anaheim-gazette 1897-10-28

CHARMED BY A RATTLESNAKE. Sank Into Unconsciousness While the Serpent Was Colled on His Breast. Prof. Charles Rice, the botanist, had a thrilling experience with a monster rattlesnake in Calaveras county recently, and it was only his coolness and presence of mind that saved him from death. He and Dr. Tynan, the bugologist, were up in the higher altitudes of the Sierra in search of rare specimens, and were camped at a place called Moore Creek. They had a small tent with them, which they had pitched near a stream of water that was fed by a spring higher up on the side of the mountain. Friday evening of last week the professor and his companion, who were completely worn out with their day's tramp in search of rare flowers and bugs, retired to their tent, rolled themselves up in their blankets, and were soon in dreamland. Just as daylight was breaking the professor was awakened from his slumbers by feeling a soft and clammy substance crawling over his face and down onto his chest, and on raising his head a little to his horror he discovered it was a monster rattlesnake. The reptile had colled itself, with its head raised about a foot, and ready at the least movement made to strike. Cold drops of perspiration oozed from every pore of the Professor's body, while his muscles became as rigid as bars of iron, and his eyes became fixed with a stony glare as he gazed at the head of the monster, which was about six or seven inches from his face and swinging from one side to the other with the regularity of a clock pendulum. The suspense was becoming unbearable, but still he knew that the least move that he made meant death in the most terrible form. How long he remained in this terrible position he does not know, but it seemed ages, when suddenly he felt his muscles relax, his vision grow dim, everything about him became dark, and in a few seconds he was oblivious to everything around him. The doctor was quietly sleeping a few feet away, unconscious of the terrible danger of his companion. When he awoke the sun was brightly streaming into the tent, and as he rolled over in his blankets toward his companion his blood seemed to chill in his veins at the sight presented to his view. His companion was stretched at full length upon the ground, with his eyes closed Nervous People often wonder why their nerves are so weak; why they get tired so easily; why they start at every slight but sudden sound; why they do not sleep naturally; why they have frequent headaches, indigestion and nervous Dyspepsia The explanation is simple. It is found in that impure blood which is continually feeding the nerves upon refuse instead of the elements of strength and vigor. In such condition opiate and nerve compounds simply deaden and do not cure. Hood's Sarsaparilla feeds the nerves pure, rich, red blood; gives natural sleep, perfect digestion, is the true remedy for all nervous troubles. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the One True Blood Purifier. $1 per bottle. Prepared only by C. I. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. Hood's Pills cure Liver Ills; easy to take, easy to operate. 200. VOICE OF THE PRESS. CURIOUS CASE OF INSANITY IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY. From the National City Record. A capital idea, that suggested by the Record, the annexation of San Diego county to Arizona. Don't let the matter rest until that thing so devoutly to be wished is consummated. The sentiment of living in California need not stand in the way. Being the only seafort of a great State will heal all sentimental wounds, and give us proper recognition. We shall then no longer fear the rivalry of San Pedro slough, or sigh for the advantages a railroad terminus bestows. As Arizona's greatest seaport, we will have shipping galore, and a transcontinental railroad that will be glad of our patronage. Think how quickly the tide of travel and traffic would turn the other way for New York, Chicago and all the east and south. Think how the upcountry cities and harbors would lift their hats to us and do us reverence! San Diego is sometimes referred to as "the site for a harbor;" in the good time coming it will be a harbor and not a site for one. State division is in the air. Let Los Angeles and San Francisco fraternize if they will, San Diego and San Bernardino if they choose. STREET OF SPIRIT CURIOUS DISCOVERIES MONTH OF FLORIDA THICKENESS Immense Webs Woven by Yeast A Mysterious Disappearance A Fruitlike Crab—Tricks of Teeth the Defenseless. Once, in attempting to force through the thick bay cedar of one of the smaller and outliers Florida reef I suddenly an opening which had threw off a narrow street or trail. Was six or eight feet in her markably thick, and the herd erable. The branches and I were interlaced formed a work and gave shelter to crabs, which had taken piled birds' nests, while uneven eggs and newly hatched covered the ground. Once in the opening or found to be about seventeen winding away out of sight, was blocked by several clusters—a succession of web vertically across the pathway vals of five or six feet. The extraordinary strength and outflow poised in a marvel. In the center of each of these riders clung a huge yellow skin and conspicuous that I fore the first doubting their my eyes, and as I looked low spider of the series there was no doubt about so striking and gaudy, it away, and through the wet other yellow spiders beyond that it was no illusion. While I stood wondering sun the spider solved their appearing again, first dimly many spiders quivering in light, finally resolving its huge yellow fellow that no pendulum to and fro and then I