anaheim-gazette 1898-02-03

NEWS ABOUT MEXICO. At last week's meeting of the Mexican colonizers the following data regarding the Sister Republic was submitted for the consideration of those interested, and we have been asked to give it a place in our columns. Although the correspondence is based upon observations taken a number of years ago—the same having been written in 1883 and 1884—nevertheless the facts referred to, it is claimed, remain the same, and the paper will be found to contain interesting reading by those contemplating a trip to Mexico: There was a company of us left San Francisco, Dec. 15, 1883, and after the usual mishaps of a sea voyage we arrived at San Benito, our destination, the 30th. From there we proceeded to Tapachula, a distance of about twenty-two miles. After remaining here several days looking at the surroundings, we proceeded to the headquarters of the Mexican Colonization Company; but before leaving Tapachula we must make note of a few things as it was all new to us. We found many cocopanut trees besides a variety of other fruits. It is a town of some 5,000 inhabitants, well laid out and pleasantly situated. Arriving upon the lands of the company, we were struck with the climate, it averaging about 70 degrees F. all the time we were there; those who have resided here for some time, claim that it never varles from 60 deg. to 80 deg. F. We found that however much we abused ourselves, in the morning we were as refreshed as ever and always ready for our breakfast, which we relished. The water we found to be plenty everywhere and splendid, cool, fresh and soft. In going across the country, we came to large rivers about every three or four miles, and smaller streams every half mile. The soil is of a clayish cast, but the top is very rich for some two feet, being composed of decayed vegetation. In some places it is a black, loose soil while in some others it is sandy and varied; in fact you can find almost any soil you choose. The productions are simply fabulous. Many of the products, almost all of them' need to be planted but once. Take for instance the sweet potato. It is planted by simply cutting off a few inches of the vines and sticking them in the ground. The vines in a few months cover the ground and completely set it with potatoes. One can go to his patch every day in the year and get potatoes, as they grow through all the seasons and never need replanting. The same may be said of many other productions: We found growing, cocoanuts, oranges, limes, plantains, bananas, chocolate beans, besides many other kinds of fruits that are peculiar to that country. We are not known on the Atlantic side; all the above fruits, let me say, have a peculiar and delicious taste found nowhere else. There are many fruits indigenous to the soil and the tropics not known at the north like the capote, aguacate, or bread fruit, etc., besides great numbers of nuts like the almond nuts and palm nuts growing wild. Grass is green here the year round, and corn is raised two crops a year. Wheat does well on the high lands as do almost all cereals of the temperate zone. The climate along the coast is warm, but as one recedes to the higher lands it assumes a peculiar softness and is very mild and temperate. The best places are at an elevation of from 1000 to 4000 feet above the sea—at the latter elevation the thermometer ranges from 65 deg. to 75 deg. F. The company have laid out the town of Najapa between two rivers at an elevation of 1500 feet, with ample water supply for it, and water power for mills. The temperature here ranges from 65 deg. to 85 deg. F. The year through. Lots of five acres are given to actual settlers in the town, which is about 30 miles from the ocean, and in the clear atmosphere the ocean is plainly seen from the town. Tapachula lies nearly midway from Najapa to the Port of San Benito, which, let me say, is the only port for this large country and must eventually become an important one. The government has granted a concession to a company to build an iron pier at this port and a railway with subsidies for it to run from the port to Tapachula and to eventually connect with the National Road in the interior of Chiapas and with the Tehautepec road 200 miles north. The iron pier at the port is greatly needed in the landing of colonists and freight, as well as in the shipment of produce. The land of the company is divided into lots of 250 acres. So far settlers have taken up not less than this quantity, and a limit of 1000 acres has been made by the company to keep out a monopoly of the land. Every settler takes his choice of land at $1 per acre, according to the productions he expects to raise, as different altitudes favor different productions, as for instance, coffee on high lands and rice on lower lands. The seasons are two, known as the rainy and the dry. The former is from April to November, but not interfering with work except at times at the north. The productions of the country can be planted in almost any month of the year, and thus if one crop fails another can be planted at once, and several crops raised in the same year. This is true of corn, beans, etc., that need replanting, but many productions require but one planting and bear perpetually after, like sweet potatoes, tomatoes, sugar cane, Egyptian corn. Wonderful Results Hood's Sarsaparilla Makes repeated Cures In this Farmland Inflammation of the Body Headaches, Liver Complaints "After having the measles my wife was left with inflammation of the body and prescriptions did not do him good. We read about Hood's Sarsaparilla and he began taking it and it him and he has had no bowel since that time. My brother sickly child and was always treated with headaches. He has taken four ties of Hood's Sarsaparilla and I well. My mother is taking Hood's sarsaparilla for liver complaint and helping her. We regard Hood's parilla as a wonderful medicine, and commend it to others who are suffer Miss Mary Thurlow, Bakersfield. Be sure to get only Hood's because Hood's Sarsaparilla is the best—in fact the One True Blood Pill Sold by all druggists.