anaheim-gazette 1900-04-05

HANDLING FERRETS. HOW PROFESSIONAL RAT CATCHERS USE THE ANIMALS. These fiery eyed, razor toothed Little Beasts Are Effective Where Traps and Poison Fall—They Are Generally Worked With a Muzzle. "Weasels and ferrets," said a professional rat catcher, "are about the same thing. The imported ferrets trained to the business are larger than the weasel, that is all. After I am through with rat catching I use my ferrets to hunt rabbits out of brush piles, hay and straw stacks, which is a profitable business when rabbits are plenty. What you call rabbits over here we in England call hares." "When a man once starts in as a professional rat catcher and gets to understand training and working ferrets, there is such an attraction in the trade that he never willingly gives it up. It's a profitable business without too much competition." "Do the ferrets ever bite you?" "It's a very careless and awkward man that gets bitten by a trained ferret. When one is bitten by an enraged ferret, the bite is of a very severe character, extremely painful and slow to heal." As the rat catcher talked a 6-month ferret, his fiery little eyes gleaming like living gems, was crawling over his lap and trying to get in under his coat. "This fellow," said the rat catcher, "is as gentle as a kitten and likes to have his back rubbed and to be caressed as well as any cat you ever saw. When the ferret bites a rat's neck, he knows exactly what he is doing, and his front teeth, cutting like razors, go right through the jugular. "Of course we generally muzzle them when we send them in after rats, and we always muzzle them when we send them in after rabbits. If their teeth were at liberty, they would kill the first rat or rabbit they met and would remain in the hole sucking its blood. When we put a ferret into a house after rats, we stop up all the holes at the outside of the house except one or two. Over these we place bags, and the ferrets, driving the game before them, run the rats into the bags. We keep the ferret without his ordinary meals before using him, and this makes him keener in his chase." THREE CARD MONTE. CAREER OF THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE SMOOTH TRICK. He Imposed on Many Men of High Standing In the Nation, Made a Barrel of Money With His Swindling Game and Died a Pauper. Lew Houck was the inventor of the notorious three card monte trick and about the cleverest card sharp in the world. Houck was well known in Kansas City, where he operated on and off for 20 years, making the city a sort of way station on his trips east and west. The last time Houck was here he had just returned from a European trip. He produced papers and letters to show that while he was in London he was feted and dined by some of the upper crust of English society. He had passed there as a wealthy and traveled American. He had letters, too, from Secretary Olney, Secretary Carlisle and other leaders of the American political world which recommended him in the highest terms not only to the American representatives abroad, but to any friends of the writers who might meet him. And these letters were genuine. Their authenticity could not be doubted. Houck had a way of getting entrance into the exclusive clubs of Washington, Philadelphia, New York and other cities, and in his role of "gentleman of leisure" he had so imposed on men of high standing in the nation that they thought him all he represented himself to be and gave him the letters of introduction that helped him to fleece the aristocracy of Europe. Houck invented the three card monte game before he became of age. This is a trick with cards that has fleeced more people out of money than any other game ever practiced. The trick is played with three aces, two black ones and one red. It is always played with a confederate to help, or "stall," for the game. The operator takes the three cards between his fingers, showing them to the victim, and then shuffles them about and drops them face down upon the table, offering to bet any amount of money that no one can pick out the red ace. At this point the operator turns his head a moment to split or to speak to some one in the crowd behind him, and in that moment the confederate SOME COURTSHIPES. First Meetings of Well-Known Men Their Future Wives. Marriage has always been one of world's greatest themes. The thing, a wise philosopher said, is the right girl. There is no stereo way of getting her. Just as men found different ways of proposing there have been endless ways in women have met their fates. Horace Greeley and Mary Vienna were married the first day met. They had corresponded for time, a common friend, who was a thing of a matchmaker, having brushed about her. She was all his painted her, but she was much pointed in his appearance, so much that when he appeared before her ing proposed and been accepted later, she frankly told him that, although she married him, she was not in with him. Their married life was happy, and the loss of his wife was a blow which Greeley did not survive. The second time that Bismarck Friedlein Johanna Puttkammer kissed her in the presence of a few guests. The immediate effect behavior was the prompt amendment of the betrothal, which was followed by the marriage. Fritz Puttkammer was a bridesmaid friend the first time Bismarck kissed these two young people, as Rudys says, "no sooner met than they no sooner looked than they loved." The first marriage of Jefferson was of a romantic character desperately in love with Sallie daughter of Col. Zachary Taylor did not approve of the attachment young people took matters in their hands and eloped. Sixteen years before "Old Zach" would speak son-in-law, and then it was because and his regiment had covered selfs with glory at the battle of Vista. The first time Mary Todd meh Lincoln she said to her "That man will be President these days. He will make a husband be proud of." About that colon's chances of becoming President Mary's sister laughed the idea that A few months afterward Man was married to "Ugly Abe," fourteen years the prediction "Of course we generally muzzle them when we send them in after rats, and we always muzzle them when we send them in after rabbits. If their teeth were at liberty, they would kill the first rat or rabbit they met and would remain in the hole sucking its blood. When we put a ferret into a house after rats, we stop up all the holes at the outside of the house except one or two. Over these we place bags, and the ferrets, driving