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Year: 1874

Although the rains visited us SO
early this Fall as to do some little
damage to the ungathered grape crop,


yet their coming has been on the
whole a benefit. They prepared the
ground for plowing, and it is probable
that at no time within the history of
the settlement of this valley have
there been one-half so many acres OF
freshly plowed ground thus early in
the season as this year. Our reports
from all parts of the county are to tho
effect that the farmers are at work
turning over tnc ouft. ~ sufficient
amount of rain has already fallen to
place the ground in excellent condi-
ton for the plow. There are abundant
indications to warrant the belief that
next season will be the most prosper
Gus ever seen in Southern California.


Especially in Los Angeles valley will
this be the case. Our population has
largely increased within the past year,
and the current of Immigration con-
tinues to grow stronger day by day.
1t is hazarding little to say the popu-
lation of this city and valley will be
increased at least five thousand within


a year beginning with lastiJuly. The
class of immigration now flowing into
Southern California is composed al
most exclusively of mechanics and
farmers-just the kind of people most
needed to develop the resources of
the country. We are entering OH a
prosperous era, the extent and magni-


tude of which depends as much. or
moro on the Hberality and enterprise


Of those already here as on the in
dustry and perseverance, of those COM
ing among us. Let us encourage peo-
pie to come here and encourage them
to remain. There is land for all,
and if those now holding large bodies
of it would see it covered with farms,


groves, orchards and vineyards, they
muet encourage immigration and to
do this they will do well to remember
that there are millions of acres of un-
cultivated land in California, and if
farm-seekers cannot purchase at rea-
sonable rates in this valley they will
20 elsewhere.
Year: 1874

THE Erening Erpress does not ad-
mire the Peoples Ticket. We did not
suppose it would. There is not a man
on it who the Water or Gas Companies
will be able to WELD against the inter-
ests of the people of Los Angeles. If
that ticket is elected, as no doubt it
will be, there will be no more digging
up the streets and leaving them in an
almost impossible condition, and the
law will be enforced demanding the
fixing of the price of water by Board
of Commissioners, and many other
things needed by the city will be done
which are now prevented by the ring


AS the Express is working in the in
terest of the ring it is hardly to be sup
posed that it should like the Peoples
Ticket. The ring does not like it.
Year: 1874

There appears to be more than we at
the time supposed in the rumor pub
lished in the HERALD some days ago
to the effect that scheme for turning
the water from several zanias now
running through the city over on the
high land on the east, side of the river
will be sought to be carried into effect
in case Mr.. SABICHI and the candi-
dates for Councilmen associated with
him are elected. We understand that
the parties who desire to turn the
water as mentioned have their plans
all arranged and feel confident of sue
cess If they can elect Mr.. SABICHI. II
would no doubt add much to the value
OF the high lands on the east side of
The river to place an abundant supply


OF water on them, and we should be
pleased TO see them so supplied, but it
would be unjust and we could not on
dorse the proposition to thus enhance
the value OF one locality at the expense
of and to the great injury of another.
If the water is turned from severaI Of
the bitches now running through the
city, the result will be serious loss to
those residents now dependent ON
those bitches to irrigate their gardens
and vineyards. Mr.. BEAUDRY has
supplied the high lands on the west
side of the river with an abundance OF
Year: 1874

water, but in doing so he has inter-
fered with no mans right nor deprived
any one of single drop which was
theirs before he commenced laying his
pipes. In accomplishing this great
work, which the EueRiRg Express says
will add millions of dollars to the tax
able property of the city, Mr.. BEAU
DRY has asked tor no assistance from
the city, neither int the shape Of money
nor an exclusive franchise. What he
has done he has done with his own
means, and Others may initiate his
example and compete with his enter
prise at will. If Mr.. SABIcH1 and his
friends would run on water the high
land on The cast side of the river let
them obtain their supply from the flats
as Mr.. BEAUDRY has done. But when
they undertake to stock the Council
with men who will deprive large
portion of our citizens of tho water on
which they are dependent to irrigate
their trees, they are seeking to force q
measure which is both unwarranted
and unjust. We warn those interested
that if Mr.. SABICII and his ticket are
elected an attempt, and, we fear, q
successful one, will be made to carry
out this scheme.
Year: 1874

