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Year: 1875

OF HONE POLITICS.


We have published in The HERALD a
number of communications in regard to the
Democratic party, all Of which have been
read by the people. They were in, refer
ence to the position Of fthe party in the pres
ent canvass for the Mayorality and the
other offices mentioned upon the ticket.
They were the written expressions and
opinions Of few, but could be taken as a
terse, sharp index of the feeling among the
ranks. Itis yet fresh in the minds Of the
people that the primary election was one
possessed of more intensity of political feel
ing than has been witnessed upon such oc-
casions in this city for sometime. The can
didates were both men well and ably sup
ported men ofhigh standing in the party,
and as such, made fight that was highly
creditable to both. But now that nomi-
nation has been made, and the smoke of
the first battle has cleared away, we must
be preparing for that action which is to
come off next month. 1t is the action
which is to decide the strength of the Dem
ocracy in Wilmington against Republican
ism, and to he prepared is the considera-
ton that every true Democrat should give
the situation. 1t should be remembered
that mere attachment to party is not all
that the members owe it. Fealty to Demo-
cratic principles is not all that is required
of Democrats. While it is admirable, it
does not bring out all the honorable spirit
that should be shown in an election. One Of
the first considerations by Democrats should
be to stand faithfully by their ticket. To
swerve neither to the right nor to the left,
but keep straight ahead in the path of the
ticket that has been laid out by the Demo-
cratic party of Wilmington.


When the day comes there is wanted at
the poles the presence of every man. Let
them cast aside all feelings Of disappoint-
ment that may have occurred to their
minds by the rejection by popular vote of
any particular man that may have been
their (ho'ce for the nomination. That
ethere will be any, we have not the least
idea, and those who have raised such cry
are merely agitators that have been heard of
since the existence of political parties, for
with some men, especially those who are
in politics it would be impossible to give
interest to politics without constant effort
to raise dissention of some kind. This is
not mainly attributable to men, but the
press sometimes has great deal to dowith
it, and in the present instance, as it is in
all others, where it is merely m agitation
by press that lives on sensational excite
ment, and few men that have been disap-
pointed in some scheme, it is bubble that
has bursted already.
Year: 1875

effrontery. But with him such situation


seems to be viewed ina very different light


to what Others would view it. Il is thsse-


sistible inference, after a careful analysis


Of his character, that he regards himself
a. sinvincible, and 90 invulnerable


by the great reputation he has


borne as q preacher that the tongue Of
public criticism cannot keep him under the
tide. Such it has not succeeded in doing
SO far. as he continues 10 preach the word of
God through the country III his peculiar
style. His manner is very much after that
of the politician, he is irrepressible, he is
prepared to stand attack and makes capital
of it by the extensive advertising it gives
him. He will preach and continue on in
this duty until the people get tired Of lis
tenlng to him and not until then will be
stop. He is as indefatigable IS an Ohio
and as irrepressible as Phila-
delphia ward leader. As such Henry
Ward Beecher will continue to be pulpit
orator and talk religion whether people
listen to him to derive religious instruction,
or from motives Of curiosity, the latter we
are inclined TO think is what draws them.
Year: 1875

The problem which our City Coun-
ell is now trying to solve is how they
may best save and utilize the water of
the Los Angeles river. II is difficult
problem and rendered all the more
difficult by the fact that immediate
proof of the correctness of the solusion


is not attainable. At present the wa
ter Is conveyed from the river in open
surface zanjas or bitches, and the loss
from cipage and evaporation probably
approximates twenty-five per cent. of
the quantity taken from the river
channel. Up to this time no attempt
has been made to save for use when
most needed, the surplus water of the
Winter and Spring. 1t is but recent
that the necessity for preventing these
wastes has impressed itself upon our
people, but the rapid increase of the
area of cultivated land within the eity
limits during the past two years has
convinced all that our water supply
for irrigating purposes is not now equal
to the demand and will become sti
less so unless something Is done to
economist our stock. 1t is apparent
to all that the water when not needed
must be saved up for use during the ir-
rigating season, and that some means
must be resorted to by which we may
avoid the loss now sustained through
leakage and evaporation from the sur
face zanjas. How best to do this is what
our city authorities are studying
to determine. tt will cost large
sum of money to effect these improve
ments and therefore no one of the half
dozen theoretical proposition already
advanced should be adopted until its
Year: 1875

