anaheim-gazette 1900-05-24

CALIFORNIA STATE Anaheim VOLUME XXX. HERBERT JOHNSTON, M.D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office and Residence: Corner of Broadway and Los Angeles St.. Telephone 656... 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. 3:20 p.m. to 5 p.m. 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., evenings. DR. IDA MENGES BOYD. DENTIST Metz building, Anaheim. feb24 DR. F. H. HOUCK DENTIST. OFFICE NEXT DOOR to P. O. (Federman Block, up stairs.) HOURS 9 to 5 ANAHEIM CAL. jy15tf S. G. WILSON, M.D. Office and Residence: Over H. A. Dickel's Store. CENTER ST., Anaheim. Paul A. Derge. Graduate in Pharmacy. DRUGS, MEDICINES, Perfumes and Toilet Articles. BEST 5-CENT CIGAR IN TOWN MEDICAL HALL, KOLL BLOCK. PUBLIC TELEPHONE OFFICE. Dr. A. W. Bickford REMEMBER that quality is the standard of cheapness; that there is a broad distinction between "pianos cheap" and "cheap pianos." If you desire a reliable make at a moderate price, do not fail to look at our large and handsome stock of fine pianos. Our company is one of the few large music houses of Southern California that buy and ship their pianos in carload lots direct from the Eastern factories. Owing to our low rents we are enabled to undersell our Los Angeles competitors from $25 TO $50 ON EVERY PIANO. Sold on easy payments. Old instruments taken in exchange. Patronize a home concern that is here to make good its representations, and you take no risk. PYNE MUSIC CO., Cor. 5th and Main Sts., Santa Ana, Cal. Heart, Rheumatism, Kidney, Bladder and Diseases of a Specific Nature CURED by the use of this Balsam. Simple in its application and certain of beneficial results DOSE: One teaspoonful after each meal. This medicine is not for sale in the general market, and can only be had by addressing ALEX DE BORRA, ELSINORE, CAL. Paul A. Derge. Graduate in Pharmacy. DRUGS, MEDICINES, Perfumes and Toilet Articles. BEST 5-CENT CIGAR IN TOWN MEDICAL HALL, KOLL BLOCK. PUBLIC TELEPHONE OFFICE. Dr. A. W. Bickford OFFICE OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE. Telephone Central. Residence near Christian Church. Telephone 671. ANAHEIM, CAL. G. S. EDDY, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. OFFICE—First door East of Boston Bakery. Residence—The Wilte residence on Center St., opposite Catholic Church. CALLS ANSWERED AT ALL HOURS. ANAHEIM, CAL. RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW And Notary Public. Special attention given to Probate Matters. —Center Street, Anaheim. CHARLES BAUER Blacksmithing and Wagon-Making Hart block, Center street, Anaheim. A share of the public patronage is solicited, and all work guaranteed. HORSESHOEING a SPECIALTY L. GUNTHER. PIONEER BOOT AND SHOE MAKER. Corner Adele and Los Angeles Sts. MEAT MARKET JOHN KELLENBERGER, Prop. Having purchased the butcher business formerly conducted by Velt Bents, I desire to say to my friends and the public generally that I have entirely overhauled and renamed the premises, and will in future carry on the business as a first-class market. The best of meats will be kept constantly on hand, as well as Hams, Bacon, Lard, Sausages, etc. A share of the public patronage is respectfully solicited. JOHN KELLENBERGER. LITTLE GEM BARBER SHOP Frank Dyer, Prop. First-Class Tonsorial Artists. Cor. 5th and Main Sts., Santa Ana, Cal. Heart, Rheumatism, Kidney, Bladder and Diseases of a Specific Nature CURED by the use of this Balsam. Simple in its application and certain of beneficial results DOSE: One teaspoonful after each meal. This medicine is not for sale in the general market, and can only be had by addressing ALEX DE BORRA, ELSINORE, CAL. CONSULTATION, by letter or in person, FREE. Anaheim Bakery, PETER SYRE, PROPRIETOR. FRESH BREAD CAKÉS & PIES CONFECTIONERY, ETC. Wedding Cakes a Specialty. Los Angeles and Cypress Sts. ONLY FIRST-CLASS RESTAURANT! —IN TOWN— In Connection with Boston Bakery. S. KISTLER, PROPRIETOR. JOSEPH BACKS, Undertaker and Embalmer DEALER IN Furniture and Bedding Repairing Done. je15 Get your Shoes repaired Rubber heels put on while you wait... 50 Men's shoes soiled and heeled... 75 Men's shoes soiled and heeled; hand sewed $1.00 Ladies' shoes soiled and heeled... 50 FINE CUSTOM WORK A SPECIALTY. Herman Schindler, Next to Spoer'l's. Send your LACE CURTAINS to THE Santa Ana Steam Laundry Every facility for doing the best work. E. W. McCollum, Agent, Anaheim Roman Wisser The Weekly Gazette Established 1870 SUBSCRIPTION, - $1 50 Per Year. Six months... $1 Three months... Payable invariably in advance. Transient advertising rates, $1 per inch per month. The GAZETTE is issued every Thursday morning. Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as second-class matter. RAILWAY TIME TABLE. Time of Arrival and Departure Trains. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD. Trains on the Southern Pacific pass Anhelm as follows: To Los Angeles. From Los Angeles Daily... 7:52 am Daily... 9:49 am Daily... 4:23 pm Daily... 6:08 pm Pass Loarra Station: To Los Angeles. From Los Angeles Daily... 7:56 am Daily... 9:45 am Daily... 4:27 pm Daily... 