anaheim-gazette 1901-02-14

Anaheim VOLUME XXXI. DR. C. P. HEBERT DENTIST With Dr. Menges of Santa Ana has opened an... OFFICE IN THE METZ BLOCK... (up stairs) Office days, Fridays and Saturdays. 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. 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., evenings. G. S. EDDY, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Telephone, Main 75... OFFICE—Center street, opposite City Hall. 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., evenings. Residence—Corner Center and Palms streets. ANAHEIM - CAL. S. G. WILSON, M. D. Office and Residence: Over H. A. Dickel's Store. CENTER ST., - ANAHEIM. Dr. A. W. Bickford OFFICE OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE. Telephone Central. Residence near Christian Church. Telephone 671. ANAHEIM, - CAL. Remember... I carry the finest stock of stationery, books and confectionery in Anaheim. Being agent for all Newspapers, Periodicals and Magazines, you can save money by subscribing through my agency. Joseph Helmsen Anaheim Bakery, PETER SYRE, PROPRIETOR. FRESH BREAD CAKES & PIES CONFECTIONERY, ETC. Wedding Cakes a Specialty. Los Angeles and Cypress Sts SUBSCRIBE FOR THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE OLDEST PAPER IN ORANGE COUNTY Subscription $1.50 Per Year. Send For Sample Copy. Office and Residence: Over H. A. Dickel's Store. CENTER ST., - ANAHEIM. Dr. A. W. Bickford OFFICE OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE. Telephone Central. Residence near Christian Church. Telephone 671. ANAHEIM, - CAL. DR. F. H. HOUCK DENTIST. OFFICE NEXT DOOR to P. O. (Federman Block, up stairs.) HOURS 9 to 5. ANAHEIM, - CAL. Paul A. Derge. Graduate in Pharmaoy. DRUGS, MEDICINES, Perfumes and Toilet Articles. BEST 5-CENT CIGAR IN TOWN MEDICAL HALL, KOLL BLOCK. PUBLIC TELEPHONE OFFICE. GO TO THE Oak Barber Shop FOR A FIRST-CLASS SHAVE OR HAIR CUT. TWO DOORS WEST OF BANK. HUSMANN BROS. FRITZ RUHMANN'S Germania Halle. BACKS' NEW BUILDING LOS ANGELS STREET Keeps on hand a Large and complete stock of liquors, wines and cigars. Cold beer always on draught PALACE MEATMARKET 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. Roman Wisser Favorite Saloon. Finest of Wines, Liquors & Cigare Pool & Billiard Tables FRESH BREAD CAKES & PIES CONFECTIONERY, ETC. Wedding Cakes a Specialty. Los Angeles and Cypress Sts SUBSCRIBE FOR THE ANAHEIM GAZETTE OLDEST PAPER IN ORANGE COUNTY Subscription $1.50 Per Year. Send For Sample Copy. The Weekly Gazette. Established 1870. SUBSCRIPTION, - $1.50 Per Year. Six months... $1.00 Three months... 75 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 of Trains. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD. Trains on the Southern Pacific pass Anaheim as follows: To Los Angeles. From Los Angeles. Daily... 7:52 am Dally... 9:30 am Daily... 4:22 pm Dally... 6:08 pm Pass Loara Station: To Los Angeles. From Los Angeles Daily... 7:56 am Dally... 9:45 am Daily... 4:27 pm Dally... 5:50 pm LOSL ALAMITOS TRAINS. Leave for (Sugar Factory) Arrive from 10:34 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. NEWPORT BEACH RAILWAY. Daily Schedule. Leave Anaheim. Arrive Anaheim 9:49 a.m. 7:52 a.m. 6:03 p.m. 4:23 p.m. All trains connect at Santa Ana with Newport trains. SANTA FE ROUTE TIME TABLE Effective Dec. 27, 1900. Trains on the Santa Fe Route will pass Anaheim for points named as follows: To Los Angeles-7:58 am, 9:37 am, *12:04 pm To San Diego-9:35 am, *2:50 pm To Riverside and San Bernardino-*11:45 am, 5:54 pm To Redlands-*11:45 am To San Jacinto, Perris and Temecula-*11:48 am To Santa Ana-9:35 am, *2:50 pm, 5:54 pm To Escondido-*2:50 pm To Fallbrook-9:35 am To Redondo-7:58 am, *4:50 pm To Chicago, Denver, Kansas City and all points East-4:50 pm, 5:54 pm Trains marked with a * are daily except Sunday. All others daily. JOSEPH BACKS, Undertaker and Embalmer DEALER IN Furniture and Bedding Repairing Done. A. FREISE, KEeps THE FINEST OF... Wines, Liquors What Is Sauce For the Goose. The groom entered alone and said confidentially, "Do you use the word 'obey' in your marriage service, Mr. —?" "No," said the minister; "I do not, usually." "Well," said the expectant Benedict, "I have come to ask you to marry me now, and I want it used." "Certainly," replied the other. "It shall be done," and presently the couple stood solemnly before him. "James T—," said the clergyman, "do you take this woman to be your wedded wife?" "I do," "Do you solemnly promise to love, honor and obey her so long as you both shall live?" Horror and rebellion struggled with the sancities of the occasion on the bridegroom's face, but he chokingly responded, "I do," and the meek bride decorously promised in her turd. After the ceremony was over the bridegroom said excitedly aside to the grave minister: "You misunderstood me, sir; you misunderstood me! I referred to the woman's promising to obey." "Ah, did you indeed?" serenely answered his reverence. "But I think what is good for one side is good for the other, don't you? And, my friend, it is my advice to you to say nothing more about it, for, as an old married man, I can tell you you'll have to obey anyhow!"