anaheim-gazette 1900-02-01

PREHISTORIC CIVILIZATION. Today's Desolation Was Once a Garden—Evidences of Ancient Irrigation. One of the most marvelous engineering accomplishments of ancient or modern times is shown in discoveries which were made last year in the lava beds of New Mexico. Thousands of years ago, the geologists tell us, a system of irrigation reservoirs and ditches was operated in the Southern West which is not paralleled by anything of this nature in the United States today. The builders of these works, a people older than the Pueblo race, cultivated thousands of acres of now arid territory. Reservoirs were constructed at the bases of mountains to catch the flood waters before they were absorbed into the loose and bottomless sand, and the ditches, where they ran through sand, were cemented to prevent the water's escape. Lava has flowed into some of these ditches, once filled by water in the centuries gone by. What can have been the history of this prehistoric race or what can have caused their disappearance, can only be conjectured. Unlike the ancients of other lands these people have not left a complete record of their glory and their downfall, and whether it was the result of climatic conditions or great upheavals, or whether they were supplanted by more warlike and stronger races, is a mystery. That they were highly developed, however, in agriculture, which is the mother of civilization, is shown by the evidences which they have left. Their canals wind in and around miles, showing a superior engineering knowledge in securing an exact and uniform fall, remarkable viaducts were used in crossing canyons, while a network of distributing ditches brought every available acre into use for tillage. Vast fields of waving grain and laden orchards must have stretched away, down the fertile valleys, under the magic touch of water—for arid America where it has been reclaimed through irrigation of today yields extravagantly—and with such a development of a peaceful art must have been likewise an advanced state of civilization. Here was no irrigation by individual owners or diverters of water, but a great system covering a large area carefully thought out and operated by central head for the greatest good of the many and the utilization of the greatest possible acreage. And it seems strange in the present era of great progress and vast undertakings that this section of country, THE FARMER AND FORESTS. Neglect of the Forests Will Work Vast and Irremediable Ruin. There has never been a time in the history of California when so many persons were interested so intelligently in the preservation and proper utilization of our forests. One can hardly open our country newspapers without noticing editorials showing that the recent visits of Gifford Pinchot, the capable chief of the forestry division at Washington, and some of his assistants, have had an excellent effect in arousing public attention. Every farmer should take an intelligent interest in the proper care of our California forests. They should be very dear and near to his heart, and he should think of their management as, after all, based upon the same principle of agriculture which he tries to follow in his own ancient and honorable business. There is certainly a point of view—and one that writers upon forestry topics too often neglect—according to which all the timber lands of the State may be called but a vast wood orchard, a forest farm whose slowly ripening crops are harvested from time to time. Rightly then, it should be properly sown and properly harvested at the intervals shown by experience to produce the largest crops. Practical forestry is really not unlike practical wheat growing or practical orchard planting, except that it moves in such long periods of time that it needs the fostering care of governments and strong associations until its requirements are everywhere understood. Everything yields after its nature—the alfalfa field three to five times a year; the wheat annually; the cabbage seed biennially; the tannin-bearing acacias once in ten years; the Douglas spruce forest tree once in fifty years. There are soils and situations, too, for every kind of farm crop, and there are immense areas of land which can be used only by planting them to timber crops. Suppose that a new continent were to be discovered where wheat grew as abundantly as do our wild grasses, and where excellent apples and apricots hung on the shrubs. If the pioneers of such a land grazed the wild-wheat acres, or cut the apricot thickets for firewood, disregarding the laws of higher usefulness and carefully managed reproduction of these crops, the time would soon come when the land Vast fields of waving grain and laden orchards must have stretched away, down the fertile valleys, under the magic touch of water—for arid America where it has been reclaimed through irrigation of today yields extravagantly—and with such a development of a peaceful art must have been likewise an advanced state of civilization. Here was no irrigation by individual owners or diverters of water, but a great system covering a large area, carefully thought out and operated by central head for the greatest good of the many and the utilization of the greatest possible acreage. And it seems strange in the present era of great progress and vast undertakings that this section of country, once the most highly cultivated of the continent, should now be an arid and cheerless waste with a torrid sky and parched earth, even while the same rainfall of ages past still continues year by year, and the water supply is still there, only awaiting its utilization by man. IRRIGATION PARAGRAPHS. The stampede to enter the Oklahoma public lands, upon their opening to settlement, is a matter of recent history. The government has between 70,000,000 and 100,000,000 acres of arid public lands which can be reclaimed through irrigation and made more productive than the lands of Oklahoma; and the government could sell its land to settlers just as fast as it reclaimed it. Such important works as storage reservoirs should be built as internal improvements, and permanently maintained by the State or Federal government. This would give absolute assurance of safety to communities farming the lands below them. Without such a guarantee of stability the inherent fear of the settler in reservoir systems cannot be overcome, for the irrigator is always at the mercy of the reservoir. It is well said, Why should the arid West not have its share of the great sums of money which are being expended by the national government for internal improvements? What good reason can be advanced why the Western States and Territories should continue to contribute to building such improvements for the East and the South unless the West is given a fair proportion of expenditures for such purposes? Eastern States, whether seaboard or interior, get their proportion of river and harbor appropriations, but the arid States of the West get nothing, even while they contribute their share to these expenses. Crops evaporate 300 times their own weight of growth annually. To allow the growth of weeds in an irrigated field means an immense loss of the previous fluid so necessary to plant life. While the man causing the waste gets all the water he needs, still he deprives the irrigation works of a portion of its