5:59 pm LOS ALAMITOS TRANKS: Leave for... 9:49 a.m. Sugar Factory Arrive from 6:08 p.m. Alamitos trains do not run on Sundays. NEWPORT BEACH RAILWAY. Daily Schedule. Leave Anaheim. Arrive Anaheim 9:49 a.m. 7:52 a.m. 6:08 p.m. 4:23 p.m. All trains connect at Santa Ana with No port trains. SANTA PE ROUTE: Local time table. In effect November 7 trains on the Santa Pe route leave Anhelm as follows for points named: Los Angeles-7:56 am, *10:02 am, 11:19 am; Pasadena, San Bernardino and interdiate points (via Los Angeles)-7:58 am, *1 am, 11:19 am. San Bernardino and Riverside (via ange)-9:41 am, *10:47 am, 5:50 pm. San Diego-9:41 am, 2:50 pm. Santa Ana-9:41 am, 2:50 pm, 5:50 pm. Redlands-9:41 am, *10:47 am. San Jacinto, Temecula and intermed points-*10:47 am. Escondido-*2:50 pm. Overland to Chicago, Denver, Kansas and all points East-7:55 am, *9:41 am, *10:47 Chicago Limited-4:54 pm Sunday, Tuesday and Saturday only. Trains marked with a * are daily ex LITTLE GEM BARBER SHOP Frank Dyer, Prop. First-Class Tonsorial Artists. Shop 1 door east of McCollum's cyclery. We keep constantly on hand the best of hair Restorer, Dandruff Cures, and other articles found in a well-appointed barber shops. A share of the public patronage solicited GO TO THE Oak Barber Shop FOR A FIRST-CLASS SHAVE OR HAIR CUT. TWO DOORS WEST OF BANK. HUSMANN BROS. A. FREISE, KEEPS THE FINEST OF... Wines, Liquors And Cigars. LOS ANGELES BEER ON DRAUGHT. Koll Block, Los Angeles Street. F. BACKS, UNDERTAKER And Dealer in FURNITURE. Wall Paper, Cornices, Window Shades, Picture Frames, Upholstery Goods, Paints, Oils and Glass Sewing Machine Supplies, Etc. Cor. Los Angeles & Chartres Sts. Send your LACE CURTAINS to THE Santa Ana Steam Laundry Every facility for doing the best work. E. W. McCollum, Agent, Anaheim Roman Wisser Favorite Saloon. Finest of Wines, Liquors & Cigars Pool & Billiard Tables Schindler's Building, Center St., A. sahelm LOS ANGELES BEER ON DRAUGHT. FRITZ RUHMANN'S Germania Halle. BACKS' NEW BUILDING LOS ANGELES STREET Keeps on hand a Large and complete stock of liquors, wines and cigars. Cold beer always on draught NEWS AND OPINIONS OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE THE SUN ALONE CONTAINS BOTH Daily, by mail, $6 a year Daily and Sunday by mail, $8 a year THE Sunday Sun is the greatest Sunday Newspaper in the world. Price 5c a copy. By mail, $2 a year. Address THE SUN, New York. PALACE MEAT MARKET F. W. Fleischman PROPRIETOR. Best Meats the Market Affords on Hand. Also keeps on hand Sausage, Bacon, Ham, Lard, etc. Meats delivered to all parts of city free of charge. Shop on East Center St. N. HART'S PLACE SCHLITZ MILWAUKEE BEER ON DRAUGHT DEALER IN... FINE LIQUORS AND... Choice Winery FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES, Fine Domestle and Imported Cigars. Headquarters for the famous Schlittenaukee beer. GRAY BROTHERS & WINERY Shillinger Patent. Contracts for RESERVOIRS, IRRIGITATIONS, Cellar and Stable Floors, Slice ETC. FFICKES—No. 125 N. Broadway, Los Angeles Telephone—236. No. 816 Montgomery St., San Francisco. ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1900. SCHOOL SAVINGS BANKS. Paper by Mrs. Keba B. Smith of the Buena Park public school. In looking over the condition of affairs in our country today we are impressed with the need of national economy and thrift. It is not laws but morals that make a prosperous people. Good laws are helpful and necessary, but sound principles are basic and absolutely essential to prosperity. The currency and tariff dissatisfactions which stir the masses are not the initial cause of our distress in money matters. Whether we have a gold or silver standard, whether one political party or another dominates, we must recognize that the underlying difficulty is in the waste and haste of the people. Until we learn how to avoid the extravagance which is incident in a great degree to our efforts to reach success and wealth by the shortest rather than by the safest road, we can have no settled prosperity. It has been said that waste is indigenous to a new country. This is very largely true. Pioneers are, as a rule, reckless rather than frugal; they live from day to day, counting on inexhaustible resources. Houses are built simply for present shelter; land is stirred up to production with no thought of its continued capacity; forests are hewn down or burned with inconsiderate haste, and the general tendency is to ignore provident thought of the future. These conditions prevail more largely in gold-producing countries than elsewhere, California being a very present and most apparent example to us. However, our nation as a whole is largely imbued with this spirit of "come easy, go easy." To gain independence, to quell rebellion, to be self-important among nations, has been the idea so prevalent in the public mind that we have neglected the thoughtful economy practiced in older countries. But with our advancement in time to time, object lessons showing practically how easy it is to save small amounts of money that might otherwise be wasted or extravagantly spent and use it later for nobler purposes, we are building a greater manhood and womanhood. The knowledge given children through the school savings banks of the value of small accumulations has already been reflected in many hitherto improvident homes, and we trust that in a few years the teaching and its resultant benefits will be much more universal. The system does not create, as some feared it would, a spirit of parsimony or penuriousness. But it does teach the children and the parents, and the teachers as well, that waste is not generosity, but that frugality and economy, not only of money but of time as well, are most important factors of citizenship. The system finds its best friends and warmest advocates in the places where it is in operation. The principle underlying the system is universally acknowledged to be the basic principle of economics, and built upon such a foundation it cannot fail to operate successfully and to receive the commendation of thinking men. The President of Girard college, Philadelphia, introduced the