—Woman's Journal. Use Allen's Foot-Ease in Your Gloves. A lady writes: "I shake Allen's Foot-Ease into my gloves and rub a little on my hands. It saves my gloves by absorbing perspiration. It is a most durable toilet powder." In invite the absolute purity of Allen's Foot-Ease. Dr. W. C. Abbott, editor of the Chicago Clinic says: "It is a grand preparation; I am using it constantly in my own practice." All drug and shoe stores sell it, etc. Sample sent FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, New York England's Old House. A great curiosity is a house 1,100 years of age and yet fit for habitation. This old dwelling, the oldest inhabited house in England, was built in the time of King Offa of Mercia. It is octagonal in shape, the walls of its lower story being of great thickness. The upper part is of oak. At one time the house was fortified and known by the name of St. German's gate. It stands close to the river Ver and only a few yards from St. Alban's abbey. Run Over Him. "Oh, Mrs. Smith, do you know that your son Billy has been run over by a train?" "Oh dear, dear! My poor boy! Whatever shall I do? Where did it happen?" "Underneath the railway arch. Billy's standing there now!"—London Fun. Roman Wisser Favorite Saloon. Finest of Wines, Liquors & Cigars Pool & Billiard Tables Schindler's Building, Center St., Anaheim LOS ANGELES BEER ON DRAUGHT. L. GUNTHER. PIONEER BOOT AND SHOE MAKER. Corner Adele and Los Angeles Sts. 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. ONLY FIRST-CLASS RESTAURANT! IN TOWN—In Connection with Boston Bakery. S. KISTLER. PROPRIETOR. FOR SALE. MODERN BUILT RESIDENCE Of 5 rooms, pantry and bath, barn, garden; situated on best residence street in the city. Cheap. Apply at this Office. JOSEPH BACKS, Undertaker and Embalmer DEALER IN Furniture and Bedding Repairing Done. A. FREISE, ...KEEPS THE FINEST OF... Wines, Liquors And Cigars. LOS ANGELES BEER ON DRAUGHT. Koll Block, Los Angeles Street RICHARD MELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW And Notary Public. Special attention given to Probate Matters. —Center Street, Anaheim— C. R. HANSEN & CO., Phone N. S3. Employment Agents, 1224-1254 W. Second St., Los Angeles, Cal. San Francisco office: 101 Geary St. Established 1868. Ranch, Dairy and Orchard Help. Also carefully selected Male and Female help of all descriptions and nationalities furnished promptly, free to employer. 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. 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 Weekly Gazette ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1901. AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. Experiments Carried on by the Government Have Been the Means of Re-Establishing Grape Culture. Twelve years ago the agricultural department began investigating plant diseases in a small way, its efforts at first being devoted to a few of the more important diseases of fruits. In the beginning the investigations were confined to the laboratory, it being recognized that before any practical results could be secured in the field, knowledge must be obtained as to the nature of the diseases it was intended to combat. At the time this work was undertaken the growing of grapes for market was being abandoned in many sections on account of black rot. The work of the department showed that this disease was due to a fungus. Furthermore, it showed how the fungus lives from year to year, and how part of the time its growth is confined to the living berries on the vine and part of the time to the old, dried and shriveled fruits which fall to the ground. The latter, It was found, furnish the means of starting the pest another season, and thus the more the rotten berries accumulate on the ground the more danger there is of infection the next year. Possessing these facts, it remained to discover some means of protecting the grape from the parasite in a way that would be sufficiently cheap and practical to warrant its adoption by the grape growers themselves. The only way to accomplish this object was by work in the vineyards. This work was inaugurated, and eventually it was proved that by the proper use of various solutions sprayed upon the vines the latter would not be injured in the least, but the attacks of the fungus would, in COUNTY SELF GOVERNMENT. A Constitutional Amendment Granting Counties