Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 26 July 1894 — Page 4

Can be bought cheaper at

Masonic Hall Grocery.

than any place in the city.

Canned Goods, Dried Fruits, Salt Meats,

Cheese, Pickles, Etc., Etc. ry a can of Tuxedo

Baking Powder.

HAM L. STRICKLAND,

RiPllBUCAN COUNTY TICKET

JUDGE.

WILLIAM H. MARTIN. PROSECUTOR. ELMER J. BINFORD.

REPRESENTATIVE, MORHIS HIGG1NS.

THE

CLERK. I

R. B. BINFORD. AUDITOR.

WALTER G. BRIDGES. TREASURER. JOHN G. MeCORD.

SHERIFF.

JAMES W. McNAMEE. RECORDER. HOWARD T. ROBERTS.

CORONER.

DR. JOHN P. BLACK. SURVEYOR. WM. E. SCOTTON COMMISSIONER FIRST DISTRICT.

LEMUEL HACKLEMAN. COMMISSIONER SECOND DISTRICT JAMES L. MITCHELL.

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Circulation This Week, 2,548.

Repbulican Mass Convention.

BKANDYWINE TOWNSHIP.

The Republicans of Brandywine township will meet in mass convention, on SATURDAY AUGUST 11, 1804. at 2 o'clock p. in. at

COWDEX'S SCHOOL HOUSE,

lor the purpose of nominating candidates as follows: One Trustee.

One Assessor.

5Two

Justices of the Peace.

Two Constables. By order of Committeemen, OLIVER H. TUTXLE,

F. M. HAINES.

gold surplus in the

U. S.

GROVER CLEVELAND,

Treasury

has now struck low water mark, as it is only $60,000,000.

A

VERV

rotten state of affairs is being

shown up iii the Richmond, Ind., street railway business. It seems that the road is not a paying investment, and the creditors are closing in upon it. The road has liabilities in the way of bonded indebtedness, etc., amounting to $350,000, but as the cost of the road and equipments is only about $100,000 the great question is what became of the other $250,000. That is the way the most of the railroads and street railroads are fixed however, the managers and promoters, if they possibly can, bond them for more than their cost and pocket tne difference. The roads are then operated, and so long as the bond holders and other creditors can be staved off, the earnings of the road are taken care of by big salaries, etc. The Union Pacific R. R. is to-day under a debt it can never pay, but its four promoters or their estates, each owe the U. S. Government about $15,000,000.

in his letter to

Chairman Wilson, in which he urged the House conferees on the tariff bill to stand firm, and spoke of the treachery and perfidy of Democratic Senators, made a bold and unprecedented move. No President has ever tried so hard by bribing with offices aud other favors and bulldozing, to iniluence legislation as has Grovel* Cleveland. No other Presi dent has ever grown rich in office. Senator Gorman, however, throws down the gyuntlet and states some plain facts in his speech Monday. He told how, when other men faltered, he walked with Cleveland through "the filth and slums of the campaign of 1884." He thought no man, unless "consumed with vanity," would assume Cleveland's position in his attempt to "gibbet the Senate before the eyes of the country." Cleveland said it would be dishonorable to tax coal and iron, which, parrot-like, had been repeated by the House, many of whose members chirped when Clevenland talked. Mr. Cleveland's friends, W. C. Whitney, et. al., and it is even charged President Cleveland himself is interested in Novia Scotia lands, and that may account Tor his c,a:unilis fjr "free

coal." He don't care for the mine owners and mine workers in this country. Cleveland is in favor of a tax on sugar, however, as the trust contributed $500,000 to his campaign fund. Poor people pay the sugar tax, however.

GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP OF RAILWAYS.

lJIThen railways have serious trouble with their employees, when rates are discriminating as they are in a great many cases and unfair, and when roads become so involved in debt and covered up with mortgages that their owners cannot operate them, then the Uuited States Government is called on to interfere. To subdue strikers federal troops are asked for. to get fair rates the Inter State Commerce Commission was created, and for a debt burdened road a Receiver is appointed who acts under the direction of a United States Circnit Judge. The strong arm of the government is able for all of the above entanglements, aud all others that need arise. When the government is operating a road, the men as a rule, get better wages, everything moves smoothly, and the road gets on its feet financially. There is not much stealing through by managers, officers or anybody else. Uncle Sam's employes are not allowed to steal, or shut their eyes while somebody else steals. Government ownership is operating very handsomely in a number of countries, Germany, France, Austria, Australia etc. Railroads could be acquired by the government according to a plan prepared by President Blackstone, of the Chicago & Alton Railroad Company. He starts out with a proposition to have the government take and pay for all intersate railroads at a fair valuation, paying for the same with 3 per cent, bonds aud a sinking fund to redeem the bonds, the roads being acquired by the exercise of the right of eminent domain. The roads shall be controlled by directors appointed during good behavior by the President, who, tinong other things, shall fix the compensation ior each class of employees and make regulations for the employment of all persons who shall be on probation for one year, and thereafter, if satisfactory, shall not be discharged except for sufficient cause after full hearing, the object being to keep men in the service during good behavior as far as practicable. These directors shall fix the rates of intersate traffic at all times, which must be sufficient to pay running expenses, the interest and installments on the sinking fund and to keep up the equipment. State officers will be consulted relative to rates in States, but the ut.uonal board of directors should be supreme. There are other details respecting the care of superannuated and ijured employes, end that each State's rates must be sufficient in the aggregate to pay the exuenditures therein and for interest and sinking fund.

If the government owned the railtoads there would not be many $50,000 railway presidents, and $30,000 and $40, '•00 officers of various kinds. Nor would it take $66,000,000 to hire lawyers to look after lhe interests of said roads, as is the case now. The people, however, would get much better and cheaper train service, and the great desideratum is, "the greatest good to the greatest number." The government should own and operate the railway, the express, the telegraph, and the telephone systems of this country for the benefit of the people, all the people.

IN

1892 the owners of the Homestead mills in Penusylvania, Carnagie, Frick & Co., called on the State and National government for troops to protect their property from strikers who were trying in an unlawful manner to destroy it. At the same time these mill owners were breaking the laws by committing grand larcepy by foisting defective armor plate onto the U. S. government to be used on war ships. Some of the frauds were discovered where holes had been plugged up and plates doctored, which made them defective and worthless, and Carnagie & Co. were fined $350,000. But foxy Andy came out strong in a letter favoring the Wilson tariff bill, and Grover Cleveland reduced the fine to $140,000. Such crimes should carry with them a prison sentence as well as a fine. The strikers ,who violated the law deserved to be punished and so does Andrew Carnagie. Let punishment be visited upon all alike, no matter what the station. v:

AN

immigration bill has been passed by the House, which provides that all immigration inspection be done by the American Consuls at the port where they come from. Thus evidence could be secured that would shut out thousands of undesirable aliens. The present law is of but little value, as the inspection is done on this side of the ocean, and practically no one is shut out. It is also proposed to put a tax of $100 a head on immigrants except relatives of persons who are already Americans, and where the immigrant himself desires to become a citizen.

LEXINGTON,

IT

(Ky.) Lodge No. 1, of the

Masonic fraternity, recently published a list of its members, and as that of Col. W. C. P. Breckinridge did not appear, it is reasonable to suppose he has been expelled, as he was a member previous to the Pollard-Breckinridge suit. ,,v

is probable that the bill to elect U. S Senators by a direct vote of the people will pass the Senate. It will easily be ratified by two thirds of the States, as the people are practically unanimous in its f.ivor.

THE GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN, THUHSDAY, JULY 2, 1894.

full*, Pointed and Pertinent.

Mr. Debs now understands what it means to be made the scapegoat of an unsuccessful strike. #.• 'i

Debs and Coxey can now go to some quiet place and discuss the fleeting qualities of notoriety.