touched it gently with a sword wherein it deliberately swing its huge body, impart entire web a vibratory motion increased in rapidity until the spider began to grow in a few moments became it was all very simple when The spider when alarming swing, gradually increasing until it disappeared or could lowed by the eye. Think might be exceptional, I am the least move that he made meant death in the most terrible form. How long he remained in this terrible position he does not know, but it seemed ages, when suddenly he felt his muscles relax, his vision grow dim, everything about him became dark, and in a few seconds he was oblivious to everything around him. The doctor was quietly sleeping a few feet away, unconscious of the terrible danger of his companion. When he awoke the sun was brightly streaming into the tent, and as he rolled over in his blankets toward his companion his blood seemed to chill in his veins at the sight presented to his view. His companion was stretched at full length upon the ground, with his eyes closed and his face as white as a piece of marble, while coiled upon his breast was a huge rattlesnake, apparently asleep. He quietly seized a shotgun that was standing near by, and cocking both barrels, raised it to his shoulder and was about to fire, when he realized that if he did he would probably injure his companion. Just at this moment his companion moved a little, when the snake gave a rattle and again raised his head. The doctor, seeing his chance, fired, and at the report of his gun his companion gave a yell and jumped to his feet, throwing the reptile some three or four feet away from him in its death struggle. The doctor's aim was true, for the reptile's head was blown completely off. On being measured it was found to be 4 feet 9 inches in length and had seventeen rattles and a button. The professor's nerves were so shattered by his terrible experience that he was hardly able to walk, and the following day, in company with his companion, he returned to Calaveras, where he is at present recuperating under the doctor's care. Those who believe chronic diarrhoea to be incurable should read what Mr. P. E. Grisham, of Gaars Mills, La., has to say on the subject, viz: "I have been a sufferer from chronic diarrhoea ever since the war and have tried all kinds of medicines for it. At last I found a remedy that effected a cure and that was Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy." This medicine can always be depended upon for colic, cholera morbus, dysentery and diarrhoea. It is pleasant to take and never fails to effect a cure. 25 and 50 cent sizes for sale by P. A. Derge. Sandy's Salvation. "An' hoo's the guild wife, Sandy!" said one farmer to another, as they met in the market place and exchanged snuff boxes. "Did ye no hear that she's dead and buried?" said Sanly solemnly. "Dear me!" exclaimed his friend, sympathetically. "Surely it must have been very sudden?" "Aye, it was sudden," returned Sandy. "Ye see, when she turned ill we hadna time to send for the doctor, sae I gled her a bit pouther that I had lying in my drawer for a year or two, an' that I had got free the doctor myself', but hadna ta'en. What the pouther was I dinna verra weel ken, but she died soon after. It's a sair loss to me, I can assure ye, but it's something to be thankful' for I didn tak' the pouther mysel.'" Two Irish Letters. An Irishman received from his nephew the following letter: Dear Uncle:—If you could see how I blush for shame while I am writing you would pity me. Do you know why? Because I have to ask for a few pounds, and do not know how to tell you. I prefer to die. I send you this by messenger, who will wait for an answer. Be The SAN JOAQUIN RANCH TITLE. From the Santa Ana Standard. It is rumored that through the efforts of Ex-U. S. Attorney General Gus Garland the government has concluded to have a re-survey of the San Joaquin ranch. This may mean much or little. If the survey is to be made in accordance with the claims made by Irvine it will simply result in confirming to him all that he now claims. But if the records bearing on his title are to be carefully searched and a survey made in accordance with what that search may develop as to those claims there may be a big surprise in store both for Irvine and the public generally. Right here a question or two may be asked. If this survey shows that Irvine has been for years occupying government lands, collecting rents for the same, ousting settlers therefrom and planting others thereon, what kind of difficulty has he gotten into? Will he have to refund to those whom he collected from and be subject to damages to those whom he ejected and otherwise gerrymandered? Well, let us wait and perhaps time will answer all these queries. THE RIVERSIDE VIEW OF IT. From the Riverside Press. The light touch of a norther in the air for the past few days is hailed with delight by the beet growers of Chino. There are over 25,000 tons of beets still in the fields there, and the rain of last week was liable to start them growing again and greatly decrease the sugar percentages. The farmers have begun to plow out and silo the beets, and the present warm, dry weather is very favorable for that work. Mr. Oxnard has informed the farmers' committee that for all beets siloo according to the company's instructions they would pay the farmers twenty cents per ton on silo expenses, but would assume no risk of beets spoiling or deteriorating in sugar qualities. The total delivery of beets from the Chino fields so far this season amounts to over 28,000 tons; about 700 tons per day are being delivered to the factory. The farmers were last week paid for