anaheim-gazette 1901-05-16

IRRIGATION IN HAWAII. Many of the Fertile Lands of the Islands Would Be Useless Without It. The Department of Agriculture at Washington has favored us with a copy of a bulletin just issued upon the subject, "Irrigation in Hawaii," from which we quote as follows: The precipitation of atmospheric moisture is very uneven and irregular over the surface of the earth. There are zones that are marked by annual deluges, and there are vast areas upon which rain rarely falls. These rainless areas are not confined to conditions peculiar to specific latitudes, but are found in the tropical regions of India and Africa, over the wide plateaus of North America, and other localities having widely varying climatic conditions. The regions of small rainfall are very generally distinguished by lands of great natural fertility. This is due largely, on the one hand, to the absence of great rains that leach out the elements that feed plants, and, on the other hand, to the relative absence of crops, which results from lack of rain. Among the most productive tracts upon the earth today are regions that were naturally arid, but which have been rendered productive by irrigation. These tracts include the Punjab and other vast districts of India, the great basin of the Nile in Africa, and large semiarid areas that have more recently been brought under cultivation in the middle and western United States. The failure of the natural rainfall to produce crops may be due to the insufficiency of the total precipitation, as in regions in India, Africa, and other lands, where it does not aggregate 10 inches per year; or it may be due to the seasonal distribution, as in other parts of India and Africa, in northern Queensland, and some of the Pacific islands, where a heavy and almost the whole precipitation takes place within two or three months. In speaking of the agriculture in parts of the Himalayas, Mr. Buckley says: "Where the rainfall varies from 50 to as many as 100 inches, yet the sugar-cane crop has to linger through an annual arid period which greatly reduces the yield, while upon the Pacific islands of Hawaii, despite the winter rains, many of the most fertile lands would be useless without the prevailing practice of irrigating." In a report on investigations made in 1889 by Messrs. J. D. Schuyler and G. F. Allardt, civil engineers. The data and the views contained in that report were made the basis of operations by the authorities quoted, and they are still the views and represent the practice of those men who were on plantations at the time of the publication of the report in 1889. Other views and other methods are now coming into practice which are based more largely upon the principles set forth in the earlier paragraphs of this report and upon results obtained in actual experiments in irrigation. At this place it may be convenient to state, for the use of persons who judge by the standard of rainfall, that 1 cubic foot of water per second is equal to a flow of 294,700,032 United States gallons in fifteen months, and that if this volume were applied to 41.6 acres that would be equal to 7,108,173 gallons per acre, or a rainfall of 210 inches per year and 262 inches to mature the crop. The report proceeds to give examples, and begins with the Hawaiian Commercial company's plantation at Spreckelsville, island of Maui, of which it says: The record for the calendar year 1888 shows that there was delivered to the plantation the following quantity of water: Cubic feet. From the Haiku ditch...1,178,000,000 From the Waikee ditch...919,000,000 Total...2,094,000,000 Or 15,700,000,000 gallons. The rainfall during this period was 19.08 inches. The report states that the explanation for "this seemingly low duty" may be found in the fact that the water was also used for cattle, domestic, and other purposes. Mr. Hugh Morrison, general manager of the plantation at Spreckelsville, states, as an epitome of his experience, that 11,000 cubic feet per acre applied every seven days will produce the very best results in growing sugar cane. Covering the period of fifteen months already stated, that amount was equal to 5,348,200 gallons per acre, or a rainfall of 197 inches, which with the 19.08 inches of actual rainfall makes a total of 216.08 inches to produce the crop. In summing up their observations, Messrs. Schuyler and Allardt say that a greater duty than 60 acres per cubic foot per second can not possibly be considered safe; or in other words, at least 5,000,000 gallons per acre are required to make the crop. The President's Welcome to the Golden State Continued from First page. les all the afternoon and evening. The city was illuminated, and there was an unwearied blowing of trumpet and whistles and gathering of crowds. The Presidential party was astonished by the manifestation, and the most frequent remark made was: "California hospitality knows no bounds." President and Mrs. McKinley were of course, the observed all. The top of the carriage in which they rood was up to protect them from the somber what ardent sun. The President doffed his hat constantly in response to the continuous cheers. Mrs. McKinley waved her handkerchief and smiled. The Army and Navy League led this procession to the Van Nuys Hotel, preceded by two bands. Troop D, Captain J. D. Fredericks commanding gave a touch of military glitter to this scene as they rode with plumed hats behind the veterans. A company of Naval Reserves also made an excellent showing. Beyond this there was no attempt at display, and the procession bore the simple aspect of spontaneous popular welcome. The streets in