Will Mr. Debs kindly steer Senator Allen, of Nebraska, up against a goldcure establishment?

Frank Hurd forgets his free trade idtas with all the ease of a man who has been "seen" by the sugar trust.

The labor organizations of the country will in time cease to be victimized by notoriety seeking fool leaders.

The labor leaders who figure out a victory for the strikers use a system of mathematics unknown to ordinary folk. "Give us no more of Debs" would be an appropriate addition to the prayer of the man who struck himself out of a job.

It seems that Henri Watterson is willing to swap his guardianship of the stareyed goddess ior an unspotted Senatorial toga.

There is one striking point of similarity between a Wall street broker and a Coxeyite—they both live at the expenes of others.

Bostonians have not decided whether to consider New Yorkers making Boston synonymous with heaven a compliment or a slur.

Surely Mr. Charles A. Dana did hot have to go to Europe to find out that the Democratic party had broken all its promises.

Money and sentiment are both good things in their way, but neither should be allowed to determine the next Republican Presidential nomination.

It is uncertain whether it was love of the Vice President or hatred of the President that induced Senator Morgan to give the Stevenson boom a boost.

Somebody is doing some outrageous lying in this Pullman business, and the public would really like to know whether it is Mr. Pnllman or the strikers.

Hurrah for the Lexington Masons! They have decided to expel Breckinridge. Now let the voters of the Lexington distract follow suit, if they wish to be respected as men.

Notwithstanding the tenacity with which Joe Blackburn stood by the whis&ey trust, wmcn is supposed to own the Democratic party of Kentucky, there is talk of turning him down.

The U. S. Senator who hasn't made a personal explanation, charging the newspapers with misrepresenting him, will soon be rare enough to make a drawing exhibit in a museum of freaks.

The wise summer girl stays at home and takes her pick, while her unwise sister goes to the summer resorts and scrambles with a crowd for the attention of any fellow that happens to come along.

Congressman Breckinridge, of Kentucky, says the newspapers have lied about him and slandered him. He may have been lied about, but after his own statement under oath in a Washington court it would not be possible to slander him.

There is some excuse when an ignorant man is led astray by high-sounding talk, but when a man who claims to be a minister ©f the gospel publicly announces himself to be an anarchist, as Myron Reed, of Denver, recently did, there is no excuse—nothing but disgust.

In the last Congressional election the vote in Utah was Democratic, 15,211 Republican, 12,405, and Laberal 0,989. If the Democrats could do no better than that in the year of the Democratic tidal wave there is every reason to believe that the new State will go Republican at its first election, and that its two Senators, with others to be elected in other States, will restore the control of the Senate to the Republicans in the Fifty-fourth Congress. The people of the entire country will see to it next November that the control of the House shall also be restored to the Republicans, the Presidency coming two years later.

Room For More Men On Farms. From the Ohio Farmer.

The idea that seems to govern the average American farmer is that the least possible work to the acre is the most profitable rule. He delights more in a large acreage than in a large yield per acre. The time I think is fast coming, if indeed it is not already here, when the cultivation of the soil ought to furnish employment to twice the number of men as at present. Could more men be gotten to work producing something directly from the soil it would be a great boon to the race. There are now too many to share in the profits of the farmer's toil. Idleness never makes a market for anything. I am acquainted with the cry of overproduction as the cause of low prices, but the millions of poorly fed and poorly clad in the world area living refutation of that theory. There can be no overproduction so long as there is a hungry or naked child within the pale of civilization.

