anaheim-gazette 1889-12-05

VOLUME XX. LODGE MEETINGS. ANAHEIM LODGE, NO. 29, F. A. M. hold regular meetings on the Monday of presenting the full moon in and month. No journeying births in past annals are cordially invited to attend. PHILIP DAVIS, W. K. J. B. GAMBLE, Secretary. MALVERN HILL POST, NO. 131, O. A. R. meets at L. O. O. F. Hall, Los Angeles street, Anahaim, every fourth afternoon of each month. K. BARR, P. C. T. K. McDOWELL, Adjunct. ORDER CHOSEN FRIENDS MEETS THE FIRST and third Saturday evenings in each month at 8 clock. Odd Fellow's Hall. W. M. MAFADDEN, Commander. K. A. WHITE, Secretary. ANAHEIM LODGE, NO. 199, I. O. O. F. REGUlar meetings every Tuesday evening. Visiting patrons always welcome. J. H. BULLARD, N. O. W. R. HARKER, Secretary. ANAHEIM LODGE, NO. 140, A. O.U. W. MEETings on the first and fourth Friday of every month. J. HELMEN, M. W. T. H. GRINHAW, Secretary. ORPHEUS LODGE, NO. 237, I. O. O. F., MEETS every Thursday at 8 p.m. at Odd Fellow's Hall. ROHERT MENZEL, N. O. MAX NEBRASKA, Secretary. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. J. H. BULLARD, A.R., M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Face and Residence, corner Hermina and Chartres streets, near Planters' Hotel. OFFICE HOURS: 7:30 a.m.; 12 to 1:30, and 8 to 7:30 p.m. RICHARD MELROSE, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Portoffice Block, Anahaim. Will be in his office at Kennys 56 and 57 Temple Block, Los Angeles every Thursday and Friday. Special attention given to PROBATE matters. FAIRVIEW STORE SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT I take pleasure in announcing thaprepared to meet the wants of the puban assortment of Boots, Shoes, Hats, Clothing, DryGROCERIES AND GENERAL MERCHAN I sell every article on its merita. Call and see for you STORE ON BROADWAY One-half mile west Southern Pacific Railroad Depot, M. H. CHEESEMA T. J. F. BOECK Wholesale and Retail Dealer in WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS KEEPS ALWAYS ON HAND A COMPLETE STOOf the Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars WINES AND LIQU PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. RICE AND RESIDENCE, corner Hermine and Chartres streets, near Planters' Hotel. OFFICE HOURS: 1 to 8:30 a.m.; 12 to 1:30, and 8 to 7:30 p.m. RICHARD MELROSE, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. Postoffice Block, Anaheim. Will be in his office at Rooms 56 and 57 Temple Block, Los Angeles every Thursday and Friday. Special attention given to PROBATE matters. J. LEE BURTON, ARCHITECT, 12 West Second Street, Los Angeles, Cal. Rooms 27 & 28 Nawell Block. S. G. WOOD, ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER, ANAHEIM, CAL. CHARLES PAMPERL, ...Dealer in... HARDWARE, CROCKERY, and HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS Los Angeles street, Anaheim. L. GUNTHER, PIONEER BOOT & SHOP MAKER. Center Allele and Los Angeles streets. GEOREE BAUER, BOOT AND SHOP MAKER. Center street...Anaheim Making and repairing at the lowest cash price. All orders promptly attended to. All work guaranteed. Richard Spoerl, GUNSMITH! Dealer in Guha, Ravolvers and AMMUNITION. Also Keroume Oil at Los Angeles prices. Repairing of newing Machines and small machinery. Fresh Sauerkraut. JUST OPENED BY ROBERT MENZEL. Stores near S. P. Depot. FRANTZ'S BARBER-SHOP. First-Class Style. BATHS, - 25'Cts. PLEASE GIVE ME A CALL. W. A. FRANTZ, Prop., opp. P. O., Center St. J. S. WEBER, Center street, Anaheim, dealer in STOVES, TINWARE AGATEWARE, Pumps, Pipes and Brass Goods Plumbing done according to the San Francisco Sanitary Plumbing Law; to keep your house healthy and free from smell. T. J. F. BOEC Wholesale and Retail Dealer in WINES, LIQUORS AND CI — KEEPS ALWAYS ON HAND — A COMPLETE STOCK Of the Finest Wines, Liquore and Cigar WINES AND LIQU BY THE KEG, GALLON OR BOTTLE. Orders by Mail Promptly Attended GOODS DELIVERED FREE OF CH Opp. S. P. Depot, ANAHEIM, Removed--Backs' Buil SALE! SALE! S AT — A. T. WALLO CLEARANCE SALE I AM KEEPING UP WITH THE TIMES. SELLING MY LARGE STOCK OF DRY GOODS, NOT FANCY ARTICLES, LADIES' UNDERWEAR, HA AND SHOES, ETC., TO DO ONLY AN Exclusive : Grocery: — COME AND GET — GOOD BARGAINS REDUCED P Times are hard and I will sell close for oash PLANTERS' HOT Center Street, Anaheim, Cal N. H. MITCHELL, PROF BATHS, - 25 Cts. PLEASE GIVE ME A CALL. W. A. FRANTZ, Prop., opp. P. O., Center St. J. S. WEBER, Center street, Anaheim, dealer in STOVES, TINWARE AGATEWARE, Pumps, Pipes and Brass Goods Plumbing done according to the San Francisco Banl tary Plumbing Law, to keep your house healthy and free from small. Agent for Qulok-Meal Gasoline Stove. Also