anaheim-gazette 1900-01-25

PROGRESS IN FARMING. What the Tillers of the Soil Have Accomplished. With the opening of the new year and the approach of spring the farmer will find himself busier than at any other time before the ground is ready, and among the most important matters to be considered is the improvement of the live stock and the varieties of crops. It has been demonstrated in the past that as many improvements have taken place on the farms as in the workshops, though differing in forms and methods, and the farmer stands as high in the line of progress as do those in other avocations. The horse is made to do duty in several capacities, and breeding has produced several kinds, each adapted for speed or draft, as occasion requires. Cattle have been greatly improved within the past half century, each breed being classified for certain duties. The cow is no longer an animal for producing milk, as the class that excels in milk production may not prove superior for butter production. It is the same with sheep, swine and poultry, for the farmer can now select what he desires as a farm animal. Breeding has separated each from the other, and given one and all peculiar characteristics, which have been secured by patient and careful selection from the best. But for the work of the breeders and farmers, who have made such wonderful progress with the breeds of live stock, the wealth of this country would be much less than at present, for it may be truly claimed that the advancement of a nation can be noticed in the success of its farmers with live stock. The live stock of today shows that our farmers have kept pace with the progress of the age. The cattle, horses, sheep and swine of the present differ widely from those existing in the year 1800, and the condition of the farms has improved with the stock. Since the year 1800 there have also been many wonderful changes in the varieties of fruits and vegetables. The tomato, cauliflower, celery, salsify and other well-known vegetables were not in existence as articles of food. The cabbage was a soft-headed plant, known as "collard"; the carrot was but a small root, and the beet and turnip were almost insignificant. The list of vegetables has been so extensive that it is difficult to count them all. VOICE OF THE PRESS CO-OPERATION IN WALNUTS. From the Santa Barbara Press. Walnut culture is a most important industry in this section. It is a crop that pays, and pays handsomely when prices are what they should be. Through a more perfect association of growers the walnut men have been able for the past year or two to make their own prices. They establish a fair rate for the different grades and invite the buyers to take the nuts. As they control the greater part of the crop they are able to control the prices; and this year walnuts have paid well. Of course it is to the interests of the commission men to break the power of the organization; they attempt it by naming prices when the crop is pretty well out of the way—above the association figures—and thus make some shortsighted people wish they had "staid out of it," and sold for more money. This scheme was worked with the raisin men of the state until it was worked too often; when the union had been smashed, prices fell to the bottom, and the growers had to take what was offered. Now there is a permanent raisin growers' association, and raisins can be produced with a profit. The Chronicle, in commenting on walnut growers' organizations, says: "The walnut growers of the southern counties have never been able to quite get together in their marketing associations. There is more or less jealousy between the different sections, which is presumably wearing away. There are also a good many growers who have never joined any association. J. B. Neff, president of one of the societies, shows in a communication in the ANAHEIM GAZETTE, that the association has sold its walnuts for $41 per ton more than has been obtained by outsiders. The money lost by the growers did not benefit consumers, but was gobbled up by enterprising go-betweens, who like nothing better than to catch a farmer out alone with no association to protect him." The ANAHEIM GAZETTE says that the brokers in that section cleared up nearly $100,000 on the walnut crop thereabouts. In a small district about Fullerton, Placentia and Anaheim, there were fifteen cars of walnuts bought through brokers, and the GAZETTE says: "We showed last week that these were paid for at the rate of $150 per car. These cars were sold by the purchasing agents to the brokers at Since the year 1800 there have also been many wonderful changes in the varieties of fruits and vegetables. The tomato, cauliflower, celery, salisfy and other well-known vegetables were not in existence as articles of food. The cabbage was a soft-headed plant, known as "collard"; the carrot was but a small root, and the beet and turnip were almost insignificant. The list of fruits and vegetables has been so extended as to give almost an unlimited variety. The fox grape was king in this country in 1800, and the Concord, Catawba, Delaware, Niagara and other varieties were produced from it. The blackberry, which grew along the roadside and ditches, has been brought into the garden and fields, while the wild strawberry has been converted from an insignificant berry into varieties which bear but little resemblance to the original. Apples, peaches, pears, quinces, plums, cherries, gooseberries, currants and raspberries have also been greatly improved and modified, so much so that if a person living 100 years ago could be brought back to life he would be unable to recognize some of the fruits presented for inspection. There has been no "chance" in the improvements made. Not a single breed of animals or variety of fruits or vegetables has been brought forward that was not the result of skill and industry, and only a comparison with those existing in the past (which is impossible) could demonstrate what the farmer has done. Others may have invented labor-saving implements for his use, but he has been forced to dispense with the spinning-wheel, the loom and other appliances now unknown on the farm; but in his lines the farmer has walked side by side with the inventors, and with each new discovery on their part he can point to a corresponding improvement on the farm as the result of his skill. With what may have been done in the past there is yet more to do on the farm. In the year 1800 the farmer knew nothing of artificial fertilizers. He did not even understand how to feed for best results; in fact, he considered it economical to turn his live stock into the woods that each animal should seek its food. The sunny side of a barn was warm shelter, and the ox did more