anaheim-gazette 1899-09-28

FIFTY GIRLS IMPRISONED. How the Fair Sex of Southern Aristocracy Were Jailed. "I was mixed up in one little unrecorded event of the civil war," said General B., "that was interesting from its very unusualness, and which, as I look back upon it, seems strangely picturesque. We were attached to what was known as the Marine Brigade, a little fleet of twelve 'tin-clad' river steamboats that plied up and down the Mississippi river after the surrender of Vicksburg. The term 'tin-clad,' by the way, is somewhat misleading, as it is not remotely connected with the white metal, but signifies rather boats heavily planked with oak for the purpose of protecting them somewhat from the ravages of bullets. "One day our little battalion of four companies was ordered to steam down the river, disembark at Rodney, march to Port Gibson and there consult sealed orders in regard to further proceedings. Imagine our surprise upon reading the instructions that we were expected to capture and carry back to Vicksburg as prisoners fifty of the most aristocratic Confederate young women in the city. However, we had served long enough to obey orders without question, and, provided with guides familiar with the town, we set about our bizarre and not too agreeable task. We first established headquarters at the residence of a prominent Confederate Judge. "Then different squads were sent out to call at the homes of the young women and escort them to the place of rendezvous. The instructions were that they must report at headquarters within two hours on penalty of their family residence being burned to the ground. The only information we could give them (the whole transaction was as much a mystery to us as to them) was that they were to be taken to Vicksburg as prisoners of war, but were on no account to suffer any discomfort or indignity. "Of course, there was great weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth from tender mothers, loving sisters and irate fathers and brothers. But the incident had to be accepted as belonging to the fortunes of war, and at the end of two hours forty-nine of the fifty, attended by anxious friends and relatives, were at the rendezvous. Mercy was immediately Orange Groves of Florida. In the winter of 1894-5 two severe frosts attacked the orange groves of Florida, and millions of dollars worth of property was destroyed. In the American Farmer magazine for July is an interesting article entitled, "The Story of the Orange Groves," by Stephen Powers. It is of special interest here in Southern California, because Florida has been our only rival in the production of the golden fruit, and the popular impression with us is that the freezes have destroyed our rival as a competitor: "The trees which were killed to the ground by the Florida freeze had however live roots. The rapidity with which the work of restoration went on was remarkable. Where grafts were inserted under the bark of the parent tree, close to the surface, or even below it, they frequently attained the thickness of a man's arm, a height of ten or twelve feet and a spread of branches nearly as great in a single season. In well authenticated instances a half a box of fruit per tree was produced the second season, the trees being only twenty months from the ground. Hundreds of groves will never be restored, and should never have been planted at all. They were in exposed, wind-swept or frosty situations, on unsuitable soils or barren sands, doomed from the beginning to bring their owners only expense, discouragement and final abandonment. To such the north wind came with a rough, but kindly ministration. "For thirty years men in Florida and California, in pursuit of a fantastic meteorology and an occult dewpoint, experimented with dampened straw fires, steam heat, tanks of petroleum and bricks of resin and sawdust, seeking to make a smudge and simulate nature's clouds. A grower in Volusia county believed the way to fight cold was to make it warm. Through those three fateful nights in February, with his force of men, he studded his grove, almost like the stars overhead for number, with little fires of wood. He was a man of simple and intensely earnest nature. He believed in his theory, believed he could save his property. Incessantly he moved to and fro, chiding and encouraging his men, light-hearted Africans, singing songs and roasting possums, while millions of Florida's values passed away. Toward morning of the third night his supply of fuel gave out and the fires burned low. The wind had gone down, but it had covered the leaves of the trees with flying insects. A MYSTICAL NUMBER OMNIPRESENT SEEMS TO BE FATEFUL SEVEN. From the Biblical Story of the creation Down It Plays a Mighty In Folklore, Tradition, Survival and History. Clean birds by sevens, Unclean by twos, The dove in the heavens Is the one that I choose. But not only do the bird augur by sevens; the number plays a part in folklore, tradition and story. Six days made the world God rested on the seventh day allowed it. In the seventh month a ark touched the ground; in seven a dove was sent out on the face waters. Abraham pleaded with seven times for Sodom's sake; God smote the city of wickedness