the game before them, run the rats into the bags. We keep the ferret without his ordinary meals before using him, and this makes him keener in his chase. "It's mighty easy to spoil a ferret. After a young ferret has been badly bitten by a rat, as sometimes happens, you can't get him to go into a hole muzzled. But when a ferret is full grown and has the skill and courage that he should have he is a holy terror to rats and is a valuable animal. I would not sell a well trained ferret for $50, the price of a good horse. Such a ferret I should be willing to put in a pit with 50 rats, and he could in a short time kill every one of them. Rats are great fighters when they are cornered, but no other animal of the same size has as much courage as a ferret or weasel. In England the largest ferrets are called polecat ferrets and are a cross of the two animals, which are much alike. In this country the word polecat is applied to the skunk, an entirely different animal. The word polecat is supposed to be an abbreviation of Polish cat, and the animal abounds all over Europe. The mink is much like the weasel, except that it is larger, and many depredations that are attributed to the weasel are committed by the mink. All these animals prowl by night, and they frequently go many miles in search of food, even coming into towns and the suburbs of cities." Audubon, who was a close student of nature, was delighted with the weasel, or American ferret. Its long, flexible body, its extraordinary length of neck, the closeness of its fur, its keenness of scent, its wonderful agility and quickness of movement, all excited his admiration. An American writer says: "The common weasel has sometimes been caught and carried off by large hawks and owls. Sorry was the experience of the captor in such cases. He has caught a Tartar. The captive will bite into the sides of the enemy, so that both will fall to the ground, the bird mortally wounded and the weasel usually comparatively unhurt.* * * The weasel's courage in defending itself when attacked by birds of prey is universally admitted, nor is it deficient in fierce opposition to dogs and even men when its nest is invaded by either. It usually kills for food, biting through the head into the brain with such expertness that its victim can scarcely utter a cry of pain. It usually eats the brain first; then the rest of the body follows. In pursuing mice, rats and moles it follows them into their runs or holes.* * * A weasel's proximity to a poultry yard is not to be desired. But in barns, hayricks and grain stacks it is decidedly advantageous, as it will surely extrainate or drive away rats and mice." The weasel's characteristics are noted in two American sayings, "Catch a weasel asleep," and "Sooner trust a trick with cards that has fleeced more people out of money than any other game ever practiced. The trick is played with three aces, two black ones and one red. It is always played with a confederate to help, or 'stall,' for the game. The operator takes the three cards between his fingers, showing them to the victim, and then shuffles them about and drops them face down upon the table, offering to bet any amount of money that no one can pick out the red ace. At this point the operator turns his head a moment to split or to speak to some one in the crowd behind him, and in that moment the confederate picks up the red ace card, shows it to the victim, "crimps" the corner of the card and slyly lays it down again, apparently all unseen by the operator. The operator again shuffles the three cards and throws them upon the table face down. There lies the card with its crimped corner. The victim supposes, of course, that it is the red ace and bets and picks it up to find that it is a black one, and he has lost his money. The operator, when he picked up and shuffled the cards carelessly the second time, with a deft movement of his fingers removed the crimp in the red ace card and put a similar crimp in a black ace card. That was all there was to the trick. Houck worked it for years in hotels, on billiard tables, at fairs and circuses and on railroad trains and steamboats. He taught the trick to Canada Bill, a noted gambler, and the two worked together over all the country. They paid thousands upon thousands of dollars to railroad men in the old days for the privilege of working the game on trains, and they made money. Later, when nearly every state in the Union passed laws aimed directly against the working of the three card monte game, it became unprofitable and was given up by Houck. But about that time an ingenious English cockney invented the "three shell" game, which was even more productive than three card monte, and Houck took it up. The three shell game is a modern improvement on the ancient thimberligging game that was worked at English fairs for many years. The old way was for the operator to crook his knee over the head of a cane that stood upright on the ground and move a small seed around between three thimbles on top of his leg, offering to bet that no one could pick the thimble under which the seed was hidden. The lesson taught by the lives and deaths of Houck and Canada Bill and all the rest of their kind is that it never pays to be dishonest or to live by one's wit. These men may get great sums of money by sharp practices in the course of a lifetime, but they all die poor, and most of them die in prison. Canada Bill, who worked with Houck on trains out of Kansas City and made probably $1,000,000 in his life, died a pauper in the almshouse in Lebanon, Pa., and is buried in a pauper's grave. Houck dropped dead on the street in Durango, Mexico, and his widow in Ohio had to solicit aid to get his body home to give it decent burial—Kansas City Star. A Haddu Mother With Henry M. Stanley, plorer, it was "love my daughter." Mrs. Tennant persistently to consent to her daughter's "Dolly is all that I have left am not shall not, part with her." entreaties she finally yielded said "I want your daughter for my Stanley said," give her to me you at the same time become mother, father, brother, and "She is yours," replied mammal so am I." That, in brief, is of Stanley's wooping, and Mrs. is his as irreparably and indisher daughter is, and Mr. Stanley to be a model husband and a son. It was through his novel, "T Hunters," that Capt. Mayne Rebride. He was 30 years old met a damsel of thirteen, wife at once fell in love. The child no notice of him, but he gave story to read, as effective as courting in this