agent for the HALIDAY WINDMILL, The best in use. THE ANAHEIM Pharmacy Contains to keep the most... Reliable Drugs and Desirable Patent Medicines. A Large Line of TOILET ARTICLES. PRAPS B porch Toilet Shamp & Specialty. We are just adding a complete line to our STOCK OF NOTIONS. All Kinds of LUBRICATING OILS for farm use cheap. GASOLINE At REDROCK PRICES, Nearw. ANAHEIM PHARMACT, D. W. HUNT. DR. G. H. BAILEY, Central Pharmacy, ANAHRIM, CAL. An entire New Book of Drugs and Medicines ACCURATE DISPENSING OF PREScriptions AT LOWEST PRICE. We carry a Complete Bank of Fancy Soaps, Toilet Artiples, and the Latest Fashionable Perfumes. SPONGES, CHAMBER & STATIONERY. PATENT MEDICINES, ETC. Center Street, Anaheim, Cal N. H. MITCHELL, PROF Headquarters for Commercial T HIPPOLYTE CAHE General Merchant Keeps Always on Hand the Best of GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS, HARDWARE, TINWARE, STATIONERY, AGA WOODENWARE, Boots and Shoes Men's Furnishing I'll call my Stock of Dry Goods and Ladies' Clothes and Children's Shoes at Coast for Comerer Center and Los Angeles Bldg., Anaheim, Cal. F. CRIST, MERCHANT TAKE Just received a complete assortment FALL Goods of latest styles and fawhich the attention of the citizens of A and vicinity is directed. Suits to order from Pants to order from An invitation is cordially extepublic to call and examine this stock. ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1880. NEW STORE. NOUNCEMENT announcing that I am ants of the public with Clothing, Dry Goods, GENERAL MERCHANDISE. Call and see for yourself, at my BROADWAY, Railroad Depot, near Fairview St HEESEMAN. O E G E, Retail Dealer in RS AND CIGARS. ON HAND — TE STOCK! Liquors and Cigars. D LIQUORS The Weekly Gazette. Established 1870. Items of news and correspondence on all lines subjects are solicited by the editor. Be 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. We don't believe in spirits—in any way, manner, shape or form—but Wednesday evening quite a party assembled at the residence of Mr. J. R. Forrester to have a table rapping, and the results of that meeting were wonderful. The table used was an ordinary wooden one and the circle was formed by some of the party seating themselves around it and placing their hands in such a manner as to form a circuit. For some time the table remained unmoved, but after a little more time it began to bob about and move from one end of the room to the other. Then the medium said that the spirit woke at work. Of course we didn't believe in that, but as the table raised up from the floor cold FARM NOTES. Name of the Association Why Hope Loves the Farm. The means which had hope to have the farm are perhaps so many and varied so them which prompt man to keep the promise they have long followed, and mark in new campaign. Look of interest in a sense which is of itself enough to turn any employment into diligency. It is in the willing hand which makes light work in every department of labor. Impatience at the slow results of continued hard work in another case of discontent. The ready money does not keep pace with the needs and desires of the boy on the farm. It is not always the case that the boy harbors the taste for his father's calling. The shameless man distresses the small of brother, preaching to shack his attention. The manifest nature, disturbing the bounds of his humane language, develops artistic tastes, and ignoring the promising position which his father's industry has seemed for him, alienates him the uncertainty of an artist's career. The still operation and the engineer look forward to being able to retire to little forms of their life, as the most useful purpose in life. Thus it may be seen that it is not unusual to change the competition in life and try new means and premises. But there is another reason, which should not be overlooked, why boys do not stay on the farm! Farmers are occasionally, perhaps, admitting their own away from the farm. The farmer and his wife were their broad ears by the most plaining family and hard work, maintained through it all by the thought that they were meeting a comfortable home for themselves and a good inheritance for their children. While hearing the heat and burden of the day, they dwelt with satisfaction on the thought that their son would not need to dragage so unnecessarily in his turn, but would find the way made smooth for him. In the father's boyhood there was little time for study. Portant indeed was his lot if he could attend the dis- Wednesday evening quite a party assembled at the residence of Mr. J. R. Forrester to have a table rapping, and the results of that meeting were wonderful. The