anaheim-gazette 1900-07-19

CRUDE WAYS OF IRRIGATING. Chinese are Fortunate in the Possession of Vast Rivers, but Their Modes of Irrigation are Antique. [CONTRIBUTED TO THE GAZETTE] Although the vast mobs which infest Pekin and the larger cities of China, worked up to a state of frenzy and fanaticism, have rendered impossible any satisfactory action by the available forces of the Powers, the great Chinese population proper is agricultural and naturally extremely peaceful and peace-loving. Agriculture, however, is most primitive and the wonder is how such an immense population can be supported from the soil, until the great economy practiced in all things is understood. On the Great Plain of China, every available foot of land is utilized for growing something and every particle of fertility returned to the soil. Waters are used for irrigation and in many cases laboriously distributed over the fields. The Great Plain itself is one of the most wonderful sections of the globe. It is about 700 miles in length and varies from 200 to 400 miles in width, occupying the northeastern part of the empire, and containing over 200,000 square miles of wonderfully fertile soil. The most interesting feature of this plain is its enormous population, as it supports, according to the census of 1892, not less than 177 million human beings, making it the most densely settled of any part of the world of the same size, its inhabitants amounting to nearly two-thirds of the entire population of Europe. The most wonderful feature in the physical geography of China is the existence of a vast region of loess in this portion of the empire. Loess is a very solid but friable earth, brownish yellow in color and is found in many places from 500 to 1000 feet deep. The loess hills rise in terraces from 20 to several hundred feet in height. Every atom of loess is perforated by small tubes after the manner of root fibers, only the direction of these little channels is always from above downward so that cleavage in the loess mass is invariably vertical. The loess region of China is perhaps the most broken country in the world, with its sheer cliffs, and upright walls, terraces and deep cut ravines. Owing to the ease with which it can be worked, caves made at Free Rural Mail Delivery. Continued from First page. end of the box is devoted to collections, and for this compartment the rural postman alone has the key. The other end is for delivery purposes, and the patron has the key to that compartment. Should any one on a rural delivery-route find himself without the necessary stamps to prepay the postage, all he has to do is to drop the money in his box with the letter, and the carrier is authorized to affix the requisite stamps. At designated points along the route—at crossroads, schoolhouses, much-frequented country stores, or at points near which village post offices (supereded by rural free delivery) have been discontinued—United States mail collection boxes, such as are used in cities, are placed for the deposit of mail only, and collections from these boxes are made by carriers on their rounds, the letters being delivered for cancellation to the postoffice from which the rural delivery starts. Each rural postman carries with him for sale a supply of stamps, stamped envelopes and postal cards. He is authorized to receipt for money orders, and to receive and deliver registered letters, proper forms of receipt being provided. He is practically a traveling postoffice, and is under bond to the government for the faithful performance of his duties. The methods of installation of the service have been simplified and systematized as the service has increased. When experimental rural free delivery was started on October 1, 1896, the Postoffice Department arbitrarily selected the localities where it should be applied, and in some instances imposed it upon communities which did not need it and did not desire it. It is now made a prerequisite that those who wish the service shall petition for it, presenting the petitions through their Representatives in Congress, and with their favorable endorsement. Each rural route, before it is ordered established, is carefully investigated by a special agent of rural free delivery. He drives over the ground, prepares a map on which he carefully notes the number of residences which can be served (which must never be less than 100 to old service of village postoffices fed by star routes, the cost of the rural delivery was charged against the appropriation for that purpose, administered by the First Assistant Postmaster General, and the saving of expense through the discontinuance of other services went to the credit of other funds, administered by the Fourth and Second Assistant Postmaster Generals so spectively. It was felt that the only way to treat the question was to take one entire county, cover it with rural free delivery, discontinuing all other services and then count the cost. This has been done in Carroll county, Maryland. The 20th of December last, in the middle of