her undoing. Seven days Jacob mourned his seph and would not be comforted en years and seven Jacob serviced Rachel, and in Joseph's government of Egypt the chief butler and dreamed dreams wherein seven exen and seven lean oxen, seven full corn and seven ears of rye played a prominent role foreboded the 14 years of plenty famine that were in store for them of the Two Crowns, even the land house of bondage, the land of Eden. Every seventh day the law went to the wandering children of Israel Jericho, the strong city fell, wild tower, when seven men had around it for seven days. Solomon was seven years by the splendid temple, with glories of gold and cedar wood quoise and terebinth. There were seven lamps in the tabernacle, and golden candlestick had branches. Naaman washed himself times in the river Jordan before healing water cleansed him off rosy. The Apocalypse is full of mystic number, and on the coast Saviour hung for seven hours from the cross our Saviour spends times. The seventh son of a seventh-born a born doctor, according to Irish but he must never take money cures he achieves, and to in that they must report at headquarters within two hours on penalty of their family residence being burned to the ground. The only information we could give them (the whole transaction was as much a mystery to us as to them) was that they were to be taken to Vicksburg as prisoners of war, but were on no account to suffer any discomfort or indignity. "Of course, there was great weeping, wailing and grashing of teeth from tender mothers, loving sisters and irate fathers and brothers. But the incident had to be accepted as belonging to the fortunes of war, and at the end of two hours forty-nine of the fifty, attended by anxious friends and relatives, were at the rendezvous. Mercy was implored for one delinquent. An additional hour was granted, and at their own suggestion several of the young women were dispatched to her home to persuade her to follow their example in gracefully submitting to the inevitable. The result was that before the hour was up the last fair prisoner had put in an appearance, though in a very defiant mood. "Our troubles, however, by no means ended here. Indeed, they were hardly begun. The next question was how to transport our beautiful captives to Rodney, a distance of some twenty miles, over roads that were in a frightful condition from the devastation of war and consequent neglect. All the good horses, too, like all the good men, were off to the war, and as for carriages, they had most decidedly fallen into a state of innocuous desuetude. There was obviously nothing for us to do, therefore, but to gather together all the broken-down old horses and dilapidated vehicles in the vicinity, which we somehow managed to hitch together with plow harnesses, bits of rope, straps, etc. With these improvised coaches, drawn up into line, began the process of loading on our victims, and when they were all stowed away it was a motley-looking procession. I can assure you. Even the sound of farewells and the sight of weeping eyes could not blind us to the humorous aspect of the scene. "You must remember that we were all pretty young fellows in '63. The civil war was fought by men whose average age was only 23. Well, we made our way slowly, amid tears and laughter, to Rodney, where we embarked for Vicksburg. Upon arrival here the young women were taken before the provost marshal, who put them on parole, confining them to the limits of the city. Most of them had friends in the town with whom they chose to remain, and suitable quarters were found for the rest. "The reason for the whole transaction then transpired. It seemed that some Northern young women school teachers had been taken prisoners by the Confederates and were at that moment in their camps, where they were forced to wash and mend for the soldiers and perform other mental services. These Confederate young women were therefore, to be held as hostages until the Northern women were released. There was little delay in the exchange, and we had our visitors in Vicksburg only thirty days. They were, however, very gay, delightful days. Yankee officers and Confederate maids intermingled socially, and the acquaintance so rudely forced upon the beautiful Southerners proved in some instances a mutual pleasure. I could, indeed, point to more than one romantic marriage that was the direct outcome of our raid upon Port Gibson." The hearty looking man who thumps his chest and says he’s sound as a dollar, does not take into consideration the nature's clouds. A grower in Volusia county believed the way to fight cold was to make it warm. Through those three fateful nights in February, with his force of men, he studded his grove almost like the stars overhead for number with little fires of wood. He was a man of simple and intensely earnest nature. He believed in his theory, believed he could save his property. Incessantly he moved to and fro, chiding and encouraging his men, light-hearted Africans, singing songs and roasting possums, while millions of Florida’s values passed away. Toward morning of the third night his supply of fuel gave out and the fires burned low. The wind had gone down, but it had covered the leaves of the trees with flying white ashes and he could not determine their condition. Exhausted and sleepless after his hard fight with the Frost King, he shed tears over the fate—as he believed—of his petted trees. But he had done his work well. He saved not only his trees, but even the fruit and the leaves; and the following winter he harvested a crop which repaid him many times over his labor and expense. “Another grower, without any knowledge of his brother grower's experience, worked out a solution of the problem in a slightly different manner. On the north side of his grove he built a solid wall of fire. A jolly Methodist clergyman, he had left orders, tersely expressed, in case of necessity, to make it ‘hot as Gehenna.’ His faithful Cracker foreman, while pondering perhaps on this bit of phrasing from a minister in good and regular standing, obeyed his instructions to the letter. He piled up the fat ‘lightwood.’ For three days and nights the blaze, driven by the wind, waived to and fro like a fiery sword. The green orange leaves shriveled; crackled; dried up, with a sudden combustion flared ‘up,’ turning the tall stately seedlings into pyramids of fire. It cut down the entire first row of trees, burning some of them almost to the ground. But it did the work well. The grove was saved. The crop of fruit ensuing autumn reimbursed the losses more than ten times over. “The freeze of February 13, 1895, has again given orange culture a serious setback, and the only permanent result will be to drive the industry further south. There is enough good citrus land in the extreme lower counties, where no frost has ever injured the orange trees, even in its leaves, to raise all the oranges, lemons and limes this continent will ever consume. The movement of grove planting is already setting strongly in that direction.” Use Allen’s Foot-Base in Your Gloves. A lady writes: "I shake Allen’s Foot-Ease into my gloves and rub a little on my hands. It saves my gloves by absorbing perspiration. It is a most dainty toilet powder." Allen’s Foot-Ease makes tight or new shoes easy. Always use it to break in New Shoes. It keeps the feet cool and comfortable. We invite the attention of physicians and nurses to the absolute purity of Allen’s Foot-Ease. All drug and shoe stores sell it, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y. A Turt Retort. A good story is told about former Governor George S. Houston. Houston and one of the public men now distinguished in the public life of the state had an appointment to deliver public speeches. They had to drive a long distance before dinner time and arrived at a farmhouse in time for dinner. Houston was sick. His companion had a ravenous appetite. Mr. Houston said the housewife... The hearty looking man who thumps his chest and says he's sound as a dollar, does not take into consideration the catarrh which bothers him occasionally. "Oh! everybody has more or less catarrh. That's nothing," he says. But he is mistaken. What begins in catarrh may end in consumption. It is a foul disease at its best and a fatal disease at its worst when it involves the lung tissues. For catarrh and for diseases of the throat and lungs in general the standard medicine is Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It is recommended by physicians who have tested its efficacy and wondered at its cures. It not only destroys the disease, but it purifies the blood and strengthens the stomach and organs of digestion and nutrition. "For twelve years I was a sufferer from catarrh and was treated by one of the best physicians in the state of North Carolina, who said the trouble had reached my lungs," writes Mr. J. M. Patton, of Clotho, Transylvania Co., N. C. "I grew worse every day until I tried Dr. Pierce's medicines. Will say, one bottle of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery with Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy cured me and today I am well and hearty and I will say further that my former physician, Dr. W. M. Lyday recommends Dr. Pierce's medicine to me and to others. I am sure your medicines will cure any case of catarrh that exists. I recommend them to all." A Gift: The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser, 1008 pages, is sent free on receipt of stamps to cover expense of mailing only. Send 21 one-cent stamps for the paper covered edition, or 31 stamps for the cloth bound. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. Pasturage: Extra good pasturage for 100 head of stock at the grounds of the Bolsa shooting club. Price, $1 per month per head. Apply to Supt. W. Schumacher on the grounds, or at this office. sp7-2m A Tart Retort. A good story is told about former Governor George S. Houston. Houston and one of the public men now distinguished in the public life of the state had an appointment to deliver public speeches. They had to drive a long distance before dinner time and arrived at a farmhouse in time for dinner. Houston was sick. His companion had a ravenous appetite. "Mr. Houston," said the housewife, with some indignation, "I see you ain't eating much. I know the dinner ain't much, but it is the best I could get up. I'm sorry you don't appreciate the