anaheim-gazette 1889-01-24

VOLUME XIX. LODGE MEETINGS. A. T. WALLOP WISHES TO CALL THE ATTENTION OF THE LADIES OF ANAHEIM AND SURROUNDING COUNTRY TO HIS Well-Selected Stock — OF — Dry Goods, Ladies' Ready-Made Underwear, (Lady Always in Attendance). Full Line of Gents', Ladies' and Children's Shoes, FROM FINE FRENCH-KID TO CANVAS. Full Line of Choice Summer Silk, Satins, Etc TO SELECT FROM. Orders for all Kinds of Goods Promptly Filled. H. D. POLHEMUS, REAL ESTATE AGENT. Postoffice Block, Anaheim, Cal. Walnut orchards and Orange Groves in full bearing. Also un- H. D. POLHEMUS, REAL ESTATE AGENT. Postoffice Block, Anaheim, Cal. Walnut orchards and Orange Groves in full bearing. Also unimproved lands in irrigating district and artesian-water belt. From five acres upwards. Prices extremely low. Terms easy. Correspondence Solicited. HIPPOLYTE CAHEN, DEALER IN General Merchandise Keeps Always on Hand the Best of GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS, HARDWARE, TINWARE, STATIONERY, AGATEWARE, WOODENWARE, OILS, Boots and Shoes. Men's Furnishing Goods. I will my Stock of Dry Goods and Ladies' Misses' and Children's Shoes at Cost for Cash Southwest Corner Center and Los Angeles St., Anaheim, Cal. Fred Crist, MERCHANT TAILOR, Center Street, Anaheim, Cal. Always on hand a full line of the finest imported goods. A Perfect Fit Guaranteed. The patronage of the public respectfully selected. I have now on hand a very large assortment of imported goods, from which every taste can be suited, and respectfully ask that those in want of stylish suits will give me a call. FAIRVIEW STORE. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT I take pleasure in announcing that I am prepared to meet the wants of the public with an assortment of Boots, Shoes, Hats, Clothing, Dry Goods, GROCERIES AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT I take pleasure in announcing that I am prepared to meet the wants of the public with an assortment of Boots, Shoes, Hats, Clothing, Dry Goods, GROCERIES AND GENERAL MERCHANDISE. I sell every article on its merits. Call and see for yourself, at my STORE ON BROADWAY, One-half mile west Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, near Fairview St M. H. CHEESEMAN. P. PELLEGRIN & SON, Jewelry, Art and Music Store. Sole Agents for New Home, Davis Vertical Feed, Avery & Royal, St. John Sewing Machines direct from the Manufacturers. Postoffice Block, Center Street. ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1889. OP THE LADIES OF TRY TO HIS Stock Underwear, Children's Shoes, NVAS. Satins, Etc US, GENT. n. Cal. pearing. Also un- The Weekly Gazette. Established 1870. SUBSCRIPTION. FOR YEAR MIX months. Three months. PAYABLE INVARIABLY IN ATMOS. TRENDMENT: Advertising matter. The Gazette is leased every Thursday morning, and sent to suburban by the early mails. It is delivered by mariner in Anaheim on the morning of publication. Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice no. 200-digit master. Items of news and correspondence on all line subjects are solicited by the editor. Brief, and write directly to the point. All communications must be signed by the author, not for publication, but for the information of the editor. TWO MISTAKES. The Lake Shore Driving Park at Waveland contributed greatly to the livelihood of the little place, the talk upon the streets from August to December being very largely upon the petals of the turf, as exhibited by the sporting men, and there was scarcely a woman or child in the place who did not understand timing a trotter down to the fraction of a second. Of course there was a certain class even there that considered it almost a sacrifice to look toward the racecourse, and Mrs. Eighma, a worthy, well-known and slightly irascible (she called it sensitive) woman, was one of these. But even she had decided to ask Mr. Gordon, an old gentleman who owned Limber-heel, the fastest trotter in Waveland, to see. The black behaved with rather more than its accustomed spirit that morning, and Rexa really fell as if she had better attended to her driving, when just as they were approaching a bridge near Mr. Gordon's house, the new horse began to kick, and then made a jump sideways, which carried it entraly off the side of the bridge, where it hung suspended by the harness, being upheld there by sure-footed, docile Snowflake. "Oh! ob! ob!" cried Mrs. Eighma, clinging tight to her bandbone. "We shall be killed—we shall be killed, and all on account of this frightful one-eyed, three-legged cat! Oh! ob! ob!" Matters did indeed look dubious, for the black was kicking in a way that was frightful to see, and Snowflake was being drawn nearer and nearer to the edge of the bridge. "Grandmother, get out of the carriage—quick!" cried Rexa, in great distress. "I won't cried the friaky old lady." I do AGRICULTURAL NOTES. Now They Make Best Sugar Wheatmeal. An exchange given us the method which sugar is extracted from beans and pared for the market. "When the beans damp into the him they pass from farmer and are ready