anaheim-gazette 1899-12-21

PRODUCTS OF COAL TAR. Wonderful Variety of Substances Obtained from It, Embodying Beauty of Color and Richness of Scent. Coal tar, a by-product in the manufacture of ordinary coal gas, is a wonderfully complex substance. No less than sixty different substances have been discovered in it, and more are being discovered every year. One of the most interesting of these is benzine—a clear, mobile liquid discovered in gas oils by Michael Faraday in 1825. It is used in enormous quantities for the production of aniline, and also of a powerful perfume known as "artificial oil of bitter almonds," or "essence of mirbane." No less than 150 tons of this perfume are used in scenting soaps and other toilet requisites. Benzine has the useful property of dissolving fats, resins and india rubber, and is therefore of much value in the cleansing of goods by the "dry-cleaning" method, and also in the forming of "india-rubber solution," so well known to lovers of the cycle and the football. In 1820 napthalene was discovered in tar by Garden. This is a substance from which we derive some of our most beautiful colors, ranging from a buttercup yellow on the one hand to reds, pinks, greens and scarlets. To entomologists this napthalene is of interest, as it is now considered the best preservative for cases of moths, butterflies, insects and other natural history specimens. In 1832 anthracene was discovered by Dumas. It is now of immense importance, as it forms the base from which that beautiful and well-known color, turkey red, is now obtained. From time immemorial this valuable dye has been derived from the roots of the madder plant, the coloring principle of which is called "alizarin." But in 1868 two German chemists, Graebe and Libermann, discovered a method of making artificial alizarin from the coal-tar product anthracene—a discovery which has completely revolutionized the dyeing and calico-printing industries. The excitement in the dyeing and coal-tar industries was immense. Anthracene, which formerly was considered a useless by-product, sold at a few shillings a ton and utilized as a cart grease, immediately rose in price and shortly after this discovery commanded something like $500 a ton. This artificial alizarin has now enriched is a delicate flavoring essence, resembling the true vanilla from the vanilla bean, and the cultivation of the plant in the Cordilleras and Mauritius has been greatly restricted, from the introduction of this artificial vanilla. By mixing essence of mirbane with a certain proportion of this coal-tar vanilla Lord Roscoe has prepared a delightful perfume known as "white heliotrope," and many of the pleasant perfumes which play an important part in the toilet of every pretty maiden and courtly dame are extracted, by the magic of chemistry, from that black and ill-smelling substance, tar.—Dr. David Paterson, in GooWords. Sugar Beets at Compton. From the Enterprise. T. J. Jones, an old friend and acquaintance of the editor, representing the Chino sugar factory, was in Compton this week, looking around with a view to get our farmers to plant sugar beets. We have been informed that the American Beet Sugar company at Chino are contracting to pay farmers of this community for beets, delivered at their nearest shipping place on the railroad, the same that they pay at Chino. The sugar company pays all the freight. This places the farmers around here on the same footing as those living near the factory, and it seems to us should secure a good acreage. We are told that if our farmers will plant 1000 acres it will mean that about $65,000 will be paid to them next fall for beets. If he does most of his own work and has a five or twenty-acre field, he saves the most of what is generally paid for labor. It seems to us that it would be a pretty good investment for our farmers to take hold of this sugar beet industry and give it a good test next year. We have many acres of most excellent beet land, right where our farmers are growing alfalfa and doing a thriving dairy business. We are informed by beet men that beets and the dairy work well together. At the harvest the tops can all be fed, as cows are very fond of them. You sell the beets for $4 to $4.50 per ton, and the factory will sell back to the beet growers about half as many tons of pulp at 10 cents per ton, as you sell tons of beets. The pulp would cost laid down in Compton something less than $1. It is said to be most excellent food for young and dry cattle, and is said by some who have tested it, to be the best milk food