winter, when the roads were their worst, 63 minor postoffices and star routes and star-route messenger services were discontinued at one swoop in Carroll county, by a special order of Postmaster General Smith and rural free delivery was substituted. The second-class postoffice of Westmaster was made the distributing point for the county. Four two-horse postwagons, equipped as postoffices, stand over routes which radiated north, south east and west, and were intercepted and fed at designated points by 39 carriers; some driving in bugles, so performing their shorter journeys foot. Thus the whole county was covered and free delivery was brought with easy reach of nearly every domicile. The cost of the new service for this months was $4543. The cost of the device it superseded, for a correspond period, was $2805. The increase postreceipts directly resulting from the increased accommodation was $501.75, thus leaving the net cost of improved service for the quarter year $236, or less than $1000 a year for ing practically a house-to-house delivery, instead of compelling every farm to be his own postman and send for mails. The Carroll county experiment served its purpose and served it well. It not be necessary, it may not even desirable, to repeat that experiment so expansive a scale elsewhere. Every-day, practical purposes, thepler method of establishing rural livery by piecemeal, selecting routes as seem to be best adapted it, and leaving each carrier to provide his own conveyance, may be found It may not be generally known that the Chinese were the discoverers of coal as a fuel. The Venetian traveler Marco Polo says: "It is a fact that all over the country of Cathay (China) there is a kind of black stone existing in the beds of the mountains which they dig out and burn like firewood. This stone burns better and costs less." The rivers of China are her glory, and there are few countries in the world so well watered and none with such splendid natural water transportation facilities. The three great rivers of the empire are the Yang tse Kiang (child of the ocean), the Hoang Ho (yellow river) and the Chu Kiang (pearl river or Canton river). Of these the Yang tse is much the largest, flowing through extensive and fertile plains and finally emptying into the Eastern sea, after traversing a distance of over 2,000 miles. Its discharge is estimated at one million cubic feet per second. The banks of the Yang tse are crowded with towns and villages, the most famous of which are Nankin and the new treaty port of Hankow. The Hoang Ho or Yellow river is noted especially for its frequent and violent floods. Its current is very rapid and its course sinuous, nearly approaching in length the Yang tse. The Pearl or Canton river, while not nearly so large as the others, is a stream of great importance, and innumerable vessels trade upon its waters. At some points it spreads into large lakes; in others it passes between narrow gorges which if dammed would afford large storage capacity for irrigation. The Chinese, however, have not practically worked out irrigation in its different phases as completely as would be expected of such an agricultural people. Irrigation, nevertheless, is practiced to a considerable extent through the use of the waters of the Grand Canal and by wells. The Grand or Imperial Canal is a work of great magnitude. It collected the localities where it should be applied, and in some instances imposed it upon communities which did not need it and did not desire it. It is now made a prerequisite that those who wish the service shall petition for it, presenting the petitions through their Representatives in Congress, and with their favorable indorsement. Each rural route, before it is ordered established, is carefully investigated by a special agent of rural free delivery. He drives over the ground, prepares a map on which he carefully notes the number of residences which can be served (which must never be less than 100 to each carrier), and distinctly outlines the route the carrier is to follow. A copy of this map is left with the postmaster, so that there shall be no excuse for applications, after service has been ordered, for trivial changes in the direction of the route to accommodate particular persons. In the selection of carriers the agents are instructed to give favorable consideration to the recommendations of the congressional representatives of the States or districts in which the service is sought, without regard to political affiliations. This being essentially a service for the people, it is thought proper to confide its local execution to men who have the confidence of those whom the people have chosen to represent them in Congress, as far as this can be done with proper regard to efficient postal administration. The rate of compensation paid to rural carriers does not necessitate their taking a preliminary civil service examination. They are appointed to serve during good behavior. Their pay, originally fixed at $300 per annum, was raised last year to $400, and was