table used was an ordinary wooden one and the circle was formed by some of the party seating themselves around it and placing their hands in such a manner as to form a circuit. For some time the table remained unmoved, but after a little more time it began to bob about and move from one end of the room to the other. Then the medium said that the spirits were at work. Of course we didn't believe in that, but as the table raised up from the floor cold chillie passed up and down our back and a fit of trembling seemed hold upon us. We didn't have any confidence in the spirit part of the performance, understand, but we trembled all the same. At one time the table was raised a considerable distance from the floor, falling with such force as to break it to pieces. Some of the names given by the spirits were only known by one of the party in the room; at other times the names were unrecognized. The messages delivered were, some of them, quite startling, and were enough to make a believer of the most incredulous. Verily, some strange things happen at these meetings, and they are things which we can't explain at all—Albany (Ga.) News and Advertiser. Average Life of a Horse. According to The Field, the possible length of the life of a horse is far beyond the average duration of it. A horse 15 years old is usually accounted of little value, and, as a rule, it would be difficult to give away the survivor of 18 or 20 years. But a horse's useful life extends to 30 or 40 years, and if the animal is used with care it may do valuable service during all this long term. It may be noticed that all the recorded instances of the death of very aged horses go to show that their lives were shortened by some mischance, and not by old age—New York Telegram. The Pulpit and the Stage. Rev. F. M. Blairot, Pastor United Brethren Church, Blue Mound, Kan., says: "I feel it my duty to tell what wonders Dr. King's New Discovery has done for me. My Lange were badly diseased, and my parishioners thought I could live only a few weeks. I took five bottles of Dr. King's New Discovery and am sound and well, gaining 26 lbs. in weight. Arthur Love, Manager Love's Funny Folks Combination, writer: "After a thorough trial and convincing evidence, I am confident Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, both 'em all, and curses when everything also fails. The greatest kindness I can do my many thousand friends is to urge them to try it." Free trial bottles at Wm. M. Higgins' Drugstore. Regular sizes 50c. and $1. Farmers and ranchers, bring in your eggs to Avery & Everhardy. They pay the highest market price. "Under the Hand and Seal of the Largest Orange in the State." Many favorable reports having been made, this Grange does not hesitate in pronouncing Farmers' Healing Limiment to be the best general healing preparation new in the market. It is a sure and speedy care for barbed wire cuts, and all sorts requiring healing; also for burns; it keeps flies away from any But there is another reason, which should not be overlooked, why boys do not stay on the farm! Farmer are uncontainably, perhaps, educating their men away from the farm. The farmer and his wife won their broad arms by the most pliuring funniness and hard work, sustained through it all by the thought that they were sensing a comfortable home for themselves and a good inheritance for their children. While bearing heat and burden of the day, they dwelt with satisfaction on the thought thus their son would not need to dragage no unnecessarily in his turn, but would find the way made smooth for him. In the father's boyhood there was little time for study. Fortunate indeed was his lot if he could attend the district school three months in the year, doing chorus night and morning. But with their son the father and mother mutually resolve it shall be very different. All the coveted avennas of learning, closed to the parents, shall be open to the boy. For this they plan and contrive, never doubting but that their son will prize the privileges as Tally as his father would have done. But perhaps the path is made too smooth. The boy who pored over problems by the light of a flaring pitch-pine knot, set in the wall of his cabin home, was stimulated by the difficulties in his way. Now that, in the case of his son, these difficulties are removed, the stimulus seems to have gone also. With every inducement of leisure and opportunity the desire to study seems passive, and the father finds, to his disappointment, that the object-for which he tailed is undervalued after all. For his son is quite content with a superficial education, and regards farming as beneath him. An instance