THE organ of the Water Company
says it cannot see how its turning
traitor to the Republican party and
selling out to the Democrats will affect
Mr.. BEAUDRY. 1t has the effect OF
showing that having forfeited princi-
pie for money it put itself outside of
the pale of respectability and it's state
ments now are not entitled to the
slightest consideration. If the ring
bought it once, they had no difficulty
in buying it again.
Year: 1874

OUR amiable evening cotomporary
refers to the editor of tho HERALD as
"the man over the way who does the
Eatanswill business for the candidate
for Mayor" This is classic if not gen.
tlemanly; but the ring cannot expect
to obtain all the virtues for $50 per
wool
Year: 1874

The San Francisco Examiner says,
"Let us have peace-peace among the
journalistic fraternity"-and wonders
why editors will waste their energy in
personal abuse of each other. These
are questions we have frequently
asked our evening cotemporary, but
it offers no response except to pour
forth q torrent of personal abuse of
the HERALD and of every person of
whom we chance to say good word.
We regret this weakness or vice in
our little neighbor, for two reasons:
First, it evinces n righteousness of ma
ture and depravlty of disposition
which is unpleasant to look upon in


individual or journal; and, second, it
provOkes from us answers and retOrts
we know are not in accordance with
the Golden Rule, which teaches us to
do unto others us we would they should
do unto us. We know the infirmities


of the E.rpress;' we know that its
cross is heavy to bear; we know that
in choosing between principle and in
terest it bowed before the altar of
Mammon; we know that it fell before
the glittering gold of the tempter; we
know that it knows it has sold itself;
we know that it knows it is fighting
against the interests of the people of
Los Angeles, and we are willing to
make room for the leper; we know
that we should pardon its weakness
and look with compassion upon it's
unconquerable passion for slander and
Misrepresentation; we know that from


its simplest association to it's most
vehement protestation the people be-
lieve nothing until supported by testi-
mony from other sources. Yet, when
it pours forth its volumes of billings
gate anu nlls It's columns with vile
attacks upon the HERALD and viler
sfanueTs or respectable citizens, we
cannot resist the temptation to give it
a kick. 1t is so amusing to hear it
yelp afterward. We know that in do
ing this we are wasting our powder on
small deer-loading q cannon to shoot a
gopher-but we can only offer in extern
uation of the act the human disposi-
ton to strike back and the natural
promptings to defend the good and
true against the false charges and un-
warranted attacks of the hired SLAM
derer and the mendacious maligner.
Year: 1874

Above, below me, on the hill,
Great fields of grain their fullness fill.
The golden fruit bends down the trees:
The grass stands high round mowers knees:
The bee pants through the clover beds,
And can not taste Of half the heads;
The farmer stands with greedy eyes
And counts his harvest's growing size,
Among his fields, so fair to see,
He takes no count, no note, of me.
lie and bask. along the hill,
Content and idle, idle still.


My lazy sileLce never stirred
By breathless bee or hungry bird;
All creatures know the cribs which yield:
No creature seeks the fGllow field.
But to no field on all the hill
Come sun and rain with more good will:
All secrets which they hear and bring
To wheat before its ripening,
To clover turning purple red,
To grass in bloom for mowers tread
They tell the same to my bare waste,
But never once bid me to haste.
Winter is near, and snow is sweet
Who knows if they be seeds of wheat
Or clover, which my bosom fill?
Who knows how many summers will
Be needed, spent, before one thing
Is ready for my harvesting?
And after all, If all were laid
Into sure balances and weighed,
Who knows If all the gain and get
On which hot human hearts are set
Do more than mark the drought and dearth
Through which this little dust of earth
Must lie and wait in Gods great hand,
A patient bit of fallOw land2
Year: 1874