dinner." "My good woman, the dinner is perfect, but I am ill." In addition to that I have got to make a speech immediately, and I can't speak well after eating freely." "Yes," said the good housewife, with spirit, "It's just like this—an empty wagon makes the loudest noise." Houston was silent. The other man ate ravenously—Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald. Glory No Temptation. A few years ago the river drivers were working on the west branch. The logs had jammed into a nasty snarl, and no one bankered for the job of going out with a cantdog and starting the key log. In the crew was an Indian who was noted for his coolness and his keenness. The boss finally looked over in his direction. "Lacote," he said, "you go out and break that Jam, I'll see that you get a nice puff in the paper." The redskin looked at the logs and then at the boss. "Dead Injun look nice on paper," he grunted, and walked away—Arcoostook (Me.) Pioneer. Squeehed For Once. "Sir," began the book canvasser, "I have a little work here" "Sorry," interrupted the busy man, "but I have a great deal of work here. Good morning!" Chicago News. A Word to Mothers. Mothers of children affected with croup or a severe cold need not hesitate to administer Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It contains no opiate nor narcotic in any form and may be given as confidently to the babe as to an adult. The great success that has attended its use in the treatment of colds and croup has won for it the approval and praise it has received throughout the United States and in many foreign lands. For sale by P. A. Derge. Wherever the cat of the house For seven years blow white, blue The lasses of lovers shall have Seven years of ill fortune, to a Sicilian superstition, foli him who kills a cat; therefore well to treat your feline folly, even though you love them I might go on till the "seat from Latter Lammas" and something to tell. So here end—Nora Hopper in Illustriod News. Back and Bae. The Pittsburg Chronicle woman who dearly loves words, and she does not attach them correctly. The other day a neighbor oweed incessant pain in her back upon the user of big words she would consult Dr. Haines in the back He's bacteriologyist that I know oweed An irritating PhraAre you seriously ill? well meaning friend. Oh, no," answered there with a jarring, sarcastic hurt all over and don't care the sun rises tomorrow on I'm not seriously ill. I'm floppantly and farcically ill through all the symptoms, mean one of them." When Pain Racks the Body Frank Long, who lives near Lennon, Mich., says: "I was taken with a pain in my back, and I was obliged to take to my bed. The physician pronounced my case muscular rheumatism accompanied by lumbago. "I gradually became worse, until I thought death would be welcome release. I was finally induced to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and after using five boxes, was entirely cured." "I am confident that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills saved my life. I will gladly answer inquiries concerning my sickness and wonderful cure, provided stamp be enclosed for reply. FRANK LONG." Sworn to before me at Venice, Mich., this 15th day of April, 1898. G. B. GOLDSMITH, Justice of the Peace. —From the Observer, Flushing, Mich. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People contain, in a condensed form, all the elements necessary to give new life and richness to the blood and restore shattered nerves. They are an unfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus' dance, sciatica, neuralgia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the after-effects of the grip, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, and all forms of weakness either in male or female. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People are never sold by the dozen or hundred, but always in packages. At all druggists, or direct from the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., 50 cents per box, 6 boxes $2.50. Keyless Postoffice Boxes There is more than $400,000 of the people's money locked up in postoffice keys, each and every key-holder to a box in a postoffice being required to put up with the postmaster a deposit for his key, the amount deposited being returned when the box is given up and the rent paid. Postmasters are requested to keep a strict account of the key deposit fund, while the Postoffice Department at Washington has a regucality. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of The Captain's Sentiment. California. Continued from First page tute the prosperous laboring class; the fruit-producing localities; The orchards must be again and again, the trees pruned with skill, and the farmland be vigorously and unsparingly all to ensure the highest staplefection in the crop. Whether it is to be shipped fresh, cannot it must be carefully gathered at the proper stage; The amount of labor for this is immense. It is not to the points where it is to be for market. When one sees the troop women and half-grown children the canneries or the farm buildings and grounds at lunch at the close of the day, and the amounts paid to them into circulation, literally they will do the most good," he some idea of the industrial value of fruit raising. Then there are the adjuncts of can-making and box-making considered. The number of boxes required for our freight could it be shown in figures, almost incredible. It must furthermore be said that while there are many large producing quantities of fruit comparatively large part of duct comes from those whose holdings — holdings of free twenty-five acres — upon which share of the work is done by of the family, the income of mostly net, and from which something more than a cottage living. While it is doubtless true will never again be such land from this industry as have realized in the past, it is clear that in properly selected chards planted with good worked intelligently and economically will pay better than almost industry. In the neighborhoods small holdings predominated found communities of the gent, cultured and happy families found in the world. School and lecture halls, together concomitant of a high civil always found there. There are yet left unoccupied partly occupied thousands land as well adapted to fruiting is most of that now planting the coming of industrious settlers. Keyless Postoffice Boxes There is more than $400,000 of the people's money locked up in postoffice keys, each and every key-holder to a box in a postoffice being required to put up with the postmaster a deposit for his key, the amount deposited being returned when the box is given up and the rent paid. Postmasters are requested to keep a strict account of the key deposit fund, while the Postoffice Department at Washington has a regular division set apart for keeping this account. As a postoffice official puts it, there is a great deal of trouble and no money in the transaction, and the final outcome of the trial of keyless locks, which are to be tried in the principal offices of the country, is eagerly looked for. The Department has long wanted a keyless lock, but none of the inventions until the present were regarded as in any way calculated to prove acceptable. Contracts have been made for a supply of the new locks, which will first be placed in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and St. Louis, as the largest and most important offices, in St. Paul, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Ohio, Hartford, Conn., Madison, Wis., and Rockford, Ill., as the smaller offices. These offices will be fitted out as soon as the factory can complete the making of the boxes. If they prove in every way satisfactory to the department and to patrons, they will be placed in offices throughout the country, but not to the entire exclusion of the lock boxes. It is the belief of the Postoffice Department lock experts that the keyless box will prove a blessing. High Art In Cookery. Scalloped Oysters. - Select firm, plump oysters, and scollop them evenly and neatly with a pair of sharp scissors. Now, with a needle threaded with pink silk, if for a pink tea, or blue if you wish blue points, work a buttonole stitch round the scallop. When finished, press carefully on the wrong side with a hot iron. Shirred Eggs. - Carefully remove the shell from a fresh egg, and hold the white and yolk firmly in the left hand. Now, with a fine needle and thread, gather the material in straight rows about half an inch apart. Draw up to the required fullness and fasten neatly the ends of the thread. Snow Pudding. - Take about four quarts, say four and a half, of fresh snow. Wash in several waters and put it to soak in hot water over night. In the morning knead it up and set it by the fire to rise, add some melted glue and set aside to cool. Chicken Patty. - This dish is a lost art, as Patti is no chicken. Egg Plant. - (See incubator.)—Puck. His Head Was Turned. A quaint story of paternal care on the part of the clergy comes from Kreuzeber, a village in southwest Saxony. In the middle of his sermon one Sunday the parish priest suddenly stopped, and changing his voice to a more colloquial tone, said: "Herr Meinhardy, attend to the sermon. From this time forward I shall publicly name every one who looks at the girls during the service." CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of The Captain's Sentiment. "We'd had a brush with the Indians on No Man's creek," said the cavalry sergeant, "and had driven them out of the cottonwoods, when we caught sight of a warrior trying to work in our left flank. Three or four of the boys turned loose on him and drove him off, but he was replaced by two others. They were beaten off to be replaced by five or six. We couldn't at first make out what they were up to, but by and by we discovered that their objective point was a thicket on our front center. Then it was easy to conclude that some warrior of prominence was in that thicket, dead or wounded, and that the object was to carry him off. "Our captain gave orders to ceaseiring. He wanted those redskins to understand that Company D had too much honor to fire upon a wounded foe and too much mercy to shoot down those who would carry away the dead for burial. We lay there and let the Indians dash up with a yell, and two minutes later, as they rode off with whoops and cheers, we were all shaking with laughter. They were not after a dead or wounded buck, but what they wanted and what they got were two kegs of whiskey which had been hidden there. "Our captain didn't catch on until too late, and then he jumped up and down and told us to blaze away. We blazed away, but though we fired away $10 worth of Uncle Sam's good cartridges, we didn't even graze a pony."