nineteen tury as ever was Othello earlier one. Two years later young lady was at a public where Capt. Reid spoke half of the Polish refugees. "Tric thrill seemed to pass thus as he entered the room," she said ward, and when the meeting she went up to speak to him. For London on the next train," burriedly." "Please send address." "I do not know where," she with some embarrassment. He handed out his card and wrote a formal little note following Capt. Reid, as you asked me you my address, I do so." By post came the answer: "Only you love me and I will be with once," and then the reply: "do love you." Being told that Miss —'s seased the property of double ranch Sir George Airy, the astronomer claimed: "Dear me, that is very should like to see that. Do I might venture to call?" A reassured on this point, he told of grace and called. In their conversation he asked perme examine the young lady's which she consented. The capeated in the interests of science problem grew so enthralling length resolved to make it a law and finally plucked up enough to propose. He was accepted strange wooing laid the fourth many years of happy marriage New York Sun. Remarkable Cure for Rheumatism KENNA, Jackson Co., About three years ago my an attack of rheumatism which her to her bed for over a month rendered her unable to walk without assistance, her limb A Freak of the Lightning. A curious case of lightning destruction took place at Gatchina, an imperial summer residence not far from St. Petersburg, where stood a stone column 50 feet high, held together by iron angles. When rain fell, more or less water penetrated the stones in the interior of the monument. One day it was struck by lightning, and instantly the whole column disappeared from view, killing a lone sentry on guard. The only explanation is that the heat of the lightning instantly generated steam on coming in contact with some of the water, and the terrific explosion followed. A Thrifty Scot. A good story is told by an English tourist who stalled for a week in apartments in Aberdeen, the "Granite City." "I had heard," he says, "of the canny folk of Aberdeen, and my experience, short though it was, proved that rumor had rightly estimated the character of the people. The streets are granite, the houses are granite, and the inhabitants are granite, and when they have a granite baby they give it a ball of granite for fear it should break any other toy. "I had a granite landlady, and one day when I was going fishing her son volunteered to accompany me. I provided the lunch, the rods and the lines; he provided the worms—dug them up in a neighbor's garden with a borrowed spade. I caught 10 trout; he ate the lunch and broke my best rod. When we got home, I made a present of 14 of the fish to my granite landlady and asked her to cook the other two for my tea. She did and charged me threepence for the dripping in which they were fried!"—London Answers. A Happy Mother Prolicking with her baby makes one of the prettiest spectacles ever seen in the home. But nothing is sadder to see than the unhappy mother, weak and nervous, striving in vain to hush the cries of her weak and nervous babe. There can be no happiness for either mother or child without health. Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription "has done wonders" for many a woman, by restoring her health and opening for her the way to happy motherhood. This really wonderful medicine is not a cure-all. It is a preparation specially designed to cure diseases peculiar to women. It dries debilitating drains, heals inflammation and ulceration, cures female weakness, and removes the causes which generally make women nervous and sleepless. 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Grace Greeley and Mary Young were married the first day they met. They had corresponded for some time, a common friend, who was some of a matchmaker, having brought about. She was all his fancy dated her, but she was much disappointed in his appearance, so much so when he appeared before her, havproposed and been accepted by let-she frankly told him that, although married him, she was not in love with him. Their married life was long happy, and the loss of his wife was how which Greeley did not long live. The second time that Bismarck met Saleh Johanna Puttkammer he loved her in the presence of a number of guests. The immediate effect of this behavior was the prompt announcement of the betrothal, which was soonowed by the marriage. Fraulein Puttkammer was a bridesmaid for a and the first time Bismarck saw her. These two young people, as Rosalind, "no sooner met than they looked, sooner looked than they loved." The first marriage of Jefferson Davis was a romantic character. Falling separately in love with Sallie Taylor, daughter of Col. Zachary Taylor, who did not approve of the attachment, the young people took matters in their own hands and eloped. Sixteen years passed before "Old Zach" would speak to his pre-in-law, and then it was because he had regiment had covered themselves with glory at the battle of Buena Vista. The first time Mary Todd met Abraham Lincoln she said to her sister, that man will be President one of these days. He will make a husband to proud of." About that time Lincoln's chances of becoming President seemed as remote as possible, and Mary's sister laughed the idea to scorn few months afterward Mary Todd was married to "Ugly Abe," and in fourteen years the prediction was ful- Curative Effects of Eucalyptol. The medical value of the preparations from the eucalyptus are coming to be more and more recognized. These are all antiseptic and possess tonic and curative values of especial value for all parts of the mucous membrane from the throat and stomach to the bladder. One great advantage the preparations from the eucalyptus possess over those made from the pine is the absence of irritation to the kidney by eucalyptol. In fact, eucalyptol has a soothing and curative effect on the kidney while the pine preparations in prolonged use are dangerous irritants. The use of eucalyptol for antiseptic purposes is being increasingly appreciated. Listerine and many other standard preparations indicate the antiseptic value of eucalyptol. There is a use of eucalyptus that is only commencing to be known. This is the inhalation of the vapor of eucalyptol (the active principle of the oil of eucalyptus). Five drops of eucalyptus oil vaporized in a hot bath will soothe the mucous membrane and the nerves. It is this effect as a nerve sedative when