known. If used with twenty-five pounds of alfalfa per day, a ton will last a cow two months, the two making a very cheap food. One Sat Still. When Captain Cook's ship, the En- time immemorial this valuable dye has been derived from the roots of the mader plant, the coloring principle of which is called "alizarin." But in 1868 two German chemists, Graebe and Libermann, discovered a method of making artificial alizarin from the coal-tar product anthracene—a discovery which has completely revolutionized the dyeing and calico-printing industries. The excitement in the dyeing and coal-tar industries was immense. Anthracene, which formerly was considered a useless by-product, and sold at a few shillings a ton and utilized as a cart grease, immediately rose in price and shortly after this discovery commanded something like $500 a ton. This artificial alizarin has now entirely superseded the natural product from the mader plant; and the cultivation of madder, which was once a great and flourishing industry, has now dwindled away and in the course of a few years will probably be altogether extinct. Phenol, or carbolic acid, discovered by Mitscherlich in 1834, being one of the most powerful antiseptics and disinfectants, purifies the atmosphere from noxious gases and destroys the infectious germs of disease. Its valuable antiseptic properties have been introduced into surgery with great success by the present Lord Lister, president of the Royal society. From carbolic acid is obtained a valuable series of coloring matters, ranging from a beautiful yellow, i.e., picric acid, to reds, oranges, browns and many other colors. The wonderful substance "aniline" is found only in small quantities in coal tar, and its production on a sufficiently large scale for industrial purposes only became possible when Zinin, in 1842, showed it could be made from nitro benzine or the "artificial oil of bitter almonds," already mentioned. All the nailline for the production of the innumerable beautiful colors is obtained from this derivative of benzine. In 1856 Dr. William H. Perkin, then a young man of 18, was engaged experimenting on aniline with a view to making an artificial quinine. Though his experiments in that direction were a failure they were the means of his making the great discovery of the first aniline color, namely, mauve, and from these experiments has arisen a world-wide industry. In 1858, Prof. A. W. Hofmann discovered the magnificent color magenta, aniline red, one of the most brilliant colors known to the dyer. Then came in quick succession greens, violet-blue and yellow coloring matters, all the hues of the rainbow, and at the present day the number and varieties of colors are bewildering. We are indebted to coal tar not only for beautiful colors, but also for some our most valuable drugs. The valuable drug antipyrine, discovered in 1883 by Dr. Knorr of Erlangen, is considered even better than quinine as an assuager of fevers, and is much cheaper in price. Another is thallium, discovered by Skraup, which has the special power of mitigating yellow fever, or the "yellow Jack," the dread of every colonist. Phenacetine is still another, possessing valuable antipyretic properties. Sulphonal, discovered by Prof. Baeyer, is hypnotic. But perhaps the most remarkable substance obtained from tar is saccharine. 220 times sweeter than cane sugar, useful for sweetening fruit preserves, jams, jellies, etc., where ordinary cane sugar would mould and ferment in course of time. A most interesting and important property is that it does not nourish and fatten the body as cane sugar does. Hence it is of value in certain troubles like diabetes, where it is often recommended by the physician for sweetening tea or coffee in place of cane sugar. Vaillant now obtained from this tar, One Sat Still. When Captain Cook's ship, the Endeavour, lay in Mercury bay, New Zealand, in 1760, a brown boy of 8, who afterward became a chief and lived to a great age, went aboard of her. His name was Taniwha. It was easy enough for the brown boys to pick out Kapene Kuku (Captain Cook) among the men on board, Taniwha said; he was the leader of the "Goblins," a very great man. He walked the ship grave and dignified. He held up a nail, a priceless treasure, and, when Taniwha laughed, gave it to him. Then the boys knew that he was good as well as great. They were shocked that a grown up Maori stole a piece of calico. "The paddled away," Taniwha continued. "The Goblin went down into the hold of the ship, but soon came up with a walking stick in his hand and pointed it at the canoe. Thunder pealed and lightning flashed, but those in the canoe paddled on. "Then they landed. Eight rose to leave the canoe, but the thief sat still with his dogskin mat and the Goblin's garment under his feet. His companions called him, but he did not answer. One of them shook him, and the thief fell back into the hold of the canoe and blood was seen on his clothing and a hole in his back."