service than the horse. The list of fruits was very short, and the mulberry was regarded as entitled to a place among the fruits—the walnut, hickory nut, chestnut and persimmon holding high places in the affections of the young people. The roads were fearful, and the shipping of produce to market was very difficult. Live stock went to market "on the hoof," and turkeys were driven in large droves hundreds of miles. The farmer now understands the use of fertilizers and plant foods, and he actually employs the bacteria of the soil to increase his yield of crops, and puts bacteria into his cream to make the proper butter flavor. It is no exaggeration to state that bacteria is sold to farmers to be used for different purposes, and before another decade has passed the farmer will probably be master of the drought and be in position to control the moisture supply. What is more in favor of the farmer as compared with inventors of machinery is that he had no patent laws to protect him. His improvements passed out of his hands and became public property as soon as his work was finished, and the only reward he could see has sold its walnuts for $41 per ton more than has been obtained by outsiders. The money lost by the growers did not benefit consumers, but was gobbled up by enterprising go-betweens, who like nothing better than to catch a farmer out alone with no association to protect him." The ANAHEIM GAZETTE says that the brokers in that section cleared up nearly $100,000 on the walnut crop thereabouts. In a small district about Fullerton, Placentia and Anaheim, there were fifteen cars of walnuts bought through brokers, and the GAZETTE says: "We showed last week that these were paid for at the rate of $150 per car. These cars were sold by the purchasing agents to the brokers at $1600 per car. Here is a neat little profit in itself, which the purchasing agents divided between themselves. The brokers sold these nuts to the wholesale grocers at 10 cents per pound, or $2000 per car; here we find a difference of $500 per car within a fortnight after they were delivered at the packing house." All of which indicates that one road to greater prosperity to the horticulturist lies in the direction of organization. BEET FARMING NOTES. From the Chino Champion. Preparations are already going on for planting the beet crop of 1900. This week a carload of seed was shipped from here to Anaheim, and planting will commence in the beet-growing section in a few days. The American Beet Sugar company will this year farm about 700 acres of its land itself. It will employ the resident farmers in doing this work as far as possible. A great many of the farmers' teams have already been employed in plowing and preparing the land. Robert Oxnard, of the company, who was here last week, is taking hold of the business with a vigorous hand. One of the things he is looking after is the matter of retaining the fertilizers produced on the land here for our own soil. This The Champion has frequently alluded to, and is glad to see that the company promises to stop or at least curtail the practice of carting all of the manure off to Ontario or other fruit-growing sections. Not only will the company insert a clause in all leases that all manure produced on the land leased must be spread on the same land, but it will go further and will be an active competitor for the purchase of manure from others than its lessees. The company will pay as good a price for manure as the farmers can get in Ontario or elsewhere. This will doubtless keep an immense amount of fertilizer on the ranch that would otherwise go away and be lost to Chino soil. Our people should remember that the wealth of the soil is the wealth of our community, and that to impoverish the soil is to impoverish the community. We are glad to note this action by the company. The company is doing quite a business in its lime-cake fertilizer this winter. It has already shipped away about 300 tons of the material, and has on hand ready for shipment about 160 tons more. The force of employees in the factory itself is reduced to about fifteen men who are engaged in cleaning and repairing machinery, etc. AS TO THE RATTLE HEADED GRANT ORGANS. From the Riverside Press. It is a favorite trick of the Grant papers in Southern California to accuse every Southern California paper that did not support Grant of being traitors to Southern California. The Grant papers for instance reads: "The ANAHEIM GAZETTE says that the brokers in that section cleared up nearly $100,000 on the walnut crop thereabouts. In a small district about Fullerton, Placentia and Anaheim, there were fifteen cars of walnuts bought through brokers, and the GAZETTE says: 'We showed last week that these were paid for at the rate of $150 per car. These cars were sold by the purchasing agents to the brokers at $1600 per car. Here is a neat little profit in itself, which the purchasing agents divided between themselves. The brokers sold these nuts to the wholesale grocers at 10 cents per pound, or $2000 per car; here we find a difference of $500 per car within a fortnight after they were delivered at the packing house." All of which indicates that one road to greater prosperity to the horticulturist lies in the direction of organization." The Celery Croft We have frequently alluded growing on the peatland since county. In this section there according to the Fruit Wine grown from sixty acres planted to 800 planted this year, we land produces a carload to 800栽 owned by men whose ranches about neighboring where go to the peatlands in short time required to crop. During most of these peatlands are well nigh unaccounted for their boggy nature swampy in the driest summum. During the celery season presented is a novel one. We are required to wear greatest principle of snowshoes their sinking in in boggy water were 6,000,000 celery plants year, and in the planting women and children are en The peatlands are six there being 1500 acres on which can be grown, the industry attained over half of its production indicates that their production will soon be recalled. The distribution of effected through a half firm's mostly engaged trade who buy the crop harvest it themselves, and pliance with market demand. The peat lands are especially several plant their succulent foot cherished. The harvest with a cutter especially sever plant their plant then plucked by hand trimmed and placed in field." "I was suffering with what the doctor called chronic indigestion, torpid liver and vertigo," says Mrs. Martha E. Barham, of Newville, Prince George Co., Va. "My symptoms were giddiness in the head, pains in my chest and an uneasy feeling all over. I also had female weakness. I was all run down, and could not do any work