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The herald., 1898-01-30
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He who foresees calamities suffers them
twice over.-Porteus.
Getting into debt is getting into tangle-
some net.-Franklin.
We inherit nothing truly but what our
actions make us worthy of.
To live is not to live for ones self alone;
let us help one another.-Menander
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty;
naccuracy is dishonesty.-C. Simmons.
When we are out of sympathy with the
young then think our work in this world
is over.--G. Macdonald.
Make but few explanations The char
acter that cannot defend itself is not worth
vindicating.-F w. Robertson.
Let us be of good cheer. remembering
that the misfortunes hardest TO bear are
those which never come.-Lowell.
If there is anything that keeps the mind
open to angels visits and repels the min
stry of evil, it is a pure human love.-N.
p. Willis.
When man has been guilty of any vice
or folly the best atonement he can make
for it is to warn others not to fall into
the like.-Addison.
The meanest, most contemplate kind of
praise is that which first speaks we'll of a
man and then qualities it with a but. -
Henry Ward Beecher.
1t is a sad thing to begin life with low
conceptions of it. 1t may not be possible
for Il young man to measure life, but it is
possible to say. 'I am resolved to put life
to it's noblest and best use."-T. L. Munger.
The herald., 1898-01-30
How Stanton Defied Lincoln

The application of a man who wanted
to be chaplain in the army during Mr..
Lincoln's administration was recently
found Attached to it are number of in
dorsements which are not only interesting
in themselves but aid in disclosing the
characters of the two men whose influence
largely nodded the policy of the govern.
ment in those turbulent times. The in
dorsements read as follows:
Dear Stanton-Appoint this man chap
lain in the army. A. LINCOLN"
Dear Mr.. Lincoln-He is not a preach
er. Il. NJ. STANTON"
The following Endorsements are dated a
few months later. but come just below
Dear Stanton-He is now"
"a. LINCOLN"
Dear Mr.. Lincoln-But there is no va
cancy. e. M. STANTON"
Dear Mr.. Stanton-Appoint him chap
lain at large. A. LINCOIN."'
Dear Mr.. Lincoln-There is no warrant
of law for that e. M. STANTON"
Dear Mr.. Stanton-Appoint him any
how. A. LINCOLN"
Dear Mr.. Lincoln-I will not.
sc. NJ. STANTON"
The appointment was not made, but the
papers were filed in the war department,
where they remain as evidence of Lincoln $
friendship and Stanton's obstinate nerve.
indianapolis Journal.
The herald., 1898-01-30

court has reversed the decision of the
lower court, holding that the publication
was not necessarily malicious because
a few biased witnesses so thought; that
the article itself was in no sense am
biguous, and that the reading of it in its
entirety was a right which he should not
have denied the defense.
The court also holds that the defend
ant newspaper did not have to prove the
truth of it's charges "beyond reason
able doubt" the preponderance OF evil
dence being sufficient.
No newspaper should be upheld either
by public sentiment or by the courts, IN
maliciously defaming private character
but when, in the interest of public NOR
ality and for the protection OF the
community against the fraud de-
ceit and criminal practices OF design
ing men who seek to prey upon II, the
journal has the courage and the fortl-
tude to assail the wrong-doer and lay
bare his schemes of plunder 1t is not
only entitled to the support of all good
people, but it is pretty sure to receive
The herald., 1898-01-30
AS ANOTHER SEES US

"Au Outsider" writes The Herald say
ing that he visited Los Angeles in the
latter part of 1896 and has but recently
returned after years absence. What
most impressed him at the first visit
was the limited number of blocks de-
voted to business in proportion to the
size and area of the city, and the large
number of homes situated in close proX-
unity to the business district. 1t then
seemed to him that more business blocks
must be erected, and that the business
district must be extended many squares.
Returning to the city "Outsider" sees
that this has been the tendency in the
growth of Los Angeles during the past
year. Some magnificent blocks have
been built and others are in course of
MISUNDERSTANDING that would be
a credit to any city in the country, and
there is still no city of the same size in
the country, in his opinion, but has a
much larger territory devoted to busi-
ness purposes. He believes that the city
is destined to a much larger increase,
and that investments near the business
center are sure to yield rich returns.
Last but not least, it is "Outsider's''
opinion that Los Angeles, better than
any other city in the country, has held
it's own through the long season of busi-
ness depression, besides making the
largest comparative growth during that
time.
The herald., 1898-01-30
INTENT OF THE LAW