This Right. It Should be Adopted. This is as clearly beneficial and as clearly necessary as it is to have local self-government for towns and cities. The conditions in California, more than those in any other State, demand county self-government. California is an empire in itself, whose different districts have the most diversified interests. No legislature can deal wisely and intelligently with the local conditions of such a splendid State. Inyo's interests require very different treatment from those of Los Angeles. Orange county and Humboldt have no conditions in common: Modoc is totally variant from the valley of Santa Clara. Yuba has gold and Glenn has grain. Fresno has conditions that depart radically from those of Alpine. San Diego has no similarity with Sacramento. Santa Barbara is very far away from snowy Shasta. Who can consider conditions in the vast stretches of San Bernardino like those of Alameda? Tulare is almost the antithesis of Marin, and so it goes. There are close upon sixty counties in California. Some of these are large enough in area for Delawaric States. Many of them are more populous than present States. The State Constitution provides that no special laws can be enacted. To meet the situation, the counties have been classified for legislation. Nearly as many classes exist as there are counties. The result is a patent and confessed evasion of the Constitution. County legislation is in fact special legislation. This violation of the fundamental law is winked at and tolerated because it is claimed that some sort of evasion of the constitutional requirements is essential to secure a "modus DO BEES EAT FRUIT? Prof. Cook Says They do Not. Unless the Skin Has Been Previously Punctured. The following correspondence will be of special interest to our ranchers of Southern California, where both beekeeping and fruit-growing are such prominent industries: "Prof. A.J.Cook, Claremont, Cal.—Dear Sir: I send you a copy of a letter received lately from Prof. Slingerland, of Ithaca, New York. I would like to know if you coincide with the opinion of his senior professor, regarding the structure of the bee's mouth. I have been led to think differently. I had intended to send Prof. Slingerland as expert witness to a case we have in New York, but after receiving this letter, I changed my mind and did not request him to go. I will rely on your statement of the case, whether you agree with him or not. Yours truly, Eugene Secor." Mr. Secor is President of the American Beekeepers' Union, which looks after all cases in law where the interests of its members are concerned. He secured a verdict favor of the beekeeper in the above case, as had the association previously in other cases, one of which was carried to the Supreme Court of the United States. The following is Mr. Slingerland's letter to Mr. Secor: "Dear Sir: Yours at hand. I enclose copy of my Rural New Yorker article. This is as far as I can go in the matter. I have no original data to offer and I do not feel competent to testify regarding the capabilities of the mouth parts of the honey bee to bite. Prof. A.H.Comstock, head of the Entomological Department here, is as competent as any one regarding these..." GAZETTE ENTY For Sample Copy. See For the Goose. altered alone and said Do you use the word marriage service, Mr. minister; "I do not, the expectant Benedict, ask you to marry me it used." Applied the other. "It and presently the county before him. 'James clergyman,' do you to be your wedded. 'Do you solemnly honor and obey her so shall live?' Horroruggled with the sancasion on the bride of the chokingly respondent the meek bride decoin her turd. Sermony was over the excitedly aside to the "You misunderstood understood me! I rewoman's promising to you, indeed?" serene is reverence. "But I good for one side is good don't you? And, my advice to you say about it, for, as an old can tell you you'll have"—Woman's Journal. Ease in Your Gloves. I shake Allen's Foot-Ease rub a little on my hands by absorbing perspiration. The patient of physicians and nurses is rich in my own practice. It only in my own practice. Stores sell it. 25c. Sample Allen S. Olmsted. Le pl Old House. City is a house 1,100 yet fit for habitation. g. the oldest inhabited land, was built in the town of Mercia. It is ocea, the walls of its lower great thickness. The bank. At one time the died and known by the man's gate. It stands Ver and only a few alba'n's abbey. Over Him. do you know that has been run over by a ear! My poor boy! I do? Where did it the railway arch. Biltmore now!"