to start on their to-mgardens. Beneath such his is a crete ditch, and into this ditch the beets through adjustable traps. A stream water is constantly flowing through ditches in the direction of the factory, which takes the beats to the south end of the m building and empties them into a cistern, which is working a large snow that extends to the second floor." This snow empties beets into a hopper on the second floor, from which they pass into a large drum-shaft iron cylinder, which is called the "wash-bait," where the beets are thoroughly clean. When allowed they are thrown from a "wash-barrel" into a hopper from which they pass into an endless elevator, which runs the top floor where the beets are discharged into a large hopper. They then pass into "cage" which will hold one thousand pounds of beets, and when this weight is indented the "cage" empties its load into the cart. The "cage" and its indicator enables the factory people to clearly estimate the amount raw material used each day in the manure turn of sugar. It is also a check on every department. It will show any error that may arise in receiving and shipping partment. The alice or cutter is a rooftop shaft with steel knives, capable of taking four hundred tons of beets every two hours, which runs down to the floor law. The lower end of the alice opens in a wooden trough about two feet square, at the bottom of which is an endless belt, the sliced beets fall from the cutter into a trough, the bolt takes them along as fast they descend. Placed on this floor a ranged alongside the trough in a battery twelve diffusion-tanks, into which the alice beets are next passed and diluted under water pressure of eighty pounds. By pressure the sugar and salt, amounting ninety per cent, are released in liquid form. Of course there was a certain class even there that considered it almost a sacrifice to look toward the racecourse, and Mrs. Eighme, a worthy, well-known and slightly irascible (she called it sensitive) woman, was one of these. But even she had decided to ask Mr. Gordon, an old gentleman who owned Limberheel, the fastest trotter in Waveland, to select for her a black carriage horse to drive with Snowflake, a pure white animal whose mate had recently died, thus showing that she was not entirely insane to the charms of an elegant tarnout or it might be that Mr. Gordon's charm, had something to do with it. She would not repose such a trust in a sporting man, she said, although he was sixy-five years old and a retired merchant of undoubted integrity, had it not been that his grandson, Louis Gordon, had lazily become engaged to her granddaughter Rexa, who was her constant companion. "We shall soon be related," she continued, "I am so pleased that Louis knows nothing of horses. He told me so himself; yet we have to overlook it of Mr. Gordon—he is so rich! Anyway, I have resolved to ask him." "We replied 'Rexa, with a twinkle in her eyes.'" "I would like to see Mr. Gordon this very morning. I want to tell him exactly what I want. A true black, without a single white hair. I greatly dislike a black that fades. Of course I do not desire speed, but I shall be particular about color and style." "If you will sit down by the window, grandmother, I think you will soon see Mr. Gordon. He exercises Limberheel at about this hour, and he passes here on his way to the park. Mrs. Eighme was aware of this fact, but she said nothing, only arranged her laces a little, and then seated herself by the window. She had scarcely done so before she saw Mr. Gordon coming down the hill, driving Limberheel before a light wagon. Limberheid was a true black, a racer, a biter, and adesperate character generally. Mr. Gordon caught sight of Mrs. Eighme the same second that she caught sight of him. "Bless me," he thought, "if that disagreeable old woman isn't looking out of the window at me and my lap robe isn't in place! What will she think?" And for Louis's sake the fussy old fellow began to grope in the bottom of his vehicle for the scarlet robe which was just visible. He hastily got it into place, and then turned and lifted his hat most gracefully to the lady; but she did not return his salutation, but stood gazing at him, the picture of horror and undeniable rage. Poor Mr. Gordon! He did not know that in pulling up his blanket he had dialled a dilapidated looking cat that had been sleeping in his cart, and that pussy had sprung from his vehicle behind and taken refuge in Mrs. Eighme's yard. And Mrs. Eighme abhorred cats. "An insult!" gasped the old lady, turning purple. "And he dared to leave that cat here before my very eyes and then lift his hat and grin." Rexa, Rexa, you shall never marry him—never! "Why, grandma, who do you mean? Not Mr. Gordon, surely!" Yes, yes, that wretched old Gordon? But, grandma, I never thought of marrying him. "I know it. We won't either of us marry him now. To think of nailing me by leaving a cat here. There it is—there it is. Rexa—a beautiful one-eyed, three-legged cat! I'll catch it and send it back to him that's what I'll