The residents of Los Angeles are
justly proud of their public schools.
Our Superintendent is an accomplish.
ell scholar and is now in his thirty fifth
consecutive year as an Instructor and
our corps of teachers will compare
favorably with that of any other city
In the State. But there is one essen-
tial wanting to place the public schools
of this city on the high plane of excel
lence we all desire to see them, and
that is, additional school buildings.
Let us show our deficiency in this par
ticular by comparison. The city of
Stockton contains about one third less
population than Los Angeles, yet she
has four large school buildings each Of
which equals our best school house in
size, capacity and beauty. Beside
these large structures she has num-
Der of smaller school houses erected
on lots owned by the city in all of
which schools are taught the year
round. Stockton has the reputation
of having the model school system of
the State. In nothing has she the
slightest advantage of Los Angeles
except school room accommodation
The people of Los Angeles should inn
mediately resolve on the construction
of at least four large handsome school
buildings. Let work be commenced
on the one most needed at once and
when that is ready for occupation be-
gin another until all are completed.
Our property cannot be taxed for
more useful or more noble purpose
than for the enhancement of our edu-
cational facilities, nor can we do any,
thing that will sooner or more rapid
ly increase the value of our real estate
than to build school houses.
Year: 1875

practical utility is thoroughly demon
strated. Such works are always more
satisfactorily carried out by men Of
large experience and practical judg-
ment. We have in our midst few
such men. Perhaps the most tho
rough of them all is Mr.. C. E. MILES.
His experience in the construction of
water works is extensive. When he
assumed control of the Los Angeles
water company's works there wa s
neither system, order or remuneration,
but he soon evinced such thorough un-
derstanding of the busine IS and there
was so much practical knowledge ap-
parent in his suggestions that the
company soon placed the entire man.
agement of the works under his con-


troll. The result is, order out of chaos,
and when the improvements he has


planned are carried out as they soon


will be, the water supply of Los Ange-
les will be abundant and her system
of water work will equal in complet-
ness that of any other city in the
State. 1t is to some such man of
judgment and experience that the city
should entrust the task of feconomizing


her water supply and the construction


of irrigation bitches which will not
lose large percentage of the water
while conveying it from the reservoirs
or rivers to the lands of the consumers.
Year: 1875

The San Francisco Ledger relates
the following touching Incident:


On Christmas Eve, few years ago,
n little girl wandered from store to
store trying to sell a picture, and on
the sale of that picture depended her
mothers and her own dinner. But
people were busy closing up their af-
fairs for the evening and had no time
to observe the lean imploring face of
the poor child, who timidly and i'm
ploringly endeavored to draw atten.
tion to the painting which was ofsuch
vast Importance to her. At last foot
sore and despairing, before giving up
her venture as lost, she passed into
the Bank of California. Mr.. Ralston
saw her, kindly asked her errand, in
quired about her sick mother, and
then put his hand in his pocket and
gave her sum ample enough not on
ly for food and fire, but also to defray
many of the obligations that pressed
upon the family. Nor did his charity
end here. He procured them employ
ment, and that family is now in COM
Portable circumstances, but never
will forget the saving hand that was
extended to them that Christmas Eve
How many well authenticated anec-
dotes of the benevolence of that most
charitable of men are in the mouths
of those who never felt his worth un-
til he was lost to them forever.
Year: 1875

SOME of our cote mporaries re be-
wailing the apparent falling off in the
vote atthe recent election as compared
with that of the previous State elec-
ton. 1t is our opinion that the re is
no decrease in the vote. The figures
thus far given in many instances rep
resent only majorities which of course
reduces the total vote very materially.
We expect that when the official re-
suit is announced, the total number
of votes will equal if they do not ex-
ceed that of the election two years
ago.
Year: 1875

waltzes with you as If you were her
brother. And all the time she is ray-
ishingly beautiful, and she knows it..
Not point but what has been studied;
and after all she has only done what
you would have required of her-made
the. best of her advantages. If she
makes mistake at all It is in not
giving you credit for being as much
struck with her as you are. She Is
amusing herself, and so, she thinks,
may be you.
Year: 1875