the vicinity of the Vauyuys were packed with humanity. On the roofs were thousands of person-waving flags and cheering as the President approached. Salutes fired at intervals and innumerable factory workers added to the uproarious welcome. Way was made for the President and Mrs. McKinley through the crowd, as they were met by Mayor Snyder as party, who extended to them from the front dom of the city. The President responded to Mayor Snyder's address of welcome as follows: "Mr. Mayor and My Fellow-citizen I have already been welcomed to this magnificent State by your Chief Executive in terms of cordiality and goodwill, for which I have already made grateful acknowledgment." I am more than pleased to be received in this thrusiastic manner by the people of City of Los Angeles—to receive from the Mayor of city the greetings all the people. I have been glad to welcomed by my companions of Loyal Legion of the United States; my comrades of the Grand Army of Republic and by all the people. I had met while traveling through The Sonoran Desert." In speaking of the agriculture in parts of the Himalayas, Mr. Buckley says: "Where the rainfall varies from 50 to as many as 100 inches, yet the sugar-cane crop has to linger through an annual period which greatly reduces the yield, while upon the Pacific islands of Hawaii, despite the winter rains, many of the most fertile lands would be useless without the prevailing practice of irrigation. Irrigation, consequently, is playing an increasingly important part in modern intensive agriculture. The history of irrigation covers methods of applying water to crops, including the crudest efforts of the peasant and the great systems executed by governments or corporations, such as are in operation in India, the United States, and in the valley of the Nile. Certain of those systems are vast, and have been instituted under the pressure of meeting great emergencies. Today India is using irrigation upon a stupendous scale in grappling with the calamity of famine. Economic irrigation requires the consideration of physical laws which were unknown to the authors of primitive methods, and which have not been generally observed in establishing the huge systems of irrigation already mentioned. The chief crops that are grown by the aid of artificial irrigation in Hawaii are rice and sugar cane. The lands used for rice are the lowest flats found at the outlets of valleys and close on the sea. Irrigation is practiced upon all these lands, but no means of determining the volume used per acre have been adopted, and data are not at hand bearing on the question. Sugar production is relatively speaking, a recent matter so far as the present volume of production is concerned. So late even as 1880 the output is recorded as being 30,000 tons, while the production last year (1899) was 282,807 tons. The area to which water is artificially applied is yearly increasing, and in two years more than two-thirds of the crop, which is also vastly increasing, will be grown by aid of irrigation. The richest lands upon the islands are those lying toward and a little above sea level. In most of the districts, however, the rainfall over the low-lying lands, and especially upon the leeward side, is utterly insufficient to produce the sugar crop. Until the practice of irrigation was adopted these lowlands were useless, but now they are, beyond comparison, the richest and most productive. The primary source of water upon the Hawaiian Islands is rainfall. Two unfavorable conditions attend its precipitation: (1) The maximum quantity falls during the cool season, when the crops are not in a state of maximum growth and able to make use of it, and (2) the chief precipitation is over the mountain areas, where the water fails, down into the mutton marshes. Mr. Mayor and My Fellow-citizen I have already been welcomed to this magnificent State by your Chief Executive in terms of cordiality and goodwill, for which I have already made grateful acknowledgment. I am more pleased than to be received in this thuslastic manner by the people of the city of Los Angeles—to receive from the Mayor of the city the greetings all the people. I have been glad to welcome by my companions of our Loyal Legion of the United States, my comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic and by all the people. I met while traveling through the South many of our old comrades; but I had met also, marching side by side with them, giving cheers and welcome to President of the United States, who had met before many a battlefield, each the more speeting the other, and all now united under one flag, and rivaling each other in love and devotion to our Constitution and our common country. “There in one thing about our national character, it is not spoiled when it is transplanted. It loses none of strength or its virtue or its liberty under any sun or beneath any star. They say liberty does not thrive under tropical skies. Did liberty ever more grandly than in the State of California and throughout our Southland I congratulate you upon the prosperity conditions you have created in your State, from one end of it to the other and thank you from the bottom of it heart for myself and my associates this cordial welcome to your city, when I visit now for the second time. Two years ago when I was here you have population of little more than 11,000. To-day you have a population of a little more than 100,000, and in the last decade you have made a larger gain than any city in the country of 50,000 inhabitants—a gain, I believe, of over 100 percent. I congratulate you upon your prosperity, and wishing for you