do." D.C. Robertson has been telling the readers of St. Nicholas about it. "Oh! oh! oh!" cried Mrs. Eighme, clining tight to her bandbox. "We shall be killed—we shall be killed, and all on account of this frightful one-eyed, three-legged cat: Oh! oh! oh!" Matters did indeed look dubious, for the black was kicking in a way that was frightful to see, and Snowflake was being drawn nearer and nearer to the edge of the bridge. "Grandmother, get out of the carriage—quick!" cried Rexa, in great distress. "I won't!' cried the friaky old lady. "I do believe the cat is killed. Drat the black horse! Drat the black horse! Mr. Gordon and his grandson now came running to the rescue, and the latter began to cut the harness with a knife in order that the kicking, excited animal might fall into the stream below. "Don't you cut that harness—don't you cut that harness! It's a new one, and it cost me fifty dollars! Don't cut it, I say!" cried Mrs. Eighme. "Bless me—bless me, ma'am!" pacitically cried Mr. Gordon; "you don't want the horse to hang there forever, do you?" At this moment the black horse fell into the water beneath, making a great splash, but almost instantly gained its feet and shook off the water like a rat. "There, now," ejaculated Mrs. Eighme. "We are safe! And here is that cat! I meant to throw it right over your front gate; air! My bill for feeding it is $1.39: Take your cat." "My cat!" cried Mr. Gordon. "I never saw the creature before!" And you dare to say that, do you? Why, I'll swear that I saw you put it out of your wagon in front of my house! "I never did it; and I never stole a horse, either. My valuable racer, to be driven off the bridge into that stony creek! If I find he is injured, I'll have the law on you; ma'am." Mrs. Eighme gasped and was silent. "Is that Limberheid!" saked Rexa, ad dressing herself to Louis. "I think it is," he replied, with a smile. "But how did it happen that he was hitched-up with Snowflake?" By mistake, most likely. We found Mrs. Eighme's Ambler in our pleasure this morning. While this explanation was being made by Louis Gordon, the two older people were living at each other. Mrs. Eighme made no comments; she had no more to say about the cat, and only found voice to say, faintly: "I don't steal, Mr. Gordon." "Umm!' returned the gentleman, turning and going into the house. The assistance of Louis was really necessary to the ladies at this crjais, and owing to his kindness another harness was brought from Mr. Gordon's stable and Ambler put into the place that Limberheid had filled with so much spirit. He drove the ladies home, and Mrs. Eighme again found voice to invite him in and to tender him her thanks for his services. Louis Gordon was not the young fellow to hold malice, especially when it separated him from the girl he loved, and so the lovers were made happy again. But Mrs. Eighme has never forgiven Mr. Gordon, and he always thinks of her as a very disagreeable woman—very! The Brilliant Dog Star As you look up to the winter heavens any clear night and watch the glorious dog-star flaming in space just southeast of the belt of Orion does it seem possible that he can be flying away from you at the rate of twenty miles a second! D.C. Robertson has been telling the readers of St. Nicholas about it. "It will show any error in my aim in the receiving and shipping partment. The aliner or cutter is a wooden trough about two feet square; the bottom of which is an endless belt. The sliced beets fall from the cutter into four hundred tons of beets every two hours; which runs down to the floor law. The lower and the slender opens in a wooden trough about two feet square; the bottom of which is an endless belt. The sliced beets fall from the cutter into four hundred tons of beets every two hours; which runs down to the floor law. The lower and the slender opens in a wooden trough about two feet square; the bottom of which is an endless belt. The sliced beets fall from the cutter into four hundred tons of beets every two hours; which runs down to the floor law." In financial circles it is said that though security is offered under the law for the bonds in the way of land mortgage or mortgage on works etc., there is no sufficient guarantee that the money will be expanded as designed. In other words, the bondholder would fear not the ultimate payment—the bonds, but the collection of interest—them and the probable foreclosure to final collection." It is rather surprising that the Governor should not know that the security provided by the law is not the nature of a mortgage at all. The security provided by the law is that provided by the general law upon county bonds of all kinds. ``` from his vehicle behind and taken refuge in Mrs. Eighma's yard. And Mrs. Eighma abhorred cats. "An insult!" gasped the old lady, turning purple. "And he dared to leave that cat here before my very eyes and then lift his hat and grin." Rexa, Rexa, you shall never marry him—never! "Why, grandma, who do you mean? Not Mr. Gordon, surely!" "Yes, yes, that wretched old Gordon?" "But, grandma, I