Many anecdotes are told of Sheri-


dap, illustrative of his wit and ex-
travagance. A good saying is at
tributed to his son Tom who on being
told by his father that he had made
his will and cut him off with shil-
ling, said he was very sorry, and i'm
mediately added, "you don't happen
to have the shilling about you now,
sir, do you?' Then there was Sheri-
dams to Lord Lauderdale, on the lat
ter sayin 6 that he would repeat some
joke that the former had told him,
"Pray don't, my dear Lauderdale
joke in your mouth is no laughing
matter" One Of his practical jokes
was taking Dowton's gig to come to
town, while Dowton, with all the pa
tlence and sturdiness of dun, was
waiting in the parlor to see him. To
show his carelessness in money mat,
ters it is related that the butler once
found the window frames stuffed with
paper to keep them from rafting, and,
on taking them out saw they were
bank notes, which Sheridan had used
tor this purpose some stormy night
and never missed them.
Year: 1875

We want to Get at the root OF this
question Of TEACHING at the public ex-
pense. Whence comes the RICH. OF
the State to take money of the people,
by general tax, and spend it on pub
lie schools ? Take the question now
before the Board of Education in this
city ard other cities:


'OUGHT FOREIGN LANGUAGES TO BE


TAUGHT IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.


We say no. The Board has no
RIGHT to expend q cent upon such in
struction.


We admit the value Of linguistic
studies. We know that rich treasures
are to be found in other languages -
We know that our immense immi-
grafton has given Importance especi-
ally to German that it is a noble
language, valuable in business, and
indispensable in most of the higher
walks Of learning. But the studies Of
our public schools ought to be only in
the speech Of the country.


The system otpubIic education rests
on the right and duty of the State to
develop good citizens. Whateverlies
beyond this PROVENCE is out of the
reach Of the State, and the money
needed to secure it cannot rightfully
be raised by taxation Luxtries, or
technical training, or special studies
must be provided for at the expense
Of the individual, or by voluntary con-
tribution. The State is under obliga
ton to provide only that which is
necessary for its welfare.


Again, English is the language of
our country. We need the bond of a
national tongue to strengthed our
national life. 1t is the duty of the


cate to tain its children, native or
foreign-born, only in the language
which the State recognizes. We are
Americans. And while we have not
Il word against the most devoted re-
membrapce of "Fatherland' and the
sold Country )" and while we wei
come St Patrick, and st, David, and
st. Andrew, and st. George, and all
the rest Of the calendar, so long as
they behave themselves as good a
merican citizens, we must remember
that the money and the institutions
of the nation must be for the nation,
not to maintain Il confederation of
cliques, or parties dependent on a
foreign life. 1t may be well that our
children have q broader culture, but
the work of providing it lies out of
the province of the State. And what
we need more than culture in foreign
speech, or ideas, is deeper and firm
er unity. One of our strongest bonds
is our common language. The soon
er all who dwell here are trained in
the speech of the country, the sooner
we shall escape divided interests and
causes Of separation.


The experiments that have been
made in the retention of foreign
Year: 1875

Truthful JAs1Ea BEcH camo to the fore
yesterday in tho House, anil supported IN at
tack upon the Indian Bureau which quite re-
minded some Of the old members present of
his best efforts in the early days Of the
Republic. It is not exactly logical
conclusion that everybody who be-
comes remarkably fierce in these days
for reform and publication is in bad way
morally, hut it is true TINT oil tho prominent
Democrats who have late1y been convicted Of
bribe-taking were especially distinguished
Tor holy zeal and incasaant demands for in
ge6tigations. It would be sol ii BECK should
provo TO be no better thhn common. claY.
Year: 1875

When HonAT1o SEYMOUR tleclilos to bo n
candidate for election to the United States
Senate, tho politicians know TINT ho has fixed
up things III such u why as to bo morally GER
tain that ho can't win in any other way.
Year: 1875

1t were strange fancy to build up
the human character after the model
of the four great orders of architecture,
yet probity is firm but simple as the
DOric; pride of loftier and more eiabor-
ate refinement than the Tuscan; gener-
osity, with the beauty and grace of
the Ionic; and love, excelling with
Corinthian excellence, possessing the
strength of all, equalled in exquisite
ornament by none.