school savings bank system into Girard college in 1892, and after seven years' trial he speaks as follows: "Educators have noticed that thousands of young people are graduated yearly from our institutions of learning, with minds well stored with knowledge, a large portion of whom make an absolute failure in their life work because they have not been well grounded in habits of thrift. As a practical remedy for this, the school savings banks have been established. Our boys, by having this opportunity and encouragement to deposit their money, are less liable to acquire spendthrift habit. The system tends to prevent them from time to time, object lessons showing practically how easy it is to save small amounts of money that might otherwise be wasted or extravagantly spent and use it later for nobler purposes, we are building a greater manhood and womanhood. The knowledge given children through the school savings banks of the value of small accumulations has already been reflected in many hitherto improvident homes, and we trust that in a few years the teaching and its resultant benefits will be much more universal. The system does not create, as some feared it would, a spirit of parsimony or penuriousness. But it does teach the children and the parents, and the teachers as well, that waste is not generosity, but that frugality and economy, not only of money but of time as well, are most important factors of citizenship. The system finds its best friends and warmest advocates in the places where it is in operation. The principle underlying the system is universally acknowledged to be the basic principle of economics, and built upon such a foundation it cannot fail to operate successfully and to receive the commendation of thinking men." WASHINGTON NAVEL ORANGER Points Relative to Its Development. From the Report of the State Board of Horticulture. The Washington navel, the greatest seedless orange of California, is the popular variety, and its plantings exceed any other. Keeping in view the natural law, that a type must possess many qualities to develop and protect a seed germ and bud integrity to perpetuate itself, and that these qualities must be the result of the staminal inflicted by the pollen to the perfect seed, and that a pervading staminal strength must be diffused in the entire tree structure for bud growth and development, we see in this orange from Bahia how far it is possible to change from the purpose of nature. We see a small group of negative qualities wrestled from a natural type. The displacement of its parts culminating in the markings at the apex of the fruit and from which it has acquired popular name, is constant. As an constant habit it is not uncommon. The varieties have occasional developments of the navel mark. It is often observed in the common seedling, it is very common in the ruby blood. Has been popularly believed, when seen in other varieties, to be the result of cross-pollination from the Washington or some variety of navel. The light of recent investigations test is deemed impossible. Experiments on coming season will undoubtedly made to substantiate this view. I inclined to think that this was amply the first changes in the bitter orange to destroy the staminal supremacy that fruit. Whenever a fruit caries this mark it produces less seed and gives greater relative sweetness to acidity. The original plants were received at Washington from Brazil, Brazil, and a number sent by government to Florida and California. ests are hewn down or burned with inconsiderate haste, and the general tendency is to ignore provident thought of the future. These conditions prevail more largely in gold-producing countries than elsewhere, California being a very present and most apparent example to us. However, our nation as a whole is largely imbued with this spirit of "come easy, go easy." To gain independence, to quell rebellion, to be self-important among nations, has been the idea so prevalent in the public mind that we have neglected the thoughtful economy practiced in older countries. But with our advanging civilization and rapidly increasing population comes thoughtful and prudent consideration of economic meaures that will insure our perpetuity. Knowledge along the lines of practical thrift, industry and systematic frugality disseminated among the masses would do much to readjust conditions and bring about a more harmonious relation between capital and labor. The man who has been trained since early childhood in honest, practical methods of self-provision and thrift holds an insurance in his own right against pauperism. And this is the training which the system of school savings banks offers to every child. It would teach him the value of industry; it would guide him in the saving of little amounts of money; it would give him the pleasure of individual ownership, and it would train him in the wise distribution of his means. France has this thrift-teaching through the school savings bank system in all her public schools, and the nation acknowledges its rich benefits. Other European countries have thus taught economy to children for years. Its ready acceptance and successful operation in about 400 public schools and several private institutions in the United States encourage its promoters to broaden their efforts of introduction. The State Superintendents of Public Instruction in several States where the school savings bank system has been inaugurated extend their co-operation by presenting the matter to their teachers. Our Commissioner of Public Education, Dr. W. T. Harris of Washington, D.C., has been aiding the work for