never thought of marrying him." "I know it. We won't either of us marry him now. To think of notaling me by leaving a cat here. There it is—there it is. Rexa—a dreamful one-eyed, three-legged cat! I'll catch it and send it back to him, that's what I'll do, and I'll let him know that we are done with him and his relations forever. Rexa, Rexa, I never would have believed it!" Rexa sprang to the window to see the strange animal. "Did Mr. Gordon leave that cat here?" "Yes, he did. Rexa. You can never marry Louis now." In spite of the solemnity of the tones Rexa was obliged to smile, but she said nothing. Silence, she knew was pure gold—nay, limpid diamonds! "I know what I will do," said Mrs. Eighme. "I'll go see my lawyer. I'll law him till I haven't a cent left. Resville Eighme." Oh, grandmother, I'd wait until morning! "I will not. I'll go this minute." And Rexa was obliged to smear her with her toilet, her best hope being that Mr. Latimer, the lawyer, would give the irate old lady some soothing advice. She was so used to her grandmother's unreasonable temper that she did not imagine anything more than a few hours' excitement would be the result of this ludicrous episode. It was a surprise to her that evening when Louis Gordon did not present himself as usual, but sent her a note instead. "My dearest Georgia," he wrote, "I met your grandmother on the street today, and she forbade me to enter her home again. It appears that grandfather has in some way displeased her, although he declares that he does not know what he has done. I am more grievous than I can express; but be certain that as soon as the atmosphere clears I will be at your side again." "Louis Gordon." After this there was a depressing quiet for Rexa, for her grandmother forbade her to walk or ride out alone, and she saw nothing of Louis, except as he rode past the house and bowed gravelly to her. And each day Mrs. Eighme, moved to pity by its evident misfortune, called in the one-eyed, three-legged cat and fed it, enlarging upon her troubles the while. A short time went by, and one morning Mr. Latimer sent down a black carriage horses for Mrs. Eighma, as he had been requested to do. "See, Rexa," said the old lady, complacently, "Mr. Latimer has done much better by me than the man Gordon could have done. Isn't it a bitty?" "It is indeed," replied Rexa. "It is the picture of Limberhead But Limberhead." The brilliant Dog-Star As you look up to the winter heavens any clear night and watch the glorious dog-star flaming in space just southeast of the belt of Orion does it seem possible that he can be flying away from you at the rate of twenty miles a second? D.C. Robertson has been telling the readers of St. Nicholas about it. He says: Year after year Sirina appears to be the same—of the same brightness, the same size, the same distance. And no doubt, it has appeared for centuries past and will continue to appear for centuries to come. And yet it is asserted that Sirina and the earth are shooting apart—at times over twenty miles a second. Let us stop for a moment and see what this would mean. In one minute Sirina recovers as far as from New York to Winnipeg; in sixteen minutes it travels a distance equal to the earth's circumference, and in less than three hours a space is covered equal to that between us and the moon. Yet to double its present distance from the earth it would have to go on thus recording for over 100,000 years; and become invisible to the maked eye that speed of separation would have to continue over 1,000,000 years. To give you an approximate idea of the distance of Sirina from the earth, we will suppose one to travel every day as far as from here to the sun, say $93,000,000$ miles; then it would take 2,400 years to reach Sirina. Grapes of New York. Dr. Clinton Cushing of San Francisco who has visiting friends here in the early part of the week, was probably the most-principial man in the State on New Year's Day. On the afternoon of Tuesday he drove out to the home of John McFarland, in the vicinity of Galta. While out at Mr. McFarland's place he took a trip through the vineyard and helped himself to grapes, gathered from the vines by his own hands. The Doctor was so surprised to find fresh and incarnated grapes on the vines on New Year's Day that he went to work and gathered quite a quantity of fruit to give to San Francisco friends and send them. The circumstance illustrates how little some people in certain favored sections of this State appreciate the generality and superiority of the glorious country with which they are favored. The majority of the people of Galta do not realize that fact. In no country on the globe are fresh grapes of excellent quality and fine flavor afforded on the first day of January outside of California. Grapes gathered from the vines in good condition at this season of the year is a nearly unknown to Southern Italy. A crop of new potatoes, with blossoms formed on his vines, can also be seen at McFarland's plains, and also upon the adjoining ranch upon which George Orr