The law seeks to throw all reasonable
Safeguards about the reputation of pub
lie officials as we'll as private citizens,
and in the doing of it oftentimes hampers
and restricts the newspaper in it's le-
gitimate mission of protecting the COM
munity as whole, by courageously un-
covering fraud and villainy in both pub
lie and private life. The law does not
contemplate that any man possessing a
five dollar bill with which to purchase
the service of shyster lawyer may
speculate upon his bankrupt reputation
exploiting his grievances in the courts
of the land, harrassing respectable
newspapers and piling up costs for the
taxpayers to satisfy, and yet nisi prius
judges are all too prone to give to such
litigation dignity and standing tc
which they are not entitled.
Presumption of malice, in a case where
q journal exposes the villainies of a mar
whose record notoriously brands him a!
public enemy, Is not fair or lust ant
we are glad to note that the supreme
court OF this state does not recognize i
as good law. In the case of DR.. Hearnt
against the San francisco Chronicle tha
The herald., 1898-01-30
Grandfather of Two Senators

Stephen Mallory White is a senator from
California and stephen Russell Mallory
is a senator from Florida. There is more
than a mere coincidence in the similarity
of the names. The men are cousins. Sena-
tor Mallory's father and Senator Whites 8
mother were brother and sister. 1t Is a
little curious that the two senators should
represent states as far apart as 1t is pos
sible for them to be--one on the Atlantic
and the other on the Pacific coast. The
grandfather of the two senators was one
of the earliest settlers of Florida, while
their grandmother was a Spanish woman
of fine stock, considerable beauty and re-
markabe constitution, retaining to her
old age all of her faculties.
Much of Senator Whites sturdiness
comes from his grandmother. He was not
born in Florida, for his father and mother
crossed the plains in 1850. attracted to Cali
fornia by the reports of ewly-discovered
gold. The senator was born In San Fran
cisco in 1853. The Mallorys, on the other
hand, remained in Florida, and now the
whirlgig of time and the strange hap
penings of politics reunite these families
in the senate.-Pasadena Star.
The herald., 1898-01-30
A TIMELY WARNING

The warning given out by an agent of
purchase of Yukon mining shares is
timely, since the country is already be-
ing flooded with bogus stock, against
which certain people in every commun-
ity seem unable to protect themselves.
Men who would not think of pur-
chasing a farm, a herd of cattle or a
stock of merchandise, in a remote local
ity, without first viewing the property
and becoming we'll satisfied of its merit,
and the sufficiency of title, will at the
same time fall over each other in their
eagerness to possess gaudily-p printed
certificates, fully paid and non assess
able" in mines which are utterly valu-
less, or which may have no existence
except on paper.
The artificial glamor which the first
fabulous reports from Alaska have lent
to mining in the Klondike will be en-
ployed to the fullest measure by the pro-
fessional mine sharps, whose harvest
will be abundant, unless the people give
heed to the warnings to which the press
| periodically gives place.
The Alaskan placerS are undoubtedly
rich, and the fact gives strength to the
presumption that certificates of owner
ship in property obtained at such great
sacrifice are not going to be heavily dis
counted or peddled throughout the coun-
frY. !.
The herald., 1898-01-30
SOMETHING DIFFERENT"