Fashionable society is q merry-go-
round, that first makes us giddy and
then sick.


The human mind should be globe
of humanity moving on the poles of
truth.


History gives us many i!lustrious
villains, but never an illustrious
miser.


None are more to be pitied than
those who have the means of crafty
ing their desires before they have
learned to govern them.


They who are very indulgent to
sideraton for others.


There are two kinds of geniuses, the
clever and the too clever.


Most men take conviction from an
adversary as children do physic, with
struggle and II shudder.


70 liberal mind poverty is stimu-
liant, meanness refrigerant, selfish
ness an Opiate, and ingratitude a poi
son.


Many lofty intellects are like high
mountains, covered with perpetual
ice; others, of more ardent constitution
use their fire like VOLCANOES, for de-
struction.


Good intentions will never justify
evil actions; nor will good acts ever
Justify evil intentions.


"The human face is divine, when
not degraded by the vices of society,""


at is to live twice, when you can
enjoy the recollection of your former
life."


Love labor; If you do not want it for
food, you may for physic.


Report is a-Quick traveller, but an
unsafe guide.


"EXperience takes very high school
wages, but she teaches like no 9TH
er."


He who will not reason is a bigot;
he who cannot is fool; and he who
dares not is slave.


Hearts may agree though heads
differ.


The true estimation of living is not
to be taken from age, but action; some
die old at forty, Others infants at four
score.


A great proof of superiority is to
bear with impertinence.


Rich men have commonly more
need to be taught contentment than
the poor.


1t is not all joy which produces
laughter; the greatest enjoyments are
serious. The pleasures of love, ambi-
ton or avarice, make nobody laugh.


Poetry is the natural language of all
worship. The Bible is full of poetry;
Homer is full of religion.


There is no saying shocks us so much
as that which we very often hear, that
man does not know how to pass his
time.


The art of life is to know how to en-
Joy little, and to endure much.


We may forgive an injury and an
insult; but excuse us from being
bored.


Ink is the black sea on which
thought rides at anchor.


Since the generality of persons act
from impulse, much more than from
principle, men are neither so good
nor so bad as we are apt to think
them.
Year: 1875

In order 10 establish II cheap and ready
means OF communication between the adver-
tlser and the reader and facilitate the busi-
ness OF seller and buyer, landlord and tenant,
employe; and employee, we haze reduced the
rate OF advertising in our swami" column to
five cents line. Business men and the gem
eral public will find this the best possible
medium Of inter-communcatlon and the
cheapness Of price will recommend IL to all.
Year: 1875

A BAD HABIT.-Farmers get into no
habit worse than that of borrowing tools,
and for this reason: First, one who
owns tools does not like to lend them
and thinks less Of the man who bor-
rows; Second, one never comes to learn
how to use borrowed tools, nor to keep
them i'll order, and third, he who bor-
rows never can be good farmer. 1t
is true that young man, just starting
may lie allowed to borrow some, bu:
should not establish the habit; or again
man may borrow new implement to
see how it works. A man who borrows
is not likely to use a tool as carefully as
if it were his own, and consequently
does not do careful, nice work What
can man be thinking about when he
borrows steel plow, keeps it several
days or week, and brings it home as
will be most likely the case, so dull as
TO be unfit for use? The owner can
only take it to the shop, and at his own
expense get il sharpened. If man
lends tools to one, there are several
neighbors who will want to borrow ;
and thus il is, harrow, for instance.
NAV be going the rounds through the
neighborhood all the season. 1t is
every wav desirable to cultivate what
is called good neighborhood," but this
cannot be done where borrowing is
practiced.
Year: 1875