—San Francisco Examiner. An Amendment. "Fools rush in where"—begun Mr. Van Braam, who was fond of quoting proverbs. He was interrupted by Dinwiddle, who offered this amendment: "Where policemen fear to tread."—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Important Social Question. When a young man takes a girl to a theater, and pays an extra dollar, and goes after her and takes her home, where does he get even? Is it the pleasure of her company or the consciousness that he has done his duty?—Atchison Globe. A Dinner Test. In Siberia there is a good custom that a bride, on coming to her husband's house, has to give a dinner prepared with her own hands as a test of the education she has received. If she succeeds in gratifying her guests, it is taken as a proof not only of the young woman's own excellence, but also as a recommendation of her whole family, by whom she was instructed. Tin is one of the oldest known metals. The Chinese have used it in the fabrication of their brasses and bronzes from time immemorial. Lord Kelvin at the Lecture It is, perhaps, at the lecture that Lord Kelvin displays more characteristics. In the two lecclesi week which he delivers to the class at Glasgow university he trives to touch on most of the tant points of his subject, passes one to the other with a rapid diving to lazy or ill trained who prefer the beaten track. Eggs, jellies, shoemaker tracelle, all sorts of stuff, are illustrate the lectures,and how periments are recommended student,even the humble teasil adapted to the purpose for is intended,"being pressed for service.In the famous egg exe he shows how Columbus met gained his object without breeding egg. When boiled and set spat a table,the egg rises and spread.Unboiled eggs, owing to thiefthe interior,dose not rise,spinningand then suddenlyand immediately released,tinue their motion for a lily Once,the result of a studeraw eggs were substitutedboiled ones,bute science ocriminateandthe verdict wittingly given,"None of them—Cassier's. A Prophetie Dream The following prophetic related by the president of local seminary: It had been tomof one of the professorsall the students，with membl faculty，to dinner at a hot annual Thanksgiving day morning of that day the professor suddenly fell dressing room at 8 o'clock. That morning at 7 o'clockthe students woke up fright dream.He had dreamed to down with the usual compreThanksgiving dinner and meditately one of his fellowrose in his place,saying his painful duty to announce BACKED UP by Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, any woman is enabled to face the world with its duties and pleasures without fear of suffering. This medicine is not a cure-all, but a specific for the chronic diseases peculiar to women. These diseases it perfectly controls and absolutely cures. Tens of thousands of women have testified that "Favorite Prescription" makes Weak Women Strong and Sick Women Well. In Siberia there is a good custom that a bride, on coming to her husband's house, has to give a dinner prepared with her own hands as a test of the education she has received. If she succeeds in gratifying her guests, it is taken as a proof not only of the young woman's own excellence, but also as a recommendation of her whole family, by whom she was instructed. Tin is one of the oldest known metals. The Chinese have used it in the fabrication of their brasses and bronzes from time immemorial. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. Eleven Years Old. From the Orange News. The present issue of the Orange News completes the eleventh year of publication. The News ranks second in age under one name and management in Orange county, the ANAHEIM GAZETTE being its only senior in this respect. We aim to greatly increase the number of our subscribers during the ensuing month, and ask our friends to aid us. Orange is a Great County. From the Riverside Press. Orange county expects to ship 1000 carloads of celery this year. That is a statement that will surprise nearly everyone who reads this item, and is a striking proof of the success of a new industry in Southern California. There are now over 1900 acres devoted to