The pencil marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
serption is out or unpaid, and that
you are requested to pay up at once.
We would take great pleasure in extend
ing credit to our friends and patrons,
but cash alone Will pay expenses, and
Wa are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule. We hope you viii comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of Bzch
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


e We enter no new names on our
books without the money in advance,
Year: 1874

cup, and, after finishing his breakfast,
he left the table. as soon as he had
gone, lady who had sat next to him
arose, and, taking up the cup, went to
the hotel proprietor and offered to pur-
chase 1t of him at any price and the
unwashed egg-cUp, containing the
broken shell, is now kept by her as
souvenir of the great novelist -
Year: 1874

Occasion has been taken before now TO crltcise


the conduct OF the policemen under Captain Rob-


bins. Those or them who are stationed around


the populous places in the lower part OF the dis


trlct, from the bridge to seventh street, are the
most oflcious class Of men to be found any
where Those who are stationed out along the
Boulevard are never TO be seen after dark, and
unknown outrages are committed on this lone
some highway every week. People who
have 20 go to Port Morris after dark
prefer TO go to the Remsen House and
remain over night, owing to the chance they run
OF being garroted on the way by gang OF runlans
who hang out along the road from Chrsts PARK to
the Port Within the last month no less than
three burglares have been committed IN ana
around Wilton, and in one instance when the
proprietor OF the house attempted TO go down
stairs TO protect his property he was shot ~ Dy
the purgiers, who, IN their escape mace morse
enough outside the house TO be heard ny the
negnbors; but there were no policemen near 20 see
where they went slace the occurrence lust sD0Sen
Year: 1874

The Tuscans take credit to themselves
as being the gentlest and most amiable
people in the world, but they certainly
claim no more than they are fairly en-
titled to. They are, says the London
Times, decidedly the most patient.
The Florentines pay house property
tax amounting to thiriy-nine per cent.
of the nominal rent of the nominal rent
of their tenements. and Signor Digny,
in reporting on the municipal budget,
throws out very clear hints that even
tha. burden is not sufficiently heavy,
but that his townsmen must further
execute themselves by voting an addl-
tional ten per cent, when house prop
erty will pay the city very nearly one
half of its income. On the other hand,
the revenue which the city collects from
the octrOi, or duty on consumption at
the town gates, has raised the price OF
halfpenny loaf to one penny, and the
cost of all the necessaries Of life IN the
same proportion, so that Florentine
must manage to make half his former
wealth meet the exigencies of twice his
former expenditures. How the miracle
is achieved and the difficulty is got over
is not easily explained, but this is GER
tain, that there the people not only do
not complain of the hardship, but even
do not mention it; that many of them
seem not to know to what extent they
are mulcted, or stoutly deny that the
charge is as great as it really is; so that
a stranger who wishes to ascertain the
truth OF the matter must be at some
pains to institute an inquiry, and
wrench, as it we're, the evidence from
their unwilling lips. The fact is that
the brief promotion of Florence to the
rank of an italian capital and the too
sudden removal of the court and gov
ernment from it have been like tile
falling on the head of the fair city, and
that, in spite of all the efforts of her
sanguine and optimist citizens to deny
it, the place has suffered and suffers
much from the unexpected calamity,
notwithstanding all the endeavors OF
the municipality and of the most con-
spicuous citizens to repair its losses
and to relieve its distress.
Year: 1874

night both watcher and nurse fell asleep.
The man with the mumps lay watching
the clock, and saw that it was time to
give the fever patient his potion. He
was unable to speak aloud or to move
any portion of his body except his arms,
but seizing a pillow he managed to
strike the watcher in the face with it.
Thus suddenly awakened, the watcher
sprang from his seat, falling to the
floor, and awakened both the nurse and
the fever patient. The incident struck
the sick men as very ludicrous. and they
laughed heartily at it for some fifteen
or twenty minutes. When the doctor
came in the morning he found his pa
tient vastly improved ; said he never
knew so sudden a turn for the better,
and now both are up and well. Who
says laughter is not the best of medi-
cines? And this reminds the writer of
another case. A gentleman was suffer
ing from an liberation of the throat,
which at length became so swollen that
his life was despaired of. His house
hold came to his bedside to bid him
farewell. Each individual shook hands
with the dying man, and then went away
weeping. Last of all came a pet ape,
and shaking the mans hands, went away
also with its hands over its eyes. 1t
was so ludicrous sight that the patient
was forced to laugh, and laughed so
heartily that the ulcer broke, and his
life was saved.
Year: 1874