their September delivery of beets, receiving nearly $50,000. The Chino farmers feel that the Oxnards have not dealt fairly with them in receiving beets from Anaheim and letting the Chino beets remain in the ground. There is likely to be considerable friction in arranging contracts for next year. The Sunset Limited. I take pleasure in announcing to the traveling public that this elegant vestibulated train will make its initial trip for the season of 1897-8 from Los Angeles Tuesday, October 19th, at 10:30 a.m., and a semi-weekly service will be maintained until further notice on Tuesday and Fridays of each week. We shall then no longer fear the rivalry of San Pedro slough, or sigh for the advantages a railroad terminus bestows. As Arizona's greatest seaport, we will have shipping gallore, and a transcontinental railroad that will be glad of our patronage. Think how quickly the tide of travel and traffic would turn the other way for New York, Chicago and all the east and south. Think how the up-country cities and harbors would lift their hats to us and do us reverence! San Diego is sometimes referred to as "the site for a harbor;" in the good time coming it will be a harbor and not a site for one. State division is in the air. Let Los Angeles and San Francisco fraternize if they will, San Diego and San Bernardino if it choose, will cast our lots with the glorious new State to be—Arizona. THE SAN JOAQUIN RANCH TITLE. From the Santa Ana Standard. It is rumored that through the efforts of Ex-U. S. Attorney General Gus Garland the government has concluded to have a re-survey of the San Joaquin ranch. This may mean much or little. If the survey is to be made in accordance with what that search may develop as to those claims there may be a big surprise in store both for Irvine and the public generally. Right here a question or two may be asked. If this survey shows that Irvine has been for years occupying government lands, collecting rents for the same, ousting settlers therefrom and planting others thereon, what kind of difficulty has he gotten into? Will he have to refund to those whom he collected from and be subject to damages to those whom he ejected and otherwise gerrymandered? Well, let us wait and perhaps time will answer all these queries. THE RIVERSIDE VIEW OF IT. From the Riverside Press. The light touch of a norther in the air for the past few days is hailed with delight by the beet growers of Chino. There are over 25,000 tons of beets still in the fields there, and the rain of last week was liable to start them growing again and greatly decrease the sugar percentages. The farmers have begun to plow out and silo the beets, and the present warm, dry weather is very favorable for that work. Mr. Oxnard has informed the farmers' committee that for all beets siloo according to the company's instructions they would pay the farmers twenty cents per ton on silo expenses, but would assume no risk of beets spoiling or deteriorating in sugar qualities. The total delivery of beets from the Chino fields so far this season amounts to over 28,000 tons; about 700 tons per day are being delivered to the factory. The farmers were last week paid for their September delivery of beets, receiving nearly $50,000. The Chino farmers feel that the Oxnards have not dealt fairly with them in receiving beets from Anaheim and letting the Chino beets remain in the ground. There is likely to be considerable friction in arranging contracts for next year. For some distance I foe street of spiders, creeping webs when I could, and these tricks of nature to prune fenseless were apparent. The gulls simulated the saw the little mantis, which o big cedar, was the exact deft detection Two Irish Letters. An Irishman received from his nephew the following letter: Dear Uncle:—If you could see how I blush for shame while I am writing you would pity me. Do you know why? Because I have to ask for a few pounds, and do not know how to tell you. I prefer to die. I send you this by messenger, who will wait for an answer. Believe me, my dearest uncle, your most obedient and affectionate nephew. "P. S.—Overcome with shame for what I have written. I have been running after the messenger in order to take the letter from him, but I cannot catch up. Heaven grant that something may happen to stop him, or that my letter gets lost." Naturally the uncle was touched, and to the sorrowing nephew he sent immediately the sympathetic reply: "My Dear Jack:—Console yourself and blush no longer. Providence has heard your prayers. The messenger lost your letter. Your affectionate, Southern Pacific Local Time Table. Southern Pacific Railroad Time Table.—Trains pass Anaheim as follows: To Los Angeles Lv., From Los Angeles, Daily...7:44 am Daily...9:45 am Daily...4:25 pm Daily...6:01 pm Daily trains connect at Miraflores with train for Tustin, and at Studebaker with Whittier trains. In effect May 30th, 1897. Street cars connect with all trains. LOS ALAMITOS TRAINS. Leave for— 9:48 a.m. 6:03 p.m. Sugar Factory Arrive from— 7:52 a.m. 4:25 p.m. Orphans. ANAHEIM, Oct. 6, 1897. The following are the orphans admitted into St. Catherine's Orphanage, Anaheim, since the last publication: Half orphans: Rex Moreno, aged 9 years; Harry Moreno, aged 8 years; Olen Moreno, aged 5 years; James Moreno, aged 4 years; Charles Hale, aged 7 years; Jose Levas, aged 7 years; Harry White, aged 11 years; 1 month; James Dobson, aged 7 years; Sliprian Mogört, aged 7 years. Abandoned: Ignacio Gomey, aged 7 years, 6 months; Alberto Gomey, aged 6 years; Edward Kelley, aged 2 years, 4 months; Willie Patterson, aged 6 years; Daves Patterson, aged 4 years; George Welck, aged 6 years; Eugene