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Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-06

Notice is hereby given that sealed
proposals will be received by the City
Clerk of the City of Los Angeles up to
II o'clock a. m. of Monday, october 16,
1905, for furnishing the City of Los An,
dumping garbage wagons; also alter
native bids for furnishing steel or steel
lined covered dumping garbage wagon
beds.
Bidders to submit samples or draw.
ings of the style and character OF
wagons or beds to be furnished.
Council reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
By order of the Council of the City of
Los Angeles.
1O-5-1410t City Clerk.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-06
Notice to Contractors

Notice is hereby given that sealed
proposals will be received by the City
Clerk of the City of Los Angeles up to
10th, 1905, for making alterations in
the Council Chamber of the City Hall,
according to plans and specifications
ON file with the architects, Austin &
Brown.
A certified check, payable to the or
der of H. j. Lelande, City Clerk in 10
per cent of the amount of bid, must
accompany each proposal as a guaran-
tee that the bidder will enter into a
contract with the city in conformity
with his bid.
Council reserves the right to reject
any or all bids
BY order of the Council of the city of
Los Angeles.
IL. ]. LELANDE.
1854 lot City Clerk.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-06
Notice to bridge Contractors

Notice is hereby given that sealed
proposals will he received by the City
Clerk of the City of Los Angeles up to
18th. 1905, for repairs to tho bridge
over the Los Angeles River at Los Feliz
Road, in accordance with plans and
specifications on file in the office of
the City Engineer.
A certified check, payable to the or
Ger of II. J. Lelande, city Clerk, in 10
per cent of the amount OF bid, must
accompany each proposal as n guaran-
tee that the bidder will c6ter into q
2Ontract with the city L. conformity
with his bid
Council reserves the right to reject
any or all bids.
BY order of the Council of the city
Of Los Angeles.
IL. ]. IELANDE.
1854 lot City Clerk.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-26
TOM DIXON'S LAST BOOK
GREAT SUCCESS.

Tom Dixon's latest historical ro-
nance 1.-THE Clansman,' has made a
chit all over the country. The best
evidence is that it is the best praised
and best abused book of the year Last
Sunday The News and Observer pub
lished Mr. Dixon's admirable reply to
his critics. The book is virile and
dramatic. It effectually disposes of
the radical misconceptions in the
North about the Ku Klux Khan, the
necessity for it's, existence, and the
value of its early righting of grievous
evils that no brave people could toll
crate. No matter how much a CRITIC,
with no information except that
poured into his ears by the Tourgee
novels and the like, may excoriate the
book, Southern people should rejoice
that at last the people of the whole
country are reading the story of the
Khan from the standpoint of the men
who organized it as the only agency
for the protection of Southern women
and the keeping rogues and worse
men in terror. That is a great point.
A simple and plain recital of the con-
dtions leading up to the organization
of the Ku KluX Khan would not be
read like Mr.. Dixon's powerful novel.
Before the War Between the States,
Harriet Beecher Stowe fired the North
ern mind by work of fiction thou
sand times more than it had been
fired by all the speeches of Wendell
Phillips, Garrison, Sumner and the
cher abolition orators and statesmen.
After the war, Judge Tourgee won the
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in THE LITERARY WORLD.