Even—Galta Guents. In financial circles it is said that all though security is offered under the law for the bonds in the way of land mortgage and mortgage on works etc., there is no insufficient guarantee that the money will be expanded as designed, or that the works will be as efficient. In other words, the bondholder would fear, not the ultimate payment to the bonds, but the collection of interest on them, and the probable foreclosure to official collection. It is rather surprising that the Governor should not know that the security provided by the law is not the nature of a mortgage at all. The security provided by the law is same as that provided by the general law upon county bonds of all kinds. In instance, a county determines to build courthouse to cost a quarter of a million dollars. Bonds in that amount are issued and sold. These bonds upon maturity, paid by a revenue provided by the ordinary modes of taxation, it could not be made that the county is mortgaged to secure the debt, or that the holders of bonds could be required to "foreclose a mortgage" to recover the amount due on the bonds. The irrigation districts organized under the law of 1887 sustain precisely the same relation to their bonds and other indebtedness that the counties sustain to their indebtedness. The irrigation district is a municipal corporation with a full set of officers having fixed and permanent powers, and to the likeness extent that a county is a municipal corporation having a full set of officers with fixed and permanent powers. The bonds of an irrigation district are secured in the same manner and to the same extent that county bonds are secured. In order that might be no confusion or misunderstanding in the premises, a complete revenue system is provided for these districts which is in main in the exact phraseology of the general revenue law of the State. The general rule enws law of the State has been fully adjudicated by the courts, and hence the advantage in adhering to its forms. The message proceeds: "The districts particularly the smaller ones are looked upon as irresponsible and likely to be treated besome delights, outside of the matter at bottom security." As to size of the districts which may be formed under the law, and the security they will afford to booth-lders, the objective made by the Governor is not tenable. It is well known that the bonds of school districts, irrespective of their size or location find a ready sale in the market. It is not all likely that an irrigation district will ever be formed in the State no small in area as largest school district. Again, as to sale of bonds issued by districts already organized by message minstates facts. We are informed, and we think our information reliable, that but four districts in the State have issued bonds Two of those districts have sold their bonds and are temporarily reserving their efforts to sell In one question was raised whether the forms of law had been fully observed in this creation of the district, and thus question was taken into the courts by the direction of the district and they are now expanding... Agricultural Notes. How Make Best Sugar at Worcestershire. Change given on the method by war is extracted from beets and pre-harvest markets. "When the beets are into the hips they pass from the head are ready to start on their way down. Beneath such him in a cone, and into this ditch the beets fall adjunctable traps. A stream of constantly flowing through the direction of the factory, and it emits to the south end of the main and empties them into a cistern, in working a large snare that extends and floor." This snare empties the hopper on the second floor, from any pans into a large drum-shaped snare, which is called the "wash-bar" of the beets are thoroughly cleaned. They are thrown from the head into a hopper from which they are endless elevator, which runs to where the beats are discharged in hopper. They then pass into a hopper will hold one thousand pennils and when this weight is indicated, empties its load into the cutter, and its indicator enables the facade to closely estimate the amount of metal used each day in the manufaccerer. It is also a check on every it. It will show any error that in receiving and shipping de- The stair or cutter is a round with steel knives, capable of slicing hundred tons of beets every twenty-which runs down to the floor below end of the stair opens into tough about two feet square, on of which is an endless belt. As beets fall from the cutter into the belt takes them along as fast as tend. Placed on this floor and inside the trough is a battery of season-tanks, into which the allied next passed and diluted under a sure of eighty pounds. By this sugar and salts, amounting to cent, are released in liquid form. Untimely Pruning. Is judicious and unreasonable pruning is no doubt many instances responsible, for the sudden dying out of fruit trees and vines without any apparent cause. Some varieties of trees stand pruning much better than others, and while certain kinds seem