Every idle man ought, some Way, to be put to work, not alone for his own sake, but for those who now, and shall in the future, depend upon him. The measure of the comforts and luxuries the human race enjoys is in direct proportion to the amount of well-directed energy put forth. There is no danger of exhausting the resources of the earth and so robbing future generations. The farmers are largely responsible for the supply of comforts because they control the storehouses. Every farmer ought to feel it amoral obligation to have the land he controls well worked. He, of course, is under no obligation to pay exorbitant wages, but ought to provide all the labor he can with a fair compensation. I doubt not many farmers are acting upon the thought that it will not pay to push farm operations this year. But there is more than the money consideration in farming. It is the basis of all other occupations, and farmers, in this time of complaint aginst monopolies and trusts limiting supplies to increase the price, ought not to be guilty of the same endeavor. Wherever possible put idle men to work upon the resources of the earth, and by so much the panic and distress will be lessened.

WE

this week publish a decisiion on the liquor question of Catholic Bishop John A. Waterson, of Columbus, Ohio, and its sanction by "Francis Archbishop Satelli," "Apostolic Delegate" of the Pope in this country. The decision will have a wonderful effect and assist largely in breaking up the evil of intemperance iu ihia country.

Advice to Catholics on the Uqnor Question.—It Will be Far Reaching In Its Results.

On February 24th last, one of the Catholic societies in Columbus, Ohio, appealed from a special decision of Bishop John A. Waterton, in its regard. On March 15th, the apostolic delegate affirmed the Bishop's action, and, not satisfied with this, some of the members of societies in Columbus appealed again. The first decision was special to the appealing society but the second decision, which is dated July 3, upholds the Bishop's action in regard to all societies in the diocese of Columbus.

The above statements are exact and have been inspected by tne Bishop. The three points referred to in the apostolic delegate's letter are taken from the letter issued by Bishop Watterson to the clergy of the Columbus diocese March 1, in which he withdrew his probation from every Catholic society or branch in the diocese that has a liquor dealer or saloon keeper at its head or among its officers, and *e suspended every such society from its ranks and privileges as a Catholic society until it ceased to be so officered. He again published the condition that, no one would be admitted to membership who was engaged either as principal or agent in the manufacture and sale of liquors. While not condemning the liquor business itself by restrictions, he did it to increase the usefulness of Catholic societies and remove the reproach which has frequently attached to therm and the members, to the detriment of religion. With societies long established in the diocese, because oi benefit insurance features, he would not interfere, but he would insist on the rule for new societies aud the admission of new members in the old. The Bishop instructs the priests to make known to the organizations in their parishes the rule and to have it faithfully observed. Should any saloon keepers in the parish treat the rule in a defying way the priests are asked to refuse them absolution should they come to rec ive the sacraments, unless they promise to cease offending. The letter of Mgr. Satolli was written at Washington on July 3, and is as follows: "Dear Sir—I answer your letter, which together with the document inclosed therein (the* Bishop's letter) you handed me during my stay in Columbus. As far as the general principles is concerned, you should know that as it belongs to the office of a bishop to observe in his own diocese what is hurtful or helpful to the spiritual good of the faithful, so it belongs to his power to command, prohibit, council or peruiit to be done, or removed, whatever he judges to contribute to the discharge of his own duty, and to the good of the faithful. "The letter of decree of the Right Reverend Bishop, of Columbus, concerning Catholic societies, and the abstinence to be observed from intoxicating liquors, ought, by no means, to be subjected to the judgment of t-very private individual or of every association of simple Catholic or citizens, but every Catholic of good conscience must hold for certain that the bishop has commanded those things which seem to

be

5

or the greater good of

the faithful aud the honor ot the Catholic society. "These three things which are expressed in the letter of the Right Reverend Bishop have the approval not only of Catholics, but of noncatholic3 of your city, because they are not only in harmony with the laws of the church, but they are also seasonable and necessary to the honor of the church, especially in the State of Ohio. Therefore, those things which the Right Reverend Bishop has commended in his decree, I approve, and I decide that they are to be observed, But if, perhaps, they, for the time being, seem to hurt the material interests of some this will have to be patiently borne for the good of the many and for the honor of our holy Catholic Church. "Remain, therefore, of good will and obey faithfully what the Right Reverend Bishop has decreed, confident that divine Providence rewards the spirit of obedi ence, not only in the future but alf-o in the present time. Farewell in the Lord. "FRANCIS ARCHBISHOP SATOLLI,"

REPUBLICAN

him last week. The

HARRY STRICKLAND,:

-OF THE-

Has just received a fine line of

SOUR

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tried to "roast"

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Also Pickled Onions, Cauliflower, Mustard, Catsup, etc., etc.