capacity, thereby cutting off some one or causing an increase in expense and perhaps a resulting loss to himself in the end. The Bearded Baby. A young married couple in Belfast. Me., received a startling shock. They carried their baby to a photographer for a picture. In due time the proof came around, but the parents at first failed to recognize it. The baby's features were there all right, and so were the pretty dress and all the other accessories, but the child had apparently grown a full beard while before the camera. The artist had used by mistake a plate on which an imperfect picture of an old man had been taken. Suppose that a new continent were to be discovered where wheat grew as abundantly as do our wild grasses, and where excellent apples and apricots hung on the shrubs. If the pioneers of such a land grazed the wild-wheat acres, or cut the apricot thickets for firewood, disregarding the laws of higher usefulness and carefully managed reproduction of these crops, the time would soon come when the land would be a barren waste. The law of the wheat field, that it must be protected and allowed to grow until it is fully ripe and fit for use, is also the law of the century-growing forest, and both alike are shaped to the needs of man. It must be because the essential unity of the forester's work with all correct agricultural practice is overlooked, that one sometimes finds farmers speaking of the talk about saving the California forests as merely a cry of maudlin sentiment. "We must have firewood and lumber," as a man once said to me, and he added, "You university fellows want to have the government preserve the forests so that lumber will cost a lot more than it does. All you want is better hunting and fishing." The use of the word "preserve" has often seemed fortunate. What we really want is a better utilization of all our forest resources. What we really mean is that we wish to prevent waste and destruction, to increase the forest supplies, to multiply its manifold uses and to cheapen in the long run all its indispensable products. We really mean by "preserve" and "protect" exactly what the farmer means when he fences his wheat field and cultivates his orchard. How simple and how reasonable it seems—this utilitarian view of the forests of the State! There is a large portion of California that is worthies for any other purpose except to grow trees and scanty pasture. It is many times more valuable for growing a timber crop than it is for sheep, goats or cattle. It is without any other agricultural value. Let us grow timber there, and let us grow it in a systematic and careful way. We can greatly increase the average annual yield of the land; we can have an absolutely safe revenue for all time to come. The practical forester says: "Here is a hundred thousand acres of mountain land, covered with wild forests. Some of the trees are mature; they will not grow much larger in a hundred years, and so I will sell them to the lumberman. Some of the forest consists of poor kinds, and I will gradually replace those trees with more valuable sorts. In some places I can thin the forest, and others I must have 'mother trees' and let seedlings grow in brave young thickets. In the course of a century, I can very greatly increase the value of this hundred-thousand-acre forest." Because it takes so long to carry out such far-reaching plans, should the farmer who has passed from annual crops to thirty-year rotations of orchards fail to greet the forester as a brother of agriculture? The farmer himself will often discover that the right practice of agriculture upon his own farm includes much forestry. He will need a wood lot, or waste and rocky areas can be devoted to the growth of timber. He may possess tan-bark oak, or redwood, or pine, or eucalypt forests, and here he can apply the same good old principles to protect his crop till it matures, and cabbage seed biennially, the cabbage bearing acacia once in ten years; the Douglas spruce forest tree once in fifty years. There are soils and situations too, for every kind of farm crop, and there are immense areas of land which can be used only by planting them to timber crops. Suppose that a new continent were to be discovered where wheat grew as abundantly as do our wild grasses, and where excellent apples and apricots hung on the shrubs. If the pioneers of such a land grazed the wild-wheat acres, or cut the apricot thickets for firewood, disregarding the laws of higher usefulness and carefully managed reproduction of these crops, the time would soon come when the land would be a barren waste. The law of the wheat field, that it must be protected and allowed to grow until it is fully ripe and fit for use, is also the law of the century-growing forest, and both alike are shaped to the needs of man. It must be because the essential unity of the forester's work with all correct agricultural practice is overlooked, that one sometimes finds farmers speaking of the talk about saving the California forests as merely a cry of maudlin sentiment. "We must have firewood and lumber," as a man once said to me, and he added, "You university fellows want to have the government preserve the forests so that lumber will cost a lot more than it does. All you want is better hunting and fishing." The use of the word "preserve" has often seemed fortunate. What we really mean is that we wish to prevent waste and destruction, to increase the forest supplies, to multiply its manifold uses and to cheapen in the long run all its indispensable products. We really mean by "preserve" and "protect" exactly what the farmer means when he fences his wheat field and cultivates his orchard. How simple and how reasonable it seems—this utilitarian view of the forests of the State! There is a large portion of California that is worthies for any other purpose except to grow trees and scanty pasture. It is many times more valuable for growing a timber crop than it is for sheep, goats or cattle. It is without any other agricultural value. Let us grow timber there, and let us grow it in a systematic and careful way. We can greatly increase the average annual yield of the land; we can have an absolutely safe revenue for all time to come. The practical forester says: "Here is a hundred thousand acres of mountain land, covered with wild forests. Some of the trees are mature; they will not grow much larger in a hundred years, and so I will sell them to the lumberman. Some of the forest consists of poor kinds, and I will gradually replace those trees with more valuable sorts. In some places I can thin the forest, and others I must have 'mother trees' and let seedlings grow in brave young thickets. In the course of a century, I can very greatly increase the value of this hundred-thousand-acre forest." Because it takes so long to carry out such far-reaching plans, should the farmer who has passed from annual crops to thirty-year rotations of orchards fail to greet the forester as a brother of agriculture? The farmer himself will often discover that the right practice of agriculture upon his own farm includes much forestry. He will need a wood lot, or waste and rocky areas can be devoted to the growth of timber. He may possess tan-bark oak, or redwood, or pine, or eucalypt forests, and here he can apply the same good old principles to protect his crop till it