all life and contentment in your homes gains in all your occupations, I bid you good afternoon.” The floral parade of Thursday is the most notable and largely attended demonstration of the kind ever attempted in Los Angeles. The President and his party left Santa Barbara and the North on day at 6 o'clock. The party is now San Francisco. CALIFORNIA ORANGES Vast Improvement Noted in the Foothills —The Freeze in Florida. Everybody who eats them has probably noticed that New York's supply California oranges has never been so plentiful and cheap and as now. You can get big sweet juices or navel oranges as low as two foot nickel. Florida oranges have practically out of the market since the big free fall in the fall of 1897. They will things somewhat changed when they get back. A few years ago the superiority of the Florida orange, partly likely the Indian River product, was The primary source of water upon the Hawaiian Islands is rainfall. Two unfavorable conditions attend its precipitation: (1) The maximum quantity falls during the cool season, when the crops are not in a state of maximum growth and able to make use of it, and (2) the chief precipitation is over the mountain areas, where the water falls, soaks down into the water strata, and runs largely to the sea, unless arrested and returned to the land. The apparently disadvantageous circumstance of heavy precipitation at maximum elevations has been turned into a special advantage by engineering means. In certain districts the water is collected by small ditches over the mountain areas, where it falls, and is conducted by main ditches or by flumes down to the cane-bearing lands below, over which it is distributed by gravity. Where the rainfall can not be easily collected over the mountain areas, the water which sinks down into deep substrata is tapped and arrested at or near sea level, where it is found running toward the sea. In places where the lava rock strata run out before reaching the sea the water comes to the surface in springs, but the great body flows out or is held in underground reservoirs at varying depths, and has to be sought for by means of wells, from which the water is lifted and forced up to considerable elevations by high-duty pumps, where it is distributed. The pumps that are in service on the islands are chiefly of American build, and are in some instances of large capacity. Their duties range from the small lifts of the centrifugal pumps to those raising 12,000,000 gallons per 24 hours. The amount of water applied in the irrigation of Hawaiian sugar cane is controlled mainly by the volume of the supply. Concerning the volume that is considered necessary and that is taken as a basis of estimation in calculating the water required by any given plantation and the capacity of the pumps necessary to lift and apply it, reference is had to the data contained County School Superintendent Greeley has made the third quarterly apportionment of school funds, as follows: Alamitos, $120; Aliso, $40; Anaheim, $1304; Bolsa, $312; Buena Park, $208; Centralia, $208; Chico, $80; Cypress, $160; Delhi, $120; Diamond, $88; El Modena, $248; El Toro, $136; Fairview, $88; Fountain Valley, $176; Fullerton, $600; Garden Grove, $624; Luguna $40; La Habra, $160; Laurel, $176; Magnolia, $208; Mountain View, $240; Newhope, $208; Newport, $192; Newport Beach, $96; Ocean View, $496; Olinda, $104; Olive, $192; Orange, $1088; Orange-thorpe, $176; Peralta, $120; Placentia, $280; San Joaquin, $88; San Juan, $232; Santa Ana, $3680; Silverado $40; Trabuco, $40; Tustin, $624; Westminster, $336; Yorba, $128; making a total of $13.456. The following apportionment was also made to the various high schools: Anaheim, $1216.65; Fullerton, $2229.79; Santa Ana, $3436.68. A special apportionment of $1045.94 was made for the primary and grammar grades in the Santa Ana schools. Miss Florence Newman, who has been a great sufferer from muscular rheumatism, says Chamberlain's Pain Balm is the only remedy that affords her relief. Miss Newman is a much respected resident of the village of Gray, N.Y., and makes this statement for the benefit of others similarly afflicted. This limitation is for sale by P. A. Derge. Rincon Resumes. Drilling has been resumed in the well of the Rincon Crude Oil company, of which E. J. Barnett of this city is Superintendent. The company has been bothered by a broken casing. The damaged pipe has been repaired and the company is now using the smallest casing, 7½. The well has reached a depth of 1200 feet, and the drill is working in a formation of shale and slate, which seems to indicate oil may be found soon. It Saved His Leg. P. A. Danforth of La Grange, Ga., suffered for six months with a frightful running sore on his leg; but writes that Bucklen's Arnica Salve wholly cured it in five days. For ulcers, wounds, piles it's best salve in the world. Core guaranteed. Only 253 Sold by P. A. Derge, druggist. —The Freeze in Florida. Everybody who eats them has probably noticed that New York's supply California oranges has never been so plentiful and cheap and gourmet as now. You can get big sweet juices navel oranges as low as two foot nickel. Florida oranges have practically been out of the market since the big freeze in the fall of 1897. They will things somewhat changed when they get back. A few years ago the superiority of the Florida orange partially lately the Indian River product was questioned. The California orange was course-grained less juicy than Florida deficient in flavor and full flavor has been vastly improved brimming with juice and the toot fibre in the best grade of oranges almost entirely