increased to $500 on July 1, 1900, when the new appropriation went into effect. In the early days of the experiment rural carriers were authorized to perform a number of outside services for their patrons in order thereby to increase their small pay. With the increased responsibilities thrown upon the carriers by the adaptation of the registration system to the rural service, and the consequent increase of direct pay allowed, the tendency is to curtail rather than enlarge these extraneous services, and to bring carriers in the rural service, as far as practicable, under the regulations which prevail in city free deliveries. Some difficulty has been found in equalizing the rate of compensation according to the varying conditions which prevail in different States, because of the uncertain elements of horse hire and forage, which cost little in some parts of the country and are a source of heavy expense in others. This is one of many matters of detail which will adjust themselves as the service grows. Great changes and improvements have been made in the last two years in the outfit of the carriers and in the routes they traverse. In Alabama and Illinois the service was started in 1896, on horseback because the roads were not passable for vehicles. In Virginia the pioneer rural carrier had to take down fences and cross farms to make his daily trip over the route selected for him. There are no such irregularities as this, where it should be applied, and in some instances imposed it upon communities which did not need it and did not desire it. It is now made a prerequisite that those who wish the service shall petition for it, presenting the petitions through their Representatives in Congress, and with their favorable indorsement. Each rural route, before it is ordered established, is carefully investigated by a special agent of rural free delivery. He drives over the ground, prepares a map on which he carefully notes the number of residences which can be served (which must never be less than 100 to each carrier), and distinctly outlines the route the carrier is to follow. A copy of this map is left with the postmaster, so that there shall be no excuse for applications, after service has been ordered, for trivial changes in the direction of the route to accommodate particular persons. In the selection of carriers the agents are instructed to give favorable consideration to the recommendations of the congressional representatives of the States or districts in which the service is sought, without regard to political affiliations. This being essentially a service for the people, it is thought proper to confide its local execution to men who have the confidence of those whom the people have chosen to represent them in Congress, as far as this can be done with proper regard to efficient postal administration. The rate of compensation paid to rural carriers does not necessitate their taking a preliminary civil service examination. They are appointed to serve during good behavior. Their pay, originally fixed at $300 per annum, was raised last year to $400, and was increased to $500 on July 1, 1900, when the new appropriation went into effect. In the early days of the experiment rural carriers were authorized to perform a number of outside services for their patrons in order thereby to increase their small pay. With the increased responsibilities thrown upon the carriers by the adaptation of the registration system to the rural service, and the consequent increase of direct pay allowed, the tendency is to curtail rather than enlarge these extraneous services, and to bring carriers in the rural service, as far as practicable, under the regulations which prevail in city free deliveries. Some difficulty has been found in equalizing the rate of compensation according to the varying conditions which prevail in different States, because of the uncertain elements of horse hire and forage, which cost little in some parts of the country and are a source of heavy expense in others. This is one of many matters of detail which will adjust themselves as the service grows. Great changes and improvements have been made in the last two years in the outfit of the carriers and in the routes they traverse. In Alabama and Illinois the service was started in 1896, on horseback because the roads were not passable for vehicles. In Virginia the pioneer rural carrier had to take down fences and cross farms to make his daily trip over the route selected for him. There are no such irregularities as this, where it should be applied, and in some instances imposed it upon communities which did not need it and did not desire it. It is now made a prerequisite that those who wish the service shall petition for it, presenting the petitions through their Representatives in Congress, and with their favorable indorsement. Each rural route, before it is ordered established, is carefully investigated by a special agent of rural free delivery. He drives over the ground, prepares a map on which he carefully notes the number