM
pathy for suffering humanity in Cuba,
could it be idealized, would be the soulful
face of Miss Clara Barton, ministering
angel of battlefield, bivouac and hos
pital, who has had charge of the relief
taken by the Red Cross society, of which
she is still the president. Her presence
there, and the work she is accomplishing,
forms the one bright spot in the fair land
given over to the sword and the torch,
crimsoned with the blood of tens of
thousands of victims of Spanish cruelty,
and blackened with the ruins of count
less homes lying in the tortuous path
of the destroyer.
Indispensable as General Lee has come
to be considered, as the official repre-
sentative of the government in Cuba, it
is questionable if he could not better be
spared than could Miss Barton, although
each occupies a unique position at this
particular juncture, so different in scope
and character as to afford contrast
rather than comparison.
Of Miss Barton we hear but little Her
acts are without diplomatic significance
or international import; her incomings
and outgoings are not heralded in the
daily journals as are the movements of
war marshals and naval commanders,
and if a record is kept of the details of
her quiet yet glorious achievements, it is
probably not a human record, though
more enduring.
1t may not be said of her that she ven
lures in where angels fear to tread; but
it is certain that her mission on the
island has frequently taken her where
heroes might go, if at ALL in fear and
trembling. But the dangers insep-
arabic from war-and a war that has
scarcely a counterpart in history, be-
cause of it's conduct outside OF the recog-
nized rules of civilized warfare-the dan
gers of national and race hatred, the
dangers of climate and of contact with
disease and pestilence and famine, and
of sanitary conditions unspeakable, have
no terrors for this noble Christian wo-
man, who crosses the trochas unques-
toned, and fits here and there about,
The herald., 1898-03-13
Reflections Of a Bachelor

Cain probably killed Abel because he
smoked cubeb cigarettes.
Every married man knows lot about
women that he dares tell to any woman
but his wife.
The meeker a man is naturally the more
tn likes his wife to believe he is lot
TOD quick-tempered for his own good.
Babies are about half monkeys and half
people, and it's the monkey half that makes
women think they are just too sweet.
Love and marriage may belong together.
but that doesn't prove anything. Just be-
cause you've got the lump Is no sign that
you've got the mosquito.
When man argues he sometimes bites
argues she most always starts to chew
more than she can bite off.-New York
Press.
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The Mirage

'Tis what 1t is. but it's not what 1t seems:
Broad-margined by the desert. Of mans
fate
A startling image when. with hope elate.
He stakes his all to follow after dreams.
When, in the night. in the moons ghostly
beams,
The soul world of beauty does create.
And fancies, fondly, at no distant date
Those bright ethereal forms with which 1t
teens
Shall be Of stuff impervious to decay,
There comes thought-a jarring Of the
heart
A dissolution of her fancied day
Then all those airy visitors depart
Into the dumb, blank darkness from her
sight.
And leave her hopeless, wrapt in starless
night.
CHARLES A. MILLER.
March z 1909
The herald., 1898-03-13
PLATFORM

Tho Herald believes that the city of
Los Angeles should ow n and control a
complete system OF waterworks.
Tho Herald believes that the city
ehouid acquire such q system Mt the
earliest date possible and on the most
advantageous terms possible. consistent
with contract obligations and fair deal-
1ng.
The Herald believes that the con-
company should be enforced to the let
eer, and that, at the conclusion of the
Sending lease. the plant should be taken
ever in accordance with the provisions
~ that contract.
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remarked, that Is a thing not to be des-
pissed. 1t insures us fair field in
which to meet Spain single-handed. and
that is all we ask.
And he is not going to quarrel with us
any more about the Alaskan boundary.
Only yesterday the news came that our
contention in that behalf has been recog-
nized, that convention has been ar
ranged, and that we are to have every
thing our own way in the northwest. The
only arbiters in that contention will now
be the surveyors, and surveying is now a
fixed science.
Canadian customs officials will con-
tinue to hold up our gold-seeKers at the
boundary line, but we can't complain of
that, for isn't the hold-up doctrine the
keystone of the arch of our own financial
structure?
The only friction observable at this
time is caused by the greed of the Eng
lish speaking" transportation corpora
ing for Klondike business, and that need
give us little concern, for with the long
and short haul clause suspended and
Canadian differentials ignored, advant-
ages are minimiZed.
There will be no alliance between Great
Britain and the United States, as limited,
but the era of good feeling that has been
inaugurated is likely to continue in
definitely, to the mutual advantage of
both nations.
The herald., 1898-03-13
The Hush Before the Storm