Denham, aged 8 years; Willard Oberlander, aged 8 years; Leo Orestes Sanchez, aged 7 years. MOTHER SALESIA, Directress. The Sunset Limited. I take pleasure in announcing to the traveling public that this elegant vestibulated train will make its initial trip for the season of 1897-8 from Los Angeles Tuesday, October 19th, at 10:30 a.m., and a semi-weekly service will be maintained until further notice on Tuesdays and Fridays of each week, via El Paso, the Texas and Pacific to Texarkana, St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern to St. Louis and Chicago and Alton to Chicago; time from Los Angeles, 72 hours. This is the most magnificent train in America. It carries with it all the comforts desirable in traveling or at home, being equipped with palatial compartment cars. Ladies' parlor and ladies' maid library and reading rooms, barber shops and bathrooms, smoker and dining-car, with courteous attendants throughout, and notwithstanding the unusual splendor and undisputed standard of excellence in passenger service, the ticket rates are no more than by any ordinary first-class train. Reaching St. Louis early in the morning, connection is made with prominent trains eastbound, and at Chicago with limited and other east and south-bound fast trains, via the different lines. I am prepared to furnish through tickets to any railway point in the United States, Canada or Mexico, and furnish information regarding travel to prospective purchasers, first or second-class. T. A. DARLING, Agt S. P. Co. Quickest Time Between Los Angeles and the East. Commencing Tuesday, October 26th, the Santa Fe Route limited train service will be re-established between Los Angeles and the East. This train, which will be first-class only, will leave Los Angeles every Tuesday and Friday at 8 a.m., reaching Kansas City 6:10 p.m. Thursdays and Sundays, St. Louis 7 a.m. Fridays and Mondays, and Chicago at 9:43 a.m. Fridays and Mondays. Connection will be made at Barstow with the train from San Francisco, so that there will be no delay to passengers from the north. The through dining car and buffet smoking car will be under the management of Fred Harvey. Boy Wanted. Bright boy, who speaks German, to learn the implement trade. Apply to W. F. Luts & Co. For some distance I for street spiders, creeping webs when I could, and these tricks of nature to prick fenseless were apparent. The gulls simulated the sails the little mantis, which can big cedar, was the exact leaves and defied detection dentally brushed off. Over the secluded spot nature her protecting mantle of New York Post. Too Crude. Medical Editor—This will Jones. You write here of ped in gall." We've give Make it "a pen charged wons septicemia."—Pick Mc The man who tries to turn left always goes home without mention that the streets are filled of boorish persons.—Milwaukee. I have always thought that good was only what was best in action.—Rousseau. A $20,000,000 FR That Is What the Bridal Pass Government Treasury Is Decree "I hate to shatter a pet giving the facts in the case former clerk in the treasury at Washington," but fraud exposed regardless of conceit the greatest fraud I know of mops 'bridal package' of vaults. "I say famous, but it isn't a general sense. It is far among bridal couples. I bow it is, but every bridal go to Washington on the tour—and it seems to me nine-tenths of the bridal co-country go to Washington about that package, and the rest until she goes through routine connected with it. Washington by a stranger without an inspection of vaults, but if his or her visit bridal one the fraud of it isn't played. "I don't know who it was parment that first imposed..." STREET OF SPIDERS. CURIOUS DISCOVERIES MADE IN A FLORIDA THICKET. Immense Webs Woven by Yellow Spiders. A Mysterious Disappearance Explained. A Fruitlike Crab—Tricks of Nature Protect the Defenseless. Once, in attempting to force my way through the thick bay cedar underbrush of one of the smaller and outer keys of the Florida reef I suddenly broke into an opening which had the appearance of a narrow street or trail. The brush was six or eight feet in height and remarkably thick, and the heat was intolerable. The branches and leaves which were interlaced formed a perfect network and gave shelter to innumerable crabs, which had taken possession of old birds' nests, while under foot the eggs and newly hatched terns almost covered the ground. Once in the opening or street it was found to be about seven feet across, winding away out of sight, but my way was blocked by several curious obstacles—a succession of webs stretched vertically across the pathway at intervals of five or six feet. They were of extraordinary strength and were thrown out and polished in a marvelous manner. In the center of each of these silken barriers clung a huge yellow spider, so ugly and conspicuous that I stopped before the first doubting the evidence of my eyes, and as I looked the first yellow spider of the series disappeared. There was no doubt about it. At first so striking and gaudy, it slowly faded away, and through the web I could see other yellow spiders beyond, suggesting that it was no illusion. While I stood wondering in the hot sun the spider solved the mystery by appearing again, first dimly, then like many spiders quivering in the strong light, finally resolving itself into one huge yellow fellow that moved like a pendulum to and fro and then stopped I touched it gently with a switch I held, whereupon it deliberately began swing its huge body, imparting to the entire web a vibratory motion which increased in rapidity until the body of the spider began to grow fainter, and in a few moments became