of residences which can be served (which must never be less than 100 to each carrier), and distinctly outlines the route the carrier is to follow. A copy of this map is left with the postmaster, so that there shall be no excuse for applications, after service has been ordered, for trivial changes in the direction of the route to accommodate particular persons. In the selection of carriers the agents are instructed to give favorable consideration to the recommendations of the congressional representatives of the States or districts in which the service is sought, without regard to political affiliations. This being essentially a service for the people, it is thought proper to confide its local execution to men who have the confidence of those whom the people have chosen to represent them in Congress, as far as this can be done with proper regard to efficient postal administration. The rate of compensation paid to rural carriers does not necessitate their taking a preliminary civil service examination. They are appointed to serve during good behavior. Their pay, originally fixed at $300 per annum, was raised last year to $400, and was increased to $500 on July 1, 1900, when the new appropriation went into effect. In the early days of the experiment rural carriers were authorized to perform a number of outside services for their patrons in order thereby to increase their small pay. With the increased responsibilities thrown upon the carriers by the adaptation of the registration system to the rural service, and the consequent increase of direct pay allowed, the tendency is to curtail rather than enlarge these extraneous services, and to bring carriers in the rural service, as far as practicable, under the regulations which prevail in city free deliveries. Some difficulty has been found in equalizing the rate of compensation according to the varying conditions which prevail in different States, because of the uncertain elements of horse hire and forage, which cost little in some parts ofthe country and are a source of heavy expense in others. This is one of many matters of detail which will adjust themselves as the service grows. Great changes and improvements have been made in the last two years in the outfit ofthe carriers and inthe routes they traverse. In Alabama and Illinoisthe service was started in 1896，on horseback becausethe roads were not passablefor vehicles.InVirginiathe pioneer rural carrierhadto takedownfencesandcrossfarmstomakehisdailytripovertherouteselectedforhim.Herearenosuchirregularitiesasthis,theremainderofthelocalitieswhereitshouldbeapplied,andinsomeinstancesimposeditwhenthecommunitywhichthepeoplehavechosentorepresenttheminCongress.asfarasthiscanbedonewithproperregardtoefficientpostaladministration.Therateofcompensationpaidtoruralcarriersdoesnotnecessitatetheirtakingapreliminarycivilserviceexamination.Theyareappointedtoserve duringselttheinitiativecityfreedelivery.Ofcourse,theserviceproducesheartburningcomplaintsfrompostmastersofforicesinterferedwithbythebettlevery.Someofthemensuspeakednevercontinuedsincetheexperimentstarted,fouryearsago.OnewofrouteswasaservicestartedinoveraroadlessertivityinKenewherethepeopledidnotwantitothersimplyaccommodatedvisitationawinter resortinFloridafortmonthsandwasuselesstherestyear.ThethirdinstanceofdisceanceoccurredinVirginia，whenfourth-classpostmastersandtheroutecontractorsraisedsuccesoroverridethewishesrestofthepeople;andthisremainonlycaseofitskind. I thinkthefutureofruralflieryisbrightwithpromise,nowforthefarmerswhomitdirectlyfitt,butforthecountryatWhereithasgoneithasb Irrigation, nevertheless, is practiced to a considerable extent through the use of the waters of the Grand Canal and by wells. The Grand or Imperial Canal is a work of great magnitude. It was constructed in the 7th century and enlarged in the 13th century. It traverses the Great Plain and flows with but slight current for a distance of 700 miles. While built for purposes of communication its waters are used largely for irrigation, and thousands of drains and creeks have been made to connect with it along its route. The modes of irrigation are ancient and crude. One of the most picturesque is by means of a water-wheel, which is used where the land to be watered is well above the channel of the river. The wheel is turned by the force of the current and is perhaps 30 feet high. Its buckets being sections of bamboo which as they are raised by the stately motion of the wheel, empty their contents into troughs or ditches. Hollow bamboo pipes or tubes are sometimes used for distributing water over the fields. They rest upon wooden supports and branch in every direction from the source of supply. The chain pump is also a common means of lifting water, the chain running up from the water on a slant and being provided with little buckets at intervals, which, as they reach the highest point and begin to descend, discharge their contents. These machines are worked by buffalooes or sometimes by human labor, a man working a crank with his feet, something after the