even to demand pruning, others again are most impatient of the pruner's knife and shears. The effect of pruning while the tree or plant Twilight of the Poets. What These Gathered Thoughts of the Age Are Beating. The closing years of the century seem destined to be marked by a decline of the poetic spirit. The greatest of those who have made the literary illustrations have, if we may use the phraseology of the Nerse mythology, sought the plains of Nidibheim Heda's gloomy realm, where dwell the dead. Of those still reigning in the pastic Valhalla little more can be expected from Tennyson, Browning, Whittier or Lawell. Twilight like that fabled to have overtaken the Scandinavian daitries seems to have fallen upon the poetic race. Among the younger poets we have many who are exquisite masters of form, but it is already clear that in the closing years of this century we are not to hear any such voices as those of Geothe, Schiller and Burma, who were the literary fathers of the poets of this century, and marked out the lines which have been followed. The explanation of this is perhaps not difficult to find. Every previous period of great literary actively has been followed by one of comparative decline. With the close of the Augustan age, which produced such poets as Virgil, Horace and Ovid, Roman literature passed into a decline which proved the torruns of its death. Few recall the names of the successors of Dante, Petrarch and Tasso in Italian literature. Shakempasre and Milton were followed by a nameless crowd, and it is perhaps natural that Goethe, Walworth and Browning should be followed by Swainbarne, Austin Doebon and Andrew Lang. Moreover, this is a practical and materialistic age, in which the genius of the human race is given up to the parents of commerce, to invention and discovery, to the achievements, to the consolidation of empire and the subjugation of barbarian nations in Asia and Africa, to the study of the sciences and the solution of social problems. It is not strange, therefore, that there should be a decline in the arts of poetry, music, painting, sculpture and architecture. There is not to be discerned in the public taste any special demand for the work of masters in these arts. This is the age of navels and magazine literature of Gilbert and Sullivan. We hope the principles of the law will not be touched, and that such amendments may be made as the friends of irrigation may consider necessary to facilitate its workings. Untimely Pruning. Ijudicious and unreasonable pruning is no doubt in many instances responsible for the sudden dying out of fruit trees and vines without any apparent cause. Some varieties of trees stand pruning much better than others, and while certain kinds seem even to demand pruning, others again are most impatient of the pruner's knife and shears. The effect of pruning while the tree or plant is growing is to diminish the outlet for the flowing sap, or thus check or entirely stop the flow of the same. If this sheek is sudden the tree or vine may be seriously injured, or even killed outright, or sooner. The dying out of so many of the principal vineyards in Southern California is now attributed to this injudicious and untimely pruning. Until a few years ago Anaheim, Santa Ana and San Gabriel Valley were famous for their vineyards. To-day they are mostly dead or dying, and even the closest investigation by experts have failed to reveal any fungi or destructive insect parasites to which the blame could be laid. The only reasonable cause that could be suggested was the early and untimely pruning. In Anaheim, where frost is late and rare, it was found very convenient to prune the vineyards as soon as all the grapes are gathered in October or the early part of November. At that time the vines are yet growing and in full leaf. For a year or two the only effect was to delay the start of those vines in the following spring. The early pruned vineyards were the last to bud out. A year later it was found that vines thus treated put out their leaves as usual, late, flowered and set berries even, but then all of a sudden died. It was not known, however, what was the cause of the trouble, and the early pruning was kept on. To-day the fine vineyards of those districts are a thing of the past, and viticulture in no form is now practiced in the injured districts. This year's unusual and early season will enable the vineyard around Fresno to finish the drying and packing long before the frost will have killed the leaves of the vines, and to save time to enable them to keep their laborers employed some of them may be induced to begin the pruning of the vines as soon as the picking season is over. The effect of such early pruning would no doubt be the same here as in Southern California, and certainly causes serious injury or destruction to the vines. It is much safer to delay pruning until the frost has killed the leaves, or at least until the season has caused the wood of the vines to fully mature, and all or most of the first of sap can be checked naturally