disappeared. It is not generally known that horticultural device for doing agriculture introduced in this country by an avant American woman who called attention of the Department of Agriculture to it. This woman while training in the Province of Bahia, Braza in 1868 observed that the oranges that province were much superior those raised in the United States seedless as well. She communicated with the Commissioner of Agriculture and as a result twelve young plants were sent from Brazil to Washington N.Y. Sun, May 5. At Bed Time I take a pleasant drink, the next morning I feel bright and my complexion better. My doctor says it acts good on the stomach, liver and kidneys is a pleasant laxative. It is made from herbs and is prepared as easily as it is called Lane's Medicine. All drugs sell it at 25 and 50 cents. La Family Medicine moves the bow each day. If you cannot get it send a free sample. Address: Orator Woodward. Le Roy, N.Y. For sales P. A. Derge. President's Welcome to the Golden State. continued from First page. In the afternoon and evening, it was illuminated, and there unwearied blowing of trumpets bells and gathering of crowds. Residential party was astonished manifestation, and the most freemark made was: "California's city knows no bounds." President and Mrs. McKinley were, the observed of all. The carriage in which they rode to protect them from the some-distant sun. The President doffed constantly in response to theious cheers. Mrs. McKinley her handkerchief and smiled. Navy and Navy League led the nation to the Van Nuys Hotel, prey two bands. Troop D, Cap-D. Fredericks commanding, touch of military glitter to the they rode with plumed helmind the veterans. A company Reserves also made an excel-wing. Beyond this there was exempt at display, and the pro-bore the simple aspect of a numerous popular welcome. Streets in the vicinity of the Van were packed with humanity. On its were thousands of persons, flags and cheering as the Presi-proached. Salutes fired at inn- and innumerable factory whisited to the uproarious welcome. Was made for the President and McKinley through the crowd, and were met by Mayor Snyder and who extended to them the free-the city. President responded to Mayor's address of welcome as follows: Mayor and My Fellow-citizens: Already been welcomed to this recent State by your Chief Execu-tions terms of cordiality and good which I have already made acknowledgment. I am more pleased to be received in this en-ricle manner by the bepeople of the Los Angeles—to receive fromvor of the city the greetings of people. I have been glad to be received by my companions of the region of the United States, by grades of the Grand Army of the life and by all the people. I have traveled through the South THE PEOPLE KNEW HIM. (Benson's Plaster is Pain's Master.) George Washington made and sold flour, and every barrel of flour in the market branded "G. Washington, Mount Vernon," sold without delay. No question was ever raised as to quality or weight. Benson's Porous Plaster sells on its reputation everywhere. All the buyer wants to be certain of is that the plaster offered him really is Benson's, and not a worthless imitation of it or substitute for it. A plaster is the best form of external remedy, and Benson's is the best plaster; 5,000 physicians and druggists, and a multitude of people no man can number, have settled that. "You can trust it," they say. Coughs, colds, lame back, lumbago, muscular stiffness and rheumatism, troubles of the liver and kidneys, influenza or grip, pneumonia, and all other diseases open to external treatment, are at once relieved and cured by Benson's Plaster. Do not assume that Belladonna, Capsicum or Strengthening plasters are "just as good as" Benson's. They are vastly inferior.—No other plaster is as good as Benson's. In competition with the best-known plasters of Europe and America, Benson's have received fifty-five highest awards. For sale by all druggists or we will prey postage on any number ordered in the United States, on receipt of 25c each. Seabury & Johnson, Mfg. Chemists, N.Y. DIED IN A DISORDERLY HOUSE. Strange Act of a Young Man from Westminster Lee Wright of Westminster was found dead on Friday afternoon at the house of May Harvey at Santa Ana. An inquest was held upon the body by Coroner Clark. Frederick Wright, father of the deceased, testified that his son was twenty-seven years old and had left his home at Westminster Wednesday morning for Los Angeles, apparently in good health and spirits. The young man had no enemies that he knew of, and he had no reason for supposing that the death of his son was not occasioned by accident. City Marshal Maxwell testified that Friday afternoon, about 4 o'clock, Harvey and another woman drove up to him on Fourth street and said that she was in deep distress. That a young man had been "stuck on Alice" and had committed suicide at her house. The marshal notified Smith, the undertaker, and the two proceeded to the house. They found the young man lying on the porch, on his back. The left hand was lying across the abdomen, and was covered with blood. The right hand was A Precocious Baby. The baby was only 4, but she was an only child and had lived with her parents largely in hotels, and she was a self possessed little malden. She was always a model of propriety as to manners, so that when one day a young man, a friend of her papa's and mamma's and a great admirer of the little girl, asked to take her out to luncheon all by herself she was allowed to go. A very tiny girl may go without a chaperon sometimes. The little girl was to do the ordering. She undertook thfs responsibility with confidence and, taking up the menu, studied it with as much gravity as if the letters were not as unreadable to her as Greek would have been to her mamma. "I will have some meat and some potatoes," she said gravely, "and by and by I may have some ice cream." The order was given, the cream followed, and the little lady was an altogether charming, dainty and sweet little companion for luncheon. The meal ended with the dignity with which it had begun, the young woman donned her wraps, and as the young man was preparing to escort her to the door she remarked gravely: "And now I will have some flowers." It was the last touch of grown upness, and it was the proudest young man in New York who took home a pretty and dignified baby with a big bunch of roses in her arms.