anaheim-gazette 1899-10-05

CALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY Anaheim VOLUME XXIX. Dr. A. W. Bickford OFFICE OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE. Telephone Central. Residence near Christian Church. Telephone 671. ANAHEIM, CAL. G. S. EDDY, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. OFFICE—First door East of Boston Bakery. Residence—The Witte residence on Center St, opposite Catholic Church. CALLS ANSWERED AT ALL HOURS. ANAHEIM, CAL. HERBERT JOHNSTON, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office and Residence: Los Angeles St., 3 doors south of Boyd's store. Telephone 606.... 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., evenings. I. L. Menges, DENTIST. Metz Building, Anaheim. feb24 DR. F. H. HOUCK DENTIST. OFFICE NEXT DOOR to P. O. (Federman Block, up stairs.) HOURS 9 to 5. ANAHEIM, CAL. S. G. WILSON, M. D. Office and Residence: Over H. A. Free Exhibition and Entertainment OF THE... "Angelus Orchestral" (Or self-playing Piano) Every day between 3 and 4 o'clock p.m.; Saturdays between 8 and 9 p.m. This is a recent invention and is the musical wonder of the age. Plays any piece of music, making "runs" and "trills," and playing a great number of keys that would be impossible for the human hands to execute. It is also a self-playing organ, having the volume of a pipe organ. It can play either the piano or organ alone, or both together at the same time. There are but few of these instruments in the State, the PYNE MUSIC CO. owning one of them. Every one cordially invited to see and hear this wonderful instrument at our store room, Cor. 5th and Main St., SANTA ANA. PYNE MUSIC CO. ANAHEIM BREWERY Pure Lager Beer Metz Building, Anaheim feb24 DR. F. H. HOUCK DENTIST. OFFICE NEXT DOOR to P. O. (Federman Block, up stairs.) HOURS 9 to 5. ANAHEIM CAL. jy18tf S. G. WILSON, M. D. Office and Residence: Over H. A. Dickel's Store. CENTER ST., ANAHEIM. Paul A. Derge. Graduate in Pharmacy. DRUGS, MEDICINES, Perfumes and Toilet Articles. BEST 5-CENT CIGAR IN TOWN MEDICAL HALL, KOLL BLOCK. PUBLIC TELEPHONE OFFICE. RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW And Notary Public. Special attention given to Probate Matters. —Center Street, Anaheim. Z. B. WEST. E. T. LANGLEY. West & Langley, Attorneys at Law. No. 113 West Fourth street, Santa Ana. Rooms 1, 2 and 3. Will practice in all States and Federal courts. CHARLES BAUER Blacksmithing and Wagon-Making Center St., Anaheim. Having purchased the shop formerly conducted by Hank Stough, I take this means of soliciting a share of the public patronage, guaranteeing all work performed by me. HORSESHOEING a SPECIALTY L. GUNTHER. PIONEER BOOT AND SHOE MAKER. Corner Adele and Los Angeles Sts. L. NEMETZ, Carriage Painting & Trimming New Buggies for Sale. Shop on Center St., near Opera-house, Anaheim. LITTLE GEM BARBER SHOP Frank Duer, Prop. PYNE MUSIC CO. ANAHEIM BREWERY Pure Lager Beer Made from Pure Malt, For Sale by the Bottle or by the Keg. PURE CRYSTAL ICE DELIVERED TO ANY PART OF THE CITY AT ONE CENT PER POUND. The Patronage of the Public is Solicitea. F. CONRAD, - - Proprietor GRAY BROTHERS & WARD Cement Contractors Shillinger Patent. Contracts for RESERVOIRS, IRRIGATION MITCHES, Cellar and Stable Floors, Sidewalks Etc. OFFICES—No. 125 N. Broadway, Los Angeles al. Telephone—236. No. 316 Montgomery Bt., San Francisco, Cal. ONLY FIRST-CLASS RESTAURANT! —IN TOWN— In Connection with Boston Bakery. S. KISTLER, PROPRIETOR. A. FREISE, ...KEEPS THE FINEST OF... Wines, Liquors And Cigars. LOS ANGELES BEER ON DRAUGHT. Koll Block, Los Angeles Street. LM Griffith Company The Weekly Gazette. Established 1870. SUBSCRIPTION, - $1 50 Per Year. Six months.....$1 00 Three months.....75 Payable invariably in advance. Transient advertising rates, $1 per inch per month. The GAZETTE is issued every Thursday morning. Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter. Items of news and correspondence on all live subjects are solicited by the editor. RAILWAY TIME TABLE. Time of Arrival and Departure of Trains. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD. Trains on the Southern Pacific pass Anaheim as follows: To Los Angeles. Daily.....7:52 am Daily.....4:23 pm Daily.....6:03 pm Pass Anaheim Junction: To Los Angeles. Daily.....7:56 am Daily.....4:27 pm Daily.....5:56 pm Los ALAMITOS TRAINS: Leave for— 9:49 a.m. Sugar Factory 7:52 a.m. 6:08 p.m. In effect Nov. 1st, 1898. Street cars connect with all trains. Alamitos trains do not run on Sundays. NEWPORT BEACH RAILWAY. Daily Schedule. Leave Anaheim. 9:45 a.m 6:01 p.m. All trains connect at Santa Ana with Newport Railway. L. NEMETZ, Carriage Painting & Trimming New Buggies for Sale. Shop on Center St., near Opera-house, Anaheim. LITTLE GEM BARBER SHOP Frank Dyer, Prop. First-Class Tonsorial Artists. Shop 1 door east of McCollum's cyclery. We keep constantly on hand the best of hair Restorer, Dandruff Cures, and other articles found in a well-appointed barber shops. A share of the public patronage solicited GO TO THE Oak Barber Shop FOR A FIRST-CLASS SHAVE OR HAIR CUT. TWO DOORS '7EST OF BANK. HUSMANN BROS. JOSEPH BACKS, Undertaker and Embalmer DEALER IN Furniture and Bedding Repairing Done. je15 FRED PRESSEL Blacksmithing and Wagon-Making HORSE-SHOEING A SPECIALTY. Shop on Center street, opposite Metropolitan Block. je15 City Stables, L. F. Lewis, Proprietor. Center St, opp. Kroeger Block Single and double teams A. FREISE, Wines, Liquors And Cigars. LOS ANGELES BEER ON DRAUGHT. Koll Block, Los Angeles Street. J.M.Griffith Company A CORPORATION LUMBER DEALERS Neer Railroad Depot, Anaheim, keep constantly on hand Doors, Blinds, Windows, Monidings, Posts, Shakes, Shingles, Lath, Hair Plaster of Paris. Anaheim Grist Mills operating on Wednesdays and Saturdays of each week. Grain, feed, meal, etc., of all varieties. Cornshellled and shipped. W. T. Brown, Agent. N. HART'S PLACE. SCHLITZ MILWAUKEE BEER ON DRAUGHT. DEALER IN... FINE LIQUORS! AND... Choice Wines FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES, Fine Domestic and Imported Cigars. Headquarters for the famo s Schlitz, Milwaukee, beer. F. BACKS, UNDERTAKER And Dealer in FURNITURE. Wall Paper, Cornices, Window Shades, Picture Frames, Upholstery Goods, Paints, Oils and Glass Sewing Machine Supplies, Etc. Cor. Los Angeles & Chartres Sts. Trains on the Southern Pacific pass Anaheim as follows: To Los Angeles. Daily... 7:52 am Daily... 4:23 pm Daily... 6:03 pm Pass Anaheim Junction: To Los Angeles. Daily... 7:56 am Daily... 4:27 pm Daily... 5:59 pm Los ALAMITOS TRAINS. Leave for— 9:49 a.m. 6:03 p.m. Sugar Factory 7:52 a.m. 4:25 p.m. In effect Nov. 1st, 1898. Street cars connect with all trains. Alamitos trains do not run on Sundays. NEWPORT BEACH RAILWAY. Daily Schedule. Leave Anaheim. 