THE HUsBANp.-Ladies sometimes
do not value their husbands as they
ought. They not unfrequently learn
the value of a good husband for tho
first time by the loss of him. Yet the
husband is the very roof-tree of the
house-tEe cornerstone Of the edifice
the keystone called hone. He is
the brcad-winucr of the mily-its de-
fence and its Glory-the beginning and
the ending of the golden chain Of life
which surrounds tits controller, law
givcr ard king. Yet, we say, how frail
is that life on which So much depends.
How is that life of the husband and
father When he is taken away, who
shall FL his place! When he is sick.
what gloomy clouds hover over the
house! When he is dead, what dark
Ness. weeping. agony! Then poverty,
like the nurderous assassin, breaks in
the window starvation, like famish-
ing wolf, howls at the door! Widow
hood is often an associate Of sackcloth
andashes. OrphanhoJl too often means
DISSOLUTION and wee. Ponder these
things ere it is too late, and cndeavor
to twine flowers of love and gratitude
during his absence with which to deck
his brow and solace his heart on his
return from toll 1t is precious
thought to him to know that though
not present, loving heart is plan
ming and busy hands are forming
something 10 contribute to his COM
for, and pleasure; but how different
are his meditations when he has every
reason to believe that his highest wish
rs are neglected. and that he himself
IS only thought Of when seen.
Year: 1875

He KNEW Uow.-At an auction of
household goods on Harrison avenue
yesterday, when a woman lad made a
bid on an CID bureau worth about So,
a boy slipped around to another wo-
nan and whispered:


'Iou see that woman over there with
a Ilae bow ON Z"


"YeS.'


"Wcll, she SAYS that no woman with
red nose can buy anything at this
sale ~


The woman with the red nose pushed
her way into the crowd and run the
price of the hnrc"u up to Sl2, and as
it was knocked down 10 her she remark
ed:


II may have a red nose, but no cross
eyed woman with blue bow on can
bluff HE l'-D.iroi! Free Press.
Year: 1875

ga man bought a horse. It was
the first one he had ever owned He
saw in a newspaper that a side window


in q stable makes horses eve weak on
that side; a window in front hurts his
eyes by the glare; a window behind
makes him squint-eyed; a window on a
diagonal line makes him shy when lie
travels: n stable without a window


makes him blind. He sold the horse.
Year: 1875

PREsEsy1NG MANURE- The Boston
Journal Of Chemistry states that the
Sources Ut Toss ID The storage are two
first the escape oftvolatile ammonia and
other gases, and secondly, the loss Of
valuable salts BY yaleaching Th, first
difficulty may bs obviated BY covering
the excrement with eight or ten inches
of good soil or loan, which will absorb
sif sspaping gases. A bushel or SO Of
plastsr may be advantageously scattered
over the heap before the soil is thrown
on. The whole mass should be per-
fectly covered leaving no "chimney"
for gaseous sxudation. The danger Of
leachings may be avoided by covering
the heap with hay or straw sufficiently
thick to shed most Of the rain. If kept
in this way sufdcient time. the manure
will undergo spontaneous decomposi-
tion, the products Of which viii be ready
for immediate assimilation BY plants.
The usual process is cartiDg manure to
the fields in the autumn to waste, by
BY both the above processes. some Of
their most valuable constituents.
Year: 1875

HAIR WHITENED IN A NIGHT.-Father Deckner visited Ike Hooper, the condemned murderer, early yesterday morning and in- formed him of the refusal of Governor Smith to grant executive clemency. Hoop CT was at first much agitated and trembled like leaf shaken by the wind, but soon became more composed, and during the day seemed to have become more reconciled to his fate. A remarkable fact in connection with the oft told story that mems hair some. times turns gray in single night. When Hooper was sentenced by Judge Pottle last month his hair was perfectly black. The morning after the sentence was imposed Mir. Bridges, keeper of the jail, noticed on entering the condemned mans cell that a portion of his head was perfectly white. He immediately asked him where he had obtained flour to put on his head. Hooper was surprised and said he knew nothing about it. MT. Bridges then went up to him and discovered that large portion of his hair immediately on the crown of his head had changed from deep black to snowy white during the night. The agony of g few hours had dsne what years generally accomplish. .-Augustd (GG.) Chronicle.