—New York Times. A Patent Hole. Of the many extraordinary things for which patent protection has been granted a hole seems to be the most useless and impossible. Yet there are many patents for holes, and, what is more, the patents are valid and valuable. One of the best relates to holes in ships' bottoms for the admission and escape of water to the condensers. Every one who has seen a screw steamer under way will have noticed a stream of water issuing from her side, a little above the water line; that water is pumped into the ship for the purpose of condensing the waste steam that leaves the cylinders and returning it as water to the boilers. At last it occurred to a genius that if a hole were made in the bottom of the ship forward of the condenser and another abaft it, the water would circulate around the condenser without the aid of a pump. It is for the shape of these holes, so that they will offer less resistance to the water when the ship is traveling fast, that several patients have been granted. Generous Great Britain. Britain's "earth hunger" is a cow-sneer on the continent, but low what we have given away without least reason! We took the Ionian islands in and handed them over to Greece nothing about 50 years after Corsica shows George III as its but we abandoned it three years and the French naturally grabbed Tangler came to us by the ma-于of Charles II. We abandoned it end of 22 years. We took Cuba in 1762 and handed back to the Spaniards, after he it for 10 months. We took the Pines and returned them to the country for £800,000—which was paid. Here is a short list of other which we once held and gave up out compulsion; Minorca, Sicily dinia, Buenos Ayres, Montevideo, Pondicherry, Celebes, Moluccas. CALIFORNIA ORANGES Improvement Noted in the Fruit — The Freeze in Florida. My body who eats them has prohibited that New York’s supply of oranges has never before been plentiful and cheap and good. You can get big, sweet, juicy oranges as low as two for a day. Oranges have practically been the market since the big freeze fall of 1897. They will find somewhat changed when they sell. A few years ago the supermarket of the Florida orange, partridge Indian River product, was unavailable. City Marshal Maxwell testified that Friday afternoon, about 4 o’clock, Harvey and another woman drove up to him on Fourth street and said that she was in deep distress. That a young man had been “stuck on Alice” and had committed suicide at her house. The marshal notified Smith, the undertaker, and the two proceeded to the house. They found the young man lying on the porch, on his back. The left hand was lying across the abdomen, and was covered with blood. The right hand was lying at the side, and between the right arm and body, muzzle down, was a new 38-calibre revolver, which contained four loads and one empty chamber. There were no indications of a struggle about the premises. Maxwell thought it was a case of suicide. It was his belief that the young man had shot himself in the mouth. S. W. Smith, the undertaker, testified that in his opinion the young man had not committed suicide, but had been killed through an accident. This conclusion he had reached after an examination of the remains, which did not disclose any powder marks on the face. The right band was burned, and it was his opinion that deceased was examining the revolver when it was accidentally discharged. The ball entered the mouth, loosening two front upper teeth, and proceeding upward back of the left eye, lodging just under the skull. The testimony of Alice Powers, an inmate of the disorderly house, with whom the unfortunate young man had become infatuated, pointed most conclusively to suicide. She said that Wright visited the house last Sunday and wanted her to marry him. She answered that she could not, and he replied that he would kill himself on his mother’s doorstep, as he would be better off dead than alive. She had attempted to dissuade him from such an act, but he still persisted that he would kill himself. The witness had known deceased since the 23rd of last December, and he visited the house about once a week. He tried to make her promise that she would look at him after he was dead. Harvey, proprietor of the house, had known the deceased before, but had not seen him for some time until the 25th of last December. She felt that he was in earnest when he had talked of self-destruction and she had endeavored to dissuade him. The evidence was closed with Harvey’s testimony, and the case was given to the jury, which shortly returned with a verdict of suicide. Beware of a Cough. A cough is not a disease but a symptom. Consumption and bronchitis, which are the most dangerous and fatal diseases, have for their first indication a persistent cough, and if properly treated as soon as this cough appears are easily cured. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy has proven wonderfully successful, and gained its wide reputation. Corsica shows George III as its king but we abandoned it three years ago and the French naturally grabs Tangler came to us by the man of Charles II. We abandoned it at end of 22 years. We took Cuba in 1762 and handed back to the Spaniards, after it for 10 months. We took the Pines and returned them to the country for £800,000—which was paid. Here is a short list of other cases which we once held and gave up out compulsion; Minorea, Sicily; dinia, Buenos Ayres, Montevideo; Pondlecherry, Celebes, Moluccas; and about 50 other places. We took Cape Colony in 1794 gave it up again to the Dutch. In we took it again—and kept it—London Standard. The Coughing Bean. To the ordinary housemaid thing of a house plant into a water paroxysm of coughing is natural disconcerting. Yet there is which will do this when the duster begins to make duck. This singular plant is the “cow bean,” known to the botanist to Eutada tussilk. It is a warm and moist tropical country cannot and will not stand dust. Dust settles upon the leaves of this plant and on them, a gas accumulates inside leaves, and when it gains strength forbly “blows off,” clocks the pores of dust and makes a exactly like coughing. At the time the leaves tremble and then actually “gets red in the face,” the sinking of the green chlorine grains and the appearance of reddicles on the leaves. This plant sometimes used as a house plant sweeping the room sets it coughs the intense astonishment of plants not familiar with its peculiarities. Missed His Guess. An American who was sojourn Spain at the time says that on when Dewey was destroying their ish squadron at Manila a representative audience, including Spain’s bravest and best, were acting a patriotic bullfight in Manila applauding these words of the matador: “With the ease with which have killed this noble animal, will the glorious Spanish nation hold the traditions of the past keep green the laurels of their trious fathers by triumph over Yankee pig.” The Ones Going. A man once wrote to a western yer for information in regard to son who had owed him a consol sum of money for a long time. “What property has he which attach?” he asked. The lawyer’s reply was brief: “The man died six months ago has left nothing subject to attache save a widow.”-Youth’s Compass. A Smooth Answer. He—Do you think you really now? She—You don’t know anything it. I wish I had known before ried you what a stupid you are. He—You might have guessed The Freeze in Florida. Anybody who eats them has probticed that New York's supply of oranges has never before been plentiful and cheap and good. You can get big, sweet, juicy oranges as low as two for a dada oranges have practically been the market since the big freeze fall of 1897. They will find somewhat changed when they skek. A few years ago the superof the Florida orange, partiune Indian River product, was unknown. The California orange course-grained, less juicy than the mas deficient in flavor and full of egy pulp that was both disagreee to the eater and hard upon the oon. A wonderful improvement has made within a comparatively time. The California orange tostill coarse-grained and still some of the delicate flavor of the orange or the Messina fruit, but its has been vastly improved, it is ing with juice and the tough in the best grade of oranges has entirely disappeared. Not generally known that this cultural device for doing away the seeds in the ripened fruit was used in this country by an obsersioner woman who called atto the Department of Agriculture. This woman while traveling the Province of Bahia, Brazil, observed that the oranges of province were much superior to raised in the United States, and as well. She communicated the Commissioner of Agriculture a result twelve young plants went from Brizil to Washington—Sun, May 5. At Bed Time A pleasant drink, the next morneel bright and my complexionis My doctor says it acts gently stomach, liver and kidneys, and peasant laxative. It is made from and is prepared as easily as tea. Called Lane's Medicine. All drugell it at 25 and 50 cents. Lane's Medicine moves the bowels way. If you cannot get it send for the sample. Address, Orator F. ward. Le Roy, N.Y. For sale by Derge. Beware of a Cough. A cough is not a disease but a symptom. Consumption and bronchitis, which are the most dangerous and fatal diseases, have for their first indication a persistent cough, and if propely treated as soon as this cough appears are easily cured. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has proven wonderfully successful, and gained its wide reputation and extensive sale by its success in curing the diseases which cause coughing. If it is not beneficial it will not cost you a cent. For sale by P. A. Derge, druggist. Macbeth's Wife's Christian Name. Miss Blank, who wished to become a candidate for the position of teacher in the public schools, went up for examination recently. Among other things she was called upon to read a passage from "Macbeth" which closes with the words which Macbeth speaks to Lady Macbeth. "I prithee come with me." And what," asked the examiner, "do you understand 'prithee' to mean?" "I understand it to be a corruption of 'pray thee,'" replied the would be teacher, surprised at so trivial a question. "I am glad," said the examiner. "The lady who came just before you assured me that it was the Christian name of Macbeth's wife."