It is written in the Good Book that
Philip found Nathaniel and said unto
him: eve have found him of whom
Moses in the law and the prophets did
write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son OF
Joseph" And Nathaniel said unto
him: Can there any good thing come
out of NAZARETH"
The incredulity of Nathanael, In
whom there was no guile, was not un-
reasonable; yet he was convinced.
San Francisco has for some years past
been a synonym, so to speak, for yel-
| low journalism. No doubt the innocent
| have had to suffer with the guilty, like
| Tray in bad company. And yet, some
thing Different has come out of San
Francisco.
Something Different" is a journal
patterned after Arthur McEwen's S
Letter" of fading memory. This, while
it has it's recommendations, is dis
tinctively handicap and the disad-
vantage is recognized by no one more
than the editor, who seizes upon the
first opportunity to explain wherein his
paper Is different
Something Different" says the edi-
tor, "wil be written by newspaper men
who are willing to pay out of their, own
pockets the expenses of its publication.
The object is simply to write what they
think of things which they believe ought
to be written about, and which they
know will not be written about in any
other paper now being published in
San Francisco" 1t will be seen that the
field is a large one.
Curiously enough, but not inappro-
priately, the first bladder to be pune
tured is Arthur McEwens Letter, which
was started with such a flourish of self
congratulatory trumpets by its editor.
who so valiantly marched up the hill to
oppose the forces of humbug and wrong
doing-and then marched down again.
Something Different" maintains that
McEwen's Letter suspended publica-
ton, not because it was non-supporting,
but because its editor found it more
| pTOUtdDIe To DTdlSt anu pun Tie NCI ,
men and institutions he had attacked So
savagely in his paper. Thus the pres
ent free lance has before it a horrible
example for it's own guidance.
Arthur McEwen is very generally
rated as an able and brilliant man, but
those who know him have not credited
him with having steadfast convictions.
Some indeed have gone so far as to as
sert that he has no convictions at all.
Mr.. McEwen was recently put forward
by the New York Journal to feel the
pulse of the Democracy in the matter of
its adherence to the free silver princi-
pie, and it's Willingness to continue un-
der the leadership of Mr.. Bryan. The
result was eminently satisfactory to the
Democratic party, and it furnished the
| New York Journal with a compass; but
1t was gained at the sacrifice of Nc
Even himself, whose erraticism, incon-
sistency and seeming lack of principle
have been held up to the derision and
scorn of the multitude.
The career of Something Different
will be watched with interest in this
part of the country. Those who pay the
fiddler have the right to dance.
The herald., 1898-01-30
"Rough on Swine"

To the Editor of the Los Angeles Herald:
In your valued issue of this date found
the report of lecture by the pride OF the
| Los Angeles pulpit. Rev. Burt Estes How
ard, on the subject of Gentlemen In
| this he is reported as deploring the utter
attenuation of our former ideal. and made
| to say that the real up-to-date idea of gem
tlemen makes them no better than edu-
Gated swine.
| Against the use of such language in the
pulpit l must protest on the part of the
swine. AS significant of the esteem in
which the reverend gentleman holds the
anthropoid creatures referred to. his sim
| lie may be a refined mode of adapting
means to purposes; but it is trough on the
swine" and as a descriptive or historic
delineation of the characteristics of either
| species of creatures it Is failure. For
swine are primarily distinguished by alb
solute sincerity and directness OF mo-
| tive and conduct contrasting praisewor-
| thily with the other creatures mentioned.
| They are valuable and useful factors in
the communities where they make their
homes, their use and value being intrinsic
| and by no means exaggerated by deceptive
| outward appearances. 1t may be truly
| said of them that they are the very foun-
dation pillars upon which the grandeur,
power and glory of Chicago were built and
| they may fairly claim to be the noble an
between these genuine creatures and the
deceptive ones the reverend gnntleman
| compared them with is best stated in the
proverb that God makes the man and the
tailor the gentleman
| Holy Writ makes more than one honora-
| BILE mention of them, viz: AT the instance
of Jehovah. Moses formulated special
statutes for the protection of their lives
and bodies against the aggressive appetites
of the hungry children of Israel. and in
| the New Testament mention is made OF
| a special act of self-sacrifce indicative OF
noble and heroic tendencies. When Jesus.
our Master, found man poss by the
devil, whose name was legion (no refer
| ence intended to the board of education) he
ordered the devil to vacate dt was man
not an up-to-date gentleman. who was
possessed), but inconsiderately our Saviour
failed to provide other lodgings. SO the
devil legion took up new quarters in the
| bodies of a herd of swine that were inno-
Gently grazing by the side of the briny
| Lake Gennesaret- The instant the evil
entered the souls of these guileless era
| lures life became intolerable to them, and
| they performed a grand act of self-immola-
| ton. Defyng death. they precipitated
themselves into the briny flood, being i'm
mediately translated into their sublime and
manifest destiny, viz: salt pork.
When the reverend gentleman again ven-
| lures TO compare the worthless with the
worthy let him remember the motto
| which guided his great prototype, Paul OF
| Tarsus-"In HOG spell it with a capital
G. Sammy signo vinces."
Yours, for an outspoken, progressive pull
pit, IT. w. H.
The herald., 1898-01-30
IN THE PUBLIC EYE