Clansmen," the following are taken,
showing to the friends of Mr.. Dixon
the estimate many great newspapers
place upon the novel;
"A novel which very properly is
going TO interest many thousands of
readers of all degrees of taste and
education, a book which will be dis
cussed from all points of view, voted
superatively good and superlatively
bad-but which will be read. THE
Bookman.
I'VE have living noveiists who can
make the history of forty years ago
interesting, but none who can equal
Mr.. Dixon in demonstrating it's dra-
matte effectiveness. The Clansman'
presents a picture of national struggle
so blind, so terrible, that the final
impression is an echo of the words of
that are not steered.' philadelphia
Public Ledger.
"a story that will be read regard
less of its sectional bias-a distinct adj
dition to the literature of the period. :"
Boston Herald.
This is a martial book-a book to
stir the blood. 1t has an epic to I'M
fold, an Had to chant of how a brave
proud people were Inundated to the
dust, and how by the sheer strength of
their splendid genius and indomitable
will they marched the Via Dolorosa to
the heights of victory. 1t has strong
characters; but they are more than
characters they are the orihames
around which gather the highest ideals
of millions of the English race on this
continent. The ClanSman' is a living
picture of the stormiest hour in our
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election of 1880 for the Republicans
by his series of thrilling novels giving
the anti-Southern view of the hOrri-
BILE days of Reconstruction. The Jaun-
diced views thus burned into the minds
of most readers in the North-(the
Fools Errand having been circulated
as a campaign document by the Re-
publicans in 1SS0)-are the only views
most of the Northern people have of
the Ku Klux Khan, and some of them
have been laboring under the notion
that the average Southern white man
was not entirely satisfied to eat his
breakfast without first going out and
killing a negro. These absurd no.
TONS the fantasy of Judge Tougee' s
vivid imagination, enforced by bloody
shirt" speeches of demagogues, have
been responsible for the utter miscon-
ception of the Ku KluX Klans by
very many good people in their North
ern homes "The Clansmen" is the
full and complete answer to all the
stories and speeches. 1t is embodied
in a story that is absorbing from start
to finish. 1t does not seem to be an
answer or q defense. 1t is a story of
flesh and blood that carries in its warp
and wool a refutation of all the falla-
cies that Tourgee spread abroad, and
It is being read far and near by all
sorts of people.
Mr. Dixon is putting his genius to
the best possible service in thus re-
moving the false conception of the
character of the brave men of the
South between Reconstruction and the
restoration of the South to its own.
He shows that instead of being cut
throats and inurderers, as they have
been pictured, those grim men were
as true Knights as Tennyson has inn
mortalized in the songs of King Ar
thur and the Round Table The work
they had to perform was not pleas
ant, but ii was essential if the lives
and the honor of children and women
were to be preserved. Instead OF be-
ing lawless, they were the only agents
then i'll the South to enforce law and
put down insurrection and anarchy.
OF course, under the name of the Khan,
base men did later commit crimes and
give riot to their personal revenge,
but the very men who created it for
q righteous purpose took the lead to
destroy ii when the time came that law
reigned, and they put down the I'M
worthy men whose later acts Tourgee
attributed to the men who organized
the Khan to preserve order and pro-
tect life and honor.
Every North Carolinian ought to
read Mr.. Dixon's THE Clansman, es-
peclally I'LL VINO nave grown 70 man
hood and womanhood since the stirring
days which are portrayed in its pages.
1t is too often the case that you find
young people in the South who are ig-
norant of the history of Reconstruct
ton. No parent should permit his
children to grow up without knowl-
edge of the terrible wrongs of that pc
Rod and without being made to UNI
dcrstand that the acts of the South
ern men from 1868 to 1870 were as
patriotic and as noble as the actions
of the minute men and the men of
Afecklenburg in the days preceding the
Revolutionary War. with this differ
ence: they had ten-fold more provoca-
ton.
From many criticisms of "The
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-26
Assembly 17O5-LegisIature 1905.

The great State Of North Carolina.
A. D., 1905, is represented in it's Leg
iSla ,tre, now asJerol,r: in l.a'-.Gh
u: delegates fror. pi.laU-S counts, s :;
their deliberations are held in a
granite capitol of noble proportions,
surrounded by city of luxurious
homes.
What contrast is presented, when
imagination takes us back two CEN
turtles, to u small band of men gath
cred at the house of Captain John
HeckeEGeld on Little Itiver-in other
words the log cabin of a settler,
amidst Carolina pines, surrounded by
savage Indians. This infant Assem-
bly,, March Sth, 17G5, by enactment.
created the town of Bath-the first
to receive that honor
They were brave men and true,
and their acts form the cradle of
our history--from which has sprung
our pride, the noble State, North
Carolina.
To commemorate this event, an in
teresting and valuable historical con-
tribution, entitled Souvenir Calen-
dar Ye Old Bath Town, 1705-1505."
has just been published by Miss Ida
T. Rodman of Washington, N. G.. IT
is handsomely gotten up and will or
nament any home.
Will you not be glad to have more
history of North Carolina ana vel
come the Calendar OF Ye Old Bath
Town into your homes?
Copies on sale at the book store of
Alfred Williams & Co. or can be had
by application to Z. @. Box jl0,
Washington, N. L.
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WHAT SULPHUR DOES.
For the Human Body in Health and
Disease.

