The herald., 1898-08-01

York and buy my meah until receive an
answer It will M me all right. Say, about
two dollars"
George handed out the money, thinking
that such small amount he could risk. and
the fellow frightened up and talked more
law so brilliantly that Denis felt bit
ashamed of his first scruples and asked the
man to let him give him another dollar or
SO, but from some unaccountable reason the
fellow refused to take the added money and
soon left. The puzzling thing about the
matter is. Why did he refuse to increase the
second loan?
W. d. WATSON, better known In the frater-
nifty as Tight" is now city editor of the San
Francisco Report. Wasson was for some
years employed on the local papers, serving
On almost all of them. A couple of years ago
he went to San Francisco and has prospered.
He owns real estate in that city, has good
position and political office or two. ALI
Of which is due to leaving Los Angeles and
penny ante alone.
Miss Mollie Adelia Brown, the well-known
lsoprano, returned here from New York yes
terday. SIN was one of the leading singers
of the state some two or three years since,
and went to the east to continue her train
ing. Miss Brown at once secured most ad-
vantageous engagement and has been uni
formly successful ever since. She will spend
the summer here, resting from hen trying
work.
Ex-Mayor Pond of San Francisco is in the
city for brief stay on business. He Is the
man who ran for the governorship against
Colonel Markham. Pond is the man for
whom Martin Marsh organized the largest
campaign club ever known In the city in
three hours time. A little Pond club had
been formed, consisting Of dozen or so
men, when the news came that the candi-
date was coming down here to look over
the field. Then there was trouble. 1t would
never do to show up an insignificant organi-
cation for the head of the ticket and Mar
tin appealed for parade in which the Pond
club should be the feature. All of the party
men were consulted, but the Pond club was
the great bunker to get over. 1t was at a.
time when Martin had a dot of contract
ing work to do, and he called all Of his men
together and gave them day off if they
would walk in the parade. A number of his
friends who were in the same business did
the same thing so that three hours after he
commenced he had several hundred men In
line bearing Pond banners and shouting for
the candidate. Mr.. Pond went away with
the idea forcbly impressed upon him that
every workngman (for they all wore their
working clothes) in Southern California was
determined to have him for governor.
O o o
The thermometer on Friday at The Needles
was lis in the shade, or at least would have
been If there had been any shade. So Train
master McGovern of the Santa Fe at that
place thought he would come here to coo!
off. Saturday afternoon friend Of his saw
him all bundled up standing in front of Jew
ne's big glass windows, from which the sun
was radiating heat by the barrel. What in
the world are you standing here in the sun
for, Mac? asked the friend. mopping his
brow.
"Trying to get warm" grumbled Mac. Il
anne down here expecting to find cool wealth.
er, but didn't think would run into any
thing like this. Do you think there will be a
frost tonight?" The mercury at the moment
stood at 30 degrees.
BYSTANDER.