In an address the other evening Bishop
Hall (EpscopaD of Vermont referred to
Santa Claus as an imaginary parsonage.
whereupon a small boy In the congrega-
ton audibly corrected him.
DIR. Marie Louise Benot of Lowell,
Mass, has been appointed medical inferno
in the New York State Craig colony for
epileptics at Sonyea, Livingstone county.
She is the first woman appointed as med
ical inferno in the state hospital service Of
New York.
The sultan of Turkey is always seen at
tired in pale brown garments. The en-
peror of Austria affects gray The young
German emperor has what may be called
loud taste in clothes. and is never SO
happy as when wearing the showiest OF
uniforms or hunting costumes.
The London Gazette announces the nat
! uralization of Professor Hubert Herkomer.
r. A.. and Alma Tadema. r. A. Incident
ally. 1t says that Herkomer's nationality
is unknown. Alma Tadema was born at
Dronryp, Holland, and Hubert Herkomer.
according to books of reference, was born
| at Waal, Bavaria, May 26. 1S49.
Fred Bird of Quitman. Kansas. has
! brought suit against James Glover OF the
same town for 5000 damages. Bird al
| leges that in public place. with crowds to
| see and multitudes TO laugh, Glover did.
with intention and malice aforethought,
| pull chair from under him as he was
about to sit down. The joke resulted In
broken leg, and Bird wants pay for the
| leg.
| Benjamin F. Kelly has just been made
town marshal of Fort Gaines, Ca, for the
| third time although the city councils Or
| der that he change his uniform of Confed-
crate gray to one of blue was not obeyed.
You can defeat me IL you like" was Mr..
Kely's defiant reply "but / am going 10
wear gray or give up my job. The blue
coats shot off my left hand, and | Will
never wear uniform of that color
Sir Benjamin Stone has been showing to
| the photographers at the London Camera
club the value of a connected series of
photographs and of method in their selec-
ton. He has made a special study or
grayestones, and has traced the prehis-
toric cromlech step by step down to the
box tomb of our own times. He also con-
siders that in the line which surrounds
the Runic characters on Scandinavian
burial stones he has discovered the origin
| of the Irish snake ornament.
The herald., 1898-01-30
LAST NIGHTS MEETING

A public meeting was held in MUSIC
hall last night to consider the water
question and to formulate policy to be
carried out by the city. The meeting
was called in the interest of the mayor
and his supporters, and the hall was
comfortably filled.
Mayor Snyder was the first speaker,
His speech was, for the most part, de-
tense of his position, interspersed with
little flights of oratory. 1t was marked
by one single recommendation-th the
city take possession of its plant upon
the expiration of the water company's S
contract. The city can do this if it pur-
sues the forms prescribed by law and
stipulated in the contract The Herald
has said so repeatedly. Then what is
all the fuss about? The courts are es-
tablished to protect the rights of all con-
cerned.
For the rest, the mayor declared that
the "press dispatches" made him out in
favor Of confiscation which was wrong;
he never had favored confiscation and
also that the mayor did not last night
demand arbitration before the expira-
ton of the contract although several
other speakers did advise that step.
The Herald will not undertake to COM
ment on the utterances of all the speak
ers. Mr.. Carlson presented resolutions
which were adopted, providing for a
citizens committee of one from each
ward to assist in prosecuting the city 8
campaign for the requirement of the
waterworks. Whether or not the action
was a wise one will depend greatly on
the makeup of the committee and the
line of policy adopted.
E. l.. Hutchison also spoke. Mr..
Hutchison was not in his usual form
last night, for while his address was
coarse in it's language, unscrupulous in
its misrepresentation and incendary in
its recommendations, it was more mod
crate than was expected. Hutchison
cunningly advocated and advised con-
f1scation by asserting that if the COM
pany retained possession of the plant
one day after the expiration of the con-
tract, it could hold the plant for thirty
years more. What rank nonsense! He
said also that he would concede as lit.
tie as possible and claim everything
possible. Yet he abuses the water com
pany for taking the same view.
Ex-Mayor Hazard. who acted as
chairman, like Hutchison, was in favor
of going ahead and building a water
system now. He would lay the pipes
first, if need be, and trust to luck in the
matter of getting water to put in them
1t is almost incredible that an intelligent
business man should advocate such {
short-sighted policy.
The newspapers-The Herald, EXPIRES:
and Times-came in for roasting. Tha
was one of the purposes of the meeting
So far as The Herald is concerned, i
will continue to advocate what it be-
leves to be the right in the interests o.
the community in which it is published
It can say no more, it can do no more.
The water question stands just where
it did before last nights meeting wa!
held.
The herald., 1898-01-30