six years by printing the records of the scholars' savings in his official reports. His last statistics give us 325 public schools in which 31,000 pupils have deposited to their credit $402,020.90. Both the number of schools and the amount deposited has been largely increased since these statistics were printed. The system was inaugurated in Pasadena last October, and the children have already on deposit over $1500. Think of over $400,000 saved in penies, nickels and dimes by the public schoolchildren! And many pennies thus stored up would have been spent to the child's moral and physical detriment. Candy, gum and cigarettes are in less frequent demand where the school savings bank system is in operation. In several cities where the system has been instituted the little shops near the schoolhouses that formerly had a brisk trade in cigarettes, gum and candy complain the savings sys "Educators have noticed that thousands of young people are graduated yearly from our institutions of learning, with minds well stored with knowledge, a large portion of whom make an absolute failure in their life work because they have not been well grounded in habits of thrift. As a practical remedy for this, the school savings banks have been established. Our boys, by having this opportunity and encouragement to deposit their money, are less liable to acquire spendthrift habits. The system tends to prevent pauperism, crime, prodigality and various vices and to make children thrifty, orderly, economical and discriminating in the use of money. It has its influence upon all phases of economy, and propagates virtue. Our savings fund continues to grow in favor." These are grand words of commendation and from a man of national reputation. I had thought to give you some of the plan in detail of the workings of the system—how the accounts are kept between teacher and pupils, and between teacher and banker; the conditions upon which the money is drawn out; the interest which accrues to the child, and various other minor matters. But details are not interesting until one is really interested to know them. I sincerely hope you may become deeply interested in this matter, so much so that you will endeavor to put the plan into operation in the public schools of Orange county; and that the whole people of this county may, through their children's interest, have a desire to take care of little sums of money and become more thoughtful in expenditures, more generally thrifty and happy in their daily life, being rich in honest savings and blest with ability to be truly generous. For, after all, the greatest, broadest charity is that which helps others to help themselves. Senator Bard. Thomas R. Bard, the new United States Senator from California, who has been in his seat at Washington for two months, was in Chicago recently to meet Mrs. Bard. He said: "The Republicans will carry the States of California and Oregon and Washington this fall. The people of the coast believe in expansion and in holding the Philippines. We have great expectations for the future in direction. Silver is dead. "I don't think people favor the pro-Boer plank in the Republican platform. It is none of our affair. Japanese are coming in across the Canadian border, and while sentiment has not crystallized against them as in the case of the Chinese, yet the same objection holds good against the menace of their cheap labor as against Chinese labor. We can do with some of them, but we don't want too many. "The oil industry in California promises well. Oil has been discovered in twenty counties. It is found principally in Los Angeles, Kern and Ventura. The crude oil is used for fuel, while 25 per cent of the residuum is asphalt. The Standard Oil company owns none of these oil lands, but takes all" The orange growers of Florida served the unfruitfulness of the early in its history. This seem show itself in the young trees as in the older orchards. The age of pollen was noticed, and its usefulness attributed to this development of the navel bloomless fessor Webber, of the United Sub-Laboratory, was led to believe that the navel in California produces abundance of well developed which was the cause of fruiting state. Professor Cook observed time since, the absence of pollen navel bloom in California. The covery established the normal quality of the navel, in both areas of Florida and California staminate, or male, impulse is strong and fails to produce developed grains, or, if it occasionally applies a lingering impulse belonging to oldental floral leaf. The impulse exists to produce a weakened bud development. As this moment is arrested in the stamens only feebly present in the buds... Does the Baby Thrive If not, something must be wrong with its food. If the mother's milk doesn't nourish it, she needs SCOTT'S EMULSION. It supplies the elements of fat required for the baby. If baby is not nourished by its artificial food, then it requires Scott's Emulsion Half a teaspoonful three or four times a day in its bottle will have the desired effect. It seems to have a magical effect upon babies and children. A fifty-cent bottle will prove the truth of our statements. Should be taken in summer as well as winter. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York. He Fooled the Surgeons. All doctors told Renick Hamilton, of West Jefferson, O., after suffering 18 months from rectal fistula, he would die unless a costly operation was performed; but he cured himself with five boxes of Bucklen's Arnica Salve, the surest pile cure on earth, and the best salve in the world. 