9:45 a.m. 6:01 p.m. Arrive Anaheim 7:54 a.m. 4:25 p.m. All trains connect at Santa Ana with Newport trains. Sundays only. Leave Anaheim. 9:45 a.m. 6:01 p.m. Arrive Anaheim 7:54 a.m. 4:25 p.m. The last train is a through train to and from Newport. SANTA FE ROUTE. Local time table. In effect Sunday, June 1st. Trains on the Santa Fe route leave Anaheim as follows for points named: Los Angeles—7:55 am; 4:15 am; 5:05 pm. Pasadena, Azusa, Redondo. San Bernardino—7:55 am; 10:15 am; 5:05 pm. To Pasadena Sunday only. San Bernardino and Riverside (via Orange)—9:55 am; 5:54 pm. San Diego—9:55 am; *2:50 pm. Santa Ana—9:55 am; 2:50 pm; 5:54 pm. Redlands—9:55 am. San Jacinto, Elsinore, Perris, Temecula*9:55 am. Escondido*2:50 pm. Fallbrook*9:55 am. Chicago, Denver, St. Louis, Kansas City and all points East—7:55 am; 9:55 am. Trains marked with a * are daily except Sunday. All others daily. California's Great Tonic Laxative CASCA FERRINE BITTERS CURES POSITIVELY CONSTIPATION AND PILES Indigestion, Billiousness, Dyspepsia Headache, Malaria and all Stomach and Bowel Troubles As a Liver Remedy and Blood Purifier it has no equal The ONLY TONIC LAXATIVE in the WORD Tones and Builds Up while It Regulates SOLD BY P. A. DERGE. FORESTS AND RAINFAL Great Influence Exerted by Trees Up the Moisture and Fertility of the Soil There can be no doubt that forests have a great influence on the moisture and fertility of the soil. The effect of the denudations of the forests of California was a subject of scientific discussion as early as 1859, so far as is known, in which a perennial plant had made its appearance where the early settlement of the region here was none. Kentucky, when its first colonists planted themselves within limits, was a country in which extensive prairies, burned over every ear by the Indians, predominated. In an address delivered in 1865, Professor A. Winchell of Michigan said: "The drouth, in consequence of the diminished rainfall of 1863-4, caused the destruction of from one-third to one-half of the cattle and sheep that ranged in the lower valleys of the State. It has been suggested in the annual report of our State Board of Agriculture that seasons of drought may be in a measure prevented, or at least ameliorated, by a general system of arboriculture. "In the present state of our knowledge it cannot positively be affirmed that the presence or absence of trees affects the total annual quantity of rain, though the balance of testimony strongly favors the conclusion that more rain falls in wooded than in open countries. It is a well-established fact, however, that forests, not only by means of the moisture which they produce and condense, but likewise on account of the obstacles they impose on evaporation from the soil, and by the action of their roots in rendering the soil permeable, insure a permanency and regularity of natural springs, and this, too, not only within the limits of the wood, but at some distance beyond the borders. "As the forests are destroyed, the springs which flowed from the woods, and consequently, the greater water also wooded. After the trees were cut the sea washed the island away so that it was covered by every tide, and the beach became so narrow in some places that the heavy seas broke through it, and it had to be protected by artificial means. The security of have a great influence on the moisture the harbor became endangered. A writer on this subject related that when travelling in the West some sixty years ago he met a gentleman from Kentucky, who spoke of an instance within knowledge in which a perennial plant had made its appearance where the early settlement of the region here was none. Kentucky, when its first colonists planted themselves within limits, was a country in which excessive prairies, burned over every ear by the Indians, predominated. In an address delivered in 1865, Professor A. Winchell of Michigan said: "The earliest and most pervading tenancy exerted by man in the modification of the soil of our State is the dection of the forests. Forests are garments of the soil. They protect it equally from excessive cold and excessive heat. They shelter the sun from the drifting power of the wind and are thus enabled to await thawse of the rigorous winter with thick feet wrapped in a fleecy blanket. Ew autumn they pay back to the soil winter interest all that the soil has expedited upon them. They fan off the bung rays of the summer sun, and retain the fervor of the atmosphere. They shield the soil from the evaporati influences, and maintain an equal degree of humidity. On sloping surface they bind together the soil and rest the denudations of torrents. All the conditions and results are chged when the forests are removed. Thweeping blast of winter strikes earth with the fury of an invisible denn—drives off the natural covering of e soil, and exposes the roots and stumps of vegetation to an unwonted and open disastrous trial. The circumstances of springtime are changed. The oil feels every slight fluctuation of temperature—freezing by night and thawing by day—instead of reposing in peacal slumber under its coat of snow until it spring. And then when summer times the burning sun rapidly drinkup the moisture of the soil and also wooded. After the trees were cut the sea washed the island away so that it was covered by every tide, and the beach became so narrow in some places that the heavy seas broke through it, and it had to be protected by artificial means. The security of have a great influence on the moisture the harbor became endangered. A writer on this subject related that when travelling in the West some sixty years ago he met a gentleman from Kentucky, who spoke of an instance within knowledge in which a perennial plant had made its appearance where the early settlement of the region here was none. Kentucky, when its first colonists planted themselves within limits, was a country in which excessive prairies, burned over every ear by the Indians, predominated. In an address delivered in 1865, Professor A. Winchell of Michigan said: "The earliest and most pervading tenancy exerted by man in the modification of the soil of our State is the dejection of the forests. Forests are garments of the soil. They protect it equally from excessive cold and excessive heat. They shelter the sun from the drifting power of the wind and are thus enabled to await thawse of the rigorous winter with thick feet wrapped in a fleecy blanket. Ew autumn they pay back to the soil winter interest all that the soil has expedited upon them. They fan off the bung rays of the summer sun, and retain the fervor of the