The specially social quality is good
nature, amiability, the desire to please,
the kindness of heart that avoids giving
offence, and cannot bear to hurt any
ones feelings. A good-natured person
may frankly disagree with you, but he
never offends. He quarrels good-na-
turedly. He boxes with gloves on
when he fences ever so deity, there is
great soft bottom ON the end of his
foil. He may satirize, ridicule, open
up all your weaknesses and absurdities,
but so kindly that you cannot help low
ing him. He cannot say harsh, hard,
bitter, or cOntemptuous thing, because
he has no hardness and no contempt.
This is simple, natural goodness, like
the goodness of fond and friendly ami
mails. 1t may not be high moral vir-
tue; there is no particular merit in 1t
any more than in beauty or any natural
gift; but it is very delightful quality,
and those who do not possess 1t should
initiate those who do. Just as we avoid
in person, dress, or manners, anything
that may give disgust or pain, so must
we do IN our conversation. We must
no more use vulgar expressions than we
would wear vulgar garments. Our talk
should be as clean as our fingers. We
should no more bite one with our words
than our teeth. An angry word is as
bad as blow, and a satiricai word Is
like a sting. IL We are never to say any
thing to a person which will give him
disgust or pain, we must be even more
careful not to say anything of any one
which will liniure him in the estimation of
others. Playful, good-natured criticism
upon the little foibles and peculiarities
of others may be no harm, and even
useful, but it ceases to be good-natured
when it gives pain. SANDER is a sin
much worse than theft. Charity for
bids that we should even tell the truth,
when that truth can wound and injure.
The best rule is to say all the good we
can of every one, and to refrain from
ever saying evil, unless it becomes a
clear matter of duty to to warn some
one against him.
Year: 1874

A writer SAYS J.: Don't marry the
worthy Young man. The worthy young
man is the pet of old ladies and the
salvation of wall-fowers. He comes to
an evening party In thick boots and a
frock coat, is overwhelmed with con-
fusion, and sticks in the doorway for
an hour, where everybody stumbles
over him. Finally, having summoned
up courage to ask you to dance, and you
have been foolishly good-natured
enough to consent, he either trcads on
your toes at every lunge, or lands you
neatly on the back of your head before
the eyes of some triumphant rival. He
fetches you a coffee ice, which you alb
hor, when you have asked for a vanilla
one, and upsets it over your new ball
dress, from Worth's. He comes to see
you the next afternoon, to renew his
apologies, and spills his cup of tea over
your sofa and carpet. He treads on
the paws of your leverette and sits
down in the lap of the person behind
him. He has the most intense fear of
the ordeal of leave-taking, and sits five
mortal hours in your drawing room
from sheer timidity. He models his
opinions on yours, and, like the love


smitten baronet in 'Middlemarch,
says, Yes, precisely to every word you
utter till you long to say that the earth
goes round tbs moon, or that potatoes
grow on cherry trees, to oblige him to
dissent from you. He is awfully good
and meek and humble, so you pity him
too much to make fun of him, but dom
let pity carry you too far. How you
would blush for his gaucheries, and be
ready to sink into the earth at his .faur
pas, if you were responsible for him in
any way. As rule, the worthy young
man remains bachelor, not being able
to get any one to take him, or else be
marries in remote country places"
Year: 1874

BOYS GO HoME.-Ah, boys you who
have gone out from the old homesteads
into the rush and hustle of life, do you
ever think of the patient mothers who
are stretching ont to you arms powerless
to draw yOu back TO the old home nest
Arms that were strong to carry you
once, pressed closely to hearts that love
you now as then. No matter though
your haIr Is ''silver-streaked," and Dot
IN the cradle calls you Grandpa" you
are only "the boys" so long as mother
lives. You are the children of the old
home. Nothing can crowd you out of
mothers heart. You may have failed in
the battle of life, and your manhood
may have been crushed out against the
wall OF circumstances you may have
been prosperous and gained wealth and
fame; but mothers love has followed
you always. Many "boy" has not
been home for five, ten, or even twenty
years. And.an this time mother has
been waiting, waiting, waiting. Ah,
who does not know the agony expressed
by that word ? She may be even now
saying, II dreamt of John last night.
May be he viii come home to-day. He
may drop in for dinner ;" and the poor,
trembling hands prepare some favorite
dish for him. Dinner comes and goes,
but John comes not with it. Thus, day
after day, month after month, and year
after year, passes, till at last, ''Hope
deferred maketh the heart sick, ay,
sick unto death, the feeble arms are
stretched out no longer. The dim eyes
are closed, the gray hairs smoothed for
the last time, and the tired hands are
folded to everlasting rest, and mother
waits no more on earth for one who
comes not. God grant she may not
have to wait as vainly for his coming in
heaven.