$$1; six for $5.$$ Hood's Pills do not cause pain gripe. failure of other medicines or even sclerosis' treatment to help you, wipe you to you confidently and honestly. You relieve Hood's Sarsaparilla has power relieve and cure. A course of Hood's Sarsaparilla will first make your rich and pure, and after the blood gins to be purified, you will be prised at the change that will allow take place Appetite will strengthen will return health will stored. Have you any good reason to quit? Remember Hood's Sarsaparilla cures when all other medicines do not good whatever. This has been pened literally in thousands of Read the testimonials in favor Hood's Sarsaparilla, all of which from honest and trustworthy people You can certainly believe what people say." "I have been a greatfer from childhood from cataractthe head. My stomach, liver, kid and bladder were affected and we all I suffered from local trouble have given birth to four children all were still born,the result awful catharrhal affection of my tem.Life was one continual burrow me.I had terrible headaches and awful tired feeling.My sleep lea unrefreshed.I had terrible pain my back and was unable to rest down.Physicians gave me no help." "My husband read about the good complained by Hood's Saarsaparilla and I commenced taking the medicine I soon felt its helpful effects.Need seemed to be coming to me and give varied; in fact you can find almost any soil you choose. The productions are simply fabulous. Many of the products, almost all of them' need to be planted but once. Take for instance the sweet potato. It is planted by simply cutting off a few inches of the vines and sticking them in the ground. The vines in a few months cover the ground and completely set it with potatoes. One can go to his patch every day in the year and get potatoes, as they grow through all the seasons and never need replanting. The same may be said of many other productions. We found growing, coconut, oranges, limes, plantains, bananas, chocolate beans, besides many other kinds of fruits that are peculiar to that country. We are informed by those who live here, that on Christmas day they had roasted ears, radishes, lettuce, onions, peas, string beans, sweet and Irish potatoes, all fresh from the garden. The surface of the country we found to be extremely varied. One can find any kind of surface he chooses from the level plain to the most rugged, the same with the climate. We also found that the government has ordered and furnished the money for the building of a railroad from the port to the capital, and on through the lands of the company, to be built right away. They have also ordered an iron pier to be built at the Port San Benito, where goods can be landed and shipped with ease and no risks. We are more than pleased with the country. Of course there are many things that we would have different, and there are many things that are not perfect; but cannot this be said of any country? But so far as we can see, there are no difficulties but what any man with a reasonable amount of energy and enterprise can overcome. We certainly predict a bright future for this land and district. The land is all to be cleared before planting, as it is covered with a dense underbrush which must be cleared and burned. This can be done for $750 per acre, and when once cleared the stumps and roots all rot in a very short time and give no more trouble. We feel certain, from what we have seen, that cocoa, sugar-cane, rice, coffee, sweet potatoes, bananas, plantain, peanuts, pine-apple, mangoes and all tropical fruits as well as all kinds of vegetables, yield profusely and grow in abundance. The timber is very plentiful and includes many valuable kinds of mahogany, lignum vitex, etc. We have a sawmill, that will soon be running, for furnishing us lumber. Signed, J. W. Garlock, Jerry Pensinger, A. B. King, D. A. Norton, C. H. Brown, W. A. King, Geo. S. King. A LETTER FROM A COLONIST. CITY OF TAPACHULA, STATE OF ) CHIPAZ. MEX., Sept. 30, 1884. Mr. Editor:—Please allow me space in your valuable paper for a review of this interesting part of Old Mexico. Having left the United States to make this part of the world my home, I naturally feel Americans would like to hear of a land so fertile that it needs only to be tickled with the hoe to make it laugh in productions that would astonish a northerner. This district is known as Soconusco, which borders about 100 miles on the Pacific and adjoins Guatemala. Its history is that soon after the Spanish invasion, and from its early settlement by Spanards, it was famous for its productions, and for the superior richness of its fruits and quality of everything grown here. It declared for Mexican independence from Spain in 1824, but in some way became entangled in a dispute about whether Mexico or Guatemala were the rightful owner, both claiming it, according to the productions he expects to raise, as different altitudes favor different productions, as for instance, coffee on high lands and rice on lower lands. The seasons are two, known as the rainy and the dry. The former is from April to November, but not interfering with work except at times at the north. The productions of the country can be planted in almost any month of the year, and thus if one crop fails another can be planted at once, and several crops raised in the same year. This is true of corn; beans, etc., that need replanting, but many productions require but one planting and bear perpetually after, like