atmosphere. They shield the soil from the evaporati influences, and maintain an equal degree of humidity. On sloping surface they bind together the soil and rest the denudations of torrents. All the conditions and results are chged when the forests are removed. Thweeping blast of winter strikes earth with the fury of an invisible denn—drives off the natural covering of e soil, and exposes the roots and stumps of vegetation to an unwonted and open disastrous trial. The circumstances of springtime are changed. The oil feels every slight fluctuation of temperature—freezing by night and thawing by day—instead of reposing in peacal slumber under its coat of snow until it spring. And then when summer times the burning sun rapidly drinkup the moisture of the soil and also wooded. After the trees were cut the sea washed the island away so that it was covered by every tide, and the beach became so narrow in some places that the heavy seas broke through it, and it had to be protected by artificial means. The security of have a great influence on the moisturethe harbor became endangered. A writer on this subject related that when travelling in the West some sixty years ago he met a gentleman from Kentucky, who spoke of an instance within knowledge in which a perennial plant had made its appearance where the early settlement of the region here was none. Kentucky, when its first colonists planted themselves within limits, was a country in which excessive prairies, burned over every ear by the Indians, predominated. In an address delivered in 1865, Professor A. Winchell of Michigan said: "The earliest and most pervading tenancy exerted by man in the modification of the soil of our State is the dejection of the forests. Forests are garments of the soil. They protect it equally from excessive cold and excessive heat. They shelter the sun from the drifting power of the wind and are thus enabled to await thawse of the rigorous winter with thick feet wrapped in a fleecy blanket. Ew autumn they pay back to the soil winter interest all that the soil has expedited upon them. They fan off the bung rays of the summer sun, and retain the fervor of the atmosphere. They shield the soil from the evaporati influences, and maintain an equal degree of humidity. On sloping surface they bind together the soil and rest the denudations of torrents. All the conditions and results are chged when the forests are removed. Thweeping blast of winter strikes earth with the fury of an invisible denn—drives off the natural covering of e soil, and exposes the roots and stumps of vegetation to an unwonted and open disastrous trial. The circumstances of springtime are changed. The oil feels every slight fluctuation of temperature—freezing by night and thawing by day—instead of reposing in peacal slumber under its coat of snow until it spring. And then when summer times the burning sun rapidly drinkup the moisture of the soil and also wooded. Afterthetreeswerecuttheseawashedtheislandawaysothatitwascoveredbyeverytide,andthebeachbecamesonarrowinsomeplacesthattheheavyseasbrokethroughit,andithadtobeprotectbyartificialmeans.Thesecurityofhaveagreatinfluenceonthemoisturtheharborbecameendangered.AwriteronthissubjectrelatedthatwhentravelingintheWestsomesixtyyearsgoethemetagentofscientificdiscussionasearlyas1859,sоfarasreliedtoclimatology,tthoughinadesultoryway.InFebruary,1868,Dt.M.Logan,arecognizedauthoronmeteorology,publishedaresumeoftherainfallatSacramentofortheperiodfrom1849tothatdate,andincidentallytouchedonthesubjectofdroughtanditscauses.Hewaid:"Thedrought,intheconsequenceofthediminishedrainfallof1863-4,causedthedestructionoffromone-thirdtoone-halfoftothecatteandsheepthatrangedinthelowervalleysoftheState。它hasbesengestedintheannualreportofourStateBoardofAgriculturethatseasonsfodroughtmaybeina测量prevented,或atleastameliored,bylegeneralsystemarboriculture. "Itinpresentstateofourknowledgeitcannotpositivelybeaffirmedthatthepresenceorabsenceoftreesaffectsthetotalannualquantityofrain,thebalanceoftestimonystronglyfavorstheconclusionmorerainfallsinwoodedthaninopencountries.itIswell-establishedfacthowever,theforests,notonlybymeansofthemoisturewhichtheyproduceandcondense,但likewiseoncountoftheobstaclestheyimposeonevaporationfromthesoil,andbytheactionoftheirroots浸renderingthesoilpermeable Insureapermanencyandregularitynaturalsprings,andthis.too.notonlywithinthelimitsofthewoodbutatsomedistancebeyondtheborders." "Astheforestsaredestroyed,thespringswhichflowedfromthewoods,and consequently,thegreaterwateralsowooded."Afterthetreeswerecuttheseawashedtheislandawaysothatitwascoveredbyeverytide,andthebeachbecamesonarrowinsomeplacesthattheheavyseasbrokethroughit,andithadtobeprotectbyartificialmeans.Thesecurityofhaveagreatinfluenceonthemoisturtheharborbecameendangered.AwriteronthissubjectrelatedthatwhentravelingintheWestsomesixtyyearsgoethemetagentofscientificdiscussionasearlyas1859,sоfarasreliedtoclimatology,tthoughinadesultoryway.InFebruary,1868,Dt.M.Logan,arecognizedauthoronmeteorology,publishedaresumeoftherainfallatSacramentofortheperiodfrom1849tothatdate,andincidentallytouchedonthesubjectofdroughtanditscauses.Hewaid:"Thedrought,intheconsequenceofthediminishedrainfallof1863-4,causedthedestructionoffromone-thirdtoone-halfoftothecatteandsheepthatrangedinthelowervalleysoftheState.它hasbesengestedintheannualreportofourStateBoardofAgriculturethatseasonsfodroughtmaybeina测量prevented,或atleastameliored,bylegeneralsystemarboriculture." "OurDriedFRUITSEAST." SmallStocksCarriedOverfromLastSeason,andPricesLikelytoBeGood. California dried fruits are,在其 season，to be found in allthe markets.ofthe East.in sufficient supply和 quite within.the purchasing power.of.the people。Indeed,the problem would now seem to be,how to raisethe Eastern selling price sufficiently high to givethe California grower a fair return for his labor and expense without restricting Eastern consumption,and so straightway undoing what has been done in-the way-ofdevelopinga market. It isbyno means easy to increasethepriceofacommodity,andnotbythatact hurtfullydecreaseitsconsumption,eespecially amonga conservativepeople such asarethe farmingpopulationoftheEastandMiddleWest.TheAmerican wage earnerof native stock will，whenheisatworkatgood wages，havewhat he wantswithoutso much regard to price.No so withthe farmer.Hehasinhismindascaleofwhatheregardsaslegitimateprices,andwhenanycommoditygoesuponthisscaleheisprettyapttoforegoitsuseuntilitcomesdownagain,eitherby findinga substituteforitorgoingwithoutit altogether.Forinstance,the farmersoftheMiddleWesthavecometoregard5centsperpoundasalelegitimatepriceforanungradedpruneorlooseraisin,andatthispricewillbuyconstantlyin20-poundlots;butadvancethepriceabovethatandtheywillbuyalmostnotatall,a