invisible. It was all very simple when understood. The spider when alarmed began to swing, gradually increasing the motion until it disappeared or could not be followed by the eye. Thinking the case might be exceptional, I again touched LIKE A MIRACLE How a Locomotor Ataxia Sufferer Was Cured. From the Evening News, Detroit, Mich. James Crocket, a sturdy old Scotchman, living in Detroit, Mich., at 88 Montcalm Street, was asked about his wonderful cure. "First," he said, "I must tell you something of my life before my almost fatal sickness. I was born in Scotland in 1822, and came to this country in 1848. I am a marine engineer by trade. In 1872 I was in the employ of the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Co., and for fifteen years I was chief engineer on one of their big passenger steamers. My first boat was the R.N. Rice, which was burned at the docks. Then I was transferred to the Rubie, which was chartered to make the run between Detroit and Cleveland. "I brought out the new steamer the 'City of the Straits,' and for years acted as her chief engineer. It is a great responsibility, the position of chief engineer on those big passenger palaces. Thousands of lives are held in the keeping of the engineer. The anxiety causes a great nervous strain, and the strictest attention is necessary. Not for a moment must he lose his watchfulness. "For fifteen years I carefully watched the big engines and boilers without a single accident, and only noticed that I was getting nervous. Suddenly without warning I was taken sick, and in less than a week I was prostrated. I had the best of physicians, I grew gradually worse, and at the council of doctors, they said I had nervous prostration, and had destroyed my whole nervous system and would never be able to up again. They said I had worn myself out by the long nervous strain caused by watching and worrying about the machinery. For three long years I was unable to move from my bed without assistance. The doctor said I had locomotor ataxia, and would never be able to walk again. "The pains and suffering I experienced during those years are almost indescribable." My wife used to put eight or ten hot water bags around me to stop the pain. Those that came to see me bid me good-bye when they left me, and I was given up. The doctors said nothing more could be done for me. "We tried every known remedy, and my wife kept reading the articles about Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People to me. Finally she said they only cost 50 cents, and she wanted to know if I would try them. To please her I consented, and the first box gave me relief. I continued to use them for about two years before I could get strength enough to walk. It came slow but sure, but what I am to-day is due wholly to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. "I am nearly seventy-five years old to-day, and there is not a man in the whole city that can kick higher or walk further than I can to-day. If any one has locomotor ataxia that reads it, let them come and see me to-day. Can you tell me a man to-day in this big city that can do better than that?" said Mr. Crocket, as he kicked the reporter's hat, which was held high above his head. "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People made me what I am to-day. I only wish I could persuade others to do as I did, and take them before it is too late." (Signed) Before me, a Notary Public, personally appeared James Crocket, who signed and swore to the above statement as being true in every particular. ROBERT E. HULL, JR., Notary Public. Wayne County, Mich. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People are sold in boxes (never in loose form by the dozen or hundred), and the public are cautioned against numerous imitations sold in this shape at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Schenectady, N.Y. dal pairr, but it went, and it grows in popularity every year. When the couple enter the vault, the man in charge, after a few preliminary and perfunctory remarks, reaches up on a shelf, takes down a package of notes, and tells the bride to take it in her hand, if she hasn't asked for it the very first thing. He then tells her that the package contains $20,000,000 in treasury notes, all in denomination of $10,000 each. The bride is delighted, of course, and when she goes back home she talks for weeks about having held $20,000,000 in her hand all at one time. The bridegroom can't resist enjoying that same pleasure, and he fondles the package awhile. He Promotes Restaurants. A shrewd New Yorker, who started his business career over 30 years ago as a purveyor of coffee and crullers in an all night booth at old Fulton market, is making a barrel of money, his friends say, as a promoter of restaurants. This eating house speculator, after selecting a location, opens a spick and span new restaurant, with cheap prices, excellent service, first class cooking and top notch meals and bread, vegetables and pastry, coffee and biscuits. He soon builds up a fine trade. His patrons praise the place for one or more of its specialties, and then the promoter sells out at a handsome profit. Soon after... many spiders quivering in the strong light, finally resolving itself into one huge yellow fellow that moved like a pendulum to and fro and then stopped I touched it gently with a switch I held, whereupon it deliberately began to swing its huge body, imparting to the entire web a vibratory motion which increased in rapidity until the body of the spider began to grow fainter, and in a few moments became invisible. It was all very simple when understood. The spider when alarmed began to