without suffering from nervous attacks, so I wrote to you. You advised me to use Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and 'Favorite Prescription.' I used five bottles of each. I gained in health and strength. When I commenced to use the medicines I weighed only 112 pounds, now I weigh 140. My husband and friends all thought that I would die, but to-day I am a well woman." Mrs. Barham's experience is not singular. Thousands have given similarly strong and convincing testimony. There are no other medicines in the world that have such a long and continuous record of cures. There are no other medicines "just as good" or "just the same!" as Doctor Pierce's. Like all valuable things these medicines are sometimes imitated. Don't be imposed upon. See that you get what you ask for. If you have any doubt as to the nature of your aliment write fully, giving your symptoms, to Dr. R. V. Pierce, chief consulting physician, Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y. He will consider your case carefully, and will tell you, absolutely free of charge, what to do to get well. From the Riverside Press. It is a favorite trick of the Grant papers in Southern California to accuse every Southern California paper that did not support Grant of being traitors to Southern California. The San Diego Tribune, for instance, reads the riot act to the Press in a very vociferous manner. Now if the Tribune will take the trouble to look up the record of the Press in this senatorial matter, it will find that it consistently supported a Southern California man—Robert N. Bulla—a clean and able man, who never paid any individual or paper a dollar to support him, because he had no sack. After the Wright expose and Grant's own admission of spending $30,000 or $40,000 in "prgliminary expenses," his election was an impossibility, and the men and papers who continued to support him were the "traitors to Southern California." Had Grant's supporters gone to Bulla or Bardia, he might have been elected—Grant could not be. And they must bear the responsibility for the fact that today Southern California has no senator in Washington to fight the Jamaica treaty. And all the Tribune's protestations of virtue do not change the fact. COMPLICATIONS IN REGISTRATION. From the Orange Post. Some complications are coming to the surface about the registration of voters. The last legislature changed the method of certifying the registration to the election boards, substituting some kind of individual cards for the printed great register and canceling the latter January 1st. There will be an election in April in the two incorporated cities of the sixth class, Anaheim and Orange, and school elections in all the districts throughout the county a little later. By the new law all registrations prior to January 1st of the even numbered years are canceled, and re-registration begins at that date and continues within forty days of the November election. It would appear then that all the voters of Orange county, except in the city of Santa Ana, must register right away in order to vote at the spring elections. It is incumbent on the authorities to find some legal method of certifying the registration to the election boards. SAYS TALK IS CHEAP. From the Orange Post. The ANAHEIM GAZETTE gives Judge Silent of Los Angeles, who by the way is the talking (not silent) partner of Newberry, as authority for the state-ness in its lime-cake fertilizer this winter. It has already shipped away about 300 tons of the material, and has on hand ready for shipment about 160 tons more. The force of employees in the factory itself is reduced to about fifteen men who are engaged in cleaning and repairing machinery, etc. AS TO THE RATTLE-HEADED GRANT ORGANS. From the Riverside Press. It is a favorite trick of the Grant papers in Southern California to accuse every Southern California paper that did not support Grant of being traitors to Southern California. The San Diego Tribune, for instance, reads the riot act to the Press in a very vociferous manner. Now if the Tribune will take the trouble to look up the record of the Press in this senatorial matter, it will find that it consistently supported a Southern California man—Robert N. Bulla—a clean and able man, who never paid any individual or paper a dollar to support him, because he had no sack. After the Wright expose and Grant's own admission of spending $30,000 or $40,000 in "prgliminary expenses," his election was an impossibility, and the men and papers who continued to support him were the "traitors to Southern California." Had Grant's supporters gone to Bulla or Bardia, he might have been elected—Grant could not be. And they must bear the responsibility for the fact that today Southern California has no senator in Washington to fight the Jamaica treaty. And all the Tribune's protestations of virtue do not change the fact. COMPLICATIONS IN REGISTRATION. From the Orange Post. Some complications are coming to the surface about the registration of voters. The last legislature changed the method of certifying the registration to the election boards, substituting some kind of individual cards for the printed great register and canceling the latter January 1st. There will be an election in April in the two incorporated cities of the sixth class, Anaheim and Orange, and school elections in all the districts throughout the county a little later. By the new law all registrations prior to January 1st of the even numbered years are canceled, and re-registration begins at that date and continues within forty days of the November election. It would appear then that all the voters of Orange county, except in the city of Santa Ana, must register right away in order to vote at the spring elections. It is incumbent on the authorities to find some legal method of certifying the registration to the election boards. SAYS TALK IS CHEAP. From the Orange Post. The ANAHEIM GAZETTE gives Judge Silent of Los Angeles, who by the way is the talking (not silent) partner of Newberry, as authority for the state-ness in its lime-cake fertilizer this winter. It has already shipped away about 300 tons of the material, and has on hand ready for shipment about 160 tons more. The force of employees in the factory itself is reduced to about fifteen men who are engaged in cleaning and repairing machinery, etc. AS TO THE RATTLE-HEADED GRANT ORGANS. From the Riverside Press. It is a favorite trick of the Grant papers in Southern California to accuse every Southern California paper that did not support Grant of being traitors to Southern California. The San Diego Tribune, for instance, reads the riot act to the Press in a very vociferous manner. Now if the Tribune will take the trouble to look up