sweet potatoes, tomatoes, sugar cane, Egyptian corn, rice and all kinds of grasses and many vegetables. Here we have fruit at all stages at the same time, and all the year. The country is covered with a growth of good timber. Over four hundred kinds have been found, and among them such as mahogany, cedar (200 feet high quite a common sight), lignum vitae, dye wood, etc. The famous chinchona tree is here, and a great many kinds of timber valuable for building purposes. Native labor is plenty at about 40 to 50 cents per day. The natives are not such as you see in Northern Mexico or Southern California, but are peaceable, contented and easy to manage, and of a different race of people. Drunkenness or any great crime is almost unknown here. This city is healthy—it is said there is not a doctor in it. No yellow fever was ever in this part of Mexico. One thing about the land of the company is remarkable. I have surveyed a good deal here, and I think it next to impossible to obtain a piece of land containing 250 acres without having on it a good stream of cool clear running water, and many farms will have several of such streams, some of them giving good power the year round. The mountains near us are in the limits of company's lands and are said to contain some very rich mines, but on this subject I am not prepared to offer any inducements for the reason that they have never been explored by Americans, but natives report very flattering stories of them; saying that they contain both gold and silver in large quantities and in former times were extensively worked. The country beyond the mountains is a rich agricultural one, also of live stock and mining. It is reported here that companies of colonists are coming here soon from California, Ohio New Orleans and Germany, and this means improvements of all lands. The time is not far distant when this country will compare favorably with any land in the way of roads and means of transportation. The streams abound in excellent fish, and in the forests are game of great variety; elegant birds; pheasants; wild turkey; deer; squirrel. Tiger hunting is a popular sport; in fact everything from a monkey to a tapir can be found for the sportsman. Of course the country has its disadvantages as well as blessings. What new country has not? Everything is nowhere to those coming from the States, and we will have to get along without many things that have been thought necessary to life. Imagine if you can the rich country in Western New York without a good outlet for its productions, and no railroad. The settlers in all new countries must put up with some inconveniences. I have seen many countries but never saw one where nature had done so much to make it a good place for people to live in. It is difficult with some to learn the Spanish, which is the only language used here; but this will be people say. "I have been a great friend from childhood from cathedral head. My stomach, liver, kidney and bladder were affected and wounded I suffered from local troubles have given birth to four children all were still born, the result is awful catharral affection of my tremilie Life was one continual burden me. I had terrible headaches and awful tired feeling. My sleep leans my back was unable to rest down. Physicians gave me no help." "My husband read about the good complained by Hood's Saarsaparilla and I commenced taking the medicine I soon felt its helpful effects. None seemed to be coming to me and got ally I gained strength and applied Shortly I was able to do my work now I am a new woman. I don't save from any of my old complaints." "Hood's Saarsaparilla has not saved my life but has permanently cured me and I am enjoying life as it is impossible for one to desire after having been so great a sufferer Mrs. EMMA J. FISHER. Lonedell," GREAT ON DOG SALMON But When It Came To Tythe He Back Overmatched Himself. Fish catching pigs are as common along Puget sound waters as fisheries are on an eastern trout stream Why; I had an old razorback hog I was out there that I'll bet count out any day in any of the streams tumble into Puget sound and catch 15 pound salmon in 20 minutes best fisherman on the whole J coast can kill bluefish in a whole J owned quite a number of saisons on the sound, and although there are a good many crack razorback fish ores there I stood ready any time mine with my last mill against other one; bar none; that could brought on. That hog as a fisher was simply a wonder, and he might caught anything but salmon. They salt salmon that probably you and I won't care to eat; for they were a weak and slightly under the weather maybe the hookbill; but more than likely the dog salmon. And hogs are only the only four footed fishers for these either not by a big sight. I seen within a distance of less than mile along one of those Puget s streams, half a dozen bears,a family two of wildcats,a whole colony of coons,not a few wolves,bides and humpies and similar kinshe'd他 try his hand,rather his sniff on a run of fresh tyhees or chinches These are the boss salmon,and they yellow,savory chaps you get in their they ship from out there When he feeling good,and that is pretty much all the time,you might as well talk fall out of your sawmill as fool tyhee He doesn't think a thing weighing 50 pounds,and he travels processes so big that along in J when he is going up the streams to spawning beds,you can almost across a cross on backs It history is that soon after the Spanish invasion, and from its early settlement by Spaniards, it was famous for its productions, and for the superior richness of its fruits and quality of everything grown here. It declared for Mexican independence from Spain in 1824, but in some way became entangled in a dispute about whether Mexico or Guatemala were the rightful