vaporized that is new. In a sick room five drops of oil vaporized in water over an alcohol lamp twice a day disinfects the air, adds ozone conditions and soothes the patient. Insomnia and nervousness are wonderfully affected by this method of vaporizing in the bedroom at night. The leaves of the bluegum contain enough oil to produce these beneficial effects when boiled in water, but require longer exposure to the heat to vaporize the eucalyptol than the extracted oil does. The best eucalyptus oil is now produced from the leaves of bluegum trees in Southern California. The next best comes from Algiers. The trouble with the Australian product is that it is derived from the native woods. These forests are of mixed species of eucalyptus, some of which contain no eucalyptol in the oil of their leaves, and others contain only an allied but different principle (Phellandrine). Thus the Australian preparations are unreliable. The general sanitary value of the common blue gum is marked. It drains and neutralizes cesspools, diminishes or destroys malaria, disinfects the ground under them and ozonizes the air passing through the leaves. The great number of eucalyptus in Southern California are of great value in neutralizing the unsanitary conditions often the sequence of concentrated population—Los Angeles Saturday Post. HEAT FROM THE SUN. HOW LITTLE OF IT WE GET IS ALMOST BEYOND BELIEF. Scarcely One Sunbeam In Two Thousand Millions Alights Upon This Earth—a Pen Picture.of the Actual Condition of the Fiery Orb. The sun is for the most part simply wasting his heat—flinging away the golden rays that are the life of the world with a recklessness beside which all human waste is mere parsimony. It is almost beyond belief. Scarcely one sunbeam in 2,000,000 alights upon the earth, and allowing for the whole solar system not more than one in 100,000,000 ever hits anything, so far as we can ascertain. Sir Robert Ball's comment on this waste of the sun's heat is: Suppose a man with an income of $1,000,000 a year. He spends for useful purposes 1 cent and throws the rest away. His wastefulness is no greater than that which this old prodigal the sun has practiced for untold ages. The untold amount of heat which thus leaks away through the cracks in the sky cannot be expressed by figures. It is only by considering what it might do that we can get any conception of it. This is probably the most striking illustration, and is given by an eminent astronomer: Suppose a solid shaft of ice two miles square to be extended like a bridge across the gulf which separates the earth from the sun. If a track were laid on its surface an express train running at full speed would require more than 150 years to traverse it. Yet if the whole heat of the sun were turned upon it for a single second it would be melted, and in a few seconds more all, even to the railroad iron, would drift away as vapor. But what is the source of this heat that flows into space as the gulf stream pours into the Atlantic, warming the earth and other planets like little islands in its course? What keeps up the supply? If the sun were merely a white hot ball, gradually cooling, our grandchildren would indeed get a chill; or, rather, neither they nor we would ever have seen the sun. The final frost would have fallen long ago. Nor can the heat be maintained by fire, as we understand the word—such fire as warms and now then consumes our houses. If it were a comotive before the grade These are called helper edes kept in roundhouse areas of the mountain with steam. One night I got word Creek a town in the west The first time Mary Todd met Abraham Lincoln she said to her sister, that man will be President one of these days. He will make a husband to proud of.” About that time Lincoln’s chances of becoming President seemed as remote as possible, and Mary’s sister laughed the idea to scorn. few months afterward Mary Todd was married to “Ugly Abe,” and in thirteen years the prediction was fulfilled. As a child the future Mrs. Lincoln had prophesied that she would become the wife of a President of the United States. With Henry M. Stanley, the explorer, it was “love my daughter, love me.” Mrs. Tennant persistently refused consent to her daughter marrying. Dolly is all that he left and I can’t, shall not, part with her.” But to treaties she finally yielded she said: “want your daughter for my wife.” Stanley said, “give her to me and do you at the same time become my mother, father, brother, and sister.” She is yours,” replied mamma, and I am I.” That, in brief, is the story Stanley’s wooing, and Mrs. Tennant is irreparably and indissolubly as her daughter is, and Mr. Stanley is said to be a model husband and a tractable son. It was through his novel, “The Scalp Counters,” that Capt. Mayne Reid won a prize. He was 30 years old when he got a damselfish of their nineteenth century, with whom he once fell in love. The child took no notice of him, but he gave her the story to read, as effective a manner of courting in this nineteenth century as ever was Ottehello in an earlier one. Two years later the young lady was at a public meeting where Capt. Reid spoke on behalf of the Polish refugees. “An electric thrill seemed to pass through me as he entered the room,” she said afterward, and when the meeting was over he went up to speak to him. “I leave for London on the next train,” he said, curriedly. “Please send me your address.” “I do not know where,” she replied with some embarrassment. He instantly handed out his card and was gone. A formal little note followed: “Dear Capt. Reid, as you asked me to send you my address, I do so.” By return of post came the answer: “Only say that you love me and I will be with you at once,” and then the reply, “I think I love you.” Being told that Miss —’s eyes possessed the property of double refraction, Sir George Airy, the astronomer, explained: “Dear me, that is very odd; I should like to see that. Do you think might venture to call?” As he was reassured on this point, he took heart of grace and called. In the course of conversation he asked permission to examine the young lady’s eyes, to which she consented. The call was repeated in the interests of science. The problem grew so enthralling that he at length resolved to make it a life study, and finally plucked up enough courage to propose. He was accepted, and this strange wooing laid the foundation of many years of happy marriage life. New York Sun. Remarkable Cure for Rheumatism. KENNA, Jackson Co., W.Va. About three years ago my wife had an attack of rheumatism which confined her to her bed for over a month, and rendered her unable to walk a step without assistance, her limbs being are of mixed species of eucalyptus, some of which contain no eucalyptol in the oil of their leaves, and others contain only an allied but different principle (Phellandrine). Thus the Australian preparations are unreliable. The general sanitary value of the common blue gum is marked. 