—Judge. The Abused Mule. The wickedness of mules is a standing joke, and you are always hearing them abused. Ever see a team of mules run away? Almost every day you see a family horse running away, usually with screaming women and children in the buggy, but did you ever see a mule run away? Did you ever personally know a mule to kick any one? The fact is, the mule works hard on light feed and gets nothing but abuse.—Atchison Globe. Just the Opposite. "When I first met you," cried the woman who had been married for her money. "you occupied a low, menial position, but now, thanks to me, your position"— "Is a hymeneal one," her husband interrupted. Exchange. is called "weak stomach" is in general a diseased condition of the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition, which prevents the proper digestion of the food which is taken into the stomach, and so reduces the nutrition of the body. When all food is taken away the body starves. When the food eaten is only digested and assimilated in part it only nourishes the body in part, and so the body is partly starved. And this starvation is felt in every organ of the body dependent on the blood which is made from food. The great variety of the cures performed by Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is due to its remarkable power to heal diseases of the stomach and allied organs. It cures through the stomach diseases seemingly remote, but which have their origin in a diseased condition of the stomach and the other organs of digestion and nutrition. "Weak" heart, lungs, kidneys and weakness of other organs is cured with the cure of the weak stomach. Mr. Thomas A. Swarts, Box 103, Sub-Station C., Columbus, Ohio, writes: "I was taken very sick with severe headache, then cramps in the stomach, and food would not digest, then kidney and liver trouble, and my back got weak so I could scarcely get around. The more I doctored the worse I got until six years passed. I had become so poorly I could only walk in the house by the aid of a chair, and I got so thin I had given up to die, thinking that I could not be cured. Then one of my neighbors said, 'Take Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and make a new man out of yourself.' The first bottle helped me so I thought I would get another, and found I had gained twenty-seven (27) lbs. in about six weeks. I have done more hard work in the past eleven months than I did in two years before, and I am as stout and healthy to-day, I think, as I ever was." Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure constipation. You May Need Pain-Killer For Cuts Burns Bruises Cramps Diarrhoea All Bowel Complaints It is a sure, safe and quick remedy, There's ONLY ONE Pain-Killer Perry Davis'. Two sizes, 25c. and 50c. What is thy name, O statue? "I am called Opportunity." "Who made thee?" "Lysippus." "Why art thou on thy toes?" "To show that I stay but a mowhy hast thou wings on thy w" "To show how quickly I pass b" "But why is thy hair so long forehead?" "That men may seize me whime meet me." "Why, then, is thy head so b" "To show that when I haupassed I cannot be caught." FROM WASHDAY From Monday to Saturday—at every turn in the kitchen work—a Wickless Blue Flame Oil Stove will save labor, time and expense—and keep the cook comfortable. No bulky fuel to prepare or carry, no waiting for the fire to come up or die down; a fraction of the expense of the ordinary stove. Wickless BLUE FLAME Oil Stove will boil, bake, broil or fry better than a coal stove. It is safe and cleanly—can not become greasy, can not emit any odor. Made in several sizes, from one burner to five. If your dealer does not have them, write to nearest agency of STANDARD OIL COMPANY. TO BAKING DAY Generous Great Britain. Britain's "earth hunger" is a common fear on the continent, but look at what we have given away without the best reason! We took the Ionian islands in 1809 and handed them over to Greece for living about 50 years afterward. America shows George III as its king, we abandoned it three years later, the French naturally grabbed it. Angler came to us by the marriage Charles II. We abandoned it at the end of 22 years. We took Cuba in 1762 and handed it back to the Spaniards, after holding for 10 months. We took the Phillipines and returned them to the same country for £800,000—which was never there is a short list of other places which we once held and gave up with compulsion; Minorca, Sicily, Saraca, Buenos Ayres, Montevideo, Java, Caldercherry, Celebes, Moluccas, Elba. THE UNITED MINES Mining Co. OF WILMINGTON, DELAWARE. Executive offices: Santa Ana, Orange County, Cal. OFFICERS GILES OTIS PEARCE, President and General Manager: MINING CO. OF WILMINGTON, DELAWARE. Executive offices: Santa Ana, Orange County, Cal. OFFICERS GILES OTIS PEARCE, President and General Manager; RAY BILLINGSLEY. Treasurer, Secretary and General Counsel. Capital stock, $400,000; 400,000 shares, Par value, $1 per share. IHIS Company owns at Manvel Camp, San Bernardino County, in the New York mountain field (two miles from R. K. track), all of 22 full claims to-wit; MINES AND MINING CLAIMS—The Old Shoes the Red Bug, the Patsy Boliver, the Harmony, the Standard, the Central [5], the Polka Dot, the Bulls Eye, the Full Moon, the Half Moon, the Meteor, the Colored Money, the Fellowship, the Little Glant, the Lookout, the Jason, the Blackhawk, the Lone Star, the Lucky Boy and Sixteen to One. And also the undivided one-tenth of the Good Hope group of mines and claims in number. The product of the veins are values in ores of Gold, Silver Lead and Copper. Every vein from surface shows gold in good values present in nearly every assay of surfa e rock, as from $2.50 to $9.00 per ton of ore in place as exposed by surface