The herald., 1898-12-12
Nanny a
Press Agent

towards HdNlHS HIS
Nanny men make what is
Press AGENT their due against him.
He has not an
nounced his appointments as yet, they being
due. according to report, today. 1t Is to
be hoped by those of us who have report
ers' business with the sheriff's office that
he will see tit TO retain in place Deputy
Sheriff Manahan. NANNY" never tells the
bows anything that he should not, but he
knows how to handle the newspaper folk,
and has their warm regard. He deserves
one of the best places in the sheriffs gift.
City Clerk Hance has an old-time COM
rade who was with him in the war in the
person of w. j. Han
Handy at dy OF Pasadena, who
Verses the day after the re-
cent political frost
sent him letter of congratulatlon on his
escape from the snow, in which Mr.. HANDY
bursts into well applied song, as follows:
Paul Revere's ride is a wonderful story,
Winning for him an undying fame;
Sheridan rode to a field that was CORY,
Making immortal the generals name;
But for Slashing,
Election record smashing,
Ride that was dashing,
Hance's December ride was that same"
Mr.. Handy says in his letter: "Congrat-
ulations are in order, and here they are. II
you have not grown foot since last sunset,
some of your friends have. You did not
slide down the fire escape and barely save
your life, but came down the main stairway
and out at the front door, Good, with
big G.
Editor Charlie Willard of the Express on
Saturday was reported to be much better
and fairly on his way
Peculiar to getting back to his
People desk again by some
day this week. A let
ter from him received by friend here re-
Gently states that he is feeling like
wo-year-old, as Charlie Walton says" MIR.
Willard is still at Terminal island, which
seems to suit his requirements to dot.
Those Terminal islanders are all like the
Bostonese-they think the Good Lord when
he made their place of residence used just
a little better material than was employed
anywhere else.
Another good fellow who has been some
what under the weather for some time past
is Sir John Francis.
Francis He also is on the list
in Fettle OF those who are
again themselves
physically. OF recent months there has
been want Of get-up about matters OF
the public good which is largely attributa-
bic to Sir johns indispostion, but he viii
remedy all that very soon now. His friends
wish him to be the rext president OF the
chamber of commerce. Ii he would take it
it would insure for that useful body an ex-
ecutive who would shake things up in
gratifying manner.
"As dead as Herrin" is getting to be
political figure Of speech which needs no in.
terpretation in view
Clearness OF recent events.
a Muddle Michael Henri and
John Dough are still
hunting adjectives and epithets to fling at
the Southern Pacifcs chief counsel, and the
papers Of that city all seem to take the
same view as expressed in this column IN
Yesterdays Herald, that he has seriously
mperiled his position, and that his brother
officials in the Yellow Knockery have got
their hammers out. Mr.. Herrin seems slow
in passing the buck, and the game waits.
The only thing absolutely clear about the
whole senatorial muddle is that Michael
Henri is no longer possibility.
Mr.. Herrin's retention Of his position de.
pends altogether on H +. Huntington. who
disllkes newspapers
Will n. =. and newspaper men
Hammer? and controversies ii
print more than he
can express. He has warm trend IN TINS
city who nearly lost his regard by nitro
ducing him to newspaper man here' Wnom
however, he has since learned to enoure
when he meets him with some appearance
of cordiality. Mr.. Huntington, il he con
suited his first idea, would undoubtedly
io;n the hammerers about MIN, but ne has
The highest regard for Mr.. Herrin person
allv and as an employe, and as he is manly
well.poiscd fellow, II. E., as he is termed
by those associated with him, may decide
ia STAY by the man who has frequently
STAYED bv him. Mr. Herrin is in dangerous
nosition. but those who count confidently
on his downfall are making an error OF Judg'
ment. 1t is by no means an lmpossloillty
that a fresh deal Of the cards would show
that he has retrieved his mistake, and the
world may yet wonder how Michael Henri
and John Dough were Modified. Mr.. Spreck-
els. it is true, is an unknown quantity when
it comes to being an object OF such dett
maniuulation as this case would require, but
NJ Ne NcupC has heen known to kiss and
make up even under more trying situations
than the present. IhE NOooIrE EN-.
Stage Morality
Times have changed considerably since the
dav. not so very long ago, when the slight
est hint of naughtiness was net to be toler.
ated in our stage plays; when tornado OF
deep-blushing indignation burst over the
heads Of those who first produced Cam
lille" in this country. Since then the erst