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A few weeks ago we suffered with a severe cold and a troublesome cough, and having read their advertisements in our own and other papers we purchased a bottle to see if it would affect us. It cured us before the bottle was more than half used. It is the best medicine out for colds and coughs—The Herald, Andersonville, Ind. For sale by P.A.Derge. Artichokes. While artichokes are not very rich in food value, as calculated by analysis, I know of nothing that is better relished by cattle and hogs. Horses will learn to eat them. I have a hog that is given only a small grain ration and one gallon of artichokes twice a day. The hog will leave his corn for the artichokes, and from the way he is growing I am led to believe that there is more nourishment in the artichoke than is generally supposed. I hardly feed him enough corn to keep him alive of itself, and the corn and the artichokes are all the food that he gets, as he is kept in a small lot. He is making a rapid growth on this ration. The artichoke for best results requires a rich, loose soil. If the soil is rather sandy, it is so much better. In a properly prepared soil artichokes will yield from 800 to 1000 bushels per acre. They should be planted either late in the fall or early in the spring. If planted in the fall or winter they are likely to get an earlier start in the spring than if planted in the spring. They should be planted in rows 3 feet apart and from 15 to 18 inches apart in the row. Drop a single eye in a hill. They will need only enough cultivation to keep the weeds down until the plants get a start. After the artichokes get 2 to 3 feet high, weeds will not have much show, as the artichokes will keep so much ahead of them that they will do no damage. The artichokes will take complete possession of the ground, covering the surface with so thick an air even to the tarmac will enter drift away as vapor. But what is the source of this heat that flows into space as the gulf stream pours into the Atlantic, warming the earth and other planets like little islands in its course? What keeps up the supply? If the sun were merely a white hot ball, gradually cooling, our grandchildren would indeed get a chill; or rather, neither they nor we would ever have seen the sun. The final frost would have fallen long ago. Nor can the heat be maintained by fire, as we understand the word—such fire as warms and now and then consumes our houses. If it were a globe of flaming coal it could have lasted but a few thousand years; it would have been burned to ashes long before we were born. All the coal on the earth would hardly keep the sun going for one-tenth of a second. A falling meteor gives out great heat just as a bullet is heated when it strikes the target. Some have conjectured that a vast stream of these little hallstones raining upon the sun supplies its fuel. But if the whole mass of the moon were put into a stone crusher, broken up and thrown again—the sun, it would barely furnish heat for a single year. And no such weight could possibly approach the sun without our knowledge. Yet, in its own chosen way, the sun really has its fires. With proper instruments we may see the red flames spouting from its edge sometimes to a height of 400,000 miles—higher than the moon floats above the earth. To some of them our world would be no more than a water drop falling from a fountain. To gain any idea of the almost inexhaustible reservoir from which the sun draws its heat we must first picture its actual condition. Matter there is in a state unlike anything ever seen upon earth. It is neither solid nor liquid in any familiar sense gasous. The sun is a boiling, seething, flaming mixture of the gases or vapors of all the elements condensed by the tremendous squeeze of solar gravity until it is thicker than pitch, and so hot vaporized iron might be used for steam power if there were any boiler fit to hold it. It has no definite surface, but shades away from this incandescent paste, through leaping flames of blood red hydrogen to the faint streamers of the corona, as filmy as a comet’s tail. This writhing mass, heavier on the average than water and yet as unstable as air does not even rotate like other orbs, but swirls around its axis. In the terrific tension of these gases is stored up the energy of the sun. As escapes in gushes of heat they do not cool but slowly contract. It is quite possible that they even grow hotter as they thus settle downward and compress themselves into a denser fluid. A total shrinkage of 220 feet a year will account for the whole expenditure, and so small a change in size of the disk could not be detected until it had been watched for thousands of years. This will go on until the substance of the sun ceases to be essentially gaseous. Then will come the beginning of the end, for from that time forth the actual temperature of the sun will decline. This, however, will be in some far distant day, for careful scientists as unaware will enter drift away as vapor. But what is the source of this heat that flows into space as the gulf stream pours into the Atlantic, warming the earth and other planets like little islands in its course? What keeps up the supply? If the sun were merely a white hot ball, gradually cooling, our grandchildren would indeed get a chill; or rather, neither they nor we would ever have seen the sun. The final frost would have fallen long ago. Nor can the heat be maintained by fire, as we understand the word—such fire as warms and now and then consumes our houses. If it were a globe of flaming coal it could have lasted but a few thousand years; it would have been burned to ashes long before we were born. All the coal on the earth would hardly keep the sun going for one-tenth of a second. A falling meteor gives out great heat just as a bullet is heated when it strikes the target. Some have conjectured that a vast stream of these little hallstones raining upon the sun supplies its fuel. But if the whole mass of the moon were put into a stone crusher, broken