celery in the Peatland country, and more is being planted every year. A SURE CURE FOR CROUP. Twenty-five Years' Constant Use Without a Failure. The first indication of group is hoarseness, and in a child subject to that disease it may be taken as a sure sign of the approach of an attack. Following this hoarseness is a peculiar rough cough. If Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is given as soon as the child becomes hoarse, or even after the croupy cough appears, it will prevent the attack. It is used in many thousands of homes in this broad land and never disappoints the anxious mothers. We have yet to learn of a single instance in which it has not proved effectual. No other preparation can show such a record—twenty-five years' constant use without a failure. For sale by Derge. The chance is passing The Great $75,000 Sale Is drawn Soon this immense sale will become history. The daily crowds of satisfied buyers saving to be made here. Such honest, dependable merchandise has never there is yet time; delay is dangerous. Sensible Christmas gifts are here. Who Can Resist These Prices? Dress Goods and Silks. You could not possibly think of anything so desirable as a present for wife or daughter as a nice dress pattern. We offer the greatest of bargains ever heard of, some of which we mention here: Regular Sale Price. Black all-wool brocaded...$50c Black figured Sicilians...$50c 45-in black figured Sicilian...$75c “ “ “ …65c Black crepon...$1.50 Fine line colored dress patterns, all-wool and wool and silk mixtures, at exactly half price. Fine mixed covert cloth...$1.00 New plaid shirt waists, Men’s Clothing. We have successfully demonstrated to the people of Orange county that we are selling good, honest clothing far below what similar goods were ever before sold for. You cannot appreciate these bargains until you see them. Men’s single-breasted round or square cut sack Suits of good strong Cheviot, well made, and sold formerly at from $5 to $7.50—what are left of broken lines and odds and ends we will close at...$2,85 a Suit Men’s Cheviot Suits in single-breasted sacks — good every-day suits, well sewed, and worth formerly up to $8, now you can buy them at...$3,79 a Suit Men’s Wool Suits in single-breasted sacks, round or square cut, worth in a general way up to $10 each—the price we have put on them to close is...$5,10 a Suit Men’s all-wool Cheviot Suits, excellent linings, neat patterns, suits that were originally sold at prices up to $15, now all we ask for them is...$7,15 a Suit Men’s black or gray Clay Worsted Suits, all wool, and sold everywhere at $15. We have marked them for this sale at...$8,23 a Suit Men’s good Chinchilla Overcoats, well lined, strongly sewed, worth $6....Sale Price $3.15 Men’s Mixed Cheviot Overcoats at $1.97 each. All Overcoats Reduced. REINHAUS BROS Lord Kelvin at the Lecture Table. It is, perhaps, at the lecture table that Lord Kelvin displays most of his characteristics. In the two lectures per week which he delivers to the junior class at Glasgow university he concludes to touch on most of the important points of his subject, passing from one to the other with a rapidity bewildering to lazy or ill trained students who prefer the beaten track. Eggs, jellies, shoemaker's wax, creacle, all sorts of stuff, are used to illustrate the lectures, and homely experiments are recommended to the student, even the humble teaspoon, "so ill adapted to the purpose for which it is intended," being pressed into the service. In the famous egg experiment he shows how Columbus might have gained his object without breaking the egg. When boiled and set spinning on a table, the egg rises and spins on its end. Unboiled eggs, owing to the fluidity of the interior, do not rise, but if set spinning and then suddenly stopped and immediately released, they continue their motion for a little time. Once, the result of a students' plot, raw eggs were substituted for the boiled ones, but science could discriminate and the verdict was unhesitatingly given, "None of them boiled."