matures, and cabbage seed biennially, the cabbage bearing acacia once in ten years; the Douglas spruce forest tree once in fifty years. There are soils and situations too, for every kind of farm crop, and there are immense areas of land which can be used only by planting them to timber crops. Suppose that a new continent were to be discovered where wheat grew as abundantly as do our wild grasses, and where excellent apples and apricots hung on the shrubs. If the pioneers of such a land grazed the wild-wheat acres, or cut the apricot thickets for firewood, disregarding the laws of higher usefulness and carefully managed reproduction of these crops, the time would soon come when the land would be a barren waste. The law of the wheat field, that it must be protected and allowed to grow until it is fully ripe and fit for use, is also the law of the century-growing forest, and both alike are shaped to the needs of man. At all times soil will prevent from becoming too compact, less denitrifying cause the loss of free nitrogen. The fact that nitrifying bakea slightly alkaline which to grow has led to herland in some parts ofthe United States. Where a soil is acid, as is case inthe Northwest,the area an alkali promotes nitrification suits in an increased yield; purpose lime has been used tensively. In our section.w line soils arethe rule;there any needof liming. Berthelot's experiments on gen-fixing bacteria that live soil have been followed by improve soils by inoculating pure cultures of these organisms are unentient in soils and multiply rapidly under proper conditions would seem probable that boulder could be secured by productions favorable for their growth by increasing their number themtothe soil. The most effectual method nitrogen to soil through leaching is planting on ores roots serve as congenial heat nitrogen-fixing organisms.cleanity different legume or gumes will best suited for pose.In The warmer States can be grown during summer during winter.In Southern our summer legumes are coarse soy beans; our winter ones are peas,and besides perlern Fortunately for agriculture sectionofthe United States at leastis raised asa haycorn Northeast it clover.inthe cowpeas,andintheWest thermore,the legumes immit vegetation，owingtoitsneedin accordancewithitsnecessary.AmongnitrogentosoilthaninderoftheUnitedStates.So been stated,toritrifyinga fixingbacteriaphosphorylationespeciallyimportantfood.tosoilnotwellsuppliedwhichalegumeistobefitscropsintwoways. As all soils do not cont The Bearded Baby. A young married couple in Belfast. Me., received a startling shock. They carried their baby to a photographer for a picture. In due time the proof came around, but the parents at first failed to recognize it. The baby's features were there all right, and so were the pretty dress and all the other accessories, but the child had apparently grown a full beard while before the camera. The artist had used by mis-take a plate on which an imperfect picture of an old man had been taken and the two exposures coincided so well that he saved the plate as a curler. Some women don't know what it is to sleep well. In dreams they are haunted by the pains they bore through the day. There is no rest and no refreshment for them even in sleep. This condition is only one feature of many consequences upon forms of disease peculiar to women. The head aches often, or there are "spells" of dizziness or faintness, there is pain in the back or side, with bearing down pains. These are but symptoms of womanly disorders. Let the cause be removed and the pains will pass, and sleep will bring only dreams of happiness and love. The most effective remedy for diseases of women is Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It dries up the debilitating drains, heals inflammation and ulceration and entirely cures female weakness. There is no alcohol, whisky or other intoxicant contained in "Favorite Prescription," neither does it contain opium, cocaine, nor any other narcotic. It is a strictly temperance medicine. Accept no substitute. Sick women are invited to consult Dr. Pierce, Buffalo, N.Y., free of all charge. Each letter is treated as a sacred confidence. Every answer is sent in a plain envelope without any printing upon it. Write without fear and without fee. "I want to praise your medicine," writes Mrs. Sarah J. Burney, of Crescent Putnam Co., Flat. "I have been sick for twenty years and have been almost in bed five years, and now I am able to work all day. I have taken eight bottles of 'Favorite Prescription,' and four of 'Golden Medical Discovery,' and one vial of 'Pellets.' I praise your medicine to all. I had the headache but it is gone. My throat is well and cough gone and all my old troubles are better. I tried many other kinds of medicine and four doctors." Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets help Nature to help you. Because it takes so long to carry out such far-reaching plans, should the farmer who has passed from annual crops to thirty-year rotations of orchards fail to greet the forester as a brother of agriculture? The farmer himself will often discover that the right practice of agriculture upon his own farm includes much forestry. He will need a wood lot, or waste and rocky areas can be devoted to the growth of timber. He may possess tan-bark oak, or redwood, or pine, or eucalyptus forests, and here he can apply the same good old principles to protect his crop till it matures, and then to gather in due season its increase,—nor need he wait a lifetime in this land of rapid growth. As shown by their interest in recent forestry meetings, the leading lumbermen of California recognize the fact that their business depends upon better knowledge of forestry methods. When our forests are destroyed, the lumbermen must plant more, at great cost, and wait for many years for them to grow, or else they must go to the Congo and assault Stanley's "Great Equatorial Forest." Every thoughtful lumberman knows that he is taking from the future. Now that he better understands the subject, he begins to take a prominent part in forestry organizations. Farmers should be especially active in every forestry association and public meeting, to secure legislation or congressional action. The farmers of California as well as the lumbermen are vitally interested in the preservation of their forests. Farming cannot long continue in a country whose forests have been destroyed. This side of the subject has been explained in a thousand ways, but its immense practical importance justifies its presentation over and over, until every farmer takes an active interest in forestry topics. To sum up this brief paper, forestry is primarily forest study and forest care. The crop of forest consists of firewood and timber. That crop can be increased and made more valuable by employing skilled foresters. The proper management, both governmental and private, should receive the support of the farmers of California, since neglect and ignorance of forest affairs will work such vast and irremediable ruin. Under the conditions of life in this Republic, it is necessary only that enough people shall work together long enough to produce any desirable result. Let the farmers and the lumbermen, therefore, decide to put the management of all our California forests upon a scientific basis.