the record of the Press in this senatorial matter, it will find that it consistently supported a Southern California man—Robert N. Bulla—a clean and able man, who never paid any individual or paper a dollar to support him, because he had no sack. After the Wright exposure and Grant's own admission of spending $30,000 or $40,000 in "prgliminary expenses," his election was an impossibility, and the men and papers who continued to support him were the "traitors to Southern California." Had Grant's supporters gone to Bulla or Bardia, he might have been elected—Grant could not be. And they must bear the responsibility for the fact that today Southern California has no senator in Washington to fight the Jamaica treaty. And all the Tribune's protestations of virtue do not change the fact. COMPLICATIONS IN REGISTRATION. From the Orange Post. Some complications are coming to the surface about the registration of voters. The last legislature changed the method of certifying the registration to the election boards, substituting some kind of individual cards for the printed great register and canceling the latter January 1st. There will be an election in April in the two incorporated cities of the sixth class, Anaheim and Orange, and school elections in all the districts throughout the county a little later. By the new law all registrations prior to January 1st of the even numbered years are canceled, and re-registration begins at that date and continues within forty days of the November election. It would appear then that all the voters of Orange county, except in the city of Santa Ana, must register right away in order to vote at the spring elections. It is incumbent on the authorities to find some legal method of certifying the registration to the election boards. SAYS TALK IS CHEAP. From the Orange Post. The ANAHEIM GAZETTE gives Judge Silent of Los Angeles, who by the way isthe talking (not silent) partner of Newberry, as authority forthe state-ness in its lime-cake fertilizer this winter. It has already shipped away about 300 tons ofthe material, and has on hand ready for shipment about 160 tons more. The peat lands are especially suitable for plantation due to celery growth. For aged decomposed vegetation which combine with plantation due to celery growth; severe plant from them plucked by hand trimmed and placed in field. 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These pills are sold in boxes at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all druggists, or direct by mail from Dr. Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N.Y. California's New Boom. Continued from First page. There are now oil pipes and tanks and a miscellaneous lot of iron junk and heaps of dirty oil barrels. Up to this season the Los Angeles oil field was the greatest producer in the State. Now the Coaliga district, where the gushers have been struck, is fast becoming one of the best known in The Old Man Had Changed. A Lancaster county man once came to a Philadelphia portrait painter with a request that he paint a picture of his father. "Very well," said the artist; "have the old gentleman come in when next in town, and I will give him a sitting." The man replied: "He gan't do dot; he is dalt." "Oh, well, then, you have a photograph of him?" "No; I don't got no fottograf of him elder." "Well, how do you expect me to paint the portrait of your father when I cannot see him and have nothing to give me an idea of his appearance?" "Vell," he replied, "I dinked maybe of I dolt you aboul him you gan baint him from dot." "All right," said the artist, "describe him." "Vell, my fadder was not so dall und not so short; he vas not fat und not so din." And so the honest fellow proceeded to describe his father as he recalled him. The artist undertook to paint the picture, and in due course it is completed, and the Lancaster county man comes in to view the results of the artist's efforts. As the canvas is disclosed he gazes long and reverently upon the picture of his departed parent. Then he feelingly remarks: "Yah, dot is mine fadder! Mine fadder vat I loafed so much! But, ach himmel, fadder, how you haf changed!"—Philadelphia Times. A Beautiful System. The Memphis Scimitar tells of a recent bride whose husband noticed that she was keeping an itemized account of the household expenses. In looking it over one day he noticed at the bottom of each page or two the letters "D. K. W." This somewhat puzzled him. He really found it very difficult to keep from thinking about what these letters could possibly mean. It occurred to him that possibly his wife was saving out some money to buy something for him. But then he knew that his initials were not "D. K. W," and this did not prove a satisfactory solution to the matter. So one day when his wife was in a real good humor he took her in his arms and asked what she meant by "D. K. W., 50 cents," "D. K. W., $1" and the like. She replied: "'D. K. W.' stand for ment that Riverside alone uses 17,000 inches of water for irrigation. Prepossessive! Riverside doesn't use one-quarter of that amount of water. No wonder these boomers think they can draw from 5000 to 10,000 inches of water from a basin that delivers naturally less than 2000 inches in the short supply season, "and not disturb the wested rights of the two companies in the least!" They talk about thousands of inches of water and hundreds of thousands of dollars' expense and profits as glibly as the boomers of boom times did about their investments and prospective profits. Ordinary talk is cheap, but not that of lawyers. The Celery Crop. We have frequently alluded to celery growing on the peatlands of Orange county. In this section the industry, according to the Fruit World, has grown from sixty acres planted in 1892 to 800 planted this year, and as the land produces a carload to the acre, the output of the crop will amount to 800 cars, valued at about $120,000 to the growers in the field. The vegetable never reached a better form than it has this year. There is now being sent out an average of nine carloads per day, and this is reaching all important markets in the country. Celery growers receive from $100 to $175 per acre for their crops in the ground, a profitable harvest, which has forced the value of the land up from $300 to $500 per acre. The land is principally owned by men who own fruit ranches about neighboring towns, and who go to the peatlands in the fall for the short time required to grow the crop. During most of the year the peatlands are well nigh uninhabitable on account of their boggy nature, being swampy in the driest summers. During the celery season the scene presented is a novel one. The horses are required to wear great shoes, after the principle of