—London Fun. Inaugural Programme. The committee in charge of preparations for President McKinley's second inauguration says the event promises to eclipse any preceding inauguration in the display and completeness. The musical arrangements for the inaugural ball have been completed. The marine band will supply the promenade music for the ball, while a selected orchestra of 125 pieces will render the dance music. The orchestra is holding daily rehearsals. The marine band has been engaged for a series of five concerts to be held in the hall of the pension building on berries accumulate on the ground the more danger there is of infection the next year. Possessing these facts, it remained to discover some means of protecting the grape from the parasite in a way that would be sufficiently cheap and practical to warrant its adoption by the grape growers themselves. The only way to accomplish this object was by work in the vineyards. This work was inaugurated, and eventually it was proved that by the proper use of various solutions sprayed upon the vines the latter would not be injured in the least, but the attacks of the fungus would, in large part, be prevented. To reduce the operation to a practical basis, many difficulties had to be overcome. The question of a suitable apparatus was a difficult one, as few manufacturers are willing to put a machine on the market without some assurance that there would be a demand for it. That these obstacles were overcome, however, and that the work was a success, is shown by the widespread application of the results obtained. For the first few years, despite the widely-published statements concerning the work, it was difficult to get growers to undertake it. Men were actually paid to spray their vines in order that the results might be utilized as an object lesson for others. Five years after the first successful treatment of black rot, however, carefully collected data showed that there were over fifty thousand grape growers treating their vines in accordance with the directions of the department. The industry, which for years had languished or been abandoned in many sections, was revived, and, as was stated by the viticultural expert connected with the eleventh census, the work of the department of agriculture has practically revolutionized grape culture in many sections. Arrangements were made at one time with about three thousand grape growers to plan their work so as to obtain as definite facts as possible in regard to the actual money value of the operations carried out under the directions of the department. It was found that the treated vines yielded on an average eighty per cent more fruit than the untreated, and that the actual gain as a result of the work ranged all the way from $20 to $150 per acre. The aggregate gain, as estimated by the entire three hundred growers, was something over $20,000, while the expense, including labor and cost of all materials used, did not exceed $2000.—Ainslee's. Inaugural Programme. The committee in charge of preparations for President McKinley's second inauguration says the event promises to eclipse any preceding inauguration in the display and completeness. The musical arrangements for the inaugural ball have been completed. The marine band will supply the promenade music for the ball, while a selected orchestra of 125 pieces will render the dance music. The orchestra is holding daily rehearsals. The marine band has been engaged for a series of five concerts to be held in the hall of the pension building on Some of these are large enough in area for Delawarie States. Many of them are more populous than present States. The State Constitution provides that no special laws can be enacted. To meet the situation, the counties have been classified for legislation. Nearly as many classes exist as there are counties. The result is a patent and confessed evasion of the Constitution. County legislation is in fact special legislation. This violation of the fundamental law is winked at and tolerated because it is claimed that some sort of evasion of the constitutional requirements is essential to secure a "modus vivendi" for the counties. There are three salient drawbacks to the present situation. First. The legislative time is taken up in dealing with purely local and sectional detail. This is clearly to the detriment of general State requirements. Second. Legislation for counties is almost entirely governed by the initiative and work of local professional patriots. What these want is salaries, sinacures, commissions and rake-offs. The people are not heard, or, if they do send up a delegation to Sacramento in the general interest, they are usually out-maneuvered. If a good law is passed at one session the lobby will quietly intrigue its appeal at the next. If a bad one is repealed the lobby gets it back. Log-rolling and trading among the country lobbies of professional patroits practically shapes