fewraisinsforoccasionaluseinpastry,butnotmorethanthat,andtheywilluseloverapersonapples.applesfromthecellar.orturntovegetablesanddowithoutfruitallogether.IhavebeentoldthisbydozensofcountrygrocersaovertheMiddleWest,andrefertoherewithsomeinsistencebecausehave seenTheodoreKearneyquoteda strongly favors the conclusion that more rain falls in wooded than in open countries. It is a well-established fact, however, that forests, not only by means of the moisture which they produce and condense, but likewise on account of the obstacles they impose on evaporation from the soil, and by the action of their roots in rendering the soil permeable, insure a permanency and regularity of natural springs, and this, too, not only within the limits of the wood, but at some distance beyond the borders. "As the forests are destroyed, the springs which flowed from the woods, and consequently, the greater water course fed by them, diminish both in number and in volume. This fact is so familiar throughout the American States and British provinces, there are few old residents in the interior of those districts who are not able to testify to its truth as a matter of personal observation." The doctor quoted from "Man and Nature," a work on physical geography that had been recently written by George P. Marsh: "My own recollection suggests to me many instances of this sort, and I remember one case where a small mountain stream, which disappeared soon after the clearing of the land where it rose, was recovered about ten or twelve years ago by simply allowing the bushes and young trees to grow up on a rocky knoll, not more than half an acre in extent, immediately above it, and it has since continued to flow uninterruptedly. The uplands in the Atlantic States formerly abounded in streams and rills, but in many parts of those States which have been cleared for above a generation or two, the hill pastures now suffer severely from drought, and dry season, no longer afford either water or herbage for stock." It is traditional that no wobe regions in Spain which are now barren or nearly so for pasturage a part of the season were, before the noble woods were cut down, free from drouth and rich in crops. And the denuding of that country of its trees has made the rivers for the most part mere channels for the winter rains. The Guadalquiver, which some poet has called "the mighty river," enters the sea without water enough to cover the loose black stems that pave its bed. The Holy Land now often misses the "later rain," or receives it but sparingly, and the brook Kedron is but a low, dry ravine, passing off to the eastward from Jerusalem to descend between perpendicular walls beside the monestery of Mar Saba to the valley of the Jordan and the Dead Sea. In France the same tendency was checked by legislation, which interfered, as early as 1699, to prevent the felling of forests without permission. This legislation became very stringent early in the present century, and, in addition, the government exercised the right of the compulsory planting of trees on the land of citizens who would not plant voluntarily. The French law of 1859 prevented the cutting down of any wood larger than twenty-five acres, unless it should appear to the proper authorities that such wood was not necessary to protect the soil on mountain or deep slopes; or against the encroachment of rivers; or to preserve springs and water courses from drying up, or the sea shore from being blown or washed away; or for the defense of the frontier, or for the public health. It was found in that country that to cut off the forests caused the hillsides to be stripped of soil, and the springs to dry up; that torrents and freshets were much more injurious afterward, and that the sea sand encroached upon the arable fields since the woods near dee of humidity. On sloping surface they bind together the soil and rest the denudations of torrents. All the conditions and results are chaged when the forests are removed. Thweeping blast of winter strikes thereth with the fury of an invisible denn—drives off the natural covering of e soil, and exposes the roots and stumps of vegetation to an unwonted and then disastrous trial. The circumstances of springtime are changed. The sil feels every slight fluctuation of temperature—freezing by night and thawk by day—instead of reposing in peacal slumber under its coat of snow until spring. And then when summer smells the burning sun rapidly drinkup the moisture of the soil and the wole air becomes torrid and dry. Instel of a regular humidity and gentle raus, the agency of man has substituted alternating thirst and flood. And a the hill tops, where the natural ligatures of the soil have been remove sudden torrents wash it away, and sore the earth with ugly gorges and rivines." A pet of our country, referring to the effect of stripping the soil of its trees put these lines in the mouth of one of the aboriginal inhabitants: Before those fields were shorn and tilled. Fall o'the brim our rivers flowed; The muddy of waters filled The fresh and boundless wood; And torrents dashed and rivulets played. And bountains spotted in the shade Those grateful sounds are heard no more; The springs are silent in the sun; The rivers by the blackened shore With lessening current run. The calm our tribes are crushed to get May be a barren desert yet. CONJURED A TREATY. How Houdin, the Magician, Awed the Arabs Into Submission. During the French conquest of Algeria (1090-1693) negotiations for peace certain Arab tribes, and a meeting for the settlement of terms was arranged to take place at the French headquarters. The French officers received their guests with great hospitality, and after the banquet given in their honor, at which the utmost splendor was employed, in order to dazzle their eyes and captivate their simple minds, an adjournment was made to a large hall, where M. Houdin, the celebrated conjurer, who had accompanied the French forces, gave an exhibition of his skill. They stared in open mouthed wonder at all the tricks that were performed, and a feeling of awe crept over them as they witnessed the mysterious appearance and disappearance of various objects. But what appeared to them most marvelous was the apparent manufacture of cannon balls. M. Houdin passed round among them a high hat, which they examined very carefully, but without suspecting anything unusual in either its make or its appearance. When the hat was returned to him the conjurer placed it on the floor in the middle of the stage in full view of his audience. He then proceeded to take from the hat cannon balls apparently without number, and rolled them across the floor into the wings. With this performance