—C. A. Shinn, in Rural Press. For Sale. Twenty acres west of Alec Henry's place. Price $1800, on easy installations. Inquire of Mrs. Lecroq, 204 S. Main st., Los Angeles; or F. Shanley, Anaheim. nov23-tf Northeast it is clover, in the cow peas, and in the West thermore, the legumes in vegetation, owing to the sun-fittest, are distributed in our accordance with its needs West, where meteorological cause a rapid loss of nitrogen soil, legumes are much more and consequently are an nitrogen to the soil than in der of the United States. She been stated, to nitrifying a fixing bacteria phosphoric especially important food; to soil not well supplied with which a legume is to be fits crops in two ways. As all soils do not dance the bacteria suited in the roots of all legumes have been made suitable ones. As many is sending out an called "nitragin" for innocence reticulately the plan is logical results have not allowed the use of "nitragin." Thecessful experiments were two years ago at the Alamanda station. It is to be this method of increasing of the soil will be put upon basis. A consideration of the sented in the foregoing wilt to bacteria the farmer is all that he produces upon since they contribute an amount of all his products. Teria kill, through infection a few of his cattle and blight his plants, these organism his cattle and all his crops Prof. A.J.McClatchie of the Experiment Station, at the Institution Club at Pasadena. Two Reasons "You mustn't play with hat, Bobby," said a young was entertaining a caller brother. "Why mustn't 17" asked ster. "Because you might plied his sister," and beware it shortly." Chicago An Editor's Life Saved by Chance Remedy. During the early part 1896, I contracted a bad settled on my lungs and wuntil I feared that constance coughing and t pel something which I could doctor a trial bought a boo berlain's Cough Remedy and was immediate improvement I had used three bottles m restored to their healthy EDWARDS, publisher of th For sale by P.A.Derge. 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They are an unfailing specific for such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial paralysis, St. Vitus’ dance, sciatica, neuralgia rheumatism, nervous headache, the after-effects of la gripe, palpitation of the heart, pale and sallow complexions, all forms of weakness either in male or female. Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are never sold by the dozen or hundred, but always in packages. Atall druggists, or direct from the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y., 80 cents per box, 6 boxes $2.50. Bacteria in Agriculture. Continued from First page. Results upon winter grain crops than upon summer grain crops. During warm weather the formation of nitric acid may be as rapid as necessary for the growth of the crop, and consequently the addition of nitrate a waste. In fact, in our climate nitrification is often too rapid during part of the year, resulting in depleting the soil of its nitrogen. For, as has already been stated, the soil is already being depleted. California’s Orange Crop. Continued from First Page. The first orchards were all seedlings, but the introduction of budded fruits produced finer quality and quicker returns. The quality of all California oranges has been greatly improved of late years, through better care and the adoption of the best varieties of the soil, consequently they are growing more and more in public favor. Although there are a hundred or more varieties only a few are grown for pro- VOICE OF THE PRESS. THE DURKEE SALE. From the Orange Post. The board of directors of the S. A. V. I. Co. met Monday morning in regular adjourned session with all the members present. E. W. Freeman, attorney for Daniel Durkee, and E. E. Keech, attorney for the water company, presented the resolutions necessary for the completion of the purchase of the Durkee ranch, which resolutions were adopted on the call of the roll by a unanimous vote. In the afternoon the board and attorneys went to Anaheim, where the same action was taken by the board of directors of the A. U. W. Co., and some further consultation was had over matters of common interest. On Tuesday S. Armor, president, B. Goodrich, secretary, and E. E. Keech, attorney, of the S. A. V. I. Co.; W. J. Fay, president, W.H. Blennnerhassett, secretary, and Richard Melrose, attorney, of the A. U. W. Co.; Daniel Durkee and Anna K. Durkee, his wife, and E.W.Freeman, their attorney; all gathered at Riverside and completed the sale, the purchasers paying thirty thousand ($30,000) dollars down and giving notes and mortgage for seventy thousand ($70,000) dollars, payable at the rate of ten thousand ($10,000) dollars per year with interest at the rate of eight per cent per annum, of which three of the eight per cent is to be rebated back to the companies provided they pay the mortgage tax. After getting everything in shape the deed and mortgage were placed on record and the abstract company instructed to continue the certificate and abstract to include the papers just filed so as to show title in the two water companies. THE PAPER TRUST. From the Pomona Progress. Publishers and printers are painfully aware of the fact that the price of paper has lately risen from 40 to 70 per cent, which is said to be due largely if not entirely to the paper trust. The paper on which the Progress is printed costs 40 per cent more than it did a few months ago, and many grades of envelopes and “flat” goods cost 50, 60 and even 75 per cent more than formerly. It is reported that the paper trust owns over 90 per cent of the paper pulp mills in the United States, and has control of practically all the available wood and water supply in the country for making wood pulp. Hence a movement has been started among the newspapers of the country to secure the repeal of the tariff on paper and open their Bacteria in Agriculture. Continued from First page. sults upon winter grain crops than upon summer grain crops. During warm weather the formation of nitric acid may be as rapid as necessary for the growth of the crop, and consequently the addition of nitrate a waste. In fact, in our climate nitrification is often too rapid during part of the year, resulting in depleting the soil of its nitrogen. For, as has already been stated, the products of nitrification are very soluble and soon disappear from the soil. Land occupied by a rapidly growing crop needs, as a rule, thorough aeration, while in our climate uncropped land often needs a cover to prevent loss of nitrates. At all times soil should be prevented from becoming too wet and compact, lest denitrifying bacteria cause the loss of free nitrogen. The fact that nitrifying bacteria require a slightly alkaline medium in which to grow has led to the liming of land in some parts of the United States. Where a soil is acid, as is often the case in the Northwest, the addition of an alkali promotes nitrification and results in an increased yield. For this purpose lime has been used quite extensively. In our section, where alkaline soils are the rule, there is little if any need of liming. Berthelot's experiments with nitrogen-fixing bacteria that live free in the soil have been followed by attempts to improve soils by inoculating them with pure cultures of these organisms, the theory being that increasing them in the soil would result in greater