local legislation. The outcome is a confusion of contradiction. Extravagancies are scattered freely upon the taxpayers. One of these is that of our county assessor whose annual official income is said to be over $15,000, or 60 to 70 thousand dollars for the four-year term. The excess of this compensation has been several times done away with by citizens' committees only to be put back into the law by the professional patriots as soon as public attention was slackened. Third. The people cannot obtain from the legislature an economical or satisfactory local government at all. New conditions and needs cannot be met. The fact is that the present county governments of California are in reality illegal and unconstitutional. They exist by sufferance. Two years ago the central counties defeated a constitutional amendment to allow counties their own local governments just as towns and cities have been allowed to do. The defeat was due to gross ignorance. No counties needed this amendment more than those voting against it. A circular explaining the amendment was sent out through Los Angeles by the writer. Los Angeles, perhaps on account of this information, voted for local self-government and gave the amendment aver six thousand majority. The circular was also sent to San Francisco as a city without sufficient direct interest in county government to take much trouble to vote on it. San Francisco gave it over 3000 majority. The country and smaller counties that were relied on to know their own interests ignorantly defeated it, even overcoming the favorable majority of ten thousand These were hung near the hive in some cases, or laid on the alighting board, or placed on the frame above the cluster in the hive. These experiments were always tried when the bees were not gathering in the field and when, of course, they were ravenous to find and bring in the nectar. In not a single case was the sound fruit disturbed, though in every case the punctured fruit was sucked dry. I think these very numerous experiments show that bees are not wise to judge the presence of the delicious nectar drops when these latter are sealed. Their quest must be incited by the escaping odor which only comes after the fruit has been pierced by bird, wasp, or nature. Grape growers have often observed that when grapes become very ripe, especially when the weather is sultry, the bees often swarm onto the fruit and commence sipping the juice which they bear away to their hives. The presumption is, of course, that the bees bite into the grapes. This is, however, at variance with the truth. Nature in this case sets the juice to oozing and the bees attack such grapes as show the escaping juice. I have hung sound grapes in the vines at such time and not one was keeper in the above case, as had the association previously in other cases, one of which was carried to the Supreme Court of the United States. The following is Mr. Slingerland's letter to Mr. Secor: "Dear Sir: Yours at hand. I enclose copy of my Rural New Yorker article. This is as far as I can go in the matter. I have no original data to offer and I do not feel competent to testify regarding the capabilities of the mouth parts of the honey bee to bite Prof. A.H.Comstock, head of the Entomological Department here, is as competent as any one regarding these points. He has kept bees and has taught he structure of their mouth for years.. For me to prepare myself sufficiently to testify would require more time than I can devote to it. With Mr.Benton, I do not think you will have any trouble to reverse the verdict of the lower court. I have just seen Prof.Comstock,and he says he sees no reasons, from what he knows ofthe mouth parts, whythe honey bee should not be able to bite intothe grape or peach.I doubt if you could get any desirable testimony from here.Yours truly,M.V.Slingerland." Prof. Slingerland is undoubtedly right inthe opinion that we have no higher authority in general entomology than Prof.Comstock.I think I agree with Prof.Comstockin his opinion thatthe bee might be ableto bite throughthe skinof tenderfruit,ifit knew its powerand hadanysuch habit.I amvery certainthatit never does anythingofthekind.Ionlygoinquestofexposednectarwhere,doubtless,theescapingodoriswhatattractsit.Ihave investigatedthis matterwithmorethoroughness.Ipresume,thananyotherpersoninthecountry.Ihavetakenveryripefruit,easilygrapeswhereallwereperfectsound.Ipuncturedpartofthegrapeswouldthat