manner of riding a bicycle. The most primitive and laborious method is the ancient well sweep, such as is seen today on many an old New England homestead. GUY E. MITCHELL. Washington, July 11, 1900. Food and sleep are necessary to life and health. If you can't eat and sleep take flood's sarsaparilla. It creates a good appetite, cures indigestion and dyspepsia, overcomes nervousness and gives sweet, restful, refreshing sleep. The favorite cathartic is Hood's rills, 25c. Great changes and improvements have been made in the last two years in the outfit of the carriers and in the routes they traverse. In Alabama and Illinois the service was started in 1896, on horseback because the roads were not passable for vehicles. In Virginia the pioneer rural carrier had to take down fences and cross farms to make his daily trip over the route selected for him. There are no such irregularities now. Many of the rural carriers have provided themselves, or have had provided for them by popular subscription, specially built rural postal wagons fitted with pigeonholes and other facilities for sorting their mails in transit. Numbers of them wear the regulation uniform of city carriers and are governed by similar regulations. In one district in Massachusetts where the roads are exceptionally good the year round, the proposition was made by the people to introduce an automobile into the rural service. The rural carrier, however, in transmitting to the department a sketch of a specially devised machine, adapted for rural purposes, to cost $850, suggested with much plausibility a doubt as to whether he would be able to meet the expenditure out of his $500 a year pay. Nevertheless, an automobile is being tested on another of the Massachusetts routes, and with considerable success. The service which has demonstrated beyond cavil the possibility of extending rural free delivery over all well-settled farming communities in the United States is now in operation in Carroll county, Maryland. It was established as an object lesson. Those who favored the further extension of the rural free delivery system were met by the contention that the service, if made general, would be so expensive as to swamp the postal revenues, and that if only partially applied it would give an unjust preference to some communities over others equally entitled to a share in the benefits of the delivery. Those who believed in the practicability of the service knew that the contention as to excessive cost was erroneous, but they were unable to prove it, because wherever rural free delivery superseded the I think the future of rural freight is bright with promise, now for the farmers whom it directly fits, but for the country at large. Wherever it has gone it has been good roads. These, in fact, are a prerequisite of the establishment of the service. It is causing a revival almost as marked in its influence people as that of the establishment of the great trunk railroads across continent. It is welding city and try together, and will in time tide off emigration, which now from the country into the cities from the overcrowded purlieous cities into the free air and whose vocations of the country. Of like all great changes, it removes landmarks and disarranges long-lived habits. There were sentiments who complained that these railroads had exterminated their drivers and driven the blanket India; their happy hunting grounds where the buffalo once roamed scendants of the finest blooded Europe now graze in countless bers; and where the buffalo greatly sprouted waving fields of wheat make Kansas, Minnesota and Kentucky the granary of the world. With well-built agricultural traversing every part of this country, and the free delivery brought to nearly every farmer I confidently believe that a social evolution will be effected by this which will be felt for generations. Paper on "Rural Free Delivery" by Perry S. Heath, First Assistant master General in Philadelphia Evening Post. Reduced Rates East The Santa Fe Route will sell trips tickets to Chicago and August 21st and 22d, 1900, at low rate of $72.50, limited to nine days from date of sale. Stopover be granted west of Missouri return trip within final limit. This Looks Like Prosperity. Continued from First Page. An excess of net receipts over net expenditures of $45,954,604. The President urged that the new duties be so levied as "to revive and increase manufactures." In the fiscal year 1897 the imports for the consumption of articles in a crude condition, which enter into the various processes of domestic industry, amounted to $207,-268,155, and in the three years, 1895, 1896 and 1897, averaged less than $200,-000,000 annually, while in the calendar year 1899 the imports of this class amounted to $267,493,950, an increase of nearly $70,000,006 over the average for the three years of low tariff, in which many of these articles, notably wool, were upon the free list. At present the importation of manufacturers' materials is running at the rate of $28,000,000 per month, or more than 50 