up and thrown again—the sun floats above the earth. To some of them our world would be no more than a water drop falling from a fountain. To gain any idea of the almost inexhaustible reservoir from which the sun draws its heat we must first picture its actual condition. Matter there is in a state unlike anything ever seen upon earth. It is neither solid nor liquid in any familiar sense gasous. The sun is a boiling, seething, flaming mixture of the gases or vapors of allthe elements condensed by the tremendous squeeze of solar gravity until it is thicker than pitch, and so hot vaporized iron might be used for steam power if there were any boiler fit to hold it. It has no definite surface, but shades away from this incandescent paste through leaping flames of blood red hydrogen to the faint streamers of the corona, as filmy as a comet’s tail. This writhing mass, heavier on the average than water and yet as unstable as air does not even rotate like other orbs, but swirls around its axis. In the terrific tension of these gases is stored up the energy of the sun. As escapes in gushes of heat they do not cool but slowly contract. It is quite possible that they even grow hotter as they thus settle downward and compress themselves into a denser fluid. A total shrinkage of 220 feet a year will account for the whole expenditure, and so small a change in size of the disk could not be detected until it had been watched for thousands of years. This will go on until the substance of the sun ceases to be essentially gaseous. Then will come the beginning of the end, for from that time forth the actual temperature of the sun will decline. This, however, will be in some far distant day, for careful scientists as unaware will enter drift away as vapor. But what is the source of this heat that flows into space as the gulf stream pours into the Atlantic, warmingthe earth and other planets like little islands in its course? What keeps up the supply? If the sun were merely a white hot ball, gradually cooling, our grandchildren would indeed get a chill; or rather, neither they nor we would ever have seen the sun. The final frost would have fallen long ago. Nor can the heat be maintained by fire, as we understand the word—such fire as warms and now and then consumes our houses. If it were a globe of flaming coal it could have lasted but a few thousand years; it would have been burned to ashes long before those flying worked up a pressure pounds tothe square inchin faster than it could safety valve,and before chine reached Clear Creek let go."—Memphis Scrimmie A Happy Thought The spontaneous and late Isaac H.Bromwell Remarkable Cure for Rheumatism. KENNA, Jackson Co., W. Va. About three years ago my wife had an attack of rheumatism which confined her to her bed for over a month, and rendered her unable to walk a step without assistance, her limbs being swollen to double their normal size. Mr. S. Maddox insisted on my using Chamberlain's Pain Balm. I purchased a 50 cent bottle and used it according to the directions, and the next morning she walked to breakfast without assistance in any manner, and she has not had a similar attack since.—A. B. PARSONS. For sale by P. A. Derge. Wit and Wisdom of Josh Billings. Health is a loan at call. A fib is a lie painted in water colors. Ignorance is the wet-nurse of prejudice. Did you ever hear a very rich man sing? We have made justice a luxury of civilization. Wit without sense is like a razor without a handle. Old age increases us in wisdom—and in rheumatism. Time is money, and many people pay their debts with it. It is easier to be a harmless dove than a decent serpent. Benevolence is the cream on the milk of human kindness. Face all things; even adversity is poite to a man's face. Beware of the man with half-shut eyes. He's not dreaming. People of good sense are those whose opinions agree with ours. It is little trouble to a graven image to be patient, even in fly time. Half the discomfort of life is the result of getting tired ourselves. Humor must fall out of a man's mouth like music out of a bobolink. Necessity is the mother of invention, but patent right is the father. Most men are like eggs: too full of themselves to hold anything else. "A single fact is worth a shipload of argument." Every cure by Hood's Sarsaparilla is a fact, proving its merit, and the thousands and thousands of cures recorded certainly should convince you that Hood's will cure you. Indigestion, nausea are cured by Hood's Pills. Eureka Harness Oil is the best preservative of new leather and the best renovator of old leather. It oils, softens, blackens and protects. Use Catarrh is Ely's Cream Balm Easy and pleasant to use. Contains no injurious drug. It is quickly absorbed. Gives relief at once. It Organs and Cleanses the Nasal Passages. Allays Inflammation. Heals and Protects the Membrane. Restores the Senses of Taste and Smell. Large Size, 50 cents at Drugstores or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents by mail. A Happy Thought The spontaneous and joyful experience of driving a car has been recalled by many drivers. It was an enjoyable ride that brought them closer to safety. A Happy Thought The spontaneous and joyful experience of driving a car has been recalled by many drivers. It was an enjoyable ride that brought them closer to safety. A Happy Thought The spontaneous and joyful experience of driving a car has been recalled by many drivers. It was an enjoyable ride that brought them closer to safety. A Happy Thought The spontaneous and joyful experience of driving a car has been recalled by many drivers. It was an enjoyable ride that brought them closer to safety. A Happy Thought The spontaneous and joyful experience of driving a car has been recalled by many drivers. It was an enjoyable ride that brought them closer to safety. 