productivity. A preparation purporting to be a pure culture of nitrogen-fixing organism is made in Germany and is sent out under the name "alnit." Many experiments have been made with the preparation, but few practical results seem to have been obtained since these organisms are usually present in soils and multiply with great rapidity under proper conditions. It would seem probable that better effects could be secured by producing conditions favorable for their growth than by increasing their number by adding them to the soil. The most effectual method of adding nitrogen to soil through bacterial action is the planting of crops whose roots serve as congenial hosts for the nitrogen-fixing organisms. In each locality a different legume or set of legumes will be best suited for this purpose. In the warmer States one class can be grown during summer and one during winter. In Southern Arizona our summer legumes are cow peas and soy beans; our winter ones, melilotus and peas, besides the perennial alfalfa. Fortunately for agriculture, in each section of the United States one legume at least is raised as a hay crop. In the Northeast it is clover, in the Southeast cow peas, and in the West alfalfa. Furthermore, the legumes in the native vegetation, owing to the survival of the fittest, are distributed in our country in accordance with its needs. In the West, where meteorological conditions cause a rapid loss of nitrogen from the soil, legumes are much more abundant, and consequently are adding more nitrogen to the soil than in the remainder of the United States. Since, as has been stated, nitrifying and nitrogen-fixing bacteria phosphoric acid is an especially important food, its addition to soil not well supplied with it, and in which a legume is to be grown, benefits crops in two ways. As all soils do not contain in abuncalisilic acid or other compounds that affect their health, they are not suitable for use in agricultural settings. The first orchards were all seedlings, but the introduction of budded fruits produced finer quality and quicker returns. The quality of all California oranges has been greatly improved of late years, through better care and the adoption of the best varieties of the soil, consequently they are growing more and more in public favor. Although there are a hundred or more varieties, only a few are grown for profit in this State. The best variety is the Washington navel; then follows the Mediterranean Sweet, which ripens late, often not until May or June; the Malta blood, of finer texture and flavor; the pulp mottled and streaked with dark red, sometimes being almost entirely of that color, hence the name, and the St. Michael, small firm, juicy, thin skin, pale yellow which will keep until August. Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been sunk in making orange growing the profitable industry it is. Great fortunes have been sunk during the past dozen years of experiment to find the most favorable spots for producing the fruit with the least danger from frost in winter, and lack of irrigation water in the summer. Many a grower has lost his all in trying to grow oranges in too high an altitude among the foothills, where Jack Frost has made a visit every winter, and a lot of growers have planted and cultivated orange trees at a heavy cost only to find that the irrigation water supply was insufficient. Then the scale parasites, so abundant in semi-tropical regions, have cost the growers thousands of dollars more. There have been long and costly experiments in ridding the groves of these parasite pests, and now, that the means of destruction has been found, the price of a luxuriant grove is ceaseless vigilance against the pests, and a constant round of tilling the soil, pruning and fertilizing. Almost the only danger the orange grower has to fear is a visit from Jack Frost. True, the meteorological records of Southern California for thirty-seven years show no time when the temperature has gone below 25 degrees above zero, and it is only once or twice in eleven years that the temperature in orange groves has reached that point. The ticklish period of the winter, so far as frost is concerned, is during the latter part of December and the early part of January. So far this season the mercury has not reached below 35 degrees, except for a half hour once at daybreak last month. The orange will bear five or six degrees of frost, if it is for a short duration; but if such temperature continues for several hours, or occurs a few nights in succession, the fruit will be injured and young nursery stock affected, though older trees may not suffer. There is no absolutely frostless locality, as the two past seasons have demonstrated. N.Y.Sun. English Officers Wear Armor. Many officers of the British army are wearers of armor. As a general rule the mail is inclosed in a leather casing, which is sewed inside the tunic, so as to be invisible unless the garment is picked to pieces. And the same with helmets—a similar device is fixed in the lining, so as to give additional protection in case of need. Some officers are not above wearing mail vests underneath their tunics and paper has lately risen from 40 to 70 per cent, which is said to be due largely if not entirely to the paper trust. The paper on which the Progress is printed costs 40 per cent more than it did a few months ago, and many grades of envelopes and “flat” goods cost 50, 60 and even 75 per cent more than formerly. It is reported that the paper trust owns over 90 per cent of the paper pulp mills in the United States, and has control of practically all the available wood and water supply in the country for making wood pulp. Hence a movement has been started among newspapers of the country to secure the repeal of the tariff on paper and open doors for foreign mills to ship their goods in duty free and put a stop to the exactions of the paper trust. If the facts are as represented, everything possible should be done to thwart the purposes of the paper trust. A protective tariff has been a beneficial thing for the industries of the United States, when home competition has furnished abundant protection against exorbitant prices; but with that competition removed, as is done by the organization of such a monopoly as the paper trust is reported to be a protective tariff simply aids the monopoly to bleed the people. As the Progress has heretofore stated, the trusts are doing more than all other agencies combined to defeat the good effects of the protective tariff and thus put an end to the tariff itself. DIFFICULTY OF SECURING HIS REMOVAL. From the Orange News. The petition asking for the removal of Horticultural Commissioner Huntington was considered by the Board of Supervisors at its last meeting, but no action was taken, none of the petitioners appearing. It seems that the objection to Mr. Huntington is that he is too thrifty in his office. It appears that his monthly bills for services never fall below $60, while those of Mr. Ham ilton run from $20 to $30, and those of Mr. Rafferty from $6 to $15. As Mr. Huntington is able to show that he gives to the work all time charged for it will be difficult to secure his removal on the plea entered. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The fire was side tracked. In the rarefied atmosphere of the high tablelands of Mexico objects that are really a long way off appear to be close at hand. This has led to many ludicrous mistakes on part of tourists, and even on the part of those having a knowledge of the peculiarity of the country. The Mexican Central railroad has a tangent (section of track in which there is no curve) that is said to be the longest in the world. It is over 60 miles in length, and a locomotive headlight can be seen, of course, for a very long distance. One evening a train roundedthe curve approaching this tangent,and paper has lately risen from 40 to 70 per cent which is said to be due largely if not entirely tothe paper trust.The paper on whichthe Progressis printed costs 40 per cent more than it did a few months ago,and many gradesof envelopesand“flat”goodscost50，60andeven75percentmorethanformerly.itIsreportedthatthepapertrustown90percentofthepaperpulmilsintheUnitedStates,andhascontrolofpracticallyalltheavailablewoodandwatersupplyinthecountryformakingwoodpulp.HenceamethodhasbeenstartedamongthenewsepapersofthecountrytosecuretherepealofthetariffonpaperandopendoorsforforeignmillstoshiptheirgoodsindutyfreeandputstoptotheexactionsofthepapertrustIfthefactsshowethattheyarebeingstartedamongthenewsepapersofthecountrytosecuretherepealofthetariffonpaperandopendoorsforforeignmillstoshiptheirgoodsindutyfreeandputstoptotheexactionsofthepapertrustIfthefactsshowethattheyarebeingstartedamongthenewsepapersofthecountrytosecuretherepealofthetariffonpaperandopendoorsforforeignmillstoshiptheirgoodsindutyfreeandputstoptotheexactionsofthepapertrustIfthefactsshowethattheyarebeingstartedamongthenewsepapersofthecountrytosecuretherepealofthetariffonpaperandopendoorsforforeignmillstoshiptheirgoodsindutyfreeandputstoptotheexactionsofthepapertrustIfthefactsshowethattheyarebeingstartedamongthenewsepapersofthecountrytosecuretherepealofthetariffonpaperandopendoorsforforeignmillstoshiptheirgoodsindutyfreeandputstoptotheexactionsofthepapertrustIfthefactsshowethattheyarebeingstartedamongthenewsepapersofthecountrytosecuretherepealofthetariffonpaperandopendoorsforforeignmillstoshiptheirgoodsindutyfreeandputstoptotheexactionsofthepapertrustIfthefactsshowethattheyarebeingstartedamongthenewsepapersofthecountrytosecuretherepealofthetariffonpaperandopendoorsforforeignmillstoshiptheirgoodsindutyfreeandputstoptotheexactionsofthepapertrustIfthefactsshowethattheyarebeingstartedamongthenewsepapersofthecountrytosecuretherepeal ofthetariffonpaperandopendoorsforforeignmillstoshiptheirgoodsindutyfreeandputstoptotheexactionsofthepapertrustIfthefactsshowethattheyarebeingstartedamongthenewsepapersofthecountrytosecuretherepeal ofthetariffonpaperandopendoorsforforeignmillstoshiptheirgoodsindutyfreeandputstoptotheexactionsofthepapertrustIfthefactsshowethattheyarebeingstartedamongthenewsepapersofthecountrytosecuretherepeal ofthetariffonpaperandopendoorsforforeignmillstoshiptheirgoodsindutyfreeandputstoptotheexactionsofthepapertrustIfthefactsshowethattheyarebeingstartedamongthenewsepapersofthecountrytosecuretherepeal ofthetariffonpaperandopendoorsforforeignmillstoshiptheirgoodsindutyfreeandputstoptotheexactionsofthepapertrustIfthefactsshowethattheyarebeingstartedamongthenewsepapersofthecountrytosecuretherepeal ofthetariffonpaperandopendoorsforforeignmillstoshiptheirgoodsindutyfreeandputstoptotheexactionsofthepapertrustIfthefactsshowethattheyarebeingstartedamongthenewsepapersofthecountrytosecuretherepeal ofthetariffonpaperandopendoorsforforeignmillstoshiptheirgoodsindutyfreeandputstoptotheexactionsofthepapertrustIfthefactsshowethattheyarebeingstartedamongthenewsepapersofthecountrytosecuretherepeal ofthetariffonpaperandopendoorsforforeignmillstoshiptheirgoodsindutyfreeandputstoptotheexactionsofthepapertrustIfthefactsshowethattheyarebeingstartedamongthenewsepapersofthecountrytosecuretherepeal ofthetariffonpaperandopendoorsforforeignmillstoshiptheirgoodsindutyfreeandputstoptotheexactionsofthepapertrustIfthefactsshowethattheyarebeingstartedamongthenewsepapersofthecountrytosecuretherepeal ofthetariffonpaperandopendoorsforforeignmillstoshiptheirgoodsindutyfreeandputstoptotheexactionsofthepapertrustIfThefactsshowethattheyarebeingstartedamongthenewsepapersofthecountryto SecureTheImportanceOfNatureInTheMiddleEast NOT ON THE TIME TABLE. The Curious Reason For Which A Train Was Side Tracked. In the rarefied atmosphere ofhigh tablelands of Mexico objects that are really a long way off appear to be close at hand. This has led to many ludicrous mistakes on part of those havinga knowledgeofthepeculiarityofthecountry. The Mexican Central railroad has a tangent (section of track inwhich thereisnocurve)thatis saidtobe-thelongestintheworld.Itsover60milesinlength,andalocomotiveheadlightcanbeseen.ofcourse,forkewithanyonewhatisneededasparterdream—NewYorkPittsburgDispatch. 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childrenofthesocietywithawheneverfirstprimeolistudetheseconditionscausingrapidlossofnitrogenfromsumituresuminesmoleculesmustbeaddressedintabiescauseacidismespeciallyimportantfooditsadditiontosolutionsforthetreatmentofsoilnotwellsuppliedwithit,andinwhichagelegumeistobrownbenefitscropsintwoways.Asallsoilsdonotcontainahumandecompositioncausingrapidlossofnitrogenfromsumituresuminesmoleculesmustbeaddressedintabiescauseacidismespeciallyimportantfooditsadditiontosolutionsforthetreatmentofsoilnotwellsuppliedwithit,andinwhichagelegumeistobrownbenefitscropsintwoways.Asallsoilsdonotcontainahumandecompositioncausingrapidlossofnitrogenfromsumituresuminesmoleculesmustbeaddressedintabiescauseacidismespeciallyimportantfooditsadditiontosolutionsforthetreatmentofsoilnotwellsuppliedwithit,andinwhichagelegumeistobrownbenefitscropsintwoways.Asallsoilsdonotcontainahumandecompositioncausingrapidlossofnitrogenfromsumituresuminesmoleculesmustbeaddressedintabiescauseacidismespeciallyimportantfooditsadditiontosolutionsforthetreatmentofsoilnotwellsuppliedwithit,andinwhichagelegumeistobrownbenefitscropsintwoways.Asallsoilsdonotcontainahumandecompositioncausingrapidlossofnitrogenfromsumituresuminesmoleculesmustbeaddressedintabiescauseacidismespeciallyimportantfooditsadditiontosolutionsforthetreatmentofsoilnotwellsuppliedwithit,andinwhichagelegumeistobrownbenefitscropsintwoways.Asallsoilsdonotcontainahumandecompositioncausingrapidlossofnitrogenfromsumituresuminesmoleculesmustbeaddressedintabiescauseacidismespeciallyimportantfooditsadditiontosolutionsforthetreatmentofsoilnotwellsuppliedwithit,andinwhichagelegumeistobrownbenefitscropsintwoways.Asallsoilsdo 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Furthermore, the legumes in the native vegetation, owing to the survival of the fittest, are distributed in our country in accordance with its needs. In the West, where meteorological conditions cause a rapid loss of nitrogen from the soil, legumes are much more abundant, and consequently are adding more nitrogen to the soil than in the remainder of the United States. Since, as has been stated, to nitrifying and nitrogen-fixing bacteria phosphoric acid is an especially important food, its addition to soil not well supplied with it, and in which a legume is to be grown, benefits crops in two ways. As all soils do not contain in abundance the bacteria suited for growing in the roots of all legumes, experiments have been made with pure cultures of suitable ones. A firm in Germany is sending out a preparation called "nitragin" for inoculating soils to be