terminated. The chiefs then consulted among themselves and came to the conclusion that it was useless to offer any opposition to an army that could turn out its ammunition in so easy a manner. They therefore signed the required treaty and departed to tell their friends in the desert of wonderful power of the invaders — Cincinnati Enquirer. That Second Chapter. Growers are just now much concerned for the prevailing low market price for dried fruits of all kinds, especially for dried peaches, but less so; it seems to me. Such stored fruits as have been produced in this East year come into market chief in September and October, and as people will not use dried fruits so long they can get green fruits. Eastern grapes will not keep the dried until frost has terminated the supply of fresh fruits. Beyond prunes for boarding-houses and raisins for cooking. I found no dried fruits on sale; groceries except such as had been cried over unsold from last spring trade. Whatever money is now being invested in dried fruit is on speculation and not to supply any immediate demand. In this country, more money is not seized this speculative market is a mystery unable to uncover. Certain it that there is no considerable source supply of dried fruit, as there has been of green fruit, other than Cincinnati, this year. Furthermore, the purchasing power of Eastern people will be greater than year than it has been within a decade and there is no apparent reason why California fruits in all their forms should not sell at good prices and really if they do not it must be because of some artificial obstruction. Nevertheless, there is not in East States that growth in the consumption of dried fruits that might be paired with apparent reason. There some increase of use, but it is not like that which attends the consumption of canned goods. What the fruit industry stands in greatest need of is a systematic and continued推广 education in NEW USES FOR FRUIT PRODUCTION. It takes nothing short of an invention genius, combined with ample training to devise new and palatable nary dishes, and inventive genius not among the admirable endowments which women possess, or at all even what inventive genius they possess of literary rather than culinary city, and women do the cooking for American masses. I have inquiry diligently of grocers' deliverymen who brought into close relations with bakers, and have not been able to lift a single new dish made from raisins are used continuously all year through, but chiefly for their old purposes that our grandmother used them, except that they are one more generously out of hand, in The effect of the laws against cutting and in favor of planting trees in France was such that instead of a steady decrease in the extent of woodland in the country, there was a constant gain. In 1860 the wooded surface of that country was 8,783,343 hectares, or less than 22,500,000 acres—the whole number of acres in France then being at least 125,000,000. In 1865 the number of hectares of wood had increased to over 9,000,000, or nearly a million acres more. In a few of the other European countries the preservation of wood has been undertaken, but nowhere with so much success as in France. In 1867 M. Becquerel read a paper on the subject before the French Academy, the first portion of which gave details respecting the extent of forest lands in France at various periods; the second discussed the climatic action of forests, and in it he stated that their influence will be found to depend on their extent, on the nature of the trees whether having deciduous or permanent leaves, on the power of evaporation exerted by the leaves, and on their capacity of receiving or radiating heat; and lastly, on the character of the soil or sub-soil. The general conclusion was that although the mean temperature may be unaltered, the distribution of heat at given times may be affected so as to produce a modification of the climate, and that leaves certainly are a powerful and insistent cause of moisture in the air, the least reduction of temperature occasioning a precipitation of moisture evaporating from them, which on falling penetrates the soil directly when it is permeable, and through the intervention of roots when it is not. In the United States the destruction of woodlands has given rise to remarkable phenomena. For instance, the long beach at Plymouth, when the Pilgrims landed there, was covered with trees, and an island of considerable extent outside of the beach was The French law of 1859 prevented the cutting down of any wood larger than twenty-five acres, unless it should appear to the proper authorities that such wood was not necessary to protect the soil on mountain or deep slopes; or against the encroachment of rivers; or to preserve springs and water courses from drying up, or the sea shore from being blown or washed away; or for the defense of the frontier, or for the public health. It was found in that country that to cut off the forests caused the hillsides to be stripped of soil, and the springs to dry up; that torrents and freshets were much more injurious afterward, and that the sea sand encroached upon the arable fields since the woods near the shore disappeared. The chiefs then consulted among themselves and came to the conclusion that it was useless to offer any opposition to an army that could turn out its ammunition in so easy a manner. They therefore signed the required treaty and departed to tell their friends in the desert of the wonderful power of the invaders—Cincinnati Enquirer. That Second Chapter. The new pastor was preaching his first sermon. In the middle of it he stopped abruptly and asked: "How many of you have read the Bible?" Fifty hands went up. "Good," said the pastor. "Now, how many of you have read the second chapter of Jude?" Twenty-five hands went up. A wan smile overspread the divine's face. "That's also good; but when you go home read that chapter again, and you will doubtless learn something to your interest." There is only one chapter in the book of Jude—Guthrie (O. T.) Leader. Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. 