swing, gradually increasing the motion until it disappeared or could not be followed by the eye. Thinking the case might be exceptional, I again touched the spider, and again it literally swung itself out of sight. Crawling beneath the web, I confronted the next spider, which also was yellow or saffron in color, with black, velvetlike markings, hanging in the sun like a great topos, its web dotted with the remains of many feasts—empty skeletons of insects, bits of pearly fish scales, perhaps dropped by some passing bird, a delicate feather and a mottley array of files and other insect folk. At first the spider paid me scant attention, then I saw a slight convulsive movement of its legs as it imparted the first long swing to its hammocklike web that put this wonderful life saving device, for this it was, in motion. It was the spider’s defense and protection from enemies. Certain birds undoubtedly preyed upon the spiders, and this faculty of mysteriously disappearing had on more than one occasion served it well. I could easily imagine the astonishment of the bird when darting down to seize the plump and showy spider to find that it had slipped away. There was much in this street of yellow spiders to distract the mind from the intense heat that poured down from the almost vertical sun. In the middle of the path, beyond a turn, grew a clump of cactus, with here and there a ripe fruit rich in the purple of full maturity—a brilliant contrast to the green leaves. As I stood watching the hermit crabs dropping from the bushes and scurrying away over the sand I thought I saw a ripe fruit of the cactus move; then to my amazement, it passed directly out of sight, not after the fashion of the spiders, but by slipping around one of the big leaves. I almost expected to see the others follow it, but nothing of the kind occurred. I walked along and placed myself in a position to see behind the broad, flat, pear shaped leaf. There was the purple object, now moving cautiously around with the evident intention of keeping itself out of sight, and then I saw that it was a crab, a crab with a purple back the exact tint of the fruit, while its general shape, when the legs were tucked up beneath the body, made the crab a mimic of the cactus fruit, a protective resemblance so perfect that the crab was safe from sharp eyed enemies, and I should have passited it by had it remained quiet, but the phenomenon of moving fruit attracted my attention and led to its discovery. For some distance I followed this street of spiders, creeping beneath the webs when I could, and everywhere these tricks of nature to protect the defenseless were apparent. The eggs of the gulls simulated the sand in color; the little mantis, which clung to the big cedar, was the exact tint of the leaves and defended detection until accidental pair, but it went, and it grows in popularity every year. When the couple enter the vault, the man in charge, after a few preliminary and perfunctory remarks, reaches up on a shelf, takes down a package of notes, and tells the bride to take it in her hand, if she hasn’t asked for it the very first thing. He then tells her that the package contains $20,000,000 in treasury notes, all in denomination of $10,000 each. The bride is delighted, of course, and when she goes back home she talks for weeks about having held $20,000,000 in her hand at all one time. The bridegroom can’t resist enjoying that same pleasure, and he fondles the package awhile, and the pair go away blissful over the experience, while the treasury vault man tosses the package back on the shelf and chuckles. “Now this is all simply a gigantic fraud on the young people. The treasury at Washington does not hold that amount of money. The bulk of the government money is at the subtreasury in this city That ‘bridal package’ is a gay deceiver. It does contain notes to the amount of $20,000,000, of the denomination of $10,000 each, but they’re not money, because they’re not signed. So instead of having held in their hands $20,000,000 the happy couple have fondled simply a package that represented no more value than the price of the paper and the printing on it. It may be cruel to shatter this pretty delusion, but my conscience forbids me to carry the burden of its concealment any longer; hence these facts.”—New York Sun. A Workman and His Work. The wife of a friend of mine is the possessor of a thin gold watch chain. It is something after the pattern of a cable. Each link is finely finished, and the workmanship is that of an artist. In examining it closely one would even think that person who made it in love with his work. It is a mechanical masterpiece. My friend made it a gift to his wife about 15 years ago, and it is not only highly prized by her on that account, but also because of its design and finish. A week or two ago one of the links broke. “I will get that fixed for you all right,” said my friend. “I know just the man to take it to. He is not a jeweler, but a machinist by trade, and I would rather give a job like this to him than to a jeweler. He has a mechanical genius runs to work of this kind.” My friend took the chain to the genius. He has a small, mean looking shop in an ancient diapidated building in an unlikely street down town. He examined the chain carefully and appeared to become reflective over it. Then his face lit up with a smile as he said: “I remember this chain very well. I made it 15 years ago.” — Brooklyn Eagle. The Passing of Cayuse. Fossil collections gathered in old lake beds of eastern Oregon demonstrate that the broad plains between the Rocky and Cascade mountains were the original habitat of the prehistoric horse, a fleet little