and slowly. But it is not necessary to go to Southern California to study the effect of ultimately pruning. Most of us remember a few years ago when the grasshopper were plentiful in the onlyting districts and on the foottail, how many trees were injured and already killed by the insects devastating their foliage. We saw ten old fruit trees entirely stripped of every leaf while again it had the effect of checking the flow or outlet for the sap. The latter sourced before it could be absorbed by the tree or otherwise disposed of, and the trees died. We see nearly every day rose bushes which are totally or partially dead and dying. Their stems show an unusually green color, and are in places, or on one side, black and dead. By cutting into the wood we can smell a sour ambiance—the sour sap of the bush. We find that such rushe bushes have nearly all been summer pruned after the first period of blooming is over, and the sap which was deprived of its outlet, sourced and ruined the plant. The time when all pruning should be done is when the plant is dormant in the crowd, and it is perhaps, natural that Goethe, Walsworth and Browning should be followed by Swinburne, Austin Dobson and Andrew Lang. Moreover, this is a practical and materialistic age, in which the genius of the human race is given up to the pursuits of commerce, to invention and discovery, to the achievements, to the consolidation of empires and the subjugation of harbourous nations in Asia and Africa, to the study of the sciences and solution of social problems. It is not strange; therefore, that there should be a decline in the arts of poetry, music, painting, sculpture and architecture. There is not to be discerned in the public taste any special demand for the work of masters in these arts. This is the age of navels and magazine literature, Gilbert and Sullivan opera, iron architecture and the growth of cities. A great poet would be born out of due time in such an era. While we are not reading our Shakespeare, Milton or Wordworth, when we are stealing our Carlyle and Rakein, and rapidly forgetting the best lessons of our Emerson, we are not likely to have any ear for another Homer or Dante. We cannot plead, however, that there is a lack of great themes for the inspiration of the oaks. The discovery and settlement of America is a thousand fold nobler topic than of Eros from burning Troy, and his strings while bringing his gods to Latté and founding the Roman Matee. Modern history is supplying rich material, which some future Shakespeare will doublecase use to rival the fame of the Bard of Avon. Philanthropy and Christian activity are-perhaps also supplying materials which some greater Milton may herafter use in majestic relation on a "Paradise Regained" by the lower classes of mankind. Human life is never devoid of poetic elements; but for the present we are thinking about things we call practical, and have entered a period of twilight of the poets, about which the only prophecy that need be made is that it will not last. A SPOOK AT SEA. A Ship Visited by the Ghost of a Dead Cook. When the Quebec bark Madura, Captain Barnier arrived here from Pisagua, Chili, after a voyage of 110 days, several of the crow hurried off its vessel, carrying its belongings with them and declaring they would not sail on it again for double wages. Captain Bernier said he men had become very superstitious and believed that the bark was haunted. He related how the vessel left New York September 23, 1887, with a general cargo for Brislane, Australia, from which place she sailed for Newcastle, New South Wales. On November 17th a busy, roughday, the vessel was suddenly surrounded by thousands of birds. Captain Bernier regarded this as a phenomenon he could not account for. About noon the cook—a Maltease named Thenua—went forward to clean some fish, and while at work she rolls of the vessel shapped the fastenings of a piece of wood on the weather side. The piece of wood was buried through the air with such force that striking Thenua in head, it out his skull half in two. One part of his skull half in two. One part of his skull half in two. One part of his skull half in two. One part of his skull half in two. One part of his skull half in two. One part of his skull half in two. One part of his skull half in two. One part of his skull half in two. One part of his skull half in two. One part of his skull half in two. One part of his skull half in two. The vessel had not been out long when a Norwegian began to complain of seeing a strange man in the forecastle at night when the sailor was in his birth with the watch below. His tales were laughed at because he had never seen the coals having shipped after the latter's death. But the apparition... Mr. Waterman says: special circles it is said that security is offered under the law for in the way of land mortgage and works, etc., there is no insufficient or that the money will be expanded or that the works will be effaced other words, the bondholders not the ultimate payment of but the collection of interest