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Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged cure for catarrh and contains no mercury nor any injurious drug. Price, 50 cents. What is needed is to educate hundreds intelligent women who are organizing faculty and when really know how to cook California fruits properly and can discourse diligently upon the hygienic advance of fruits as foods they should be through the Eastern States; giving lectures and free samples of fruits in groceries; at fairs; and we ever else opportunity can be had and keep at it until the gospel fruit diet is received by the people received gladly. The expense of this education might be borne by contributions to different fruit-handling companies, railroads, etc., and it not be at all out of place for the Legislature to subsidize reasons that sort of an undertaking. Commissions paid by jobbers orders taken by these educators afford an added revenue. The California ripe olive needs missionary work done on half. The recipes for cooking must simple, inexpensive and such as good housewife can manage; culinary of the professional chef be likely to be quite beyond them. PROGRESS EASTWARD. When I visited New England in only California dried fruits found in the groeries were pruned raisins. Since then dried peach apricots have been added and have staple articles of trade are used by all classes, but espired by the French Canadians, who praise a very large percentage Gazette. MIDDLE FRUITS EAST. Has carried over from Last Issue and Prices Likely to Be Good. Dried fruits are, in their place found in all the markets but in sufficient supply and in the purchasing power of India. Indeed, the problem seems to be, how to raise the selling price sufficiently high in California grower a fair price his labor and expense with Eastern consumption, nightway undoing what has been the way of developing a no means easy to increase of a commodity, and not by hurtfully decrease its consespecially among a conservative such as are the farming of the East and Middle West. American wage earner of native labour when he is at work at good value what he wants without so hard to price. No so with the trade has in his mind a scale of regards as legitimate prices, any commodity goes up on him is pretty apt to forego its suit comes down again, either as a substitute for it or going altogether. For instance, prices of the Middle West have regard 5 cents per pound as a price for an ungraded prune raisin, and at this price will instantly in 20-pound lots; but the price above that and they almost not at all, a few rais occasional use in pastry, but than that, and they will use dried apples, apples from the celery to vegetables and do with altogether. I have been told dozens of country grocers all Middle West, and refer to it with some insistence because I am Theodore Kearney quoted as laboring population of the New England States. Great quantities of apples are evaporated in New England, and evaporated apples therefore come into competition with California dried fruits, and yet that competition is perhaps more than counterbalanced by the habitual use of evaporated apples having accustomed the people to consume fruits in that form. Another aid to the increased consumption of dried fruits in New England was the enforced economy of the panical years, which for a time put canned goods quite out of their reach. CALIFORNIA CANNED GOODS. While there has been during the past five or six years a healthy increase in the consumption of all kinds of California fruit products, it has been much more marked in canned goods than in anything else. Always the reply of the grocer is the same: The goods are in good request and the quality of the standard brands is satisfactory. There is a good deal of poor stuff in the way of canned goods that goes onto the market as California product, but the greater part of this comes from Baltimore, which packs all its poor stuff under a spurious California label. The grocers know what they are getting, but the consumers do not. In 1898 5,000 cases of this Baltimore stuff were placed in Des Moines at 97 cents a case delivered. These dishonest packers do not copy the trade mark of any established California concern. All they steal is the name "California," but that is quite sufficient for the purpose. Peaches, apricots and pears are the staple canned fruits from California. Grocers keep only what is called for, and the people do not seem to know any more about canned nectarines than they do about dried. In the West, price seems to be everything and quality of secondary consideration, as much so with canned goods as with dried, but east of Niagara Falls only good products will sell, and many grocers keep only the best. Out West, fruit canned in water sells well, but East it must be good enough to take the place of goods "put up" by the housewife. Out West, women will pay $1 per box for California fruit to put up themselves rather than depend on their utility to be found on SERIES. OF RESERVOIRS. How the Ancients Practiced Irrigation Where What is Now the Ruins of Algeria. Northern Africa is a country which is not altogether unknown to the traveler; it is a land of remarkable interest. There is found there some of the most ancient history of the world. In the valley of the Nile civilization sprang forth and reached a mark which in some features has hardly been surpassed. Yet a man has just returned to the United States who was probably the first to thoroughly explore that country along certain lines. He is the Botanical Explorer of the Agricultural Department, W. T. Swingle. For eighteen months Mr. Swingle has been traveling about the Mediterranean countries looking for plants and trees, and for the products of the agriculturist or horticulturist, which might be of value to the farmers and fruit growers of the United States. "Especially interesting," said Mr. Swingle, in talking of his work, "did I find the North African countries. They greatly resemble our own Southwest, and like a great portion of it, they are arid. Carrying the parallel still farther, they were, like it, once fertile through irrigation. This great area was once part of the Roman Empire, and the Romans seem to have known how to irrigate to perfection, for there is evidence that all of North Africa was as fertile as is the present Valley of the Nile. The waters of the rivers seem to have been stored for irrigation in series of reservoirs, one above the other. The ruins of Algeria indicate a wealthy and populous community; but long since the land has reverted to its natural aridity, dams have disappeared, and irrigation has ceased, yet the ruins of great cities rise from out of the hot, sandy wastes, well preserved monuments in the dry atmosphere, to the former grandeur of the Romans. Many of the buildings in these cities are almost entire, showing clearly the style of architecture, the triumphal arches." SLOW MARKET ACCOUNTED FOR. Peaches, apricots and pears are the staple canned fruits from California. Grocers keep only what is called for, and the people do not seem to know any more about canned nectarines than they do about dried. In the West, price seems to be everything and quality of secondary consideration, as much so with canned goods as with dried, but