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It was an enjoyable ride that brings closer to safety. A happy thoughed "Of course you would ley." "If you had Bayle, out." Getting Out of A "What a beautiful lounging." "Yes. That's a birthday my husband. He always present costs him as I am years old." "That's nice of him one to growing old." "He have a lounge at home not nearly as fine, and for it." "Is that all? This—the nearly as much as the Tribune." A Moderate M "How much is this soo?" "Take two for 15 cents." "Two? Do you think the wholesale?" "Fllegen." No trait of character is to a woman than the pear sweet temper. Home happy without it. It is basked in the kind you have A CASTO For Infants and The Kind You Have A Bears the Signature of Cat A QUEER EXPLOSION. HOW A MOUNTAIN LOCOMOTIVE CAME TO AN UNTIMELY END. There Was Neither Fire In Her Furnace Nor Water In Her Boiler, and Yet She Managed to Blow Up In the Most Approved Style. Mr. Henry Alquist, a prominent railroad man, relates the story of a curious wreck, the facts in which he will touch for. "It is such a remarkable thing," said Mr. Alquist to a reporter, "that I fear many will be inclined to brand it as pipe." I have been railroading now for over 20 years, and never in all my varied experience have I seen such a unique and complete wreck as the one I speak of—that of engine 1,129 of the Río Grande Western. Railroad men will tell you that locomotives seldom explode nowadays, but 1,129 did and in a very peculiar way. "At the time this wreck occurred I was holding down the job of train dispatcher at Soldier Summit, Utah, and a tough old job it was. Never been there, I suppose? Well, Soldier Summit is a station on the top of one of the Wasatch divides, a bleak and lonely place, where the Rio Grande Western has a roundhouse and coal chute located. At the summit are long snowsheds covering the tracks. These sheds protect the line from the winter. And it is only due to this method that a train ever gets over the mountain. "On both sides of the mountain the line winds down in a succession of winding curves to lessen the grade. Running off from the railway are switches, which, diverging from the grade, run up into the hills and gradually come to a dead level. These switchbacks, as they are called, are so constructed that they can be thrown from any point on the grade. And if a train breaks in two while ascending the steep grade the runaway cars can be switched on to one of these spurs, where the breakaway finally stops after it has run up the spur as far as the momentum attained in its descent will take it. "All heavy trains have an extra locomotive before the grade is tackled. These are called helper engines and are kept in roundhouses at each side of the mountain with steam up." One night I got word from Clear Creek a town in the western valley. 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THE GENTAUR COMPANY, 77 MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK CITY. The Illusion. “What beautiful peaches!” said an old lady as she stopped at a stall in the market and admired a basket of the choice fruit. They were covered with a plink gauze and looked very tempting indeed. The old lady bought the peaches and took them home. The next day she ap- In Use For Over 30 Years. The Illusion. "What beautiful peaches!" said an old lady as she stopped at a stall in the market and admired a basket of the choice fruit. They were covered with a pink gauze and looked very tempting indeed. The old lady bought the peaches and took them home. The next day she appeared again at the stall and showed the stall keeper a small piece of pink velling. "Do you keep that kind of velling for sale?" she asked. The stall keeper told her that he did not. Well, she said, "when I took those peaches home they were small and sour and green, and I thought if I could get some of that velling that made them look so pretty and plump in the basket I'd wear it myself. If it would improve me as much as it did the peaches, people would think I'd found the elixir of youth."—London Fun. Some Queer Tastes. He put his fingers in the open ironwork of the hotel lamppost to steady his weak knees, wiped the rain from his face with a shaking hand and fixed an uncertain eye on the windows of the dining room. He was very drunk. His face was pale and hairy. The thin rain had soaked his rags. Inside the dining room well groomed men and showy women sat in a glory of tinted lights, in a room beautiful with table flowers, shining with silver and cut glass, warm with crimson walls, damask curtains, plush carpets. They lifted delicate food to solemn faces. They smiled formally. The dripping observer kept his watery eye on them. "Well," he said, in a voice of generous pity, "shose they're enjoy'mselves—in their way."—New York Commercial Advertiser. A Severe Summary. "It's wonderful," said the man with the solemn air of erudition, "what a difference a slight matter will make in the world's estimate of a man." "It isn't so in literature," was the answer. "A man must have merit there." Not necessarily. If he gets his spelling wrong—that's plain ignorance. But if he gets his facts and logic all twisted—that's originality."—Washington Star. Nailed Down. One of the severest punishments a refractory soldier can experience is to be "nailed down" in a tent. It is said that a Turkish bath is a frigid affair as compared with a perfectly close tent under a hot sun, and after an hour or two of that sort of sweating the most rebellious soldier will readily promise to be good. Valuable Hair. In Bokhara, where the finest and most costly camel's hair shawls are made, the camels are watched while the fine hair on the under part of their bodies is growing. It is so carefully Southern Pacific Company. San Francisco and Los Angeles Limited—"THE OWL." Between Los Angeles and San Francisco daily. Leave Los Angeles 8 pm., arrive San Francisco 10:45 am. Leave San Francisco 5 pm., 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 Pinitse gas and heated by steam. Every train is made up as follows: One composite car containing bath-room, barber-shop, dry 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, section sleepers as may be necessary, with toilet annexes, one dining-car, meals served a la carte. 1899—SUNSET EXCURSIONS—1899 Through Tourist Sleepers from Los Angeles; To Washington, D. C., via New Orleans, 2 p.m.; Tuesday, Thursdays, and Saturdays. To Chicago, Ill., via El Paso 2 p.m. 