animal no larger than a fox which in the long ago scampered over the lonely land. After the lapse of ages the modern horse is now to degenerate upon the stamping ground of his ancestors. The cayuse has become so valueless by the invasion of the electric car and the dal pair, but it went, and it grows in popularity every year. When the couple enter the vault, the man in charge, after a few preliminary and perfunctory remarks, reaches up on a shelf, takes down a package of notes, and tells the bride to take it in her hand, if she hasn’t asked for it the very first thing. He then tells her that the package contains $20,000,000 in treasury notes, all in denomination of $10,000 each. The bride is delighted, of course, and when she goes back home she talks for weeks about having held $20,000,000 in her hand at all one time. The bridegroom can’t resist enjoying that same pleasure, and he fondles the package awhile, and the pair go away blissful over the experience, while the treasury vault man tosses the package back on the shelf and chuckles. “Now this is all simply a gigantic fraud on the young people. The treasury at Washington does not hold that amount of money. The bulk of the government money is at the subtreasury in this city That ‘bridal package’ is a gay deceiver. It does contain notes to the amount of $20,000,000, of the denomination of $10,000 each, but they’re not money, because they’re not signed. So instead of having held in their hands $20,000,000the happy couple have fondled simply a package that represented no more value than the price ofthe paper andthe printing onit. It may be cruel to shatter this pretty delusion,但my conscience forbids me to carrythe burdenofitsconcealmentanylonger; hence these facts.”—New York Sun. Swiftness of Things. Below will be found a list showing how far certain things animate and innanimate will travel in a second of time: The snail,一半half inch;a man walking,four feet;a fast runner，23 feet;a fly，24 feet;fast skater，38 feet;ocean waves，70 feet;a carrier pigoon，87 feet;swallows，220 feet;the worst cyclone known，380 feet;the Krakaton wave (atthe volcanic catastropheofAug.27，1893，intheSunda islands)，940 feet; soundinthe air，1，095feet;the surfaceoftheglobeatsealevelontheequator，1，500feet；themoon，3，250feet；thesun，5½ miles；the earth，18 miles;Holley'scometintherihelion，235 miles;electriccurrentonthetelegraphwires，7，000 miles;inductioncurrent，11，040 miles;electriccurrentincopierwirearmatures，21，000 miles;light180，000 miles;dischargeofaLeydenbettbroughcopierwireofone-sixteenth inchin diameter，278，100 milesThis lastisthe greatestrapiditysofarmeasured. $100 Reward $100 The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages,and that is Catarrh.Hall'sCatarrhCureisonlypositivecureknowntothemedicalfraternity.-Catarrhbeingaconstitutionaldiseaserequiresaconstitutionaltreatment.Hall'sCatarrhCureis taken internally,a actingdirectlyuponthebloodandmucoussurfacesofthesystem,the therebydestroyingthefoundationofthedisease,andgivingthepatientstrengthbybuildinguptheconstitutionandassistingnaturetodoitswork.Theproprietorshavesomuchfaithin其curativepowers,thetheyofferOneHundredDollarsforanycasethatitfallsto cure.Sendforlistoftestimonials.Address. F.J.CHENEY&Co.,Toledo.O.C.SoldbyDruggists，75c The body, made the crab a mimic of the cactus fruit, a protective resemblance so perfect that the crab was safe from sharp eyed enemies, and I should have passed it by had it remained quiet, but the phenomenon of moving fruit attracted my attention and led to its discovery. For some distance I followed this street of spiders, creeping beneath the webs when I could, and everywhere these tricks of nature to protect the defenseless were apparent. The eggs of the gulls simulated the sand in color; the little mantis, which clung to the big cedar, was the exact tint of the leaves and defended detection until accidentally brushed off. Over all life in the secluded spot nature had thrown her protecting mantle of mimicry—New York Post. Too Crude. Medical Editor—This will never do, Jones. You write here of "a pen dipped in gall." Welve given up gall. Make it "a pen charged with dangerous septicemia."—Pick Me Up. The man who tries to turn out to the left always goes home with an impression that the streets are filled by crowds of boorish persona.—Milwaukee Journal. I have always thought that what was good was only what was beautiful put in action.—Roussean. A $20,000,000 FRAUD. That Is What the Bridal Package In the Government Treasury Is Declared to Be. "I hate to shatter a pet delusion by giving the facts in the case," said a former clerk in the treasury department at Washington, "but fraud ought to be exposed regardless of consequences, and the greatest fraud I know of is the famous 'bridal package' of the treasury vaults. "I say famous, but it isn't famous in a general sense. It is famous only among bridal couples. I don't know how it is, but every bridal couple that go to Washington on their wedding tour—and it seems to me that about nine-tenths of the bridal couples of the country go to Washington—know all about that package, and the bride can't rest until she goes through the regular routine connected with it. No visit to Washington by a stranger is complete without an inspection of the treasury vaults, but if his or her visit is a non-bridal one the fraud of the package isn't played. "I don't know who it was in the department that first imposed it on a bride." "The Passing of the Cayuse. Fossil collections gathered in old lake beds of eastern Oregon demonstrate that the broad plains between the Rocky and Cascade mountains were the original habitat of the prehistoric horse, a fleet little