25 cents a box. Sold by Derge. Obituary. John C. Schulz died at his late residence on Fairview avenue on Thursday, May 17, at 11 p.m., after a short illness, he having been in bed only since the preceding Mouday. Death was due to a stroke of paralysis. Deceased was a native of Germany, and was in his sixty-ninth year. He had resided here a number of years, and leaves a wife and five children to mourn his loss. The interment occurred on Saturday afternoon, at 1:30. An Acquired Interest. "Were you interested at the piano recital?" asked the musician. "Well," answered Mr. Cumrox, "it was a little slow at first. But after I caught the spirit of it and got to guessing with the others whether it was time to applaud or only a rest, it got to be quite a game." George J. Mosbaugh, cashier of the Commercial Bank of Santa Ana, and Mrs. Emma P. Thelan, daughter of Noah Palmer, president of the same institution, were married in Santa Ana on Wednesday of last week. Gazette. Washington navel orange. Relative to its Development. From the Report of the State Board of Horticulture. Washington navel, the great orange of California, is the variety, and its plantings ex- other. Keeping in view the law, that a type must possess qualities to develop and protect germ and bud integrity to per- itself, and that these qualities the result of the staminal im- parted by the pollen to the per-eed, and that a pervading stami- length must be diffused in the tree structure for bud growth development, we see in this orange thia how far it is possible to from the purpose of nature. A small group of negative quali- tified from a natural type. The element of its parts culminating markings at the apex of the fruit, from which it has acquired its name, is constant. As an in- habit it is not uncommon. All varieties have occasional develop- of the navel mark. It is often used in the common seedling, and common in the ruby blood. It often popularly believed, when other varieties, to be the result of pollination from the Washing- some other variety of navel. In part of recent investigations this seemed impossible. Experiments during season will undoubtedly be substantiate this view. I am ad to think that this was among the changes in the bitter orange, froy the staminal supremacy of fruit. Whenever a fruit carries mark it produces less seed and car- water relative sweetness to its. The original plants were rea- at Washington from Bahia, and a number sent by the ment to Florida and California. The different results line of investigation, says: "Cross-pollination only tends to the production of seeds, and cannot in any way increase the production of fruit." Professor Webber says to the same effect: "That we should not take means to secure the cross-pollination of our navel trees, hoping thereby to secure a larger crop of fruit. The effect of the cross-pollination apparently being the production of seedy fruit, but not necessarily more fruit." From these experiments and observations we may conclude that in the two great areas of Florida and Cali- foria the navel will fruit without pollination, and that fecundation will not increase fruitfulness in either area, but simply cause the development of the embryo into rudimentary or perfect seeds. Professor Webber, in a series of experiments in artificial pollination of the navel, proved by them that some of the pistils of the naval could transmit the impulse of the foreign pollen to the ovules of both the Washington and the Parson navel, and that the embryo developed into full and perfect seeds, carrying a marked individuality, so apparent that from photographs of these seeds their form and appearance indicated the variety of pollen experi- mented with. We can infer from this how few are the qualities and how small the group is that remains of this variety to represent a type. This shows the navel to be very sensitive to climate and treatment. The climate of Florida destroys its profitable bearing in that State. Its fruittage, as a profitable orange in Arizona, from information received from that Territory, is an experiment which indicated that it will not be profitable to cultivate it there. Its area of fruittage is therefore confined to California, as the only area in the United States where the conditions exist for its development, and in many locations and areas in this State where planted conditions will be found as unsuitable to its best growth. Its fruittfulness and habits are too sensitive to climatic changes and treatment to sustain the universal confidence reposed in it as a variety to plant in all conditions and soils. The orchardist should be enlisted to move sexual varieties to FIGHTING FOR WATER. Colorado and Kansas Irrigation Interests Clash—Flow of the Arkansas River the Bone of Contention. After years of threatening, the Supreme Court of the United States is to be asked to decide the case of Kansas against Colorado in the matter of the diversions of the Arkansas river in the latter State. This river in Kansas flows through some thirteen counties, forming a valley of 2,500,000 acres, almost as rich as the valley of the Nile. The claim made is that Colorado has diverted so much of the water of the river as to seriously damage Kansas farmers. Commenting upon this litigation between the two States, F. H. Newell, having charge of the irrigation surveyings of the Geological Survey, made some interesting remarks: "That trouble would sooner or later ensue," Mr. Newell said, "between these two States over water rights has been for a long time evident to people familiar with the conditions affecting them. A number of years ago the Geological Survey undertook some important