Disease.
The mention Of sulphur will recall
to many of us the early days when
our mothers and grandmothers gave
us our daily dose of sulphur and
molasses every spring and fall.
1t was the universal spring and fall
blood purifier" tonic and cure-al,
and mind you, this old-fashioned
remedy was crude and unpalatable,
and a large quantity had to be taken
to get any effect.
Nowadays we get all the beneficial
effects of sulphur in palatable, con-
centrated form, so that a single grain
is far more effective than a table
spoonful of the crude sulphur
In recent years research and ex-
pertinent have proven that the best
sulphur for mendicinal use is that
obtained from Calcium Calcium
Sulphide) and sold in drug stores
under the name of Stuart's Calcium
Waters They are small chocolate
coated pellets and contain the active
medicinal principle of sulphur in q
highly concentrated, effective form.
Few people are aware of the value
of this form of sulphur in restoring
and maintaining bodily vigor and
health; sulphur acts Directly on thu
liver, and excretory organs and puri-
fies and enriches the blood by the
prompt elimination of waste material
Our grandmOthers knew this when
they dosed US with sulphur and
molasses every spring and fall hut
the crudity and impurity of ordinary
flowers of sulphur were often worse
than the disease, and cannot COM
pare with the modern concentrated
preparations of sulphur, of which
Stuarts Calcium Waters is undoubt7
edly the best and most widely used
They are the natural antidote for
liver land kidney troubles and cure
constipation and purify the blood ira
a way that often surprises patient
and physician alike.
Or. II. M. Wilkins while experiment.
ing with sulphur remedies soon found
that the sulphur from Calcium was
superior to any other form. He says
For liver, kidney and blood troubles,
especially when resulting from con-
supation or malaria, / have been sur
prlsed at the results obtained from
Stuart's Calcium Waters. In patients
suffering from boils and pimples and
even deep-seated carbuncles, / have
repeatedly seen them dry up and dis
appear in four or five days, leaving
the skin clear and smooth. Although
Stuarts Calcium Waters is prop
rletary article and sold by druggists
and for that reason tabooed by many
physicians, yet l know of nothing
80 safe and reliable for constipation,
liver and kidney troubles and espe-
cally in all forms of skin diseases as
this remedy"
AT any rate people who are tired Of
pills, cathartics and so-called blood
purifiers" will find in Stuart's CAL
cium Waters, a far safer more palat-
! able and effective preparation.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-26
Rider Haggard's Looks Belle Him.
(Philadelphia Press.l


From his personal appearance the
casual observer would never pick out
Mr.. Haggard as man from whose
brain had emerged the wild, weird.
far-fetched imaginings that are parts
of some Of his works He looks like q
typical English country gentleman,
whose mental trend Is in the line of
things practical rather than fanciful.
Until he speaks, he might be taken
for mere gentleman farmer, devoted
to crops and cattle breeding. But
this impression vanishes when he
speaks. His voice is exceedingly pleas
ing, rich and musical in quality and
his words are uttered in the quiet.
easy, cultured tones that bespeak a
man of high breeding and education.
And occasionally in the expression of
his gray eyes the close observer can
catch glimpse of the dreamer.
The truth is that both impressions
are correct Mr.. Haggard is both a
dreamer and a matter-o of fact man of
affairs. The creator OF Jess" and
ALLAN Quartermain" and "The Witch s
Head" is also a practical farmer. 1t
is an evidence of the confidence re-
posed in his hard common sense and
sound judgment that he has been COM
missioned to visit this country to make
certain important Investigations.
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eighty-five. Whittier and Harriet
Beecher Stowe died at eighty-four
Bryant at eighty-three; Emerson at
seventy eight; Irving at seventy-six;
Longfellow at seventy-five; Lowell and
Walt Whitman at seventy-two, and
Cooper and Bret Harte at sixty-two.
OF authors still living-and with one
or two exceptions actively at work
Julia Ward Howe will be eighty-siX
years old in May; Edward Everett
Hale is eighty-three; Moncure Conway
is seventy-two; Mark Twain is sixty
eight, and William D. Howells will be
sixty-eight this March. Holmes and
Whittier both did some of their best
work after they had passed seventy?
five
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To The Evening Star.

(By George H. Murphy
A rim of earth, all dark and cold. and
still,
Fringed with the boughs of gaunt and
leahess trees;
A yellow belt. spotted with blue-grey
clouds;
Above, an olive sky deepening to
black;
A few faint stars. ashamed of their
And glorious Venus, blazing like
a sun.
o Venus, isle of light in heavens sea
Country of mysteries. wonders unre-
vealed;
Behind thy veil what beauty lies con-
cealed?
Dwells there purer. happier race in
That thou can'st shine with luster so
divine?
Is there voice in thee whis-
pering to me?
o Venus. choicest jewel of the sky.
What joy unearthly warns thy heart
tonight?
Art thou a paradise of pure delight.
souls so high?
That thou can'st shine with ardor so
divine?
Is there light in thee that
wakens me?
Art thou n home for weary souls pre-
pared,
Lonely on earth. that only failure
know,
Through faithIessness made faithful
here below,
Souls which the bitter cup of pain
have shared
That thou dost shine with rapture so
divine?
Is there a balm in thee to COM
fort me?
0 Venus, magnet drawing us above
The flood of doubt that ever downward
rolls,
Golden elysium of kindred souls.
Why dost thou smile with such COM
polling love?
Why dost thou shine with promise SO
divine?
Is there a hand in thee that
beckonS ne?
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ooh, Ask Me Not"