Mrs. John Binford entertained a very pleasant company at tea, Wednesday evening in honor of her guest, Mrs. Barrett, of Knightstown.

Mrs. Mary Bourne and children, of Indianapolis, wiil spend the remainder of the summer with her parents. D. H. Gobi and wife.

Work on the sidewalks of North Pennsylvania street commenced Tuesday morning. Cement is to be used.

Alex Black and family, spent a couple of days with Mrs. Black's mother in Indianapolis, the first of the week.

Born, to Samuel Mannon and wife, Friday night, a bouncing baby boy. Sam says he is a "new Senator."

Mrs. A. J. Smith returned last evening from a three month's visit with relatives in Dallas, Texas.

W. W. Cook and family leave Saturday for a trip East. They will be gone two or three weeks.

Noble Warrum Jr. Doing Well.

The Logan Journal is about to be enlarged and otherwise improved, and a new press to be added to the plant. We don't see much room for improvement on The Journal. Already it is one of the brightest papers in northern Utah, and Noble Warrum, its editor, is one of the real talented young men of Cache county. The Journal is Democratic in tone, but like all Democratic newspapers this year, it is not particularly aggressive. The Press extends congratulations to its Northern neighbor. May it march on leaving a streak of light in its well defined trail.—Salina Press.

REPUBLICAN

A

"Apostolic Delegate."

Robert Gapen, confined in the county jail for murder, came out in a card in one of our papers and tries to prove that he is not an incumbrance on the county, and that the

tried

to do nothing of the kind. His name was simply mentioned as a prisoner con fined in the jail. He further says he does not board off of the county, and that he would give bail if the court would allow him to. The facts, as learned from Sheriff Smith, are these Gapen's folks fum.sh him his dinner sometimes, but for the other two meals, Sheriff Smith infotms us that the couuty furnishes him with grub, and in fact, many times his dinner is furnished by the county. We do not wish to enter into a dispute with Gapen, but we want the taxpayers to know that Gapen eats two ineals a day off of Hancock county. We learn that it is not the court's fault that Gapen has not been tried for his crime, but that his lawyers have been putting off his trial from time to time. If he is not guilty, it is time for his attorney to let the case come to trial, and let him prove himself innocent. If he is guilty he should be serving his timg in the penitentiary instead of the Hancock county jail.

S. E. Jackson, of Ardmore, I. T., son of U. S. Jackson, of this city, was married last week to Miss Alma Edmiston, of Ardmore. Ed's friends will be pleased to learn of his success in the matrimonial line as well as in the practice of law. Ed is gaining quite a reputation as a lawyer in his western home, and his Greenfield friends are proud of his success. ,.

In some parts of the city, where the sidewalks are used but little, the weeds and grass are allowed to take up all but a narrow track. This is certainly unsightly and should be remedied at once. Let abutters take pride in keeping their sidewalks and ditches sightly and in fine repair. Nothing speaks better for a city than well kept sidewalks and streets

Mrs Mary Dunbar, wife of the late Samuel H. Dunbar, former residents of this city, died at her home in Greencastle last Saturday. She was aged 83 years. Her remains were brought to the home of her brother, M. W. Hamilton, last Monday. The funeral occurred Tuesday at Park cemetery.

Will Evans and Dave Canada, of Advance, with their families, returned home Sunday, after a pleasant visit with Rev. D. W. Evans and wife.

Willie Anderson in the southwest part of the city, is casting and gilding some very handsome and durable match safes, whicn he is selling cheap.