surveys of Colorado with a view to determine the perennial water supply of its rivers and its capacity for water storage. The rivers heading in Colorado furnish a vast water supply, and the sites available for reservoiring the flood waters of these streams are very numerous. Our work enabled us to locate and survey a large number of such sites, but there are hundreds of others, although right in the midst of the work of making these surveys we were cut off through lack of appropriation. "Very expensive litigation is likely to result from this attempt of Kansas to compel Colorado to stop using water, and I think when they get through with it, they will be just about where they are today. I cannot but think that if this expense could be devoted to the continuation of the work..." For pollination from the Washington garden of other variety of navel. In recent investigations this seemed impossible. Experiments during season will undoubtedly be substantiate this view. I am led to think that this was among the changes in the bitter orange, destroying the staminal supremacy of fruit. Whenever a fruit carries mark it produces less seed and caries relative sweetness to its flesh. The original plants were reared at Washington from Bahia, and a number sent by the department to Florida and California cultivation. The different results alleviation and environment in the areas show marked tendencies in development and fruitfulness. Questions arise: Were those of uniform excellence? Did the plants possess the same indulgent qualities that the California possessed? Did the trees resemble Riverside each possess equalcence as a budding stock, and does now in Washington possess the identical qualities of those in California Florida? Satisfactory answers to questions have an important bearing on solving the causes of the different appropriations of the variety as grown in two areas. If there were inherent qualities of variation in the distribution to the two areas, the influence in the habits of tree growth fruftfulness would be in part attributed for. If plants of known variety of strain were exchanged by the sections, Florida and California, testing of well developed buds, on the sour and sweet stocks, and used in average climatic conditions in two areas, should show a tendency to change their habits of growth fruftfulness, then climatic conditions would be considered a cause for these effects and the question type inheritance be answered. As from the tree at Washington disrupted to the two sections and treated those exchanged by the two produc areas, would further simplify the situation of inherent qualities. The orange growers of Florida obeyed the unfruitfulness of the navel, lay in its history. This seemed to new itself in the young trees as well as in the older orchards. The absence pollen was noticed, and its unfruitfulness was attributed to this unsexed development of the navel bloom. Professor Webber, of the United States University-Laboratory, was led to believe that navel in California produced an abundance of well developed pollen, which was the cause of fruiting in this state. Professor Cook observed some since, the absence of pollen in the navel bloom in California. This discovery established the normal unsexual quality of the navel, in both the great basal flora of Florida and California. Theuminate, or male, impulse is aborted and fails to produce developed pollen strains, or, if it occasionally appears, is lingering impulse belonging to an innerval floral leaf. The impulse still exists to produce a weakened staminal development. As this development is arrested in the stamens and is fully feebly present in the bud, just suffice to pollination from the Washington garden of other variety of navel. In recent investigations this seemed impossible. Experiments during season will undoubtedly be substantiate this view. I am led to think that this was among the changes in the bitter orange, destroying the staminal supremacy of fruit. Whenever a fruit carries mark it produces less seed and caries relative sweetness to its flesh. The original plants were reared at Washington from Bahia, and a number sent by the department to Florida and California cultivation. The different results alleviation and environment in the areas show marked tendencies in development and fruitfulness. Questions arise: Were those of uniform excellence? Did the plants possess the same indulgent qualities that the California possessed? Did the trees resemble Riverside each possess equalcence as a budding stock, and does now in Washington possess the identical qualities of those in California Florida? Satisfactory answers to questions have an important bearer-solving the causes of the different appropriations of the variety as grown in two areas. If there were inherent qualities of variation in the distribution to the two areas, the influence in the habits of tree growth fruftfulness would be in part attributed for. If plants of known variety of strain were exchanged by the sections, Florida and California, testing of well developed buds, on the sour and sweet stocks, and used in average climatic conditions in two areas, should show a tendency to change their habits of growth fruftfulness, then climatic conditions would be considered a cause for these effects and the question type inheritance be answered. As from the tree at Washington disrupted to the two sections and treated those exchanged by the two produc areas, would further simplify the situation of inherent qualities. The orange growers of Florida obeyed the unfruitfulness of the navel, lay in its history. This seemed