of this kind came to my notice when visiting at a prosperous farm home. The only son was in his twenty-first year and attending the Normal School. He was pale and nervous, seeming to lack exercise. By the way in which he doubled his negatives, I feared that his primary education was neglected. His father told me that he kept a hired man in order that his son should have a good education and not be hindered by having to work. There was a writing-deck and some shelves of good books, for which the father alone seemed to have me. The active, wide-awake, intelligent farmer found time to read, study and write amid all the labors attendant upon the profitable management of a ninety-sore farm. He experimented with soils, he believed in the rotation of crops, and he had opinions on the life: subjects of the times. Which was the better educated man of the two? The son seemed to think a careful display of his watch-chain an important duty, but he could not join in the animated discussions of the neighbors as an evening call, and he only incidentally knew that there had been a fearful shipwreck at Samoa. The monotonous routine of crops of wheat, corn and potatoe, alternating with potatoes, corn and wheat, has doubled often served to weaken the bonds between the boy and the farm. The new era of small fruit raising has an opposite tendency. Catering to the popular taste in raising luxuries for the table, for which immediate profits are returned, seems like an assured business. The brisk trade, the competition, the necessity of strict methods of dealing, which of themselves are necessary of good reputations, all combine to stimulate the boy's energies, and he looks over the ground with new ideas of its capacity and development. His interest is amazed and there is seldom a relation into the old, aggrigated indifference after that. The sense of proprietorship is strong in this youth. It should be gratified whatever possible, for it also implies responsibility and trust. The absolute pompom of a soft, for which the boy is alone responsible, will do more to endure the home farm to him than any other argument that can be brought forward. And no more harm can be done him than to dis- Anaholm, Cal. NELL, PROP. commercial Travelers E CAHEN, merchandise Hand the Best of HARDWARE, ONEBY AGATEWARE, OILS, on's Furnishing Goods. and Children's Shoes at Cost for Cash. CHANT TAILOR. complete assortment of styles and fabrics, to the citizens of Anaheim $25 up. $6 up. cordially extended the line this stock. FRED CRIST. Farmers and rancher, bring in your eggs to Avery & Everhardy. They pay the highest market price. "Under the Hand and Seal of the Largest Grange in the State." Many favorable reports have been made, this Grange does not hesitate in pronouncing Farmers' Healing Liniment to be the best general healing preparation now in the market. It is a sure and speedy care for barbed wire cuts, and all norm requiring healing; also for burns; it keeps them away from any more. Signed, J. D. Huyman, Secretary San Joaquin County Pomona Grange, No. 3, P. of H. Large bottles, $1; small, 50 cents. For sale by Wm. M. Higgins, druggist, Anaheim, Cal. Go to A. T. Wallop for best Mocha and Java coffee. Attention is called to the advertisement of A. T. Wallop. His store is stocked with a comprehensive line of goods. Avery and Everhardy's Lord comes in plain this cann. Buy no Lord, represented as corn, that is sold in shampoo packages. Ap18tf Go to A. T. Wallop for best of maple syrup and sugar and rock candy syrup or any other make. Ap18tf Avery & Everhardy pay the highest cash market price for eggs. Go to A. T. Wallop for fresh ranch better. Ap18tf Ask your butcher and grocer for Avery & Everhardy's Home-made Lord. Ap18tf The City Meat Market keeps the best meat that the market offers. Leaves your orders with them. Avery & Everhardy's Home-made Lord in the best in the market. Ask your butcher and grocer for it. Avery and Everhardy's Lord comes in plain this cann. Buy no Lord, represented as corn, that is sold in shampoo packages. Ap18tf Avery & Everhardy pay the highest price for calves and hogs. Farmers, bring in your calves and get highest cash price at Avery & Everhardy, for which immediate profits are required, seems like an assured business. The brink trade, the competition, the necessity of strict methods of dealing, which of themselves are a ration of good reputations, all combine to stimulate the boy's energies, and he looks over the ground with new ideas of its capacity and development. His interest in armed and there is seldom a relapse into the old, alogritish indifference after that. The name of proprietorship is strong