—Cassier's. A Prophetic Dream. The following prophetic dream is related by the president of a theological seminary: It had been the custom of one of the professors to invite all the students, with members of the faculty, to dinner at a hotel on the annual Thanksgiving day. On the morning of that day the wife of this professor suddenly fell dead in her dressing room at 8 o'clock. That morning at 7 o'clock one of the students woke up from a bad dream. He had dreamed that he sat down with the usual company at the Thanksgiving dinner and that immediately one of his fellow students rose in his place, saying that it was his painful duty to announce to the close is... Men's all-wool Cheviot Suits, excellent linings, neat patterns, suits that were originally sold at prices up to $15, now all we ask for them is... Men's black or gray Clay Worsted Suits, all wool, and sold everywhere at $15. We have $8.23 a Suit marked them for this sale at... Men's good Chinchilla Overcoats, well lined, strongly sewed, worth $6... Sale Price $3.15 Men's Mixed Cheviot Overcoats at $1.97 each. All Overcoats Reduced. Men's (odd sizes) medium and light weight Overcoats, worth $10... Sale Price $4.97 CASTORIA For Infants and Children. Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Best Contains neither Opunm Morphine nor Mineral NOT NARCOTIC. Reprint of Old-D-SANUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed All Senses Robbie Salts Annie Soft Farmhouse Salts Herm Sewd Certified Sugar Immune Piercer Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Carl H. Klitchter NEW YORK. At 6 months old 35 DOSES - 35 CENTS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of The Kind You Have Always Bought. CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. Anah PETE FRESH B CONF Wedding Cakes a Special Fruit Growers In Continued from Fi pears and peaches from Coast dominate the marital Europe. There has complaint in regard to the assorting of American daisies must be remedied. The committee on presented the following in recent reciprocity treaty with France. The same mously adopted. Whereas, The Governor United States has entered ciphercity convention with ment of France, in which plated a material reduction imports of French prunals, preserved fruits, etc.; and whereas lief of the fruit growers California assembled in meeting that any lessen of the present tariff duties prunes, nuts and wines most serious injury to the wine industries of the now, therefore, be it. Resolved, That the fathers of the State of California do and strenuously protest that all proposed reductions tariff rates on import prunes, walnuts, almost fruits, olive oil, wines, etc., be it. Resolved, That the hens of the United States hereby respectfully re- King of Ethiopia and the Toys. Formerly very little sufficed to entertain Menelek, and it is even related that the first sugar loaf which was presented to him caused him ecstasies of pleasure and that he and his consort were discovered with that blessed product of civilization between them, liking it vigorously. But those good times are past. Europeans have brought him so many toys that he has become critical. When a new traveler is announced, he awaits with impatience the customary present, trying to find out beforehand whether it is something new, in which case the audience is speedily granted. He is much interested in all machinery, which, including watches, he invariably takes to pieces. Sometimes he deigns to be present at the unpacking of the traveler's boxes and to appropriate any little object that pleases him. Such informal examinations amuse him vastly. "If I had not been a king," he remarks at times, "I should like to have been a custom house officer."—Vicomte de Poncins in Nineteenth Century. Why Women Don't Stammer. "Persons who stammer," said the pseudo scientific boarder, "do so because they think faster than they can talk." Is that the reason," asked the savage bachelor, "that we so seldom meet a woman who stammers?"—Indianapolis Journal. My son has been troubled for years with chronic diarrhoea. Sometime ago I persuaded him to take some of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. After using two bottles of the 25-cent size he was cured. I give this testimonial, hoping some one similarly afflicted may read it and be benefited.—THOMAS C. BOWER, Glencoe, O. Forsale by P. A. Derge. A Famous Bowman. The Romans were very skillful bowmen, although they discarded the weapon in warfare, trusting to the charge and to hand to hand fighting. Many of the Roman emperors were famous archers. It is said that Domitian would place boys in the circus at a considerable distance from him and as they held up their hands with the fingers outstretched he would send the arrows between them with such nicety and accuracy of aim that he never inflicted a wound. The wicked emperor Commodus boasted that he never missed his aim or failed to kill the wild beast that he shot with a single arrow. He would set a shaft in his bow as some wild beast was set free in the circus to devour a living criminal condemned to die. Just when the furious animal was springing on his prey, the emperor would strike it dead at the man's feet. Sometimes 100 lions were let loose at once in order that he, with 100 arrows, might kill them. With arrows, the heads of which were semicircular, he would sever the necks of ostriches in full flight. ELY'S CREAM BALM is a positive cure. Apply into the nostrils. It is quickly absorbed. 