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Wonders of the Steam Engine. The nice adjustment necessary in the various parts of the immense engines now employed for some of the trains on our great railway lines may be indicated by a few data of the work performed by these parts when the locomotive is worked at high speed. Thus, in the case of a passenger engine at 60 miles an hour, a driving wheel at 5½ feet diameter revolves five times every second, and this being so, the reciprocating parts of each cylinder, including one piston rod, crosshead and connecting rod, weighing about 650 pounds, must move back and forth a distance equal to the stroke, say 2 feet; every time the wheel revolves, or in the fifth of a second; this weight starts from a state of rest at the end of each stroke of the piston and must acquire a velocity of 32 feet per second in one twentieth of a second, and must be brought to a state of rest in the same period of time. A piston 18 inches in diameter has an area of 254½ square inches; steam of 150 pounds pressure per square inch would therefore exert a force on the piston equal to 38.175 pounds, which force is applied alternately on each side of the supply of water. Under these three systems lions of acres of land in supplied with all the water at a reasonable price, owners almost independent conditions. As the greatest ingress from these plans of becoming more widely areas are being provided end is not yet. Irrigated districts manage over non-irrigated in latter there is abode Dependent upon rainfall... It is not spring until you can put your foot on seven daisies at one and the same time, and seven hairs will keep the evil eye off children, according to an old Indian superstition, only the hairs, to be of any avail, must be plucked from the tail of an elephant—a difficult, a delicate and even a dangerous proceeding. At 7 years old all cats become possessed of witch's powers, and woe betide those who ill use or frighten puss when once she has acquired power of mischief! But let this not discourage the lovers of the nine lived one, for— Wherever the cat of the house don't lack For seven years blow white, blow black, The lasses of lovers shall have no lack. Seven years of ill fortune, according to a Sicilian superstition, follow her or him who kills a cat; therefore it were well to treat your feline followers gently, even though you love them not. But I might go on till the "seventh day from Latter Lammas" and still have something to tell. So here I make an end. Nora Hopper in Illustrated London News. Back and Bac. The Pittsburg Chronicle tells of a woman who dearly loves to use big words, and she does not always use them correctly. The other day a neighbor complained of incessant pain in her back, whereupon the user of big words said: "I would consult Dr. Pellets for pains in the back He's the finest bacteriologist that I know of." An Irritating Phrase. "Are you seriously ill?" asked the well meaning friend. "Oh, no," answered the dyspeptic with a jarring, sarcastic laugh. "I hurt all over and don't care whether the sun rises tomorrow or not. But I'm not seriously ill. I'm jocosely flippantly and farcically ill. I'm going through all the symptoms, but I don't mean one of them." MICA lightens the load—shortens the road. helps the team. Saves wear and expense. Sold everywhere. MADE BY STANDARD OIL CO. Chicken Patty.—This dish is a lost art, as Pattl is no chicken. Egg Plant.—(See incubator.)—Puck. His Head Was Turned. A quaint story of paternal care on the part of the clergy comes from Kreuzeber, a village in southwest Saxony. In the middle of his sermon one Sunday the parish priest suddenly stopped, and, changing his voice to a more colloquial tone, said: "Herr Meinhardy, attend to the sermon. From this time forward I shall publicly name every one who looks at the girls during the service." The unfortunate Herr Meinhardy indignantly repudiated this public reproach, explaining that it was a boll on the back of his neck that kept his head fixed at an angle which had led to the misunderstanding. — London Leader. Wanted to Frame It. "There!" said the young wife proudly, as she deposited the hot plate carefully on the table. "That's the first mince pie I ever made without any help, all by myself." "So it is!" exclaimed her husband. enthusiastically, looking it over critically meanwhile. "And as it is the very first, my dear, don't you think that, instead of cutting it, it would be nice to keep it for a souvenir? How would it do to have it framed?" — London Tit-Bits. Easily Fixed. "Remember, boys," said the teacher, "that in the bright lexicon of youth there's no such word as fall." After a few moments a boy raised his hand. "Well, what is it, my lad?" asked the master. "I was merely going to suggest," replied the youngster, "that if such is the case it would be advisable to write to the