in the youth. It should be gratified whatever possible, for it also implies responsibility and trust. The absolute possession of a solitary boy is alone responsible, will do more to endure the home farm to him than any other argument that can be brought forward. And no more harm can be done him than disregard his rights to the ownership. In some cases a share in the fruits evaporation or the incinerator has proved a paying investment for the father to make. The farm is not ensured to the boy as to the father who planned, saved and worked to obtain it, redeeming it from the original forest perhaps, and making it grow into fertility in his own time. May bring apprehension, but for the present hints give the boy a tangible interest in the farm, a portion of land or an indenture in the crops, and see what the effect will be—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. The Irrigation Boom. California is now enjoying the heat boom it ever had—an irrigation boom. All over the State irrigation districts, made under the Wright Kell, are being formed as rapidly as the people can hold the elections. The result will be apparent kinds of two years' time in the fact that in that space the quantity of all kinds of agricultural products will be increased two times, nearly fifty-fifty. This means a prosperity for the State such as was never known before; this means that the farmers will have become more prosperous than this means that beyond all the other forms of California will bind the very hand on a State of farm. There is where universal prosperity begins with the farmers. Let that child die well and all the rest of us will have plenty to eat, and men prosper in our prisons. All this State needs to be handled with an irrigating hen and it will make all over its length and height. The most five years pull more development than later; though many were spent entirely in California then ever begun—San Diego Union. Mining-Wholesale-Mineral. After the late sale of Anaholm at Three Hours for $900,000, the price of the brother thus obtained both in plumbers' premises is still over and above the highest figure ever given. NOTES. The small of husband, the man of husband, the man of husband, the man of husband, the man of husband, the man of husband, the man of husband, the man of husband, the man of husband, the man of husband, the man of husband, the man of husband, the man of husband, the man of husband, the man of husband, the man of husband, the man of husband, the man of husband, the man of husband, the man of husband, the man of husband, The planting of 100 acres of fig in a humidly where, as we are informed, this year by drying purposes has been thoroughly tested in a very humid environment. An important practice is obtaining a material by processing and mixing a quality of fig which compares favorably with the "fig of emerald" from Asia Minor. This means that the land assignment of any consequence was made from France to the United States and largely matched to Orange. While the writer was in Chicago on his return trip, he attended the station sale of a portion of this shipment of fig and was accordingly interested at the sale. The holding was spirited and the prince mailed, when compared with those of the imported articles, very satisfactory. The choice of the emerald brought 60 cents per pound, and the balances sold from this figure down to 7½ cents per pound. Fruit Grocer. Making the Most of Parm Litch. Farming is sometimes characterized as a handwritten business. But there is a new and higher era of agriculture in California. Pistachio farming is now fairly dominant of a great deal of out-of-door life in this state. This has gradually brought about by the general tendency toward viticulture and fruit-growing. Of course, these interests do not represent all the agriculturalists of the State. But every year they are imminent greater prominence. One land-owner, it is announced will plant 500 acres in orchard and vineyard the coming year. The labor burdened on such an area devoted to fruit trees and vines will be greater for the next ten years than expanded on 10,000 acres devoted to wheat-growing. It requires a small army of men Remodifying Alkali Basics. The most obvious mode of correcting the condition of alkali mills generally is clearly, to supplement by artificial means the natural deficiency of drainage through the soil, resulting from the sunny rainfall. For if we once leach out the surplus salts that have accumulated for ages, it will take oceans to bring about the same condition of things, and we shall practically have put an end to the "alkali" difficulty. But this leaching out cannot