east of Niagara Falls only good products will sell, and many grocers keep only the best. Out West, fruit can in water sells well, but East it must be good enough to take the place of goods "put up" by the housewife. Out West, women will pay $1 per box for California fruit to put up themselves rather than depend on the indifferent quality to be found on the shelves of the grocers, but the number of such women is comparatively small. In the East, high grade canned goods have nearly done away with putting up fruit at all. To put up fruit domestically costs the housewife 20 cents a quart, besides the labor, and she can buy a 3-pound can as good fruit as she can put up, for 35 cents. The principal competition California canned goods have to meet in Eastern markets is that of berries, which produced great crops this year and are canned in immense quantities. Greengage plums, too, (and every green plum is a greengage) are found in great profusion and are good sellers. It would seem that our Museatelle grapes might be canned as an advantageous competitor with the Eastern canned berry. A Few Words About Nuts. The English walnut from California seems to be everywhere gaining in favor. They are a little difficult to handle, as they will get rancid if not kept in cold storage. The almond, too, is in demand. Within a year or two nuts have entered more into cooking than ever before, and it looks as though the efforts of nut growers are to be rewarded by a steady and growing demand for their product. They are regarded as a nerve food, and Americans have at last discovered that they have nerves and must needs take care of them if they would live and move and have their being. CALIFORNIA FIGS. I was surprised to find that the California fig is coming to be well regarded and to meet with a ready sale. It is out of the way by the time the imported fig comes into competition, and while it is not liked as well as the imported, it sells for enough less to make it a good seller. It is only in the Chicago district and to the westward that I found this to be the case. Farther East I did not happen to meet any one who knew much about the California fig.—A.J.Pillsbury in Tulare Register. PROP BRACKET. An Ingenious Contrivance for Holding Up Limbs of Trees. J.K.Woodward of Riverside, patentee and manufacturer of an ingenious adjustable tree bracket, was in town on Friday, having driven up from Long Beach, where he enjoyed a short season at the seaside. The advertisement of Mr.Woodward's prop bracket will be found in our advertising columns. One can use as many props as there may be limbs with fruit that need supporting, by placing the limb in the bracket and pushing the limb up well with the bracket. When one lets go of the limb the bracket catches the prop, and the more weight put upon the bracket tighter it holds. One can and the Romans seem to have known how to irrigate to perfection, for there is evidence that all of North Africa was as fertile as is the present Valley of the Nile. The waters of the rivers seem to have been stored for irrigation in series of reservoirs, one above the other. The ruins of Algeria indicate a wealthy and populous community; but long since the land has reverted to its natural aridity, dams have disappeared, and irrigation has ceased, yet the ruins of great cities rise from out of the hot, sandy wastes, well preserved monuments in the dry atmosphere, to the former grandeur of the Romans. Many of the buildings in these cities are almost entire, showing clearly the style of architecture, the triumphal arches and other types of Roman work, and until one gets into their midst, it seems hardly possible that they have stood uninhabited for long centuries. Where now the burning sand of the desert is swept by the hot winds, covering and uncovering carved stone and pillars, the green verdure, the swaying palms and luxuriant growths of the tropics once held sway under the magic influence of water, artificially distributed. The French government is now making some interesting excavations in Algeria, but otherwise no desecration of the wonderful ruins is allowed. One of the most interesting bits of information which I picked up was that we, as a nation, are being delightfully imposed upon in our use of Egyptian tobacco. Since the Chicago Exposition and its Midway Plaisance, which brought with it many Eastern customs and created an American demand for Eastern products, we have been using Egyptian tobacco and especially Egyptian cigarettes in this country to a considerable extent. These cigarettes, in fact, are considered the finest of imported brands and cost accordingly. Yet here we are paying 2 or 3 cents a smoke for gold-paper cigarettes which never saw the light of Egypt. Strange as it may seem, notwithstanding the supposed fine climate of Egypt for growing tobacco, and the extensive irrigation systems of the Nile, where agriculture reaches a high state of perfection, good tobacco cannot be grown, and as a matter of fact the Egyptian government has decreed against the growing of any tobacco whatever within its jurisdiction. All "Egyptian" tobacco is raised in Turkey. The Turks are fine tobacco growers and expert tobacconists. For some reason they adopted the name of "Egyptian" tobacco to sell their goods. The Egyptians, on the other hand, being able to raise only inferior grades, saw that unless something was done these "fine Egyptian brands" would soon be discredited; so, in order to keep up the high standard of "Egyptian" tobacco and to retain the prestige and glory which the Turkish tobacco had brought them, the Egyptian government employed the drastic measure of prohibiting any growth of the plant in Egypt." The officials of the Department of Agriculture of Washington are highly pleased with the results obtained by the special agents who have been studying the seeds and plants of foreign countries with a view of introducing them into the United States. This study is being carried on with the $20,000 appropriated by congress to "collect, purchase, test, propagate and distribute rare and valuable seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings and plants from foreign countries for experiment with reference to their introduction into this country." Walter C. Swingle, of the Division of Botany, has returned from a visit to the Mediterranean countries, where he studied the agriculture of southern Europe and northern Africa, and gained much valuable information. have inquired diligently of grocers for grocers' deliverymen, who are right into close relations with housekeepers and have not been able to learn single new dish made from raisins. Raisins are used continuously all the through, but chiefly