publishers of that lexicon and call their attention to the omission." A Hole In His Heel. A hole in his right heel enabled a negro workman in the diamond fields of South Africa to secrete and steal gems to the value of $273,000. These he expressed in small parcels of fruit to a cousin in King William's Town, in the extreme south of Africa, from which place both recently departed for England. The great success of Chamberlain's Colie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy in the treatment of bowel complaints has made it standard over the greater part of the civilized world. For sale by P. A. Derge. Can You Indulge In This? "During the day every one should take a few minutes' sleep, preferably directly after the noon meal," writes Edward B. Warman in The Ladles' Home Journal. "The time given to it may seem too precious for one in business, but it will be more than compensated for by the mental and bodily condition that follows. Sit in an easy chair. Lying down directly after a meal crowds the digestive organs and makes one's sleep restless instead of restful. Rest the head comfortably. Tip the chair to a pleasant angle for the body, not enough to have the weight of the body on the back. Place the feet on a chair as high or a trifle higher than the one upon which you are sitting; cross the limbs at the ankle joints; close the hands together by interlacing the fingers, place the fleshy part of the thumbs together in order to avoid grasping the hands too tightly and close the eyes. Having thus closed the circuit, it will be necessary to relieve yourself of all nervous and muscular tension. Think only of your slow, measured breathing and the desire for a restful sleep." I suffered from diarrhea time and thought I cured. I had spent no money and suffered so that I had almost decided hopes of recovery and ad but noticing the added Chamberlain's Colie, Cholera Remedy and also nails stating how some had been wrought by their elided to try it. After doses I was entirely well and I wish to say further and fellow sufferers that and hearty man today and I ever did in my life. Sold by P. A. Derge. Money to Lose From $5,000 to $10,000 on real estate or apply to Richard Melrose California. Continued from First page. tute the prosperous laboring classes in the fruit-producing localities. The orchards must be cultivated again and again, the trees must be pruned with skill, and the fruit must be vigorously and unsparingly thinned, all to ensure the highest state of perfection in the crop. Whether the fruit is to be shipped fresh, canned or cured it must be carefully gathered, and gathered at the proper stage of ripeness. The amount of labor required for this is immense. It is then taken to the points where it is to be prepared for market. When one sees the troops of men, women and half-grown children leaving the canneries or the fruit-curing buildings and grounds at lunch time or at the close of the day, and estimates the amounts paid to them, all going into circulation, literally "where it will do the most good," he can form some idea of the industrial importance of fruit raising. Then there are the adjunct industries of can-making and box-making to be considered. The number of cans and boxes required for our fruit output could it be shown in figures, would seem almost incredible. It must furthermore be understood that while there are many large ranches producing quantities of fruit, yet a comparatively large part of the product comes from those who have small holdings—holdings of from ten to twenty-five acres—upon which a large share of the work is done by members of the family, the income being thus mostly net, and from which they make something more than a comfortable living. While it is doubtless true that there will never again be such large returns from this industry as have been realized in the past, it is equally true that in properly selected localities orchards planted with good judgment, worked intelligently and economically, will pay better than almost any other industry. In the neighborhoods where the small holdings predominate may be found communities of the most intelligent, cultured and happy families to be found in the world. Schools, churches and lecture halls, together with all the concomitants of a high civilization, are always found there. 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As the great benefits arising from these plans of irrigation are becoming more widely known, larger areas are being provided for—and the end is not yet. Irrigated districts may have advantages over non-irrigated, even though in the latter there is abundant rainfall. Dependent upon rainfall, one must take and use water when it comes, not when it is wanted, or when it will be of most benefit to his crop. It may come at most inopportune times. It is doubtless true that more time is lost in a country having summer rains, in postponing necessary work because of rain, or in waiting for the rain to dry off so as to resume work, than it takes in an irrigated section to apply the water; and the injury to products by innoportune rains will nearly, if not quite, equal the cost of purchased water. 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