per cent higher than the monthly average in the year prior to the enactment of the Dingley law. The President also urged that the new duties should be so levied as "to relieve and encourage agriculture." That agriculture has been relieved and encouraged is shown by the increased prices for agricultural products, all of which have materially advanced in the home market, and by the large increase in exportation in the products of agriculture, which, in the fiscal year 1899, were $100,000,000 greater than in the fiscal year 1898, and in 1898 were $200,-000,000 in excess of those of 1897. The message also recommended that the new duties should be so levied as "to aid and develop mining." That mining has been greatly encouraged is amply shown by the figures relating to the two great mining industries—coal and iron. The coal production of 1899 exceeds 200,000,000 tons against 179,000,-000 in 1897, and 171,000,000 in 1896, and has placed the United States at the head of the world's producers of this article, our product in 1899 being greater than that of any other country. The pig-iron production in 1899 was 13,-620,703 tons, against 9,652,680 tons in 1897 and 8,623.127 tons in 1896. In pig-iron, as in coal, the United States now holds the first place in the world's production. Secretary Gage, of the Treasury Department has been calling in from the The stockholder of the California Consolidated Petroleum company is a stockholder of fifty oil companies. His stock entitles him to his pro rata of all the dividends the California Consolidated receives on the 2,500,000 shares held by that company in the fifty companies in question. His stock also entitles him to his pro rata of all the oil received as royalties on 5000 acres, and to his pro rata of all the oil developed on 10,000 acres. In this company he has three sources of profit and fifty chances to one to get profitable dividends. There are fortunes in oil and the stock of this company is sure to pay handsome dividends and go to a large premium. Stock redeemable on demand at any time within 30 days from date of certificate. 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It was a pipe, a hatch a mace or hammer all in one as swerped an important military weapon in lessening the weight and cumbrance of the warrior who wise would have tenaciously lined up the stone pipe which in its heavier than the tomahawk — sonian Institution Report. A Good Cough Medicine. Many thousands have been used to health and happiness by the Chamberlain's Cough remediated with any throat trouble, give it a trial, for it is to prove beneficial. Coughs that resisted all other treatment have yielded to this remedy and health been restored. Case seemed hopeless, that the client famous health resorts failed to have been permanently curreuse. For sale by Derge, druggers. She was standing on the front reading the story paper, which just come in the mail. "Madam," said Meandering "did I see you brush away a now?" "S'posin I did," she returned no business of yours." "I spoke in kindness, lady. Yesterday yerself right to cry both at once. It is a double yer eyes, an you might as well to my hard luck stories an eyes exclusively fur de weeps. likes touchin stories, lady, he Carroll county experiment served purpose and served it well. It may be necessary, it may not even be able, to repeat that experiment on expansive scale elsewhere. For day, practical purposes, the method of establishing rural delivery by piecemeal, selecting such as seem to be best adapted for and leaving each carrier to provide own conveyance, may be found betadapted to the wide dissemination service, and will require less perverse machinery to put it into use than the plan of taking up a county at once. The rural carrier at Owosso, Michigan handled last year over 113,000 miles of mail in his delivery. Making allowance for newspapers carried round rates, and for official documents sent under the franking privilege paying no postage, a very reasonable would be an average of eight postage for each piece of mail added. This implies a revenue to government of $1130. The cost of service was $400. The saving can easily estimated. There can be no question now as to permanency of the rural free delivery service. The only wonder is that necessity and practicability were not ever discovered. It costs less per mile than free delivery did when first published in many of the smaller cities of the United States. The competing returns in increased postal scripts and diminished expenditures other branches of the service are the direct and immediate than any bills which followed the initiation of free delivery. Of course, the new price produces heartburns and complaints from postmasters of little interest with by the better delivery. Some of them persuade their neighbors to sign protests to endeavor convince their Representatives ingress that the entire underpinning of this political future will drop away if particular village store is deprived of postoffice. But there have been few instances where, after