The D. of R. will picnic next Tuesday. All members are uivititd. I

takes pleasure in

reproducing the above extract. Mr. Warrum is a son of Hon. Noble Warrum, of this city, and a son-in-law of Andrew Hagan, formerly of Fortville, but now of Iudianapolis. He was born and reared in Hancock county, and we congratuI late him on his success.

A Report Corrected Concerning Mr. A. O. Steele, of Mohawk.

report in some way gained circulation through malicious parties, improperly connecting the names of Mr.

A. O.

Steele, of Mohawk and Miss Malinda Wallsmith, of that neighborhood, which report coming to the ears of Miss Wallsmith, made an affidavit before George M. Rutnler, Notary Public, which in every way completely exonorates Mr. Steele, as the affidavit is as strong and definite as it possibly could be in his favor.

Knights of Pythias Lodge at Fortville.

Anew Lodge of Knights of Pythias was organized at Fortville, Friday night July 13. Twenty members were taken in. They will meet at Smail's Hall on Wednesday night of each week. There were about 100 members present, and Charles Caddy, of Pendleten, had charge of the work. Those present from Greenfield were Lawrence Boring, Ira Sage, James Thomas and John L. McNew. Fountaintown lodge sent Jas. F. Reed, J. H. Low, A. R. Shirley, C. W. Amos and J. G. Boyce. There were a large number of visitors from other lodges.

Mack Warrum a Bear Hunter. Logan City (Utah) Journal.

The bear hunters have returned with a wagon load of bear meat. Frank Crookston and Mack Warrum, who went to the head of Logan canyon a week ago, returned Sunday with two huge specimens, a cinnamon killed by Crookston, and a grizzly killed by Warrum. The boys say that there are plenty of the monsters in the mountains yet, and they will go back in a few days for more

A Trip to Santa Catalina Island.

I have read in the

REPUBLICAN,

letters

from Southern California but never remember seeing anything from this "Isle of Summer."

Santa Catalina lies thirty miles off the coast of Los Angeles County, and if asked to describe it, one might say that a lofty divisiou of the Siena Madre mountain range had in some mysterions manner become dislodged and now rests in the deep Pacific the peaks forming the island of Saint Catherine. Of course this is but a figure of the imagination, but Santa Catalina is a mountain range twenty-two miles long and from one to eight miles wide. Its bold cliff shores are broken by occasional pockets rimmed by a semicircular beach of sand.

Catalina is reached by fine steamers that sail from the ports of San Pedro Redonda and Santa Monica. Once out from the headlands of San Pedro we are in what is known as the Santa Barbara channel. Away to the west unseen but felt by the calmnees of the sea are the Santa Barbara Islands: to the south and dead ahead the grim heights of Catalina and beyond low, lying in the haze, San Clemente, the barren.

Perhaps the greatest novelty of this threo hours voyage (and I chanced to be in a condition te enjoy the novelties although many of my fellow passengers were not) is the great number ot flying

Hundreds are Going to See Him.

MAN-0-WA,

Great Indian Doctor.

Office and Labratory iu Wilson's new block, north side square, Greenfield. Office

days Friday aud .Saturday

of each week.

Dr. Man O-Wa, the celebrated Indian doctor, is known throughout this ami other States, as the most skilled specialist of the age in treating Chronic Diseases His wonderful cures of thousands of cases, pronounced incurable by others, marks a new era in the history of medicine. Hundreds of persons guttering from chronic ailments, can be cared if they will stop using mercury, arsenic, quinine, strychnia and various mineral poisons, which will make a person sick, and use these remedies which nature provided for all mankind, viz: Roots, Barks, Herbs, Leaves and Plants. Common Sense as appied to medicine, should teach everyone that which many already know, viz: That nature has provided a harmless remedy for every disease and that theory (incorrectly called science) annually kills thousands by the use of remedies opposed to every known law of chemistry and phisolophy of the human system. The whole history of medicine contains no record of cures equal to those made by DR. MAN-O-VVA with the roots and herbs which nature offers as a pricales gift to suffering humanity.