Of the country and are entitled to 14S
votes in the electoral college.
At the same time the votes of sever
states were evenly divided upon the
proposition.
These seven states embrace an area
of half a million square miles. contain
a population approximating fifteen mil
lions of people and have eighty-sever
votes in the electoral college.
The states which voted solidly upon
the proposition are: Georgia, Tennes-
see, Arkansas, North Carolina, Utah
Montana, Texas. Wyoming. Missouri
Virginia. Delaware. Idaho. South Dako-
ta, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama
Nevada, Colorado, Mississippi.
The states whose votes were evenly
divided upon the proposition (and it will
be noted that some of them cast theii
electoral votes for Bryan We're: Ne
braska, Kansas, Louisiana, Wisconsin,
New York, Washington and California
To pay our obligations in silver we
shall have to make some more.
Isn't it about time the mints were
opened?
The herald., 1898-01-30

regard as the advantages par excellence
of the southern cotton industries name
", cheap labor, long hours without re-
striction and freedom from legisla-
tive interference. AS a matter of fact
the Vermont statutes, as revised in 1884,
the latest revision, contain not sim
gle reference to hours of labor. much
less any provision of restriction as to
what shall constitute weeks work or
a days work, and there is no DISPOSE
tion on the part of our legislature to
interfere in the direction of limiting
hours of labor.
We shall not attempt to reconcile the
statements of the Yankee
and the Yankee editor, but
De content with the reflection that dur
ng the whole period of the operation of
he much-abused Wilson tariff law the
textile industries of New England were
'airly prosperous, and little was heard
lbout labor laws, favorable or other
wise. All of their woes have come upon
hem since the Dingley schedules were
Introduced,
The herald., 1898-01-30
rs THE CAUSE DEAD?

The senators from nineteen of the
states on Friday cast their votes for
the Teller resolution, declaring again
that all obligations of the government
are payable at the option of the govern
ment, in silver dollars.
These nineteen states embrace nearly
one-half of the superficial area of the
United States Qncluding the territories),
contain population approXimating
twenty-four millions of people, produce
three -fourths of the exportable products
The herald., 1898-01-30
Pointed Paragraphs

A good head prevents a wise man ana
pin from going too far.
1t is said that woman, owing to the pc
culiar construction of her form, is unable
to jump-except at an offer of marriage.
A woman may pretend to be convinced
against her will, but she never Is.
The rooms in house do not interest the
burglar as much as the haul.
The more reason man has Tor lnoiGA
nation the less comfort he gets out of 1t.
No man has the courage to tell woman
the things her mirror does.
Men and women have more faith In each
other than they have in their own sex.
Most men are generous to a fault when
the fault happens to be their own.
Occasionally when fortune knocks at q
mans door he is in a neighboring saloon.-
New York World.
The herald., 1898-01-30

A Denver dispatch to The Herald yes
terday told of the killing of one man
by another by a single blow on the
head, and added the belief that the man
was killed by the fall and not by the
blow. The experts will now take the
stand. "You might have saved your
ammunition. so far as that bird is con-
cerned," said a waggish sportsman to
another in the marshes of Los Alamitos.
1T would no doubt have been killed by
the fall"
The herald., 1898-01-30

The absurdity of the plans for taking
needs no stronger Characterization than
is comprehended in the fact that sew
eral volumes of the census of 1890 are not
yet out. The proposed scheme of confin-
ing the work of the census of 1900 to what t
can be gathered. compiled and published
within year is commendable from every
point of view
The herald., 1898-01-30

The Herald's position on the Loud
postal bill is much strengthened by the
Endorsement of Mr.. R. ]. Belford of Cap
'istrano, who speaks from long expert
ence in the book trade and a technical
knowledge of the subject. AS the head
of the great Chicago publishing house Of
Belford, Clarke & Co., and editor of Bel
ford's Magazine, he has had ample op-
portunities for observing the nature and
extent of the advantages taken of the
liberal postal regulations by illegiti-
mate competitors in the field of litera-
ture-an abuse that is largely response
BILE for the annual deficit in postal reve-
nues-and his statement that 80 per cent
of the book publishers of the country
will favor the changes proposed by the
Loud bill constitutes a strong indorse-
ment of the position taken by this paper