Old Nations stare; see, gray with age,
Fate leans to turn another page!
The air hangs heavy, close and warm;
1t is the hush before the storm.
Religion hides her head; ere long
She'll do her pretty part among
The living fragments of the brave;
But newsstand back! no power can save
Too much we've borne for sake of peace
We stand betrayed to littleness.
Columbia her brave sons shall send
The Nations honor to defend.
Hail to the war clouds heavy pail!
Hail, and away at our country's call!
Again we watch the cloud-rack form;
It is the hush before the storm.
CLOUDSELEY JOHNS.
Harold, Cal.
The herald., 1898-03-13
Remedy for Taxation Frauds

II people could only feel that they were
getting value received for their taxes they
would be much more ready to pay them.
Unfortunately, they cannot feel this.
American city governments are notorious
ly inefficient and corrupt. The remedy il
in the hands Of the people. They can have
honest government IL they really want It
badly enough to work to get 1t, and we be-
lieve that in time the appeal to the con-
science Of the American people, and IL
not that. certainly the appeal to their
fears, will have a marked effect In de-
creasing the tax frauds.-Indianapol
NcWS,
The herald., 1898-03-13
The Very Sword

A Scotsman, on a recent visit to Dublin,
went to see a private museum. which was
advertised to contain the oldest and queer
est antiquities in the world.
The Irish Snowman brought out large
sword and said:
This is the sword that Balaam slew his
ass with"
The Scotsman. being we'll up in Bi- Z bs-
tory, here interrupted and said:
'.'Balaam did not slay his ass; onlf
wished for sword to slay it,
"Ohw returned Pat; then this 8 .as
very sword he wished for."-Spa 1i1-
ments.
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William Is reported to have declared
that so long as he is emperor the Yam
KEGS shall not take possession of Cuba.
But companion advice from Berlin is
to the effect that the foreign office has
instructed the inspired press to deny
that Germany will aid
Spain in case of foreign war with the
United States, which, it is added, "is a
good friend of Germany" And there you
are
The herald., 1898-03-13

The Spanish-American citizens of
Los Angeles propose to renew their al
legiance to Old Glory at meeting in the
plaza next Wednesday evening. They
will incidentally cheer Cuba Libre at the
same time.
The herald., 1898-03-13

An the orange picker packs his LADDER
round,
In the shadow Of palm. oh. feel so good
shotgun couldn't scare me of the
The sun is up on high. like a pumpkin in
the sky.
An my belly's got a bulge with Christ
Was cheer;
An my lips with beer are wet. an light
An. 1 guess I'll put the winter in right
here.
Oh, first class buns all right; in five
cent doss at night,
I can sleep the sleep that nothing can
annoy;
II I'm lousy. tain't a patch on my happi-
ness, a scratch
Is a luxury the rich man don't enjoy;
| An so long as I can chew, an Use got no
chores to do,
I can laugh and grow fat even with the
best;
With now and then Jag, I'm free an
easy vag;
IAive today-the devil take the rest.
But jes' now as things Is slow, an hobo's
got show,
Less he's foxy, ter git landed in the pen.
I draws upon my wit. an my sinful ways
I quit,
An I gifts converted every now an then;
In a crowd Of gospel guys, I gifts up an
testifies-
On the pious cranks plays it off all right;
| For to holier out hymn, there Is none like
Pittsburg Slim
! I'm hallelujah hobo every night.
So boys, let's make a pool, an call for
something cool,
This Christmas day at ninety in the
shade;
Ere we reel home to bed, sure we'll drink
In "dago red'
To every hustlin' hobo at the trade;
Here's to three square meals day, an
the trustful guys that pay
An the way they've bin our bankers In
the past
May they long be free in givin', may we
batten for our livin',
| An be merryhearted hobos to the last.
SILL RIVERS.
The herald., 1898-03-13
The Hope of Immortality

We could not seek for diamonds,
Nor strive to reach a star. -
Knew we not that there are diamonds
Knew we not that planets are!
Dear Hope! Doubt that removes 1t
Serves but to make this plain:
The soul that seeks 1t proves 1t,
And shall not seek in vain!
SADIE BOWMAN METCALFE.
The herald., 1898-03-13

There are three cogent reasons why
the Cuban trouble will not be settled
upon the basis of autonomy. One is that
the revolutionary patriots will not accept
it, and the other two are that the people
of this country are unutterably opposed.
The herald., 1898-03-13
The Tramp in the South

I'm a merry-hearted hummer I'm a stiff
jess come to town,
band;
An my dooty don't shirk. would rather
die than work,
I'm the out an outest hobo in the land;
An the wintry ways shun, for my blanket
Is the sun,
So every fall I seek a southern cline:
If you are poor or rich, by the irrigating
ditch,
will strike you for nickel or dime.
Where the scaly blue gum trees are a.
wavin' In the breeze.
The herald., 1898-03-13