Dr. Man-O-Wa is one of the greatest diagonastic of disease in America. He can locate your disease and describe a patients ailments without even a hint from the sufferer to guide him to his conclusions. Consultations—personal and by letter free.

TREATMENT, including all medicine used, $3 to $8 per month. From responsible parties we require no money in advance.

fish that inhabit the waters. When only a few miles iroui the mainland they begin to leap from beneath the bows of the steamer singly, by twos and by half dozens until one wearies of counting them.

In size, form and color this fish may be compared to the mackerel, its "wings" are muscular fins the foremost pair are about seven inches long and when spread are five inches wide, the hindermost pair are quite small. Breaking from the water at a high rate of speed but at a low angle th£ flying fish extends these winglike fins and holds them rigid, it gives its body a convulsive wriggie that gives it the appearance of winging its way. It sometimes scales along the water until lost to the eye.

Once in mid-channel the Sierra Madre mountains loom up grandiy. Mount San Jacinto, Sauta Ana and other snowy peaks pierce the sky in strange contrast to the orange and lemon groves that we have seen sheltered at their base.

It would przzle the inexperienced mariner to iiud the landing place, but as we near the island the harbor with its numerous fleets of small boats and yachts of all sizes moored here and there, its long wharf and the town of Avalon with its hotels, picturesque cottages andjeents, come suddenly into view. The waters of Avalon harbor are wonderful, blue as the sky and astonishingly clear, when out in a skiff you may look over the side through a hundred feet of transparency to where the sea-weed waves and many colored fishes swim over pebble and shell. Or climbing the over-hanging cliffs you look down one-half a thousand feet upon the fisherman in his boat, and see the bright-hued fishes far beneath him.

The fish are gamy and plentiful in season. The sea-bass, Varenda, mackerel, all add to the delights of a stay at Catalina. The water is so clear that fishes can be seen at a great depth and the gardens of the sea afford to the dufting visitor a never ending source of pleasure. Here is the home of famous Jew, fish a monster resembling the black bass and weighing sometimes three hundred pounds. "Mexican Joe" the genial Catalinan of thirty years standing who adds, not only to the picturesqueness ot the island, bnt to the actual enjoyment of its life, tells great stories of the fish that inhabit the waters of his island home.

If the beaches and caves are attractive what shall we say of the upland regions? To the casual observer the island is a jumble of peaks available to the wild goat alone, but a surprise awaits the visitor who concludes to explore this part of the island. The outfit for this consists of burros, seven in our party iu charge of "Mexican Joe," who acts as hunter, story-teller, guide and general utility man. The trail, a triumph of engineering skill, winds about the slopes bringing the ocean and the deep canons alternately into view, and finally when near the summit the full splendor of the view appears. From the saddle one can drop a stone that will fall and roll away to be lost in the deep canons.

The one that bears the little town of Avalon, is a deep chasm at our feet a gigantic basin into which numerous minor canons empty like green rivers. Away across the blue lies the mainland, the familiar peaks of the Sierra Madre standing out in bold relief against the sky. "Mexican Joe" proposed to take us to the haunts of the Catalina wild cattle and goats but we did not desend into the canons except to make the return by a different route than the one taken in the ascent. Hunting the wild goat is not allowed except on a permit issued by the owners of the island, as a party of hunters with more ambition than discernment, destroyed a number of sheep that were being herded on the hillside, and now a hunter must prove bis ability to tell sheep from goats before he is allowed this privilege.

After a descent no less fascinating than the ascent had been, we visited in an attractive little sail boat. Seal rock where a herd of seal, sea-lion and possibly sea-elephant may be watched, our party however saw none of the latter at this time. Then followed a trip to the isthmus the sail along the shore bringing into view new impressive scenes at every move, sometimes a beautiful little beach, again a cliff fourteen hundred feet high. After a voyage to San Clemente, a few miles away where a lone-herder lives, we felt that we had spent a most delightful week. C.

GORMAN.