tinydropletsofjuiceoozedout.Allpuncturedgrapesweremarkedwithastringaboutthestem.Thesewerehungnearthehiveinsomecases.orlaidonthealightingboard,或placedontheframeabovetheclusterinthehive.Theseexperimentswerealwaystriedwhenthebeeswerenotgatheringinthefieldandwhen，ofcourse,theywereravenoustofindandbringinthenectar.Innotasinglecasewasthesoundfruitdisturbedthoughineverycasethepuncturedfruitwassuckeddry.Ithinktheseverynumerousexperimentsshowthatbeesarenotwisejudgethepresenceofthedeliciousnectardropswhentheslatteraresealed.Theirquestmustbeincitedbytheescapingodorwhichonlycomesafterthefruithasbeenpiercedbybird，wasp，或nature.Grapegrowershaveoftenobservedthatwhengrapesbecomeveryripe,speciallywhentheweatheris Sultry,thebees oftenswarmontothefruitandcommencesippingthejuicewhichtheybearawayto theirhives.Thepresumptionis，ofcourse,theyarenotvaccinatedwiththetruth.Natureinthiscasesetsthejuicetooozingandthebeestackuchgrapesasshowtheescapingjuice.Ihavehungsoundgrapesinthevinesatsuchtimeandnotonewas Inaugural Programme. The committee in charge of preparations for President McKinley's second inauguration says the event promises to eclipse any preceding inauguration in the display and completeness. The musical arrangements for the inaugural ball have been completed. The marine band will supply the promenade music for the ball, while a selected orchestra of 125 pieces will render the dance music. The orchestra is holding daily rehearsals. The marine band has been engaged for a series of five concerts to be held in the hall of the pension building on the 5th and 6th of March, to afford an opportunity to those who can not attend the inaugural ball to view the decorations, which will be left in place until after the concerts. The price for each of these concerts will be 50 cents, while $5 a ticket will be charged for admission to the ball. A chorus of 500 local singers will be a feature of the closing concert. The ball room docorations, it is said, will surpass anything in splendor ever seen in Washington. This year for the first time the stands along the route of the inaugural parade will not be let to the highest bidder, but will be erected under the direction of the inaugural committee, and seats in the stands sold under its direction. Reasonable prices will be charged for these seats, one purpose of the committee in retaining control being to prevent extortion. The chief reason, however, is that the rough, unsymmetrical structures heretofore erected have detracted from the general scheme of decoration of the line of the procession. The committee will erect sightly stands and strive to decorate them handsomely in harmony with the buildings near them. Nasal Catarrh quickly yields to treatment by Ely's Cream Balm, which is agreeably aromatic. It is received through the nostrils, cleanses and heals the whole surface over which it diffuses itself. Druggists sell the 50c. size; Trial tizo by mail, 10 cents. Test it and you are sure to continue the treatment. Announcement. To accommodate those who are partial to the use of atomizers in applying liquids into the nasal passages for catarral troubles, the proprietors prepare Cream Balm in liquid form, which will be known as Ely's Liquid Cream Balm. Price including the spraying tube is 75 cents. Druggists or by mail. The liquid form embodies the medicinal properties of the solid preparation. Rates to the Inauguration in March. The Santa Fe will make excursion rates from all California points to Washington and return on the occasion of the reinauguration of President McKinley, March 4. The tickets will be sold on February 24 and 25, and will be good to return starting from Washington not later than March 8. West of Chicago, however, the tickets will be good until March 25. There will probably be another amendment introduced by the present legislature granting to counties the boon of local self-government. Our readers should write to the legislature, asking that this amendment be passed for submission to the voters. It will help the counties, help the legislature and benefit the State.—Saturday Post. I do not think it is strange that the bees never do bite into the sound fruit. True, for insects, they have large brains and I doubt not do a little thinking; but, brainy as they are, their reasoning faculties are meagre. They go by sense and not by judgment in the matter of attacking fruit. If the juice is unsealed so that odor escapes, then they hit to the vineyard to gather it up. If it is sealed, on the other hand, they know nothing of its presence and leave it all undisturbed. They never mine for their precious treasures but only glean them when they are all unconcealed. In Southern California, where bee keeping and fruit growing are such important industries, this matter is often discussed. It has sometimes been the cause of much ill feeling and in a few cases extensive lawsuits. In the great bee districts of Italy and Switzerland, this matter has long been settled and there has been no quarrel between bee men and fruit men. This is rapidly coming to be true in Southern California. Our intelligent fruit men know that they must have the bees to reach the best results. The flowers must be cross pollinated and this can only be thoroughly done through the presence of the bees. Thus to insure the best success, an apiary must be in the near vicinity of every large orchard. True, the bees may be no considerable annoyance in case the fruit... Gazette. 