be done by putting water on the surface of the land, unless at the same time its removal, after passing through the soil, is pro- Farming is sometimes characterized as a hardworking business. But there is a new and better era of agriculture in California. Pasture farming is now fairly dominant of a great deal of out-of-door life in this state. This has been gradually brought about by the general tendency toward viticulture and fruit-growing. Of course, these interests do not represent all the agricultural of the State. But every year they are increasing greater prominence. One land-owner, it is announced will plant 500 acres in orchard and vineyard the coming year. The labor bestowed on such an area devoted to fruit trees and vines will be grateful for the next ten years than expected on 10,000 acres devoted to wheat-growing. It requires a small army of men nearly all the year round to care for 500 acres in fruit and vines. A great deal has been written about the dull and uninviting side of agricultural work. The truth is, people who have a genuine taste for life on the farm do not find it dull nor the vacation antitactic. There is a great deal of hard work, it is true. But why, in any of the industrial callings is achieving any success without hard work? The climate and soil of this State are no favorable to viticulture and fruit-farming. They find that the rough hillsides which are covered with rank undergrowth, once cleared, can be converted into vinyards, orchards and most attractive homesteads. The whole aspect of such a place is picturesque. The green squares of the vineyard on the mountain slope, the orchards in the little valley, the few forest trees that are left as moonshades of the former wilderness of nature, the running water and even the rocks which furnish inexhaustible material for building, all contribute to make the rural picture a delight to the eye. The interest is heightened by the fact it is only by a series of experiments that one can find out what are the resources of the soil. One small vineyard may have a capacity for producing wine of surpassing excellence. Another tract is deficient in this capacity, but it is well adapted for certain kinds of fruit. Now, all these variations in the soil are well understood in France. But here these differences are slowly learned by a series of experiments. The interest is kept alive because the owner in most instances does not know the limit of capacity which his small holding may have. Is within the range of possibilities that he may have twenty or forty acres that may produce better wines than are grown for many miles around, or he may have a warm belt, a shallower valley, for instance, where almost fruits come to perfection, or the aprices and fig are perfect in size and flavor. If he has turned his attention to any one of those departments of culture what is to hinder him from getting as much out of life on his limited number of acres—that is, as much real satisfaction and comfort as are derived from any other vacation! Of course his satisfaction will depend very much on his taste and his love of an out-door life. But it is observed that people who turn their attention in this direction do it because they have a genuine love of this kind of life. They make it attractive by their example. Every vineyard and orchard, and a large proportion of the homesteads which have been created on the rough hillsides, are no many pictures. There is nothing hamdram in such a life, especially if communication is kept up with the more populous centers of bansmen. No doubt this is the most attractive side of agricultural life in California. Beyond what is found in almost any other State, agriculture here has this picturesque aspect. This feature is becoming more prominent every year. A new element is constantly coming in to tame the wildness of the hills and mountain slopes. Whatever may have been the temporary reversal, people resultately enter upon the work of subduing the rank soil and planting orchards and vineyards. There is a great deal of hard work to be done by putting water on the surface of the land, unless at the same time its removal after passing through the soil, is provided for. For it is manifest that if the alkali solution descends ne farther than the ashsoil and remains there, ready to respond as soon as evaporation at the surface calls for, we shall have done no good. In fact, the instability of this mode of procedure has been so thoroughly tested in practice, both in California and in India, as to have shown that it is the reverse of useful and increases instead of diminishing the evil; because the soluble salts thereafter