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 15:40 pm. SHANTA ROUTE EXCURSIONS. To Portland, St. Paul and Minneapolis, Mondays, 10:20 pm. First and second-class tickets for sale at Anaheim at Los Angeles prices, and baggage checked through to any point in the United States, Canada or Mexico. Our local train service is unexcelled for comfort. Day coaches are equipped with the celebrated Scarritt seats, luxuriously upholstered, and passengers for Los Angeles are lended right in the center of the business; part of the city—at First street or commercial street—with a block of the large wholesale house; within a building or Mojave for the famous gold mining camp of Randburg is superb; good hotel at Mojave and elegant stage coaches through to the city of gold. Fare from Anahiem to Randburg,$756. Family commutation tickets for sale between Anahiem and Los Angeles and other local points at greatly reduced rates. Limit six months. For further information, call at the Southern Pacific depot at Anahiem. T.A. DARLING, Agent. G.W.LUCE, Asst. Gen Pass. Agt., Los Angeles, 301 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 8:00 p.m.; for San Diego March 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 36, 30 April 3, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 27 May 1, and every fourth day thereafter. Leave Port Los Angeles at 5:45 a.m. and Redondo at 10:45 a.m. for San Diego March 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 April 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29 May 3, and every fourth day thereafter. Cars connect via Redondo; leave Santa Fe depot at 9:30 a.m., or from Redondo Ry.dept at 9:30 a.m. Cars connect via Port Los Angeles; leave S.P.R.R. depot at 1:35 p.m. for steamers north bound. The steamers COOS BAY and BONITA leave San Pedro for San Francisco; via East San Pedro, Ventura, Carpenteria Barbara, Goleta Gavita Harford,Cayucos,San Simeon Monterey and Santa Cruz p.m., March 3,7，11，15，19，23，27 March 4，18，22，24，28 May 2,and every fourth day thereafter. Cars connect with steamers via San Pedro leave S.P.R.R.(Arcade depot) at 5:00 p.m. and Terminal Ry.dept at 5:00 p.m. Sunday 1:45 p.m. For further information obtain folder. The company reserves the right to change steamer sailings and hours of sailing without notice. A Happy Thought. The spontaneous and happy wit of the late Isaac H. Bromley, for many years a writer of New York Tribune leaders, is recalled by the example below: One day in The Tribune office the veteran journalist Charles T. Congdon was talking of the delightful reading he had found in Bayle's Dictionary and remarked that if he were ever in jail he would be quite contented with that book. "Of course you would," said Bromley. "If you had Bayle, you could get out." Getting Out of a Corner. "What a beautiful lounge!" "Yes. That's a birthday present from my husband. He always gives me a present that costs him as many dollars as I am years old." "That's nice of him. It reconciles one to growing old. By the way, I have a lounge at home like that, but not nearly as fine, and we paid $38 for it." "Is that all? This—this didn't cost nearly as much as that."—Chicago Tribune. A Moderate Man. "How much is this soap a cake?" "Take two for 15 cents." "Two? Do you think I buy soap by the wholesale?"—Fllegende Blatter. No trait of character is more valuable to a woman than the possession of a sweet temper. Home can never be happy without it. It is like the flowers that spring up in our pathway, reviving and cheering us. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Nailed Down. One of the severest punishments a refractory soldier can experience is to be "nailed down" in a tent. It is said that a Turkish bath is a frigid affair as compared with a perfectly close tent under a hot sun, and after an hour or two of that sort of sweating the most rebellious soldier will readily promise to be good. Valuable Hair. In Bokharn, where the finest and most costly camel's hair shawls are made, the camels are watched while the fine hair on the under part of their bodies is growing. It is so carefully cut that not a hair is lost, and it is stored until enough has been accumulated to spin. The yarn made from the hair is of surpassing softness and is dyed all sorts of lovely colors. Men as Created. The glittering generalities of Thomas Jefferson that all men are created equal and that the right of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness is inallenable, have been the texts for many injurious instructions. They are rhetorical flourishes, meaningless to the gentleman on the scaffold and in Sing, who pursued the fleeting phantom of happiness with the Jimmy of the burglar and the dagger of the assassin. Men are not created equal physically, morally or intellectually, nor in aptitude, opportunity nor condition. It is perhaps accurate to say of the 1,500,000,000 inhabitants of the earth no two are created equal. Nature is incapable of uniformity and detests equality as much as she abhors a vacuum. One is made to honor another to dishonor, as one star differeth from another star in glory.—John J. Ings! In times of scarcity the South African natives sometimes rob the ants' nests, and as much as five bushels of grain have been taken from a single nest. A. FREISE, KEEPS THE FINEST OF... Wines, Liquors And Cigars. LOS ANGELES BEER ON DRAUGHT. Koll Block, Los Angeles Street. Cars connect via Redondo, leave Santa Fe depot at 9:55 a.m., or from Redondo Ry. depot at 9:30 a.m. Cars connect via Port Los Angeles, leave S. P. R. depot at 1:35 p.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, Goleta, Gaviota, Port Harford, Cayucos, San Simeon, Monterey and Santa Cruz at 6 p.m., March 3, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, 27, 31, April 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 May 2, and every fourth day thereafter. Cars connect with steamers via San Pedro, leave S. P. R. R. (Arcade depot) at 5:08 p.m. and Terminal Ry. depot at 5:20 p.m. Sunday 1:45 p.m. For further information obtain folder. The company reserves the right to change steamers, sailing dates and hours of sailing without previous notice. W. PARRIS, Agt., 124 W. Second St., Los Angeles. Goodall, Perkins & Co., Gen. Agts., S. F. J.M.Griffith Company A CORPORATION LUMBER DEALERS Near Railroad Depot, Anaheim, keep constantly on hand Doors, Blinds, Windows Mouldings, Posts, Shakes, shingles, Lath, Hair Plaster of Paris. Anaheim Grist Mills operating on Wednesdays and Saturdays of each week. Grain feed, meal, etc., of all varieties. Corn shelled and shipped. BURLINGTON ROUTE SAN FRANCISCO Through to Boston. The Burlington Excursions now run from San Francisco to St. Louis via Kansas City, and from Los Angeles to Boston via Denver, Omaha and Chicago. Finest scenery and the cleanest and brightest tourist sleepers in America. Attentive porters and experienced excursion managers look after you night and day from coast to coast. No bother about tickets or baggage. No worry about connections. Comfort and economy every foot of the way. From Los Angeles every Wednesday; San Francisco every Thursday; Write for folders giving full information. W.D. SANBORN, General Agent, 32 Montgomery St., San Francisco.