1901. NUMBER 17 ES EAT FRUIT? Days They do Not. Unless the has Been Previously punctured. ing correspondence will be interest to our ranchers of California, where both bee-fruit-growing are such industries: S. Cook, Claremont, Cal.—send you a copy of a letter from Prof. Slingerland, New York. I would like to coincide with the opinion of professor, regarding the bee's mouth. I have think differently. I had sent Prof. Slingerland as客 to a case we have in but after receiving this letter my mind and did not re-ago. I will rely on your of the case, whether you claim or not. Yours truly, President of the Americans' Union, which looks is in law where the inter-members are concerned. He medit in favor of the bee above case, as had the previously in other cases, was carried to the Su- of the United States. The Mr. Slingerland's letter to Yours at hand. I enmire my Rural New Yorker is as far as I can go in I have no original data do not feel competent to leading the capabilities of the of the honey bee to bite. Comstock, head of the En-Department here, is as any one regarding these is over-ripe, yet depredations of this kind may be stayed and the annoyance greatly lessened if not entirely prevented. The work of cross pollination, on the other hand, requires the bees. Thus the fruit grower is as much interested in the near presence of the bee-keeper as is the bee-keeper benefited by the close proximity of the orchard. —Cultivator. Hasson's Bill. Assembly bill 284, regulating the practice of medicine and establishing a State board of medical examiners, introduced by Hasson, has been the subject of much debate in the Legislature. Shortridge, Curtin, Simpson and Wolfe have led the opposition to the measure, while Rowell, Maggard and Cutter have been prominent among its champions. The chief contest came up on consideration of subdivision 4 of section 16 of the bill, which section specifies what persons shall be deemed as practicing medicine or surgery within the meaning of the act. The subdivision objected to specifies as follows: "Those who shall investigate or diagnosticate or offer to investigate or diagnosticate any physical or mental ailment of any person with a view of relieving the same, or who shall, for pecuniary or valuable consideration, prescribe, suggest or recommend any drug or medicine, magnetism, electric appliance, application, operation, manipulation or treatment of whatever nature for the intended relief, palliation or cure of any wound, fracture or bodily injury, infirmity or disease." Curtin moved to strike all of this out and made an impassioned speech on the subject. He said the paragraph in question was a blow at personal liberty. It would close all the mineral spring establishments in the State and would prevent the sale of proprietary medi- PLAN TO SUBDUE ARIDITY. Scheme to Use Proceeds from Sale of Public Lands to Build Storage Reservoirs. A beginning at the solution of the national irrigation problem may occur through a bill introduced the other day by Congressman Francis G. Newlands, of Nevada. The bill provides that all money received from sale of public lands in the arid and semi-arid States and Territories shall be paid into a fund to be known as the "arid land reclamation fund." The Geological Survey is instructed to continue its investigations and surveys and to make reports to the Secretary of the Interior who then may withdraw from entry reservoir sites and the adjacent land to be irrigated. Upon the determination by the Secretary of the Interior of the practicability of any certain project of reclamation, he may let contracts for its construction to be paid for out of the arid land reclamation fund. Then, upon the completion of each irrigation project, the total cost thereof shall be divided pro rata per acre of the lands to be irrigated, and that amount made a charge against the land. The lands will then be subject to homestead entry, limited to eighty acres each, the entryman making payment to the government of the cost of the water-right. The bill further provides that the right to use of the water shall be perpetually appurtenant to the land irrigated, and that beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure and the limit of the right. In case there should be enough water for additional private lands the bill provides that the right to use such water may be sold under the same conditions