three trials of the new service, the people have asked for the restoration of the old system. Only three rural areas have been permanently discontinued since the experiment was started, four years ago. One of those areas was a service started in 1896, or a roadless territory in Kentucky, where the people did not want it. An effort simply accommodated visitors to winter resort in Florida for four months and was useless the rest of the year. The third instance of discontinuity occurred in Virginia, where the sixth-class postmasters and the startec contractors raised sufficient money to override the wishes of the people; and this remains the key case of its kind. Think the future of rural free delivery is bright with promise, not only the farmers whom it directly benefited but for the country at large. Ever since it has gone it has brought within thirty days from date to payment. 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The end of this year augurs well for a happier future, and, when once a peaceful rule is established, many important improvements will take place." Charles E. Buell, Ex-Secretary of the United States Special Commission to Porto Rico, writes that "under Spanish rule the money of the island was subject to the most extraordinary fluctuations; when the planter needed money to pay his help, and for supplies, the peso would be held at 60 cents in gold. As soon as the money had passed into the hands of the man whom the planter had owed, the value of the same peso declined to 42 cents. This ruinous variation in money has been made to give place to certainty and stability by changing the currency of the island to United States currency. No American need feel ashamed of the course which the United States has pursued in dealing with Porto Rico." During last May an infant child of our neighbor was suffering from cholera infantum. The doctors had given up all hopes of recovery. I took a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea remedy to the house, telling them I felt sure it would do good if used according to directions. In two days' time the child had fully recovered. The child is now vigorous and healthy. I have recommended this remedy frequently and never known it to fall—Mrs. Curtis Baker, Bookwalter, Ohio. Sold by P. A. Derge, druggist. Money to Loan From $5,000 to $10,000 in sums to suit, on real estate or approved security. Apply to Richard Melrose. dec-23tf Evidence. Mrs. Buggins—Has the ice man been here this morning? Mr. Buggins — I think he has. There's a damp place on the back steps. Ladies can Wear Shoes One size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. It makes tight or new shoes feel easy; gives instant relief to corns and bunions. It's the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Cures and prevents swollen feet, blisters, callous and sore spots. Allen's Foot-Ease is a certain cure for sweating, hot, aching feet. At all druggists and shoe stores, 25c Trial package free by mail. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of PATENT LAWYER Opp. U.S. Patent Office, WA CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Chat. H. Flitcher. The Kind You Have Always Bought. CASTORIA 900 DROPS CASTORIA Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipe of Old Dr. Samuel Pitcher Pumpkin Seed Alc. Sesame Richelle Salt Anise Seed Peppermint All Darbark Salve Worm Seed Cinnamon Sugar Mintgreen Flavor. Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and Loss of Sleep. Fac Simile Signature of Chat. H. Flitcher. NEW YORK. At 6 months old 35 Doses - 35 Cents EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. THE GENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. The Tramp's Advice. She was standing on the front porch standing the story paper, which had just come in the mail. "Madam," said Meandering Mike, sold I see you brush away a tear jes' "S'posin I did," she returned. "It's the business of yours." "I spoke in kindness, lady. You ain't creatin yerself right to cry an read both at once. It's a double strain on her eyes, an you might as well listen to my hard luck stories an save yer lives exclusively fur de weeps. If you takes touchin stories, lady, here's yer nance to have 'em brought to yer poor, an you needn't pay $2 a year's subscription in advance, neither. It’s the chance of yer life, lady, to trade off old victuals for pathos."—Washington star. The Excitement Not Over. The rush at the drug store still connues, and daily scores of people call for a bottle of Kemp's Balsam for the throat and Lungs for the cure of boughs, colds, asthma, bronchitis and consumption. Kemp's Balsam, the standard family remedy, is sold on a guarantee and never fails to give entire satisfaction. Price 25c and 35c. There is nothing but highest praise for the Jordan "AAA! Cutlery by those who know best in every way. A Rude Suggestion. Great Actress—That's an atrocious portrait! Is that the best you can do? Is there no way you can improve upon it? Suggest something. Photographer—Madam, you might permit your understudy to sit for you. Cleveland Plain Dealer. 