60 cents at Druggists or by mail; samples 70c. by mail. ELY BROTHERS, 56 Warren St., New York City. Scows That Pass In the Night. Jacques leaned over the gunwale of the flat boat as she floated lazily down the Santa Ana river. He smoked his pipe. Pierre hung over the rail of the scow that was upward bound. He also was enveloped in a hazy smoke. In the moonlight the two boatmen recognized each other. "H'llo, Pierre. How you get along?" "Oh, I been geet along. How you geet along?" "Oh, I been geet along, too." "How you seek fatair geet along, Jacques?" "My fatair? Oh, she geet along. She died last veck." Ordova Wax Candles Nothing else adds so much to the charm of the drawing room or boudoir as the softly raid-light from Ordova Candles. Nothing will contribute more to the artistic success of the luncheon tea or dinner. The best decorative candles for the simplest or the most elaborate function—for cuttage or mansion. Made in all colors and the most delicate tints by STANDARD OIL CO. and sold everywhere. For sale by P. A. Derge. 00 Sacrifice Sale Is drawing to a close Is of satisfied buyers is the strongest testimony of the money handise has never been offered for so little. Come while Christmas gifts are here in abundance and greatly reduced. Prices? Read Them. Men’s Furnishings and Boys’ Suits. Here is where you can save money, and at the same time get the very latest and best Men’s Fancy Neckwear, Handkerchiefs, etc., at prices way below what you would naturally expect to pay—these things that are so much in favor as gifts. Come buy your presents now. The assortments are virtually complete, but in a few days the big rush will be on, and you cannot choose so advantageously as at this time. We are selling Men’s Fancy Bosom Shirts, with Collars attached, the regular price being $1 each, for 6lc each, while the 75c grades go at 4lc. Think of a good Suspender for men selling at 12c a pair, worth 25c. All Jackets for Women and Girls. A most elegant stock of fine and high grade jackets is being sacrificed at prices that might seem ridiculous to you but, it only shows how fully we are determined to make a complete and thorough clearance of every garment in the house. Note these radical reductions. REG. SALE PRICE. PRICE. Ladies' black jackets, full silk lined... $7.50 $4.98 Ladies' black jackets, full silk lined... 6.00 3.59 Ladies' black strachan jackets 4.50 2.79 Ladies' tan jackets... 7.00 4.49 Ladies' tan jackets, full lined... 7.50 4.98 a few days the big rush will be on, and you cannot choose so advantageously as at this time. We are selling Men’s Fancy Bosom Shirts, with Collars attached, the regular price being $1 each, for 6lc each, while the 75c gradés go at 4lc. Think of a good Suspender for men selling at 12c a pair, worth 25c. All other goods reduced in proportion. Come soon for best choice. Note these radical reductions. REG. SALE PRICE. Ladies’ black jackets, full silk lined... $7.50 $4.98 Ladies’ black jackets, full silk lined... 6.00 3.59 Ladies’ black astrachan jackets 4.50 2.79 Ladies’ tan jackets... 7.00 4.49 Ladies’ tan jackets, full lined... 7.50 4.98 Ladies’ tan jackets, full lined... 6.50 4.37 Every jacket at cost or less. BROS Santa Ana, Cal. Anaheim Bakery, PETER SYRE, PROPRIETOR. FRESH BREAD CAKES & PIES CONFECTIONERY, ETC. Wedding Cakes a Specialty. Los Angeles and Cypress Sts Fruit Growers In Session. Continued from First page. pears and peaches from the Pacific Coast dominate the markets of continental Europe. There has been some complaint in regard to the packing and assorting of American dried fruits and this must be remedied. The committee on resolutions presented the following in regard to the recent reciprocity treaty entered into with France. The same was unanimously adopted. Whereas, The Government of the United States has entered into a reciprocity convention with the Government of France, in which is contemplated a material reduction of duties on imports of French prunes, walnuts, almonds, preserved fruits, olive oil, wines, etc.; and whereas, it is the belief of the fruit growers of the State of California assembled in their annual meeting that any lessening or removal of the present