to new itself in the young trees as well as in the older orchards. The absence pollen was noticed, and its unfruitfulness was attributed to this unsexed development of the navel bloom. Professor Webber, of the United States University-Laboratory, was led to believe that navel in California produced an abundance of well developed pollen, which was the cause of fruiting in this state. Professor Cook observed some since, the absence of pollen in the navel bloom in California. This discovery established the normal unsexual quality of the navel, in both the great basal flora of Florida and California. Theuminate, or male, impulse is aborted and fails to produce developed pollen strains, or, if it occasionally appears, is lingering impulse belonging to an innerval floral leaf. The impulse still exists to produce a weakened staminal development. As this development is arrested in the stamens and is fully feebly present in the bud, just suffice to pollination from the Washington garden of other variety of navel. In recent investigations this seemed impossible. Experiments during season will undoubtedly be substantiate this view. I am led to think that this was among the changes in the bitter orange, destroying the staminal supremacy of fruit. Whenever a fruit carries mark it produces less seed and caries relative sweetness to its flesh. The original plants were reared at Washington from Bahia, and a number sent by the department to Florida and California cultivation. The different results alleviation and environment in the areas show marked tendencies in development and fruitfulness. Questions arise: Were those of uniform excellence? Did the plants possess the same indulgent qualities that the California possessed? Did the trees resemble Riverside each possess equalcence as a budding stock, and does now in Washington possess the identical qualities of those in California Florida? Satisfactory answers to questions have an important bearer-solving the causes of the different appropriations of the variety as grown in two areas. If there were inherent qualities of variation in the distribution to the two areas, the influence in the habits of tree growth fruftfulness would be in part attributed for. If plants of known variety of strain were exchanged by the sections, Florida and California, testing of well developed buds, on the sour and sweet stocks, and used in average climatic conditions in two areas, should show a tendency to change their habits of growth fruftfulness, then climatic conditions would be considered a cause for these effects and the question type inheritance be answered. As from the tree at Washington disrupted to the two sections and treated those exchanged by the two produc areas, would further simplify the situation of inherent qualities. The orange growers of Florida obeyed the unfruitfulness of the navel, lay in its history. This seemed to new itself in the young trees as well as in the older orchards. The absence pollen was noticed, and its unfruitfulness was attributed to this unsexed development of the navel bloom. Professor Webber, of the United States University-Laboratory, was led to believe that navel in California produced an abundance of well developed pollen, which was the cause of fruiting in this state. Professor Cook observed some since, the absence of pollen in the navel bloom in California. This discovery established the normal unsexual quality of the navel, in both the great basal flora of Florida and California. Theuminate, or male, impulse is aborted and fails to produce developed pollen strains, or, if it occasionally appears, is lingering impulse belonging to an innerval floral leaf. The impulse still exists to produce a weakened staminal development. As this development is arrested in the stamens and is fully feebly present in the bud, just suffice to pollination from the Washington garden of other variety of navel. In recent investigations this seemed impossible. Experiments during season will undoubtedly be confined to California, as only area in the United States where the conditions exist for its development, and in many locations and areas in this State where planted conditions will be found as unsuitable to its best growth. Its fruitfulness and habits are too sensitive to climatic changes and treatment to sustain universal confidence reposed in it as a variety to plant in all conditions and soils. The orchardist should be enlisted to plant more sexualized varieties to guard against his future interests. These experiments and observations are valuable, showing— 1.) That the Washington navel is without staminal development of pollen. 2.) That it fruits without aid of foreign pollen. 3.) That pollination would not increase its fruitfulness. 4.) That pistillate, or female quality, exists in the capacity to produce seeds, but is modified and fails to impress its growth and transmit it its own characteristics. 