owner, both claiming it, and this led to troubles and for years the country was very much unsettled, business was hindered, and so a large part of the country grew up to brush and forest and quite sparsely settled. Within a few years the boundary line has been fully established, and by an amicable settlement of all difficulties, the district was given up to Mexico. The city of Tapachula has about 5,000 inhabitants and is the principal town of the district, being the residence of Governor General Escobar, the most distinguished citizen of the district, and a friend of progress and enterprise. In 1881, Dr. E. C. Wise, a former resident of the United States, became interested in this District, and saw in it a future Eden, as he believed, and he set about to obtain a concession from the Mexican Government, of the public lands for colonization purposes, which was granted him, and is now owned by the Mexican Colonization Company of Auburn, New York, with officers here and in the City of Mexico and San Francisco, and is looked upon here as a valuable one, and great progress is expected in the next few years in the growth of the country. The survey of the lands, or the outside boundary, is nearly completed, taking in something over 1,600,000 acres. The Government agents having lately given a clear title to all lands fully surveyed. The lands comprise all kinds of surface, from the level land near the ocean to the table lands and rough mountain slopes. A great portion is quite rolling. The soil is of great variety—white and black sand, loose black loam, clay, volcanic ash, etc.,—but all alike rich and productive. Productions are of almost endless variety, among them is coffee of the finest quality, indigo, sugar cane, cotton, coconut, tobacco (none superior), rubber, pepper, rice, vanilla and chocolate bean. Of fruits there are the oranges, lemons, limes, plantains, bananas, three varieties of pine apples, one of them Of course the country has its disadvantages as well as blessings. What new country has not? Everything is new here to those coming from the States, and we will have to get along without many things that have been thought necessary to life. Imagine if you can be the rich country in Western New York without a good outlet for its productions, and no railroad. The settlers in all new countries must put up with some inconveniences. I have seen many countries but never saw one where nature had done so much to make it a good place for people to live in. It is difficult with some to learn the Spanish, which is the only language used here, but this will be overcome with new emigration and schools. The Government exempts colonists from taxation, from military service, and allows us to retain our citizenship to the United States if we choose, but at the same time gives us protection of the courts and laws of the land. I have tried to state facts, and any person coming here may expect to find things exactly as I have represented. Respectfully yours, W. C. RAMSEY. E. W. McCollum has a full stock of Bicycles and handles both '98 and '97 wheels. He will sell you any make of Bicycles that you want. The largest stock of bicycle supplies in Orange county. Bicycles to rent. All kinds of repairing done. Agent for the celebrated Chase tires. They are strong, light and resilient and practically puncture proof. For Good Health The first requisite is pure, rich blood. The first thing to do when the health begins to fall, the spirits lag, the nerves weaken, the pains of rheumatism and symptoms of dyspepsia, catarrh or other complaints appear; is to see that the blood is rich and pure. In building up health, begin at the foundation. Before you expect healthy action from the stomach, liver, bowels, kidneys, lungs, nerves or muscles, see that the means of providing them with nourishment is in good order for its task. Purify, enrich and vitalize the blood first. Do this thoroughly and persistently and with the best and most successful medicine in existence, and in the great majority of cases, the symptoms of disease will then disappear in nature's own way. If you are weak and sick, tired, dull and without ambition; if you have dyspepsia, catarrh, rheumatism, neuralgia or scrofula; if your whole life is miserable because of physical ailments, and you have become discouraged by the back salmon catcher or mine he got at landing dog salmon and bills and humpies similar kills that he got big head and thou he'd try his hand, or rather his sine on a run of fresh tyhees or chinns These are the boss salmon, and the new yellow, savory chaps you get in the ship from out there. When he feeling good, and that is pretty much all the time, you might as well take fall out of your sawwill as fool with tyhee He doesn't think a thing weighing 50 pounds, and he travels processes so big that along in Jamaica when he is going up the streams to spawning beds you can almost walk across a stream on the backs. That hog of mine got into his hatch that he was cut out for better than yanking weak and tired dog skin on out of water and that tyhee w about his size. I saw him making way one day very leisurely to a stranger that ran toward the sound just back my mill, and I thought it was a lie queer; for there wasn't much in his aging line in that direction. I was but though, and paid no attention to matter. A minute or two later I hear the hog give a loud squeal of distress and looking in that direction. I am in the water struggling to escape from something that had hold him. I ran to give him some help got there just in time to see the rain back jerked head first under the water and disappear beneath the surface like stone. A dead tyhee maybe a 20 pound lay half on the shore and half in water Marks on it showed that he bog must have captured it But tyhe