snowshoes, to prevent their sinking in the boggy land. There were 6,000,000 celery plants set out this year, and in the planting season men, women and children are employed. The peatlands are six miles square, there being 1500 acres on which celery can be grown, the industry having now attained over half of its possibility in the peatlands, while the growing demand for the vegetable for winter consumption indicates that the maximum production will soon be reached. The distribution of the crop is effected through a half dozen large firms, mostly engaged in the fruit trade, who buy the crop in the field, harvest it themselves, and ship in compliance with market demands. The peat lands are especially adapted to celery growing, because of their matchless fertility. For unknown aged the decomposed vegetation has been accumulating in the bog, until they have made a deposit of pure vegetable mould dozens of feet in depth. After the little plants are set out the earth is kept banked up against them during growth, to promote the tender characteristic and preserve the whiteness which combine to make the plant succulent food so highly cherished. The harvesting is done with a cutter especially designed to sever the plant from the roots, and it is then plucked by hand, and it is trimmed and placed in crates in the field. California's New Boom. Continued from First page. there are now oil pipes and tanks and a miscellaneous lot of iron junk and heaps of dirty oil barrels. Up to this season the Los Angeles oil field was the greatest producer in the State. Now the Coalinga district, where the gushers have been struck, is fast becoming one of the best known in the Union. The Los Angeles field is producing nearly 80,000 barrels per month. Coalinga produces 165,000 barrels monthly. The oil ranges from 12 to 16 degrees Beaune. Many companies of strong financial backing are on the ground, and development work has been done in a proper and systematic manner. The local demand far exceeds the production, for the manufacturers of the city are beginning to use more of the petroleum product as fuel for power development. Santa Paula, in Ventura county, and Puente, in Los Angeles county, are the oldest oil fields in the State. They have been operated to a limited degree for fifteen or twenty years, and until the discovery of oil in Los Angeles had an excellent market for their oil prices ranging as high as $2.50 a barrel. The product of the Puente wells is sent to the Chino beet sugar factory through a pipeline traversing the foothills, and that of Santa Paula is sent by ship or rail to San Francisco, or is used by the Southern Pacific railroad. The Coalinga field, in Fresno county, is the most productive in the State in the amount of oil produced per well. Larger and more sudden fortunes have been made there than elsewhere in California in last two years. This field is near the mountains of the San Joaquin valley, about ten miles from the Southern Pacific railway. It was opened two years ago. The first wells were drilled rather far up the mountain, and oil was struck at depths of from 600 to 800 feet, and average from 25 to 50 barrels a well per day. Another lot of wells was sink farther down the anticline, where oil was found at about 1000 feet. These wells at first produced 1000 barrels a day, and after sixteen months are producing from 500 to 700 barrels. A new line of wells is being drilled still farther down the anticline, where it is expected the drills will have to go down from 1500 to 1800 feet; but it is thought that a large flow of oil will be struck. There are eighteen wells in the field, and the product is sent to the railroad through pipe lines. The Fullerton wells, in Orange county, and the Whittier wells, in Los Angeles county, are situated on the south side of the Puente hills, not far from the Puente wells, and a few miles from the towns named. In the Fullerton field some excellent wells have been drilled, the largest producer having recently been opened by the Santa Fe railroad. For a time it gushed about 1000 barrels a day, and is still a wonderful producer. This field contains twenty wells, and nearly all of the product (2500 barrels) is taken by the Santa Fe railroad. Whittier district has twenty wells, the product of which is 15,000 barrels a month. It is shipped to Southern California points. The Summerland field is located on the beach, at the village of that name, a few miles from Santa Barbara. There are 125 wells in operation. Some of them are in the ocean, at some distance from the shore, and in this respect are tom of each page or two letters "D. K. W." This somewhat puzzled him. He really found it very difficult to keep from thinking about what these letters could possibly mean. It occurred to him that possibly his wife was saving out some money to buy something for him. But then he knew that his initials were not "D. K. W," and this did not prove a satisfactory solution to the matter. So one day when his wife was in a real good humor he took her in his arms and asked what she meant by "D. K. W., 50 cents," "D. K. W., $1" and like. She replied: "'D. K. W.' stand for 'don't know what.' Whenever I went to balance my account at the end of each page and found I had spent money for which I could not account, I just put in a sufficient amount, with the item 'D. K. W.' to make it balance just exactly." Fast Driving In Russia. In the larger cities of Russia there is no limit to the speed at which a horse may be driven through the public streets. The typical harness horse is the Orloff, a breed founded by Count Orloff-Chemenski, being a cross between the Arabian stallion Smetanka and imported mares, principally English. An average roadster is 16 hands high and weighs 1,100 pounds, with heavy manne, a bushy tail that reaches nearly to the ground and "iron" limbs that show great muscular development. The favorite color is gray. Such an animal is driven through the principal streets of St. Petersburg at a furious pace, that portion near the center and beside surface car tracks being reserved for fast driving. During the winter months teams of two and three abreast are driven to sleighs at a three minute gait. There is racing all winter, the courses being flooded at night to provide three inches of solid ice. American pneumatic skles, harness, boots, gaiting appliances, etc., are in general use. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. CLOTHES AND THE MAN. The Difference Being Well Dressed Made to a Cabinet Official. "Yes, the clothes a man wears make a great deal of difference in this world, especially in official life," remarked the private secretary of a cabinet official who is compelled to see many people and to hold many more people at bay. "I was especially struck with the importance of clothing some time ago," continued the official, "when the assistant secretary was absent and it was my duty to stave all the callers off the secretary." I do that often, but when the assistant secretaries are here they help a great deal. "Well, I noticed on the occasion I referred to that I had no trouble in keeping people away when I wore my honorable dress." BOSSY. Boys is a kind old cow. Boys dreams beneath the apples And swings her tall and ripe While roaming up and down I see her through the past Eat all the pretty daisy stalk Then gently toss her head To watch the clouds that d When night makes all she She lets her chickens on b Fall fast sleepe,and sleep The sun comes peeping o'r-R.K.Munkittrick In Woman ion. THOSE BOER IN By Middle Life They Are Fat to Walk The Boer woman is wise the trim,handsome Dutch, pretty.Her complexm pal charm,and she guild fully whenever she goes never seen outdoors peaked bonnet on her b tooth being made most oriental seclusion is necessary to preserve white of her skin,fow would otherwise soon trot or sole leather.Her and set close together,a are irregular.Her cheek and flat,and her hair is in color although time soon bleach it from i color.At a very early all her teeth,fors chewing sweet cakes arry. A European woman,the molars that natural her of with well mount art,b butthe Boer woman this.She thinks it wu thus try to duplication The Creator.Her figure almost waistless.While woman she begins by by time middle life is often so unwieldy t ercise she is able to trumbrously from one other.She is clad innade gown,d devoid o apparently waistless.ments of clothes,sothe gown lkled.-Charleston New Samoa's Talking Samoa's talking man is a character.All thofthe village in which are carried upon his s dinary he isthe chief er convincer and re leading chlefs. Having gift o makes most of it munty from many thofbe spoken of in ordine should be necessary eye or his mouth or honourable eyes mu The peat lands are especially adapted to celery growing, because of their matchless fertility. For unknown aged the decomposed vegetation has been accumulating in the bog, until they have made a deposit of pure vegetable mould dozens of feet in depth. After the little plants are set out the earth is kept banked up against them during growth, to promote the tender characteristic and preserve the white-ness which combine to make the plant the succulent food so highly cherished. The harvesting is done with a cutter especially designed to sever the plant from the roots, and it is then plucked by hand, and it is trimmed and placed in crates in the field. That it would be possible to grow more than one crop on the ground each year is certain, but freight rates to the East prove a barrier to shipments, as of most vegetables, except when the market is at the highest point, thus limiting shipments to the winter months, beginning in time to meet the Thanksgiving trade.—Rural Press. The Tomato a Tonio. The tomato has a high dietic value, and has been especially recommended for use in cases of blood impoverishment—a suggestion which, perhaps, rests upon the fact that it contains a considerable amount of iron. The presence of iron may easily be detected by applying to the cut surface of a tomato the ordinary reagent. As a food for supplying iron the tomato is far superior to any of the combinations commonly used as a means of enriching the blood. It has long been known that these inorganic compounds cannot enter into the composition of the blood. It is possible, however, that they may sometimes be useful; for, as has recently been suggested, while they do not enter into the composition of the blood, they serve to neutralize acid substances which form insoluble salts with the iron of food, and thus prevent its absorption and assimilation. In other words, they act as projectives of the nutritive iron compounds of food. The tomato may serve a similar purpose, and not only by supplying the sour of iron, but the introduction of a larger amount than is needed, providing for the conservation of the amount actually needed. Having a Great Run on Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. Manager Martin, of the Pierson drug store, informs us that he is having a great run on Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. He sells five bottles of that medicine to one of any other kind, and it gives great satisfaction. In these days of la gripe there is nothing like Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to stop the cough, heal up the sore throat and lungs and give relief within a very short time. The sales are growing, and all who try it are pleased with its prompt action—South Chicago Dally Calumet. For sale by P. A. Derge. Senator Jones on Beets. Senator Jones last week made a trip through Los Angeles county, from Wilmington to Redondo and on to Cahuenga. He saw some fine fields of barley on his trip; the entire section being in fact one immense field of that grain. At Cahuenga he obtained contracts for 200 acres to be planted to beets, and reports that many of the farmers in the country traveled over would gladly plant beets instead of barley had they been given the chance earlier in the season. A carload of beet seed has been received by the Senator, and will shortly be distributed to the farmers. The Senator looks for plenty of rain this season. During the past six years the seasonal rainfall, as measured in Los Angeles, amounted to only sixty inches, or an average of ten inches each season. The preceding six years the rainfall amounted to 120 inches, or just twice as much. We are thus away below the average in our rainfall and the Senator thinks it is about time for us to catch up on the record. Colned Words. Colned words! I have made a little study of them myself, always with disappointing results. I always run across them, after discovering them, somewhere about 100 years before the birth of the inventor. I once coined a name, away back in 1876, for one of my so called humorous characters—Bladderback. I put the Bladderback family in jocus print for several years. One night, about 1887, I lectured in Salem, N. J., and told one of my Bladderback stories. The audience was convulsed with more mirth than the story called for. After the lecture I was introduced to about a dozen Bladderbacks, who enjoyed my story more than any one else.—Robert J. Burdette in Chautauquan. I want to let the people who suffer from rheumatism and sciatica know that Chamberlain's Pain Balm relieved me after a number of other medicines and a doctor had failed. It is the best liniment I have ever known of.