Once more 1 say unto you boys, go
home, if only for a day. Let mother
know you have not forgotten her. Her
days may be numbered. Next winter
may cover her grave with snow.
Year: 1874

A short time since, says a writer in
the iSanitaridn, two individuals were
lying in one room very sick, one with
brain fever and the other with an ag-
gravated case of the mumps. They
were SO low that watchers were needed
every night, and it was thought doubt
full if the one sick of fever could recover.


A gentleman was engaged to watch over
night, his duty being to wake the nurse
whenever it became necessary to admin
lister medicine. In the course OF the
Year: 1874

Near Rochester there is an eccentric
old fellow who lives alongside grave
yard. He was asked if it was not an
unpleasant location. NO." said he ;
81 never jined places in all my life with
a set of neighbors that minded their
own business so stiddy as they do"
Year: 1874

How THE EYE IS SWEPT AND WASHED.
For us TO be able TO see objects clearly
and distinctly, it is necessary that the
eye should be kept clean. For this
purpose it is finished with little gland
from which flows a watery fluid Gears, },
which is spread over the eye by the lid,
and it is afterward swept off by it, and
runs through a hole in the bone to the
under surface of the nose, while the
warm air, passing over it while breath
ing, evaporates it. 1t is remarkable
that no such gland can be found in the
eyes of fish, as the element in which
they live answers the same purpose. Ii
the eye had no. been furnished with a
liquid to wash it, and lid to sweep it
oil, things would appear as they do
when you look through a dusty glass.
Along the edges of the eyelids there are
a great number of little tubes or glands,
from which flows an oily substance
which spreads over the surface of the
skin, and thus prevents the edges from
being sore or irritated, and it also helps
to keep tears within the lid. There are
also SIX little muscles attached to the
eye which enable us TO move it In every
direction and when We consider the
different motions they are capable OF
giving to the eye, We cannot but admire
the goodness of Him who formed them,
and thus saved us the trouble of turning
our heads every time we wished to view
an object.
Year: 1874

WILKEsBARRE, Pa. Nov. 1.-THE
reign of lawlessness in the coal regions
appears to be continually growing worse,
caused perhaps by the fact that most Of
the perpetrators of assaults and murders
escape capture and punishment. At
Carbondale. on Saturday night or Sun
day morning last, two men were muir
dered and three severely assaulted, one of
whom will probably die. Patrick Pad
den, a miner at Coal Brook colliery, was
found upon Dundorff street in that city
on Sunday morning with two bullet holes
in his head and badly pounded about the
body. His head was frozen to the
ground, his hair having dragged in a
pool of blood and water. which had con-
gealed. He was not quite dead when
found, but expired in the afternoon.


Michael McNally was found dead the
same morning upon the railroad bridge
near Lookout in the same city. He was
about twenty years of age and had ey-
identity been put there.


Michael Begland was found about the
same time with his throat cut He wa'
dressed in an old suit of miners clothing
When last seen on Saturday night h'
had on suit of good clothes. He II
still alive and will probably recover.


A boss at the Erie breaker was way
laid on Saturday night and had his arm
broken and received other injuries, bu
escaped with his life. His name has no
been ascertained.


About two miles below the city, a
Carbondale mines. a man, whose name ]
not vet known. was found nailed TO
beam in a lonely and unfrequented place
Strong nails were driven through hi
coat at the wrists and his pantaloons a
the ankles, and in this position he wa
undoubtedly left to die, but by mer