weren't invalid dog salmon, and a couple of the captured fish's traveling companions in my opinion had rushed its assistance Aid was too late vengeance took its place The avenging tyhees had just reached out and taken Mr. Razorback by the neck, and spite of his resistance had lugged him In and drowned him He floated down half an hour or so later and was a little worst looking pig I have ever seen If he had been butchered scraped and half dressed he could have looked more torn up He was only razorback I ever knew or heard that tried to fish for tyhees I was trying to lose him; for I was counting making a good deal of money on his backing him in his line against all coats but his ambition was fatal to my hopes—New York Sun. Wonderful Results Hood's Sarsaparilla Makes Repeated Cures in this Family—Inflammation of the Bowels, Headaches, Liver Complaint. After having the measles my father left with inflammation of the bowels, prescriptions did not do him any harm. We read about Hood's Sarsaparilla, and he began taking it and it cured him and he has had no bowel complaint since that time. My brother was a fairly child and was always troubled by headaches. He has taken four bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla and is now well. My mother is taking Hood's Sarsaparilla for liver complaint and it is being her. We regard Hood's Sarsaparilla as a wonderful medicine, and recommend it to others who are suffering." MARY THURLOW, Bakersfield, Calif., sure to get only Hood's, because Hood's Sarsaparilla is best—in fact the One True Blood Purifier by all druggists. $1; six for $5. Hood's Pills do not cause pain or gripe. All druggists. 256. A rare of other medicines or even phytonals' treatment to help you, we say you confidently and honestly, we be Hood's Sarsaparilla has power to save and cure. A course of Hood's Sarsaparilla will first make your blood and pure, and after the blood becomes purified, you will be surged at the change that will at once place Appetite will come, length will return, health will be reealed. Have you any good reason to doubt Remember Hood's Sarsaparilla is when all other medicines fail to any good whatever. This has happened literally in thousands of cases. And the testimonials in favor of Hood's Sarsaparilla, all of which are honest and trustworthy persons, can certainly believe what these people say. "I have been a great sufferer from childhood from catarrh in head. My stomach, liver, kidneys, bladder were affected and worst of all suffered from local troubles. I given birth to four children but were still born, the result of the al catharrhal affection of my sys- life was one continual burden to I had terrible headaches and an al tired feeling. My sleep left me freshed. I had terrible pains in back and was unable to rest lying down. Physicians gave me no hope." My husband read about the good accomplished by Hood's Saarsaparilla commenced taking the medicine on felt its helpful effects. New life needed to be coming to me and graduated. SLEPT LIKE A CHILD. Gained Twenty-Seven Pounds in Four Weeks. The Story of a Soldier. From the Transcript, Peoria, Ill. No man is better known and liked in that rich tier of Illinois counties, of which Peoria is the centre, than genial Chester S. Harrington, of Princeville, Ill. For many years Mr. Harrington has traveled through the country on profitable journeys as an itinerant merchant, and everywhere he goes he is given a hearty welcome by the people who depend upon his visits for the purchase of the necessaries, and some of the luxuries, of life. Mr. Harrington is a veteran of the war, and from this fact is made the remarkable experience which he related at the Transcript office recently. His story, telling of the evils of which the Civil War was but the beginning in his own, and in thousands of other cases, was as follows: "I served three years in the 124th Illinois enlisting at Kewanee, Ill. I was in Libby Prison, and suffered, like many another Northern soldier. Until recently I was a member of the Princeville Post, of the G.A.R. "The strain of army life did its work in undermining my health, although the collapse did not come for years. For some time I suffered from general debility and nervousness, so badly that I could not sleep. For two years I was unfitted for business. I was just able to creep around during the greater part of this time, and there were times when I could not get up at all. My brother is a doctor, but all his efforts to help me failed to give me any relief. I tried a number of remedies, without avail. Finally, having read articles regarding cures that had been effected by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, I decided to try them. That was in 1896. I bought a box and took the pills according to instructions. Just four days later I had the happiest hours I had known for years. That night I went to sleep easily and slept soundly as a child, and awoke refreshed. Three or four weeks after beginning the treatment, when I had taken four boxes of the pills, I found I had increased in weight, from 119 pounds to 146 pounds. This greatly surprised my friends who thought my case was a hopeless one. I began my work on the road again, and have continued it right along ever since in excellent health. "Let me tell you a remarkable thing that was a side issue, but a valuable gain to me. I found that while I was taking Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, I had been cured of the smoking habit, which had been formed when I was a boy, six years old, and which had clung to me all these years. The craving for tobacco left me, and I have never experienced it since. I have recommended the pills to many. (Signed) CHESTER S. HARRINGTON. Chester S. Harrington, being duly sworn, deposes and says, that the matters contained in the above statement by him signed are true. CHESTER S. HARRINGTON. Subscribed and sworn to before me, a notary public, this 15th day of July, 1897. LINCOLN M. COY, Notary Public. All the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves are contained in a condensed form, in Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. They are an unfitting specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St.Vitus' dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after effects of la grippie, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, all forms of weakness either in male or female, and all diseases resulting from vitiated humors in the blood. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all dealers, or will be sent post paid on receipt of price, 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50—they are never sold in bulk or by the 100) by addressing Dr.Williams' Medicine Company, Schenectady, N.Y. A Great Authority on Evolution. There is a sketch of "A Great Naturalist," the late Edward Drinker Cope, in The Century. It is written by Henry Fairfield Osborn: Professor Osborn says: His pioneer exploration came early in the age of Darwinism, when missing links not only in the human ancestry, but in the greater chain of backboned animals, were at the highest premium. Thus he was fortunate in recording the discovery in northwestern New Mexico of far far the oldest quadrupeds known, in finding among these the most venerable monkey, in describing to the world hundreds of links—in fact, whole chains—of descent between the most ancient quadrupeds and what we please to call the higher types, especially the horses, camels, tapirs, dogs and cats. He labored on his cabin of curiosities which stands in the drawing room and is, it hopes, the nucleus of a rare collection. There are the dagger used by the late E.L.Davenport in "Othello," a scarf of white satin embroidered in gold and a jeweled Maltese cross belonging to Fanny Kemble; a medallion of carved coral once the property of Adah Isaacs Menken, autographed slippers of Patti and Melba and boots worn by Mrs D.Powers. There are also jeweled gloves worn by Miss May Brookyn. The caricature sketches, pen and ink made by the late Sol Smith are most interesting. A yellow satin gown is there which was worn by Mrs W.G.Jones. ELEVEN HANDS OF PEACE They Ought to Have Won Ever but Didn't. It's the bewildering uncertainty the great game of poker that most popular with most Americans and the law of average do not obtain as much in the play of tha as they do in most other games or skill. This point never strikesingly illustrated than it night not long ago in the short half an hour. The game is a regular institution one of the late suburban trains New York. The first stop that by this train is exactly 30 minutes the train leaves New York. The always starts on time, and the gathered up and the players join usually as the train begins to go way after the first stop. This explanation is necessary appreciate the array of hands tha real point of this story. On with a good memory held in minutes' play following hand these results: Four aces—won, of course. Five full on aces—beaten. One flush—beaten. One straight—beaten. Three aces—beaten. Four sets of aces up—all beaten. Three sevens—beaten. Queens up—won. Jacks up—won. Tens up—won. Nines up on fours—beaten. In this really remarkable ode of 11 hands only 4 of them w wonners,and yet,the man who h saws that he came out even scared on his five full and on his just called. He lost consideri his three aces,但 he won more queens up that he held only on his did on his four aces.His netted him more than any other for he had them pat and played on the opening of a fat jack pot. The five full was beaten by a full None of the other men in tha thought that his hand was e strong or weak,and it would be ed naturally that the array o given above would quit the ga siderably to the good if one know that most of them were b New York Press. There are more ants to tha mile in Florida than in any other try in the world. There are an measure more than half an length,and then there are ants that they can scarcely be seen When It Came to Tythe the Razorback Overmatched Himself. Fish catching pigs are as common in the Puget sound waters as kingfish are on an eastern trout stream. I had an old razorback hog when out there that I'll bet could go any day in any of the streams that hide into Puget sound and catch more round salmon in 20 minutes than most fisherman on the whole Jersey can kill bluefish in a whole day. Owned quite a number of sawmills are sound, and although there were many crack razorback fish catchers here I stood ready any time to back with my last mill against any one, bar none, that could be sight on. That hog as a fisherman simply a wonder, and he never at anything but salmon. They were not that probably you and I would are to eat, for they were a trifle and slightly under the weather—be the hookbill, but more than like a dog salmon. And hogs are not only four footed fishers for these outliers, not by a big sight. I have within a distance of less than a mile one of those Puget sound bass, half a dozen bears, a family or wildcats, a whole colony of raccoons not a few wolves, besides a dozen are razorback hogs, to say nothing score or so of eagles, all engaged in sport of fishing for dog salmon. Speaking of that particular razorback salmon catcher of mine, he got so at landing dog salmon and hook-and-humpies and similar kinds he got the big head and thought try his hand, or rather his smout run of fresh tyhees or chinooka are the boss salmon, and the nice, savory chaps you get in the canship from out there. When he is big good, and that is pretty much the time, you might as well take out of your sawmill