second from greater depths than the annual rainfall could have reached, and their total sum is thus materially increased. This is the simple explanation of what is known in the Great Valley as the "rise of the alkali," which is observed in all lands subjected to surface irrigation for some length of time; creating, increasing inconvenience and alarm as time progresses. While under the natural conditions existing in California there is no real cause for alarm so far as the ultimate repression of the alkali plague is concerned, and while in the majority of cases judicious cultivation (with use of gypnum when called for) is capable of preventing any serious damage to crops, yet the present inconvenience and loss resulting from the rise and rapid extension of the alkali area are sufficient to call for strong measures toward the abatement of the evil. The first condition of such abatement is a general understanding of the nature and causes of the trouble, the more as in many cases the improvement cannot be brought about without such concerted action (and perhaps even the exercise of the right of condemnation and eminent domain) as is required in the case of irrigation works. Under drainage is the general and absolute corrective for alkali. To flood the land until underdrains, laid reasonable distances apart, shall have run for some time, will end the trouble, not only for the time being, but four centuries provided, only that solid beds off the alkali salts do not underlie, as unfortunately seems to be the case in some of the lower lands of the upper Talara basin. *Bulletin No. 83., Professor Hilgard, University of California.* Epoch. The transition from long, lingering and painful sickness to robust health is an epoch in the life of the individual. Such a remarkable event is treasured in the memory and the agency whereby the good health has been attained is graffally blessed. Hence it is that so much is heard in praise of Electric Bitters. So many feel they owe their restoration to health, to the use of the Great Alternative and Tonic. If you are troubled with any disease off Kidneys, Liver or Stomach, of long or short standing you will surely find relief by use of Electric Bitters. Sold at 50c. and $1 per bottle at Wm. M. Higgin's Draughtstore. A Convenient Tool. In a region where irrigation is practiced to such an extent as it is in California, it frequently becomes necessary to lay out small ditches where the services of a surveyor are naturally obtained or where the work is A convenient tool. In a region where irrigation is practiced to such an extent as it is in California, it frequently becomes necessary to lay out small ditches where the services of a surveyor are not readily obtained, or where the work is of so temporary or slight character as not to warrant the expense of a scientific survey. Under such circumstances a triangle and plumb bob will be found a ready and efficient method of maintaining the direction and depth of the ditch in order to obtain the required fall. The triangle is made as follows: Two sticks of exactly equal length are obtained and beveled at one end. These sticks are fastened either with a hinged or permanently with screws or nails. If with a hinge, the apparatus can be made to fold up in small compasses for use in transportation. The triangle should be made to cover at least one red. A third stick is necessary, and the length of this is determined by spreading the feet of the triangle to cover the required distance and then fastening them apart with the cross stick, which may be attached with nails or pins about half way between the base and the apex of the triangle. The string holding the plumb bob must be attached exactly at the center of the apex, which is readily done. After this a perfectly level space must be formed, usually a floor, which may be tamed with a level in order to whether the snout corner has been knotted, after marking the entrance turn the triangle end for end and see if the line falls in the most place as before. If it does the triangle is perfect. In order to maintain the amount of grade given the ditch that is within construction, prepare a number of blocks on each side of the triangle and mark the spot where the line falls upon the excavation. After this has been done with one arm, remove the order and mark the excavation on the other side. With much an impairment as this no bridging or drainage ditch may be built without any amount of construction as in indirectly acquired in their kind of work. All of the primitive irrigation systems of this county were originally constructed by his method and have been entirely multifaceted.—Chronicle,