Business failures in the United States
last week showed an increase Of fifteen
over the week previous, and of twenty
over the corresponding period last year.
stubbed his toe.
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DISCOURAGED

1--WE gave up having a coat Of arr
"Why?"
"My husband said my griffin We
look well dragging his ancestral mi
."-Chicago Record.
The herald., 1898-03-13

impartial wants to put some pieces
of Grape on Americas obnoxious flag"
There is a growing conviction that I'm
parcials people have already done that.
1t may also prove to be the most expen-
sive bit Of decorating Spain ever at
tempted.
The herald., 1898-03-13

eral months trying to manufacture pub
lie opinion In favor Of pooling.
The interstate commerce law has long
been farce as an institution. The Me-
braska decision administers Knockout
blow to legislative railroad rate powers.
and to state railroad commissioners. The
and the Pierpont Morgans
are still in the saddle!
The herald., 1898-03-13

The new Spanish minister, "resplend-
ent.in gold lace" was presented to the
president yesterday morning. For the
formers opinion Of Mr.. Mckinley, see
his private and confidential correspond
ence
The herald., 1898-03-13
Keeping Up the Jingo Tai

The galleries always applaud IL
speakers in congress and the a.
brings on more lingo talk. 1t Is
endless chain arrangement. - q
American,
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Seizing the Opportunity

what" asked the dreamer, "wo
do If you could be king for a day?
"Me?" answered the practical m;
borrow enough money to live on
rest of my life" fe."-Indianapolis Joui
The herald., 1898-03-13

The battleship Oregon has been or
dered to patrol the Pacific coast line.
After taking on fifty tons Of ammuni-
ton. she will sail southwark. An op-
portunity Of viewing the magnificent
vessel will doubtless be afforded our
people this week.
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surest Route to Publicity

A clever Cleveland girl claims to have
discovered the secret Of perpetual life and
offers to disclose 1t to ten men. If she
wants to scatter the. information around
she ought to tell 1t in confidence to one
Louis Globe-Democrat
The herald., 1898-03-13

In the military redistricting Of the
country, the order for which was pro-
mulgated yesterday. the department of
California is not disturbed.
The herald., 1898-03-13

Secretary Alger Is convalescing. and
but for those Lapland reindeer would be
measurably happy. He sees 'em In his
SleeD
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Ben Tillman Right

Ben Tillman is against Hawa -
nexation. For once the South G
senator has turned his pitchforz
right direction.-Manche IN. n
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So the fear of free silver is to force the
administration into a declaration of
war! Well, we shall not take exceptions
to the unpatriotic subterfuge. But will
not a protracted war be pretty certain to
force open the doors of the mints? It
looks that way to US.
The herald., 1898-03-13

For president in 1900, William Jennings
Bryan of Nebraska. For vice president
Fitzhugh Lee of Virginia.
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A Restaurant Idyl

Mary had little lamb.
But she thought 1t was immer ~:
With new green peas and other things
It cost her ninety cents.
-Chicagu iGF ~.
The herald., 1898-03-13

Los Angeles shows an increase in bank
clearings for the week of 54.3 per cent,
exceeded only by the three sound cities
and Salt Lake. The increase at Salt
Lake is abnormal, while that of the sound
cities is due wholly to the Klondike
trade. But for these exceptional cir
cumstances, Los Angeles clearings would
be greater than those Of any other place
in the country
The herald., 1898-03-13

The cabinet is said to be considering
plan Of Intervention in Cuban affairs
which shall be in the nature Of compro-
mise, reserving to Spain the authority
which England exercises over her colo
MES. If Spain had ever been known to
exercise authority in that way, or If any
faith could be placed in her doing SO in
the case Of Cuba. the proposition might
be worth considering. AS it is nego-
tiations upon that basis will fail, and for
the reason that neither the people of
Cuba nor Of the United States will now
consent to it. Cuba will have independ-
ence or nothing. The stock -jobbing
scheme may as we'll be abandoned. The
dogs of war are growing at it already.
The herald., 1898-03-13

The women of Los Angeles, profiting
by the advice Of Director Davis, pro-
pose to organize movement having for
its object the taking of school direction
out of politics. 1t is commendable en-
deavor, and one that will be seconded
by all who have the interests Of educa-
ton at heart.
The herald., 1898-03-13

The new Spanish minister announces
his purpose Of Immediately taking up
the negotiations with our government
for a commercial treaty with Spain. He
should move with celerity. He may be
very busy before another fortnight has
passed, in packing up his own personal
commodity holdings.
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peace with honor. or war" This is
official, final and irrevocable.