as fool with a He doesn't think a thing of being 50 pounds, and he travels in sessions so big that along in June, he is going up the streams to the ing beds, you can almost walk in the books. BLADDER TROUBLES are inconvenient during the day and destroy rest at night. They make life a misery instead of a blessing. They affect many persons after they reach the age of 40, and are usually accompanied by a decay of vital power. They can be CURED "I have suffered from disordered kidneys and irritable bladder for several years and have in The Century. It is written by Henry Fairfield Osborn. Professor Osborne says: His pioneer exploration came early in the age of Darwinism, when missing links not only in the human ancestry, but in the greater chain of backboned animals, were at the highest premium. Thus he was fortunate in recording the discovery in northwestern New Mexico of by far the oldest quadrupeds known, in finding among these the most vulnerable monkey, in describing to the world hundreds of links—in fact, whole chains—of descent between the most ancient quadrupeds and what we please to call the higher types, especially the horses, camels, tapirs, dogs and cats. He labored successfully to connect the reptiles with the amphibians, and the latter with the fishes, and was as quick as a flash to detect in the paper of another author the oversight of some long sought link which he had been awaiting. Thus in losing him we have lost our ablest and most discerning critic. No one has made such profuse and overwhelming demonstration of the actual historical working of the laws of evolution, his popular reputation perhaps resting most widely upon his practical and speculative studies in evolution. A Day's Journey. "A day's journey," as the expression is used in the Scripture, means from 10 to 20 miles. The "Sabbath day's journey," frequently mentioned in the Bible, was 2,000 paces, or about three-quarters of a mile. The Jews were forbidden to travel farther than this distance on their Sabbath, but often evaded the prohibition by taking a small quantity of food and burying it in the ground at the required distance from their homes, whereby this soot became technically a habitation, and they could proceed from it another Sabbath day's journey on their way. Hard Up. Dad—You are a regular rolling stone, my son. Did you know that a rolling stone never gathers any moss? Son—Yes, but the rolling stone would like to raise a little dust just now, dad, for a change.—Boston Courier. Wifely Devotions. "Poor old Munnyrich! With one leg in the grave." "Yes, but his young wife is pulling valiantly at the other one."—Indianapolis Journal. On June 12, 1755, upward of 2,400 salmon were taken above the bridge in the river Tyne and sold in Newcastle at 1d. and 1¼d. per pound. Most of the canal barges in the south of England are worked by women. ELFS CREAM BALM is a positive cure. Apply into the nostrils. 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By chance der fell into the cup, and for this the beverage was given to a dog immediately upon taking it; die cook was afterward hanged; a golden spider in the Potsdam palatializes the incident. The Only Thing To Say. "There," said the lady, point the wood pile; "how does that you?" "Madam," responded Mr. Petettic; "I never saw the like."—apolis Journal. BLADDER TROUBLES are inconvenient during the day and destroy rest at night. They make life a misery instead of a blessing. They affect many persons after they reach the age of 40, and are usually accompanied by a decay of vital power. They can be CURED "I have suffered from disordered kidneys and irritable bladder for several years and have tried many remedies in hope of relief, but all failed until I obtained a sample box of Dr. Hobba Sparagus Kidney Pills. They gave me such relief that I bought a full box and since using it feel like a new man. My back has ceased aching, my rest is no longer disturbed by rising at night time to urinate, and I never felt better in my life. I shall always feel grateful for the good your medicine has done me." Dr. Hobbs Pills for Sale in Anaheim by P. A. Derge, Pharmacist. PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP CO. The Company's elegant Steamers SANTA ROSA and POMONA leave REDONDO at 11 a.m. and PORT LOS ANGELES at 2:30 p.m. for San Francisco via Santa Barbara and Port Harford Feb 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24; Mar. 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24; April 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29. Leave PORT LOS ANGELES at 6 a.m., and REDONDO at 11 a.m., for San Diego, via Newport, Feb. 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26; Mar. 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26; April 3, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23. The Santa Rosa will not stop at Newport. Cars connect via Redondo leave Santa Pe depot at 9:45 a.m., or from Redondo Ry. depot at 9:20 a.m. Cars connect via Portland Los Angeles leave S.P.R. depot at 1:35 p.m.for steamers north bound. The steamers HOMER and COO'S BAY leave SAN PEDRO and EAST SAN PEDRO for San Francisco via Ventura, Carpenteria, Santa Barbara, Gavlots, Port Harford, Cayucos, San Slimeon, Monterey and Santa Cruz at 6:30 p.M.Feb.1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25; Mar.1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25; April 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26; Cars connect with Steamers via San Pedro leave S.P.R.R.(Arcade Depot) at 5:08 p.M.and Terminal Ry.depot at 8:15 p.M.The Company reserves right to change without previous notice, steamers,sailing dates and hours of sailing. W. Parris. Art. 134 W.Second St. Los Angeles.GOODALL,PERKINS & CO.,Gen.Agts.,8 F. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY In making plans for a trip to any part of the East it is well to remember that a choice of three routes can be had over the Southern Pacific lines,viz.: Their Sunset route.Ogden route and via Portland.The Sunset line is especially adapted to winter travel,and the limited trains are at the present time crowded to their full capacity with an exclusively first-class patronage. This is the most significant train in America,vestibulated throughout.by steam.Every train is made up as follows: One compoose car containing bathroom,barber-shop,safety library and smoker; one compartment car with lavatory in each compartment,and parlor for the special use of ladies,and a ladies' maid in attendance; as many double drawing room,tension sleepers as may be necessary.with toilet annexes; one dining-car,m meals served a la carte. First-class tickets only will be honored on this train which leaves Los Angeles every Tuesday and Friday at 10:30 a.m.,arriving at El Paso at 10:30 a.m.Wednesday and SaturdaySt.Louis7:20 a.m.Friday and MondayChicago4 p.m.Friday and Monday,making the through run in 3 days,5½ hours. In addition to the above first-class service the Southern Pacific tourist system is positively unequalled by any competitive schedule. Note carefully their various excursion routes,and take your choice. Through tourist sleeper's leave Los Angeles as follows,viz: Sunset route,via New Orleans.to Chicago-8:15 a.m.,Tuesdays;Sunset route,via El Paso.to Chicago-8:15 a.m.,Tuesdays;Sunset route,via El Paso to Chicago-8:15 a.m.,Wednesday;Sunset route,via New Orleans to Washington-8:15 a.m.,Thursday and Sunday;Sunset route,via New Orleans to Pittsburg-8:15 a.m.,Friday;Sunset route,via New Orleans to Chincinnati-8:15 a.m.,Saturday. Ogden route:Los Angeles to Chicago-11:50 a.m.,Monday;Los Angeles to Chiago-11:50 a.m.,Tuesday;Los Angeles to Minneapolis-11:50 a.m.;Thursday;Los Angeles to Chicago-11:50 a.m.;Friday;Los Angeles to Sacramento-10:20 p.m.daily,and connect at Sacramentowith a through tourist sleeper to Chicago. Shasta route-Los Angeles to Portland,10:20 p.m.daily;Los Angeles to St.Paul,10:20 p.m.Tuesdays;Los Angeles to St.Paul,10:20 p.m.Mondayonly once each month. First and second-class tickets for sale at Anaheim at Los Angeles prices,and baggage checked through to any point in the United States,Canada or Mexico. Our local train service is unexcelled for comfort.Day coaches are equipped with the celebrated Scarritt seats,Luxuriously upholstered,and passengers for Los Angeles are landed right in the center of the business part of the city-at First street or commercial street-within a block of the large wholesale houses. Our connection at Mojave for the famous gold mining camp of Randaburg is superb;good hotel at Mojave and elegant stage coaches through to the city of gold.Fare from Anaheim to Randsburg,$7.55. Family commutation tickets for sale between Anaheim and Los Angeles,and other local points at greatly reduced rates.Limit six months.For further information,call at the Southern Pacific depot at Anaheim T.A.DARLING.Agent A.D.SHEPARD,Astt.Gen Pass.Agt.,Los Angeles,229 South Spring St. AN OPEN LETTER To MOTHERS. WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD "CASTORIA," AND "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," AS OUR TRADE MARK. I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, of Hyannis, Massachusetts, was the originator of "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," the same that has borne and does now bear the fac-simile signature of Chas. H. Fletcher wrapper. This is the original "PITCHER'S CASTORIA," which has been used in the homes of the Mothers of America for over thirty years. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is the kind you have always bought on the and has the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher wrapper. No one has authority from me to use my name except The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is President. March 8, 1897. Do Not Be Deceived. Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer you (because he makes a few more pennies on it), the ingredients of which even he does not know. "The Kind You Have Always Bought" BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE OF Insist on Having The Kind That Never Failed You. Mrs. G. Davis Groceries and Seeds. Informs her customers and the general public that she is prepared to sell goods at the smallest margin possible. She buys for cash and therefore can sell for a very small profit, giving her customers Mrs. G. Davis Groceries and Seeds. Informs her customers and the general public that she is prepared to sell goods at the smallest margin possible. 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You are hereby directed to appear and answer the Complaint in an action entitled as above, brought against you in the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California, within ten days after the service on you of this Summons—if served within this county; or within thirty days if served elsewhere. And you are hereby notified that unless you answer and answer as above required, the said Complaint will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the Complaint. Given under my hand and the seal of the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California, this 15th day of November, A. D. 1897. D. T. BROCK, Clerk: By W. A. BECKETT, Deputy Clerk. H. W. Chynoweth, Attorney for Plaintiff. nov18-2m News and Opinions OF National Importance THE SUN Alone CONTAINS BOTH. Daily, by mail, $6 a year Daily & Sunday, by mail,$8 a year The Sunday Sun is the greatest Sunday Newspaper in the world. Price 5c. a copy. By mail,$2 a year Address THE SUN, New York. H. A. McWilliams. 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