Love, should set my heart upon
crown,
Squander my years and gain it,
What recompense of pleasure could l
own
For youths red drops that stain it?
Much have 1 thought on what our life
may mean,
And what it's best endeaVor:
Seeing we may not come again to
CLEAN,
But, losing, lose forever.
Seeing how zealots, making choice of
pain,
From home and country parted,
Have thought it life to leave their fell
lows slain,
Their women broken-hearted;
How teasing truth a thousand faces
claims,
AS in broken mirror,
And what a father died for in the
flames
His own son scorns as error;
How even they whose hearts were
sweet with song
Must quaff oblivion'S potion,
And soon or late their sails be lost
along
The all-surrounding ocean.
Oh. ask me not the haven of our ships,
Nor what flag floats above you!
l hold you close, / kiss your sweet,
sweet lips,
And love you, love you, love you!
John Charles Mcneil, in the March
Century.
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Among the varied contents of the
April Century Mr.. Milville E. Stones
story of 1.-THE Work of the Associated
Press is perhaps of the most general
interest. This is the first of a series of
articles on the largest news-g gathering
service in the world, and recounts Mr..
Stones interviews with the Pope, the
President of the French Republic, the
Emperor of Germany, the King of
Italy, and other thorities-inter-
views which helped to make possible
the "A. P.'s" present extensive for
eign service. In this issue, too, is the
first of two articles by Dr. Anita New
comb MCGEE on her interesting ex-
periences as the head of a band of
nine Red Cross nurses in the army
hospitals of Japan. Helen Zimmern
contributes a <seasonable account of
the curious ceremony of the car on
Holy Saturday in Florence.
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The Century Co.'S March Issues.

The Century Co.'S March issues, as
previously announced, viii be the au-
topography of the Hon. Andrew d.
White, in two large volumes, and DIR.
S. Weir MitchelPs Constance Tres
cot" the main incident of which is
based upon q woman's vendetta which
actually came under DR.. Mitchells OBJ
servation. Additional interest accrues
to the publication of this book fol-
lowing, as it does, so soon upon DR..
Mitchells seventy fffth birthday thus
showing the absurdity of DR.. Osler's
view. And the coincidence attracts
attention pleasantly to the fact that
our American authors have been, and
are today, a long-lived class. DR..
Holmes, to whom DR.. Mitchell has
been likened, attained the age of
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national history, picture that speaks
with the pathos and power of a thor
oughly aroused man of genius There
is not one tame weak, hating word
As the cannon ball goes to its mark
this story goes to it's finish. New
York American.
"'Austin Stoneman is a figure bulk
ing large upon the literary horizon
No character of evil intent in modern
times has been drawn with such vi
rility and power. '-Philadelphia Item.
The Clansman' is a novel of great
dramatic force and historic value,
written with wonderful vigor, pic
ture of the most sorrowful, desperate
and heroic period in the life of a peace
loving people. "-Charleston News and
Courier.
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To John Henry BOner.

(From Richard Watson Glider, in The
Century,
In life's hard fight this poet did his
part:
He was hero of the mind and heart.
Now rest his body meath his own
loved skies,
And from his grave "Courage!" his
spirit cries.
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burg and Slocum with the left via
of Oxford, towards Virginia.
This brief statement regarding the
movements of Sherman these last days
would hardly be complete without
mention of Johnson's and President
Davis's attitude towards them.
CAD Johnson appreciated the CRAWL
~ of the situation. His men were de-
morallzed, dispirited and deserving in
great numbers, especially after the
rumorS as TO captivating. He was
living largely off the country, and adj
ditional destruction came from the
men of Lees army on their return.
Davis approved of Johnson's action
with Sherman the first time; but, he
was not willing when the demand
came for surrender on the terms
granted Lee. Through the Secretary
of War, (42) Davis asked Johnson to
bring the cavalry and all the men he
could mount, with small arms and
light field-pieces, that they might
move to the southwest. Johnson's re-
ply was: (43) We have to save the
people, spare the blood of the army
and save the high civil functionaries,
with the reminder: Your plan can
only do the last" When Johnson
would not comply to this demand the
request came that Hampton be allow
ed men, arms and animals, for those
who wished to join the cavalry CAD
This request was made direct TO
Hampton April 26th. The plan with
Hampton was that Davis might leave
the country For this Hampton was
ready to make almost any sacrifice
No one can accuse Davis of personal
coWardice, but he is open to the
charge of want of craftsmanship.
One can hardly imagine the reign of
terror that would have ensued, had
Davis's, rather than Johnson's, plan
prevailed. To have scattered John
sons army in guerrilla bands over the
South, pursued by Sherman's army
now specially incensed over the death
of Lincoln, would have meant the ruin
of the people and the destruction OF
the army, with possibly the saving of
THE high civil functionaries."
Instead of added horrors, impend-
ing during the negotiations of terms.
johnson surrendered his remnant of
an army to be paroled and allowed to
return home; and Sherman's me1,
marched away to their Northern fire
sides, giving place to the darker DAYS
of Reconstruction.