on the probable foreclosure to effect. Surprising that the Governor know that the security provided is not the nature of a mortgage security provided by the general county bonds of all kinds. For county determines to build a cost a quarter of a million bonds in that amount are issued These bonds, upon maturity, are avenues provided by the ordinary taxation, and it could not be said that holders of bonds could be "foreclose a mortgage" to reamount due on the bonds. District districts organized under 1887 sustain precisely the same relief bonds and other indebtedness sustains to their indebtedness irrigation district is a municipal with a full set of officers having permanent powers, and to the like county is a municipal corporal with a full set of officers with fixed grant powers. The bonds of an irrrict are secured in the same to the same extent that county secured. In order that there confusion or misunderstanding arises, a complete revenue system for these districts which is in the exact phraseology of the general of the State. The general revenue State has been fully adjudicated, and hence the advantage to its forma. The districts, the smaller ones, are looked responsible and likely to be troubled, outside of the matter ofurity." Size of the districts which may under the law, and the security used to booth-dilers, the object by the Governor is not tenable, known that the bonds of school prospective of their size or location, sale in the market. It is not that an irrigation district will lead in the State no small in area at school district. To the sale of bonds issued by disply organized the message minutes. We are informed, and we information reliable, that but fear the State have issued bonds districts have sold their bonds, two, for local reasons, are reserving their efforts to nullenuation was raised whether the had been fully observed in this district, and thus question into the courts by the directors and they are now expecting a devastating their foliage. We saw ten year old fruit trees entirely stripped of every leaf while it had it the effect of checking the flow or outlet for the sap. The latter sourced before it could be absorbed by the tree or otherwise disposed of, and the trees died. We see nearly every day rose bushes which are totally or partially dead and dying. Their stems show an unusually green color, and are in places, or on one side, black and dead. By cutting into the wood we can smell a sour substance—the sap of the bush. We find that such rose bushes have nearly all been summer pruned after the first period of blooming is over, and the sap which was deprived of its outlet, soured and ruined the plant. The time when all pruning should be done is when the plant is dormant in the winter. We should wait until such a time to prune our vineyards; if we do it before our vines will be injured. — Fresno Expositor. A corn Palace. The New York Times says that "the plan for a corn exhibit at the Paris exhibition is receiving a good deal of attention in the New York Produce Exchange, where designs for the 'corn palace' be shown at the exposition have been displayed for some days. The supervision of the exhibit will be under the control of the agricultural department of the American commission, although it is expected to raise the $30,000 estimated to be needed to meet the expenses by subscription. The exhibit will include a pavilion, the reel, columns and chimney of which will be built of the corn fodder, and the interior and exterior will be covered with cornstalk and ear. A good deal of mosaic work with corn grains of varied colors and a number of figures and emblems, all in corn, will be shown. Photographs of corn exchanges in this country and big maps showing the corn growing districts of the country will be included in the display. From an American kitchen, equipped with American ranges, cooks will distribute free of charge all the known preparations of corn as an article of food in the shape of bread, sand, puddings, etc. A competent man will deliver short lectures every hour on the mass of corn, the way of preparing and cooking it, and its general healthfulness as an article of diet. Pamphlets setting forth the name facts in English, French and German will also be distributed. For the exhibit promoters say that the use of corn as food is hardly appreciated at all in Europe, and that if the possibilities of the grain were understood exports of it from this country would quickly be increased many fold... To introduce corn to the people of Europe is the greatest object of the exhibitors, who say that Germany last year bought us only 2,638,167 bushels of the grain and 403 barrels of cornmeal, while France took only 1,596,780 bushels and sixty barrels of meal. Last year total export of corn is put only at 1.70 per cent of the production in this country." For the exhibit a space with eighty feet frontage is said to have been acquired. Nation. Parties having firewood of any kind for sale will find a ready market for same by applying to Charles Behindler, Anahiem.