as though going with government land. The proceeds of all these Yours at hand. I enemy my Rural New Yorker is as far as I can go in I have no original data do not feel competent to lead the capabilities of the honey bee to bite. Comstock, head of the EnDepartment here, is as any one regarding these has kept bees and has structure of their mouth for time to prepare myself suffility would require more can devote to it. With Mr. not think you will have to reverse the verdict of the I have just seen Prof. and he says he sees no reathat he knows of the mouth the honey bee should not be into the grape or peach. I could get any desirable from here. Yours truly, M. and." Singerland is undoubtedly the opinion that we have no morality in general entomolprof. Comstock. I think I proof. Comstock in his opinbee might be able to bite skin of tender fruit, if it lower and had any such very certain that it never ing of the kind. It only of exposed nectar, where the escaping odor is what I have investigated this more thoroughness, I premany other person in the have taken very ripe fruit, grapes, where all were perI punctured part of the at tiny droplets of juice oozstructured grapes were marking about the stem. These ear the hive in some cases, be alighting board, or placed above the cluster in the experiments were always the bees were not gathering and when, of course, they usus to find and bring in the not a single case was the disturbed, though in every structured fruit was sucked at these very numerous exow that bees are not wise presence of the delicious as when these latter are our quest must be incited ing odor which only comes cuit has been pierced by or nature. Grape growers observed that when grapes ripe, especially when the cultry, the bees often swarm it and commence sipping which they bear away to The presumption is, of the bees bite into the this is, however, at variance South. Nature in this case to oozing and the bees atapes as show the escaping we hung sound grapes in such time and not one was lieving the same, or who shall, for pecuniary or valuable consideration, prescribe, suggest or recommend any drug or medicine, magnetism, electric appliance, application, operation, manipulation or treatment of whatever nature for the intended relief, palliation or cure of any wound, fracture or bodily injury, infirmity or disease." Curtin moved to strike all of this out and made an impassioned speech on the subject. He said the paragraph in question was a blow at personal liberty. It would close all the mineral spring establishments in the State and would prevent the sale of proprietary medicines. No man had the right to say that another should not take treatment for his ailments from whomever he wished. Shortridge spoke twenty minutes in support of Curtin's amendment. He denounced the whole bill as an abridgment of the liberties of the people. He made a direct appeal for the Christian Scientists and for those who administer electric treatment. He said the paragraph which Curtin wanted to eliminate was worthy of dark ages. The amendment was lost by a vote of 12 to 17. Shortridge then offered an amendment to the section which establishes exemptions from the bill's provisions by adding the clause "and those who treat by spiritual means and without drugs and remedies." The bill was amended in the Senate so as to recognize Christian science and osteopathy. State Division. Again the cry for State division comes up from parts of the orange growing districts of the southern counties, and it might become a demand which would compel recognition if the people of the far south got together as harmoniously in its behalf as they do in advertising their counties and standing up the State conventions of political parties. There is much of merit in the claim of State division, and the Pajaronian, for some years, has believed that there should be two California, with four United State senators at Washington, and that State division was certain to come. California is a long, narrow State, with territory enough for several States. Its public buildings are scattered about because of the State's great size, and the conduction of all State business is done at an excessive expense and with much delay of time because of the long distances which officials and citizens have to travel. It is as far from San Diego to Yreka (the extreme southern and northern county seats of California) as from San Francisco to Salt Lake; and the distance between the latter points can be covered in less time. The interests and the productions of the southern counties differ from those of the central and northern counties, and no section of California would be injured by State division. 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