—J. A. DODAEN, Alpharetta, Ga. Thousands have been cured of rheumatism by this remedy. One application relieves the pain. For sale by P. A. Derge. CASTORIA The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of and has been made under his personal supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and Substitutes are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Harmless and Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. THE GENTAUR COMPANY, 77 MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK CITY. BOSSY. The Craving For Stimulants. The blood normally contains stimulants, and that these stimulants exercise a favoring influence on function and conduce to and may even be a nec- Southern Pacific Company. San Francisco and Los Angeles Limited—THE OWL. Between Los Angeles and San Francisco daily. Leave Los Angeles 8 p.m., arrive San Francisco 10:45 am, Leave San Francisco 5 p.m., arrive Los Angeles 7:45 am. 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 composite 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, ten-section sleeper 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. Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. To Chicago, Ill., via El Paso 2 p.m. Tuesdays. To Cincinnati, Ohio, via New Orleans, 2 p.m. Fridays and Sundays. OGEN ROUTE EXCURSIONS. To St. Paul, via Sioux City, 12:40 pm Thursday. To Chicago, Mondays Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, Leave Los Angeles 12:40 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—within a block of the large wholesale houses. Our connection at Mojave for the famous gold mining camp of Randsburg is superb; good hotel at Mojave and elegant stage coaches through to the city of gold. Fare from Anaheim to Randsburg, $7.50. 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. Pacific Coast Steamship Co. The Company’s elegant Steamers SANTA ROSA and CORONA leave Redondo at 11 a.m. and Port Los Angeles at 2:30 p.m for San Francisco via Santa Harbara and Port Harford January 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29 February 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26 March 2, and every fourth day thereafter. Leave Port Los Angeles at 5:45 a.m. and Redondo at 10:45 a.m. for San Diego January 3, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 27, February 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, March 4 and every fourth day The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. BOSSY. Boisy is a kind old cow. She dreams beneath the apple bough And swings her tail and rings her bell While roaming up and down the dell. I see her through the pasture bars Eat all the pretty daisy stars, Then gently toes her head on high To watch the clouds that dot the sky. When night makes all the meadow black, She lets the chickens on her back Fall fast sleep, and sleep until The sun comes peeping o'er the hill. R. K. Munkittrick In Woman's Home Companion. THOSE BOER LADIES. By Middle Life They Are Almost Too Fat to Walk. The Boer woman is very little like the trim, handsome Dutchwoman of her ancestral Holland. She is seldom pretty. Her complexion is her principal charm, and she guards this carefully whenever she goes out. She is never seen outdoors without a great peaked bonnet on her head, her visits to church being made behind an almost oriental seclusion of vells. This is necessary to preserve the pink and white of her skin, for the climate would otherwise soon tan it to the color of sole leather. Her eyes are small and set close together, and her features are irregular. Her cheeks are broad and flat, and her hair is naturally light in color, although time and weather soon bleach it from its early straw color. At a very early age she loses all her teeth, for she is constantly chewing sweet cakes and confectionery. A European woman would replace the molars that nature has deprived her of with well mounted works of art, but the Boer woman does not do this. She thinks it would be implous thus to try to duplicate the work of the Creator. Her figure is thick and almost waistless. While still a young woman she begins to grow fat, and by the time middle life is reached she is often so unwieldy that the only exercise she is able to take is to waddle cumbrously from one armchair to another. She is clad in a loose, scantily made gown, devoid of trimming and apparently waistless. The day garments of the Boers are also their nightclothes, so the gown is generally wrinkled.—Charleston News and Courler. Samon's Talking Man. Samon's talking man, or "tolafall," is a character. All the affairs of state of the village in which he holds office are carried upon his shoulders. In ordinary he is the chief adviser, persuader, convincer and restrainer of the leading chiefs. Having the gift of eloquence, he makes the most of it. He enjoys immunity from many things. He cannot be spoken of in ordinary terms. If it should be necessary to speak of his eyes or his mouth or his limbs, special honorable words must be used, words The Craving For Stimulants. The blood normally contains stimulants, and that these stimulants exercise a favoring influence on function and conduce to and may even be a necessary factor in the production of the feeling of well being explains the widespread liking in man and beast for stimulating substances. This liking, amounting often to a craving, is the expression of a great physiological principle. When health is perfect, when the blood is well provided with its proper stimulants and not overcharged with depressants, there is no craving for extraneous stimulants, such as alcohol, tea or coffee, but when the blood is defective in the one or surcharged with the other then is felt the desire for the glass of wine or the cup of tea. In order to obviate this desire the body should be kept at the highest level of health. The more perfect the health the more perfect will be the composition of the blood in respect to both physiological stimulants and deleterious toxins. A blood properly constituted in these and other respects will exercise a gentle stimulant action on the nervous system and induce a condition of mild physiological intoxication, which expresses itself in a feeling of well being and happiness—a condition that cannot be bettered.—Lancet. The Result of Too Much Pathos. "One day," says Jean Francois Rafaeli, "Daudet was arguing a point that on the stage it is a mistake to insist too strongly on any one form of sentiment, whatever it may be." Listen, said he. I recall a little incident which may serve to illustrate my meaning: A woman dressed in black one day entered an omnibus in which I happened to be. She was in deep mourning, and her countenance was so worn, so contracted, so furrowed with grief, that her neighbor could not refrain from asking what terrible sorrow it could be that had thus left its marks upon her. "Whereupon the woman, amid the sympathetic attention of all the little world in the omnibus, including the conductor, who did nothing but blow his nose so as to hide his tears, told how she had lost first one child and within a very few days another. Every one pitied her greatly, but when she proceeded with many tears to tell of the death of a third child her hearers were somewhat less moved, and annually, when she launched into a long account of the loss of a fourth—devoured by a crocodile on the banks of the Nile—every one in the omnibus burst out laughing."