animal no larger than a fox which in the long ago scampered over the lonely land. After the lapse of ages the modern horse is now to degenerate upon the stamping ground of his ancestors. The cayuse has become so valuable by the invasion of the electric car and bicycle and the disappearance of the stagecoach and the wagon train that the halter has been taken from his neck and he has been turned loose to struggle with nature for his own subsistence. Over this section many thousand head of wild horses now roam as untrammeled as in prehistoric days, and during the past winter these perished in large numbers. It is a case of the survival of the fit test. The cayuse, like the red man, may read his doom in the setting sun, but the well bred horse can still look civilization in the face and demand shelter and oats in abundance. — Spokane Spokesman-Review. Two Definitions of Poetry. An Alabama editor, being asked to give a definition of "poetry," replied: "Poetry is nothing more than words thrown together with a jingle at the end of each line like the music of a tin can at the end of a dog's tail." Not to be outdone by the above, a Georgia editor adds this opinion: "Poetry is the fooliest thing in the world, but it has return stamps on one end that help an editor to get his mail off." — Atlanta Constitution. Addition to a Well Known Proverb. I remember to have been told by a late brother officer, who was a well read man, that this proverb was of Portuguese origin and that it ran, "Hell is paved with good intentions and roofed with lost opportunities." — Notes and Queries. The Mala (expertly)—Then you will be my wife? The Girl—No, indeed. I simply said I loved you. — New York Ledger. To Live. To live is to have justice, truth, reason, devotion, probity, sincerity, common sense, right and duty welded into the heart. — Victor Hugo. THE DREADED CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURED. T A. Sloeum, M. C., The Great Chemist and Scientist, Will Need, Free, Three Bottles of His Newly Discovered Remedies to Nufferers. Editor Gazette — I have discovered a reliable cure for Consumption and all Brochural, Terror and Lung Diseases, General Decline, Loss of Flesh and all Cditions of Wasting Away. By its timely use thereaside it apparently hopeless cases have been cured. So proof positive am I of its power to cure that to make its merits known, I will send, free, to any afflicted reader of your paper, three bottles of my New Discovery Remedies upon receipt of Express and Post Office address T A. Sloeum, M. C., 98 Pine Street, New York. When writing the Doctor, please mention this paper. ELY'S CREAM BALM is a positive cure. Apply into the nostrils. It is quickly absorbed. 50 cents at Druggists or by mail; samples not by mail. ELY BROTHERS, 56 Warren St., New York City. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Estate of Lee Love, deceased. Notice is hereby given by the undersigned, Executrix of the estate of Lee Love, deceased, to the creditors of, and all persons having claims against the said deceased to exhibit the same with the necessary vouchers, within four months after the first publication of this notice (which publication was first made on the 7th day of October, 1897), to the said Executrix, at the law office of Z. B. West, No. 113 West Fourth Street, in the City of Santa Ana, the same being the place for the transaction of the business of said estate in the County of Orange. Dated this 22nd day of September, A. D. 1897. GEORGIE M. LOVE. Administratrix of the estate of Lee Love, deceased. American Fruit Abroad. The inroads being made by California on the fruit trade of Europe have begun to arouse the attention of eastern papers. Commenting upon the fact that California fruits have found a good market in Europe this year, at prices profitable to the exporter, the New York Sun says: "The reason is that the fruits sent abroad last month were of the best quality, that they were more carefully packed than formerly, and that the provision made for their transportation across the continent and across the Atlantic was of a more scientific character than it had been in other years. When the exportation was begun upon a large scale three seasons ago the California exporters did not possess the experience needed to make their merchandise acceptable abroad, and hence it was that they suffered loss. We are glad to learn that the pears, plums and other fruits of the Pacific Coast received in the English market during September have been of prime quality and in prime condition, and have brought prices much higher than those of any other year. The demand thus far has surpassed the supply, but California can meet any measurable requirement. "It may be said that there are other States of our Union much nearer to Europe than is California, which can help her along in the foreign markets. Why, we have the assurance from Connecticut that the market value of this year's peach crop in that wide-awake State will go beyond a million dollars. Looking next at the peach crop of New York State, including that of Ulster county, which is too great for the pickers, and looking at the enormous crop of several other States, we can remark with safety that no country of Europe ought to suffer for the lack of American peaches in their season. "For California canned fruits there is an increasing demand in Europe. We take leave to inform Europe that the canned fruits of New York are luscious and wholesome and are unsurpassed by any that can be bought in this world." CASTORIA For Infants and Children. PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP CO. 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