5.) That readiness of the pistil to respond to artificial pollination, and its absence from seeds where an abundance free foreign pollen has been distributed, show a weakness in the pistil to exudethe adherent solvents to attachthe pollen germ and excite germination, or a weakness of nectaries to furnish sweets to attractthe natural insect aids. 6.) That capacity ofthe navel to produce pollen is an inherent weakness ofthe staminal impulse inthe tree and is not dependent upon climatic conditions. This removesthe navel fromthe varieties that can be modified by germinal changesinthe embryoyo seed,and classifiesit with those varieties which will show modificationsby adaptationin theirbud developmentonly. That if same inherent bud qualities were possessed bythe parent treesofFloridaandCaliforniaunfruitfulnessofthenavelvarietymaybe expectedtoappearintheorchardsofCalifornia. The great questions of profitable and successful orange cultureinCaliforniaarethe adaptabilityofeachvarietytoanareathatwillproduceasfaraspossible,aperfectfruit,andtheselectionofsuchgroupsofqualitiesthatwillmeetamarketdemand duringtheseason. That one principal variety,theWashington navel,canfulfilltheconditionsisimpossible.Severalwell-chosen varietieswillmeetthemarketdemand. Ifa relatively sweet orangefortheearly marketis desired,theshouldchooseoneinwhichtheprocessesoffruitgrowthhastenetheperiodof ripening,sinceintheWashingtonnavelandHomoosassa—onethegreatseedorangeofCalifornia,andtheotheramodifiedstaminaltype.The cautionshouldbegivenastoachievethenaturecannotinanysensebessatisfactory.Iapparatestometoverylargelytheoldquestionofpeoplewhoshouldbegoodneighborsfiguringoveradividing fenceandwastingtimeandmoneyenoughtobuildagoodbultightfence,intsteadofgettingtogetherinthebeginningandco-operating.Inifrigationinterestsinquestionwouldcometogetherandbendtheefforts towardsgettingthegovernmenttocompleteits半finishedworkofreservoirsurveysinthatsection,thematterwouldbeinsuchconditionastoenablethepartiesininteresttoproceedintelligentlyonadefinitebusiness basis." The irrigation appropriationof$250,-000whichisaskededfortheuseoftheGeologicalSurveywouldenablethatbureauto vigorouslyprosecuteitsneedfulworkofgettingatthefactscouncerningthewaterpossibilitiesofthearidregion,andmakingsurveystoshowdefinitelywherewatercanbstored.inwhatquantities,andhowmuchtherewillbetostore.TheeseallsubjectsofvitalinteresttoaridAmerica,andwhichCongressowesittotheWesttoprovideforliberally. GUY E.MITCHELL When it was known that the navel was not self-pollinated, it was affirmed that it was fruitful from the action of pollen from other varieties planted in close proximity. The proof of this was asked by Professor Webber, and the question was submitted to Mr. E. W. Holmes and Mr. J. H. Reed of Riverdale, where large areas were planted far from pollen varieties. These able observers, aided by other horticulturists, have failed to detect any difference in the fruitfulness of the navel when grown far from other varieties and outside the area of mixed pollination. Mr. B. M. Lelong, along the same modified staminal type. This caution should be given as to the navel and all seedless varieties. There is a subtle and delicate citrus quality that must be associated in all qualities of an orange. It can only be described by saying that it appeals to the intellectual conceptions, as that natural goodness and excellence inherent in the choice products of nature. This can be eliminated from the orange and render the fruit insipid and value-less. We must be careful in the selection of stock and bud that we draw toward this noble fruit and gift of nature, the happy union of staminate and blended qualities that awards this halo of ambrosial excellence. If we select the late varieties—the St. Michael and the Tardive—we will have in the first a strong late orange, and in the last a seedless orange, both of good qualities. Could we add a seedling, a medium early, sweet, with few seeds, and a fine citrus quality, we will have oranges that will supplement the navel with comparative excellence and meet all market demands. With the varieties modified and adapted to the best climatic areas to produce the best fruit, and perpetuated in bud and seed by scientific direction to respond to normal productiveness, growth and longevity, a foundation will be laid to rear a great and glorious State. There seems to be quite prevalent a Continued on Fourth page. Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. It cures painful, smarting, nervous feet and ingrowing nails, and instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen's Foot-Ease makes tight or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain cure for sweating, callous and hot, tired, aching feet. Try it today. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores. By mail for 25c. in stamps. Trial package free. Address: Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y. The irrigation appropriation of $250,-000 which is asked for the use of the Geological Survey would enable that bureau to vigorously prosecute its needful work of getting at the facts concerning the water possibilities of the arid region, and making surveys to show definitely where water can be stored, in what quantities, and how much there will be to store. These are all subjects of vital interest to arid America, and which Congress owes it to the West to provide for liberally. Guy E. Mitchell. Fruit Trees. Through the courtesy of Frank Wiggins, secretary of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, the California Fruit Grower is enabled to give the number of fruit trees, bearing and non-bearing, in the seven counties comprising Southern California. The figures are taken from the assessors' books for the year 1899, and are as follows: Bearing. NonApricot... 624,722 417,798 Cherry... 1,812 8,250 Fig... 28,820 18,796 Olive... 239,517 341,116 Peach... 499,732 431,982 Pear... 79,621 46,793 Prune.French... 141,545 92,331 Prune(other kinds)... 282,261 230,134 Lemon... 494,640 634,970 Orange... 2,072,427 1,227,879 Almond... 62,114 60,119 Walnut... 221,223 32,374 Apple... 119,165 92,734 Plum... 310 2,710 Pomelo... 2,790 18,170 The total acreage of orange trees planted in seven southern counties during the present season is estimated at 600. One firm up to March 20 had disposed of 100,000 trees.