tariff duties on French prunes, nuts and wines would work a most serious injury to the fruit, nut and wine industries of the Pacific Coast; now, therefore, be it. Resolved, That the fruit growers of the State of California do most earnestly and strenuously protest against any and all proposed reductions from existing tariff rates on imports of French prunes, walnuts, almonds, preserved fruits, olive oil, wines, etc.; and further be it. Resolved, That the honorable members of the United States Senate are hereby respectfully requested to so resolve the reciprocity treaty. Southern Pacific Company. San Francisco and Los Angeles Limited—“THE OWL.” Between Los Angeles and San Francisco daily. Leave Los Angeles 7pm.. arrive San Francisco 9:45 am. Leave San Francisco 5pm.. arrive Los Angeles 7am. The Sunset Route offers unexcelled advantages for winter travel, and an unequalled train service. Sunset Limited, season, November to April. This is the most magnificent train in America, vestibulated throughout, illuminated with Pintsch gas and heated by steam. Every train is made up as follows: One compoosite car, containing bath-room, barber-shop, cafe, 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 sections sleepers as may be necessary, with toilet annexes, one dining-car, meals served a la carte. 1899—SUNSET EXCURSIONS—1899 Through Tourist Sleepers from Los Angeles. To Washington, D. C., via New Orleans, 2 p.m. Sundays and Thursdays. To Chicago, Ill., via New Orleans, 2 p.m. Tuesdays. To Cincinnati, Ohio, via New Orleans, 2 p.m. Fridays. OGEN ROUTE EXCURSIONS. To St. Paul via Sioux city, 12:30 pm Thursdays. To Chicago, Mondays. Tuesdays. Wednesday and Thursdays. Leave Los Angeles 12:30 pm. SHASTA ROUTE EXCURSIONS. To Portland St. Paul and Minneapolis Mondays. 10:30 pm. 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 lended right in the center of the business part of the city at First street or Commercial street—with a block of the large wholesale houses. Our connection at Molave for the famous gold mining camp of Randsburg is superb; good hotel at Molave and elegant stage coaches through to the city of gold. Fare from Anaheim to Randsburg, #7 $8. 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. G. W. LUCE, Asst. Gen Pass. Agt., Los Angeles, 261 South Spring St. FRITZ RUHMANN'S Germania Halle. BACKS' NEW BUILDING LOS ANGELES STREET Resolved, That the fruit growers of the State of California do most earnestly and strenuously protest against any and all proposed reductions from existing tariff rates on imports of French prunes, walnuts, almonds, preserved fruits, olive oil, wines, etc.; and further be it. Resolved, That the honorable members of the United States Senate are hereby respectfully requested to so modify the proposed reciprocity treaty between the United States and France as to permit the present tariff on imports of French fruits, nuts and wines to remain unimpaired, thus giving to the fruit growers of the Pacific Coast that measure of protection which satisfies labor with a fair return and lends safety to the millions of capital invested in their orchards. Be it further. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be engrossed and that the same be sent to Senator George C. Perkins, through whom the action of the fruit growers of California in convention assembled shall be made known to Congress. A Purchaser Plant. There is a strange wild plant in Guadeloupe called the "life plant." If a leaf be broken off and pinned by the stem to the wall of a warm room, each of the angles between the curves of the leaf margin soon throws out a number of very white tentacles, or roots, and soon a tiny new plant begins to sprout, and in the course of a week or two attains a height of two or three inches. When the old leaf shrivels, the new plant is cut off and planted. When carefully cultivated, the life plant produces curious red and yellow blossoms. While the plant is native only in a warm country, there is no doubt that it could be successfully grown in any greenhouse, and as a plant freak it certainly is as interesting as the everlasting plant of Mexico.—Cincinnati Enquirer. As a cure for rheumatism Chamberlain's Pain Balm is gaining a wide reputation. D. B. Johnston of Richmond, Ind., has been troubled with that alliment since 1862. In speaking of it he says: "I never found anything that would relieve me until I used Chamberlain's Pain Balm. It acts like magic with me. My foot was swollen and painting very much, but one good application of Pain Balm relieved me. For sale by P. A Derge.