sown to various legumes. Theoretically the plan is logical, but practical results have not always followed the use of "nitragin." The most successful experiments were made about two years ago at the Alabama experiment station. It is to be hoped that this method of increasing the fertility of the soil will be put upon a practical basis. A consideration of the facts presented in the foregoing will show that to bacteria the farmer is indebted for all that he produces upon the farm, since they contribute an essential element of all his products. Though bacteria kill, through infectious diseases, a few of his cattle and blight a few of his plants, these organisms nourish all his cattle and all his crops while alive. Prof. A. J. McClatchie of the Arizona Experiment Station at the Institute Farmers' Club at Pasadena. Two Reasons. "You mustn't play with Mr. Borum's hat, Bobby," said a young lady who was entertaining a caller to her small brother. "Why mustn't I?" asked the younger. "Because you might break it," replied his sister, "and besides, he will want it shortly." Chicago News. An Editor's Life Saved by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. During the early part of October, 1896, I contracted a bad cold which settled on my lungs and was neglected until I feared that consumption had appeared in an incipient state. I was constantly coughing and trying to expel something which I could not. I became alarmed and after giving the local doctor a trial bought a bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and the result was immediate improvement, and after I had used three bottles my lungs were restored to their healthy state.—R. S. Edwards, publisher of the Review, Ill. For sale by P. A. Derge. English Officers Wear Armor. Many officers of the British army are wearers of armor. As a general rule the mail is inclosed in a leather casing, which is sewed inside the tunic, so as to be invisible unless the garment is pickled to pieces. And the same with helmets—a similar device is fixed in the lining, so as to give additional protection in case of need. Some officers are not above wearing mails vests underneath their tunics and perfectly oblivious of their comrades, who although they may scoff in times of peace, would only be too glad to don one themselves when in the middle of hostilities. The majority of the maker's customers are officers, because the suits are very expensive, costing about 10 guineas each.—Regiment. A Curious Battle. An interesting spectacle was witnessed the other day on the banks of the river Soar, near Hathern, by a gentleman resident in the district. Being attracted by a peculiar cry, he turned aside and came upon a young otter and a huge eel engaged in a deadly struggle. The otter had evidently caught the eel, which had retaliated by winding itself tightly round the former's neck. The fight lasted several minutes, the otter eventually freeing itself and making off with a part of the eel, which it had bitten in two.—London Telegraph. A Shock to Boston. An English woman, a visitor, grieved all Boston by irreverently asking a citizen, as she walked through the Common and saw the cherished gilded dome of the statehouse. "Beg pardon, sir, but what building is that with the brass top?"—New York Times. ELY'S CREAM BALM is a positive cure. Apply into the nostrils. It is quickly absorbed. 50 cents at Druggists or by mail; samples not by mail. ELY BROTHERS. 56 Warren St., New York City. In the rarefied atmosphere of the high tablelands of Mexico objects that are really a long way off appear to be close at hand. This has led to many ludicrous mistakes on the part of tourists, and even on the part of those having a knowledge of the peculiarity of the country. The Mexican Central railroad has a tangent (section of track in which there is no curve) that is said to be the longest in the world. It is over 60 miles in length, and a locomotive headlight can be seen, of course, for a very long distance. One evening a train rounded the curve approaching this tangent, and as it entered on the straight track its brakes suddenly began to grind. It soon came to a standstill, and the conductor, fearing that an accident had befallen the engine, hurried forward, and was shown by the engineer a light that was twinkling and dancing on the track directly ahead. "A headlight, sure," the engineer said. "Must be an extra and the dispatchers have overlooked it, for orders do not mention it." "Guess you are right," the conductor replied, "but I never knew the dispatchers to be so careless before. Anywhere but on this tangent there would have been a collision and somebody killed. We'd better move ahead slowly to the next side track. We can't tell just how near that train may be, and we will wait for it to pass us there." They reached the side track in safety, and drawing in on it, awaited the coming of the other train. Half an hour passed, and the engineer was funing, wondering how much longer he was to be delayed, when the conductor called him to step out to the main line. "What do you think of that headlight, now?" he asked, when the engineer had joined him. "Seems to have got clear up and off the road." The engineer gazed at the twinkling light then, "Venus, by Jupiter!" he exclaimed. "Billy, we've side tracked to let a star go by, or my name's not Smith!"—Youth's Companion. "I think I would go crazy with pain were it not for Chamberlain's Pain Balm," writes Mr. W. H. Stapleton, Herminie, Pa. "I have been afflicted with rheumatism for several years and have tried remedies without number, but Pain Balm is the best medicine I have got hold of." One application relieves the pain. For sale by P. A. Derge. For Sale. Mare-five years old, well broken, sound, good traveler; price,$22. Inquire at this office. Africans and the children of the child with awae when first primeval solitude was puffing of the steam eater other end of the Cairo simple Matabele, fronted by a locomotif that the strange machine by the labor of an indozenx which they assupe up inside; hence, when ped, they gathered in waiting to see the door oxen come out, nor couch days be persuaded tha locomotive than the strength of tha Arabs of the Swine native than the Matabele fire horses of the rain Djinns of the "Arabies nessed by the magpie long train of cars gaine was to them abe being. Of which behous occasion a shek mad remonstrance against making so small an huge a train.-Windsco Traced Back. Mr. Dash-I have done son why most women Mrs. Dash-Why? Mr. Dash-Because was a rib-un berself ald. Nothing tothe chair room-or boudoin apt light from O Nothing will count artistic success tea or dinner.T candles for tha most elaborate tage or imague and tha most deli CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of The Kind You Have Always Bought. CASTORIA SHELVED HIS INVENTION. An Experience Which Taught the Mechanical Expert a Lesson. One of the best mechanical engineers in New Orleans told an interesting story apropos of the tribulations of inventors. "About three years ago," he That Impudent Capital “I.” M. Zola, when in England, was much impressed with the English use of the capital “I.” “Why is it,” he says, “that the Englishman, when he writes of himself, should invariably use a capital letter? That tall ‘I’ which occurs so often in a personal narrative strikes me as being very arrogant. A Frenchman, referring to himself, writes ‘je’ with a small ‘j’; a German, though he may gratify all his substantives with capital letters, employs a small ‘i’ in writing ‘ich’; a Spaniard, when he uses the personal pronoun at all, bestows a small ‘y’ on his ‘yo’, while he honors the person he addresses with a capital ‘V.’ I believe indeed, though I am not sufficiently acquainted with foreign languages to speak with certainty on that point, that the Englishman is the only person in the world who applies a capital letter to himself.” M. Zola might have enforced his contrasts still further by referring to the Japanese self-depreciatory terms are used such as “servant,” “the awkward person,” “Junior,” while in speaking of or to other people complimentary terms are employed, such as “senior,” “master,” “prince” (used by young men in addressing each other familiarly). The most usual Japanese equivalent for “I” is “watakushi,” which means literally “selfishness.”—Buffalo Commercial. New York’s Tenement Houses. One of the indications of the improvement of the masses in this city is the gradual abolishment of the tenement, as the word is generally understood. The big rookeries, with their small rooms, airless halls and rusty fire escapes, are going out of existence in the ordinary course of events, by fire, tumbling down and being removed to make room for modern structures, and the people who live in them are seeking more airy homes in the suburbs or in the flats up town. While the foreign element continues to live in tenements for the first year after reaching New York the children of foreign parentage are not willing to exist in the noisome quarters of the east and west sides. They crave more light, more air and cleanliness, and in many cases they get it. Rapid transit makes Harlem as accessible as Grand street, and there is no occasion to live in a down town tenement unless one likes it. No new tenement houses are building. The flathouse has taken its place, and in the course of time the foul barracks in which scores of families are crowded will be a thing of the past and only remembered as part of a distempered dream.—New York Letter in Pittsburg Dispatch. Africans and the Locomotive. The children of the desert were filled with awe when first the silence of the primeval solitude was broken by the affection of the steam engine. Down at SHELVED HIS INVENTION. An Experience Which Taught the Mechanical Expert a Lesson. One of the best mechanical engineers in New Orleans told an interesting story apropos of the tribulations of inventors. “About three years ago,” he said, “I got up a little device that greatly simplified the working of a certain type of pump. I took patents that cost me in the neighborhood of $300, including attorney’s fees, and finally submitted the thing to a big manufacturing concern in the north. The proprietors at once conceded the merit of the invention and offered me $500 down and a royalty of $125 on each one used. The cash payment amounted to nothing, for it really fell short of covering my time and expenses, but the royalty was generous, and I figured it out that it would yield me an income of $3,000 or $4,000 for several years—perhaps longer. It depended on how soon something better entered the field. “Accordingly, I accepted the proposition and transferred all my right. Now, how much do you think I actually received? Not a penny! No, I haven’t been cheated; at least, all the accounts have been perfectly straight. The trouble is they never put the device on the market. They simply stuck the patents and drawings in a pigeonhole and there they remain to this day. “Why did they do it, did you ask? To save money. The public is very well suited with their pump as it stands, and it is doubtful if they could get any more for it with my improvement added. Such a step would merely cut down the net profit, so they prefer to let well enough alone. It was necessary, of course, to get my invention safely shelved, or it might have been taken up by some enterprising rival, and the only earthly reason for spending $500 on the thing was to put it out of the way. It was rather rough on me, to be sure, but the experience was valuable, and I won’t get caught that way again.” — New Orleans Times-Democrat. GLASSES FOR THE EYES. The Reason They Are Worn by So Many Persons Nowadays. The question is often asked, particularly by those who can recall the customs and experiences of 25 years ago. “Why do so many persons nowadays wear glasses?” The answer is easy. “The increase in the number of spectacles worn is not to be regarded as an evidence of modern degeneration of the eyes, but rather that a long felt necessity has been met.” For it should be remembered that within the past quarter of a century much has been learned about the value of glasses, and the range of their application and usefulness has been enormously extended. Of course the eyes need more help now than formerly, as the amount of work they are required to do is much greater than at any previous period in the world. PACIFIC COAST Steamship Co. The Company’s elegant Steamers SANTA ROSA and CORONA leave Redondo at 11 a.m. and Port Los Angeles at 4:00 p.m. for San Diego January 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 27, 31 February 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 March 4 and every fourth day thereafter. Leave Port Los Angeles at 5:45 a.m. m. and Redondo at 10:45 a.m. m. for San Diego January 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 27, 31 February 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 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. R. depot at 1:35 p.m. m.for steamers north bound. The steamers COOS BAY and BONITA leave San Pedro for San Francisco via East San Pedro. Ventura. Carpenteria Santa Barbara. Golden Gate. Monterey and Santa Cruz at 6 p.m., January 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 30 February 3, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 27 March 3 and every fourth day thereafter. Cars connect with steamers via San Pedro leave S. P. R. R.(Arcade depot) at 5:03 p.m. 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,sailing dates and hours of sailing without previous notice. W. PARRIS , Act., 124 W. Second St., Los Angeles. 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Down at the other end of the Cape to Cairo line the simple Matabele, when first confronted by a locomotive, were certain that the strange machine was worked by the labor of an indefinite number of oxen, which they assumed were shut up inside; hence, when the engine stopped, they gathered in curious crowds, waiting to see the door open and the oxen come out, nor could they for many days be persuaded that the power of the locomotive come from other than the strength of the ox. The Arabs of the Sudan, more imaginative than the Matabele, saw in the fire horses of the railway one of the Djinns of the "Arabian Nights," harnessed by the magic of the infidel to the long train of cars. The steam engine was to them a living, sentient being. Of which belief there is curious evidence in the fact that on one occasion a shekil made an impassioned remonstrance against the cruelty of making so small an engine draw so huge a train.—Windsor Magazine. Traced Back to Eden. 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