for the same purposes that our grandmothers them, except that they are eaten generously out of hand, in sauce on the table with nuts, but it will seem that human ingenuity early directed, ought to devise new, valuable, wholesome and cheap uses of raisins and other dried fruits. One of our best dried fruits, such as strawberries and dried pears and nectarines, are used almost not at all and are to be found in Eastern groceries. What is needed is to educate half a dozen intelligent women who have organizing faculty and when they know how to cook California fruits properly and can discourse intelligently upon the hygienic advantages of foods, they should be sent through the Eastern States, giving freezes and free samples of cooked fruits in grocerys, at fairs, and where else opportunity can be found, keep at it until the gospel of a diet is received by the people and saved gladly. The expense of this educational work must be borne by contributions from different fruit-handling companies,anges, railroads, etc., and it would be at all out of place for the State statute to subsidize reasonably sort of an undertaking. Commissions paid by jobbers upon orders taken by these educators might add an added revenue. The California ripe olive especially is missionary work done on its behalf. The recipes for cooking must be simple, inexpensive and such as any household can manage. The nine of the professional chef would likely to be quite beyond them. PROGRESS EASTWARD. When I visited New England in 1893, only California dried fruits to be sold in the groceries were prunes and apples. Since then dried peaches and pecans have been added and have become staple articles of trade. They used by all classes, but especially by the French Canadians, who comprise a very large percentage of the population. J. K. Woodward of Riverside, patentee and manufacturer of an ingenious adjustable tree bracket, was in town on Friday, having driven up from Long Beach, where he enjoyed a short season at the seaside. The advertisement of Mr. Woodward's prop bracket will be found in our advertising columns. One can use as many props as there may be limbs with fruit that need supporting, by placing the limb in the bracket and pushing the limb up well with the bracket. When one lets go of the limb the bracket catches the prop, and the more weight put upon the bracket the tighter it holds. One can take up several limbs with one prop, and by so doing save from 20 to 30 per cent in props in the orchard. It is the simplest, best and cheapest and only prop-bracket there is in the market that will adjust itself to any prop. It is not necessary to have a certain length in order to just reach a limb, as the brackets will slide up or down. When one has picked his fruit it is not necessary to take the props out of the trees, but can let them stand till the season comes to prop again. They will be ready to adjust without having to haul them from and back to the orchard. By a little attention they will not injure the limbs by standing, as Mr. Woodward has practiced this for six years. One will find them ready without having to repair them. Push the limb up well, and Mr. Woodward warrants them to give good satisfaction. They are cheaper than any other prop that can be made, and will positively not get out of order. No nails or splice to break; no time spent in repairing; can be padded if you wish without nailing. Stand props as near the bottom of trees as you can and they will not be in the way of cultivation. If the bracket is sprung apart so as to go on part way of the prop it will take a side hold, and will never slip. If the bracket should be too loose, press the sides together so as to make a little friction on the sides of the prop and they stay in place better while being put up. Herman Dickel is the local agent and will be pleased to give those interested all necessary information. The Homeliest Man in Ananeim, As well as the handsomest, and others, are invited to call on any druggist and get free a trial bottle of Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs, a remedy that is guaranteed to cure and relieve all Chronic and Acute Coughs, Asthma, Bronchitis and Consumption. Price 25c. and 50c. Agriculture of Washington pleased with the results obtained by the special agents who have been studying the seeds and plants of foreign countries with a view of introducing them into the United States. This study is being carried on with the $20,000 appropriated by congress to "collect, purchase, test, propagate and distribute rare and valuable seeds, bulbs, trees, shrubs, vines, cuttings and plants from foreign countries for experiment with reference to their introduction into this country." Walter C. Swingle, of the Division of Botany, has returned from a visit to the Mediterranean countries, where he studied the agriculture of southern Europe and northern Africa, and gained much valuable information. Before leaving for home he made arrangements with nurserymen to send to the United States such seeds and plants as might be called for. While studying grape culture, fig capricification, date growing, etc., he came across a number of new vegetables which it is hoped will prove acceptable to American tastes. Of these he says: "The crosne or stachys is a Chinese and Japanese vegetable. It has white tubers two or four inches long and the size of one's finger, but looking like a crowded string of large beads. They were imported into France, where their value was discovered by the late M. Paillieux, a gentleman of leisure, who devoted his grounds at Crosne, near Paris, to the culture of strange and new vegetables from all parts of the world. He was so pleased with this one that he did everything possible to bring it into notice. After several years he succeeded, and the vegetable is now well known in Paris. It is called Crosne, after the name of M. Paillieux's place. Boiled or fried and served with meat it is delicious. The plant is perfectly hardy and grows in all soils, yielding as much as five tons to the acre. Two other tubers of delicate flavor, much esteemed in Paris, are the tuberous-rooted cherville and tuberous-rooted nasturtium (the mayna of Chile). "In the Mediterranean countries much use is made of the vegetable marrow, of which many species are known. It is a sort of summer squash, and is eaten before fully ripe, when it much resembles a large green cucumber. Cooked and served with meat it is excellent, and no food is considered more easily digested. Many varieties are known in Italy, Greece and Turkey, as well as in Germany and England. Among other vegetables of great merit might be mentioned two species of asparagus, new to America. One of..."