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. 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. Get your Shoes repaired Rubber heels put on while you wait...40 Men's shoes soiled and heeled...75 Men's shoes soiled and heeled; hand sewed...$1.00 Women's shoes soiled and heeled...50 A. FREISE, ....KEEPS THE FINEST OF... Wines, Liquors And Cigars. LOS ANGELES BEER ON DRAUGHT. Koll Block, Los Angeles Street. ONLY FIRST-CLASS RESTAURANT! - IN TOWN - In Connection with Boston Bakery. S. KISTLER, PROPRIETOR. 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 dairy 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 EIRST-CLASS SHAVE OR HAIR CUT. TWO DOORS WEST OF BANK. HUSMANN BROS. PALACE 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 10:44 am. Leave San Francisco 5 pm.. arrive Los Angeles 7:45 am. The Sunset Route offers unexcelled advan tages for winter travel, and an unequalled train service. Sunset Limited season. November to April. This is the most magnificent train in America, vestibulated throughout illuminated with Pintsch gas and heated by steam. Every train is made up of seats followed. One composite car, containi ng lunch room, barber-shop, cafe. Library and smoker; one compartment car with lavatory in car compartment, and parlor for the special use of ladies, and a ladies' maid in attendance; as many double drawing rooms for 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 Angles: To Washington, D. C., via New Orleans, 2 p.m. Tuesday, Thursdays, and Saturdays. To Chicago, IL., via El Paso 2 p.m. Tuesday. To Cincinnati, Ohio, via New Orleans, 2 p.m. Friays and Sundays. DEN ROUTE EXCURSIONS. To St. Paul via Slonox City, 12:40 pm Thursday, Ts Chicago Mondays. Tuesdays, Wednesday and Thursdays. Leave Los Angeles 1:40 pm. SHASTA ROUTE EXCURSIONS. To Portland, St. Paul and Minneapolis. Mondays, 10:30 pm. First and second-class tickets for sale at Ana healt 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 lined right in the center of the business part of the city—at First stop or Commercial street-within a block of the large wholesale houses. Our connection at Molave for the famous gold mining camp of Randsburg is superb; good hotel at Molave and elegant stage coaches through to the city of gold. Fare from Anaheim to Randsburg,$7 50. Family commutation tickets for sale between Anaheim and Los Angeles, and other local points at greatly reduced rates. Limit six months. For further information, call at the Southern Pacific depot at Anaheim. T.A. DARLING, Agent, G.W.LUCE, Asst. Gen Pass. Agt., Los Angeles. 261 South Spring St. 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. C.F. GRIM. Agent. 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 Spoerl's. Send your LACE CURTAINS to THE Santa Ana Steam Laundry Every facility for doing the best work. E. W. McCollum, Agent, Anahelm F. BACKS, UNDERTAKER And Dealer in FURNITURE. Wall Paper, Cornices, Window Shades, Picture Frames, Upholstery Goods, Paints, Oils and Glass Sewing Machine Supplies, Etc. For Los Angeles & Chartres St. PATENTS promptly procured, OR NO FEEL. Send model, sketch, or photo for free report on patentability. Book "How to Obtain U.S. and Foreign Patents and Trade-Marks," FREE. Paired terms ever offered to inventors. PATENT LAWYERS OF 26 YEARS' PRACTICE. 20,000 PATENTS PROCURED THROUGH THEM. All business confidential. Sound advice. Faithful service. Moderate charges. Write to C.A. SNOW & CO. PATENT LAWYERS, Opp. U.S. Patent Office, WASHINGTON, D.C. GO TO THE Oak Barber Shop FOR A FIRST-CLASS SHAVE OR HAIR CUT. TWO DOORS WEST OF BANK. HUSMANN BROS. PALACE MEAT MARKET F.W. Fleischmann, PROPRIETOR. Best Meats the Market Affords Always on Hand. Also keeps on hand Sausages, Bacon, Ham, Lard, Etc. Meats delivered to all parts of the city free of charge. Shop on East Center St. They Run via Niagara. The Burlington Excursions occupy the best tourist sleepers Pullman ever built. They run over the Scenic line—the ideal summer route to the East—through Salt Lake City and Denver. They pass in full view of Niagara Falls. They leave Los Angeles every Wednesday; San Francisco every Thursday. No change of cars, California to St. Louis and Chicago. Only one change to Boston. Experienced excursion conductor in charge from coast to coast. For folder giving full information call at any So. Pacific ticket office or write to W.D. SANBORN, General Agent, 32 Montgomery St., San Francisco. TENT CITY AT CORONADO BEACH OPENS JUNE 1, 1900 In addition to the peerless attractions of former summer seasons at Coronado Beach, the new and unique attraction of a Tent City is provided for those who choose the freedom of the tent rather than the luxury of the Hotel. EXCURSION TICKETS AT EXTREMELY LOW RATES WILL BE SOLD BY THE SANTA FE ROUTE May 17-1f N.HART'S PLACE: SCHLITZ MILWAUKEE BEER ON DRAUGHT. DEALER IN A. FINE LIQUORS! AND Choice Wines FOR MEDICINAL PURPOSES. Fine Domestic and Imported Cigars. Headquarters for the famous Schlitz Milwaukee beer.