—New Lippincott. Safe. "Johnny, are your people going to take you with them on that trip across the ocean?" "Yes'm." "Aren't you afraid!" Pacific Coast Steamship Co. The Company's elegant Steamers SANTA ROSA and CORONA leave Redondo at 11 a.m. and Port Los Angeles at 2:30 p.m. for San Diego January 3, 711, 15, 19, 23, 27, 21, February 4, 12, 16, 21, 28, March 4 and every fourth day thereafter. Cars connect via Redondo, leave Santa Fe depart at 9:30 a.m. Cars connect via Port Los Angeles, leave S. P. R. depot at 1:35 p.m. for steam north bound. The steamers COOS BAY and BONITA leave San Pedro for San Francisco via East San Pedro, Ventura, Carpenteria, Santa Barbara, Goleta, Carlota, Port Harford, Cayucos San Simeon, Monterey and Santa Catarina at 6 p.m., January 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 36, February 3, 711, 15, 19, 23, 27 March 3 and every fourth day thereafter. Cars connect with steamers via San Pedro leave S. P. R. (Arcade depot) at 5:08 p.m. and Terminal Ry depot at 8:20 p.m. Sunday 1:45 p.m. For further information obtain folder. The company reserves right to change steamers selling dates and hours of sailing without previous notice. W. PARRIS, Agt., 124 W Second St., Los Angeles, GOODALL PERKINS & CO., Gen.Agts., S.F. NEWS AND OPINIONS OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE THE SUN ALONE CONTAINS BOTH Daily, by mail $6 a year Daily and Sunday by mail $8 a year THE Sunday Sun is the greatest Sunday Newspaper in the world. Price $5c a copy. By mail $2 a year Address THE SUN, New York. Roman Wisser Favorite Saloon. Finest of Wines, Liquors & Cigars Pool & Billiard Tables Schindler's Building Center St., A.Jaheim LOS ANGELES BEER ON DRAUGHT. FRITZ RUHMANN'S Germania Halle. BACKS' NEW BUILDING LOS ANGELES STREET Keeps on hand a Large and complete stock of liquors, wines and cigars. Cold beer always on draught J.M.Griffith Company LUMBER DEALERS Near Railroad Depot Anahima Keep on hand a Large and complete stock of liquors, wines and cigars. Cold beer always on draught Samoa's Talking Man. Samoa's talking man, or "tolafall," is a character. All the affairs of state of the village in which he holds office are carried upon his shoulders. In ordinary he is the chief adviser, persuader, convincer and restrainer of the leading chiefs. Having the gift of eloquence, he makes the most of it. He enjoys immunity from many things. If it should be necessary to speak of his eyes or his mouth or his limbs, special honorable words must be used, words which attach to him alone and have never been applied to the personal parts of ordinary men. As he stands to deliver his soft, persuasive, mellifluous oratory, with staff of office in his hand and his fly duster thrown over his shoulder, any one can see that he is a man of great importance, or if this is not apparent from his attitude it may be gathered from the attention paid to his utterances by gray haired chiefs and by youths and maidens. If the talking man is a clever fellow and understands his business, he is the chief ruling power in his tribe, although the nominal headship is always vested in a chief or patriarchal figurehead. The Flag on the Wall. The Troy Times tells of a visitor at a public school, who being requested to address the pupils, spoke of the necessity of obeying their teacher and growing up to be useful, loyal and patriotic citizens. To emphasize his remarks, he pointed to a large national flag that almost covered one end of the room, and said, "Now, boys, who can tell me what that flag is there for?" One little fellow, who understood the condition of the room better than the speaker, replied: "I know. sir. It's to hide the dirt." Eureka Harness Oil is the best preservative of new leather and the best renovator of old leather. It oils, softens, blackens and protects. Use Eureka Harness Oil on your best harness, your old harness, and your carriage, and they will not only look better but weir longer. Sold everywhere in canes, all sizes from half pints to five gallons. Within a very few days another. Every one pitied her greatly, but when she proceeded with many tears to tell of the death of a third child her hearers were somewhat less moved, and annually, when she launched into a long account of the loss of a fourth—devoured by a crocodile on the banks of the Nile—every one in the omnibus burst out laughing.'"—New Lippincott. Safe. "Johnny, are your people going to take you with them on that trip across the ocean?" "Yes'm." "Aren't you afraid?" "None. Ain't afraid of nothin. I've been vaccinated an baptized."—Chicago Tribune. Blaine and Thurman. The senate has always been controlled by lawyers, who are the aristocratic class in the United States, and Blaine was at a disadvantage because he did not belong to the profession. The law lords were disposed to disparage and flout him, but he was disrespectful to the verge of irreverence. "Does the senator from Maine think I am an idiot?" roared Thurman, in reply to an interrogatory Blaine put to him one day in the Pacific railroad debate. "Well," bellowed Blaine, "that depends entirely on the answer you make to my question!"—Saturday Evening Post. Accuracy. The idea that a strict fidelity to truth demands accuracy is one which is seldom entertained, but until we receive it as a principle and embody it in action we shall never attain a high degree of truthfulness. The Extremes. Hobbs—My landlady has both strong and weak points. Dobbs—What are they? Hobbs—Butter and coffee.—Chicago News. It has been demonstrated repeatedly in every State in the Union and in many foreign countries that Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is a certain preventive and cure for croup. It has become the universal remedy for that disease. M. V. Fisher of Liberty, W. Va., only repeats what has been said around the globe when he writes: "I have used Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in my family for several years and always with perfect success. We believe that it is not only the best cough remedy, but that it is a sure cure for croup. It has saved the lives of our children a number of times." This remedy is for sale by P. A. Derge.