outcroppings. DEVELOPMENTS—The Old Shoes claim 76 foot shaft and vein 65 feet across the velv sample shows values $280.00 per ton in Gold, Silver, Copper and Lead. All ready shafts 15 tons ore out, values in Gold, Silver, Copper and Lead about $40.00 per ton. The Good Hope claim 26-foot adit face and shaft, about 40 tons ore out, average of $8.00 per ton in Gold. The Lone Star claim opened well, showing ore of values, Gold $19, and 6 oz Silver per ton, with a per cent of 15-Bismuth. This is Bismuth 300 pounds to the ton, and Bismuth is worth about $2.50 per pound, or $750 per ton ore. (Bonanza here, but ore will have to go to special smelters and refineries.) There are in Treasury some rare minerals of which is held at par value, $220.000, and a special rate is made on 100,000 shares if taken soon, and there are very few promotion shares available to prompt or immediate investors. (We are told by experts that our combine has a prospective valuation of $2,500,000). Exploration workings and deep sinking is the work before us to do, and it takes money to do that, and for this money, pooling of it, from investors; is in order. Persons interested in getting into and investing in a "cracker jack," good investment should immediately write for rather private information available to them, and state how much cash they have got in hand to come in with. Do not delay as working money is wanted now. Address: Giles Otis Pearce, P. O. Box 61. Office: Rooms 2 and 3, upstairs, II4 Fourth st., Santa Ana, Cal. Orphans. ANAHEIM, CAL., April 18, 1901. The following orphans have been admitted into St. Catherine's Orphan Asylum since the last publication: Half Orphans—Walter Stronach, aged 7 years; Alfred Acibis, aged 1 year; 2 months; Martin Ybarra, aged 5 years; John Dilbon, aged years; Daniel Garcia, aged 1 year; 6 months; Macario Rodriguez, aged 7 years; Gabriel Grimaud, aged 4 years; 3 months. Southern Pacific Company. San Francisco and Los Angeles Limited—"THE Owl." Between Los Angeles and San Francisco daily. Leave Los Angeles $:00 pm; arrive San Francisco 8:55 am. Leave A Smooth Answer. Me—Do you think you really wanted new dress now? She—You don't know anything about it. I wish I had known before I married you what a stupid you are. He—You might have guessed it well, when I offered to marry you. Deathbed Repentance. He was in the legislature two years," reads a notice of a departed citizen; "came within an ace of going congress, held a government office the years and finally died a Christian." Atlanta Constitution. The Bible has been so called only for the last 700 years. It was formerly called "The Books" or the "Divine Library." Lord Brougham commonly spent three or four weeks in study before writing a great speech. Opportunity. In one of the old Greek cities there stood long ago a statue. Every trace of this vanished now. But there is still existence an epigram which gives us excellent description of it, and as we read the words we can surely discern the lesson which those wise old books meant that the statue should touch every passerby. The epigram in the form of a conversation between a traveler and the statue: "What is thy name, O statue?" "I am called Opportunity." "Who made thee?" "Lysippus." "Why art thou on thy toes?" To show that I stay but a moment." "Why hast thou wings on thy feet?" To show how quickly I pass by." But why is thy hair so long on thy head? That men may seize me when they meet me." "Why, then, is thy head so bald beard?" To show that when I have once kissed I cannot be caught." Orphans. ANAHEIM, CA., April 18, 1901. The following orphans have been admitted into St. Catherine's Orphan Asylum since the last publication: Half Orphans — Walter Stronach, aged 7 years, 6 months; Alfred Acibis, aged 1 year; Martin Ybarra, aged 5 years; John Dilbon, aged years; Daniel Garcia, aged 1 year, 6 months; Macario Rodriguez, aged 7 years; Gabriel Grimaud, aged 4 years, 3 months. I would be a chump and a stupid not to highly appreciate the Jordan "AAA1" Cutlery, after having used it properly. 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Sunset Limited, season Nov-ember 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 as follows: One composite car, containing bath-room, barber-shop, refe. library and smoker; one compartment car with lavatory in each compartment and parlor for the special use of ladies' maid in attendance; as many double drawing-room, tension sleepers as may be necessary, with toilet annexes, one dining-car, meals served a la carte. 1900—SUNSET EXCURSIONS—1900 Through Tourist Sleepers from Los Angeles: To Washington, D. C., via New Orleans, 2 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. To Chicago, Ill., via El Paso 2 p.m. Tuesdays. To Cincinnati, Ohio, via New Orleans, 2 p.m. Fridays and Sundays. OGDEN ROUTE EXCURSIONS. To St. Paul, via Sioux City, 11:40 am Thursdays. To Chicago, Mondays. Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Leave Los Angeles: 11:40 am. SHASTA ROUTE EXCURSIONS. To Portland, St. Paul and Minneapolis, Mondays: 10:20 pm. First and second-class tickets for sali at Anaheim at Los Angeles prices, and baggage checked through to any point in the United States, Canada or Mexico. Our local train service is unexcelled for comfort. Day coaches are equipped with the celebrated Scarritt seats, luxuriously upholstered, and passengers for Los Angeles are landed right in the center of the business part of the city—at First street or Commercial street—within a block of the large wholesale houses. Our connection at Mojave for the famous gold mining camp of Randsburg is superb; good hotel at Mojave and elegant stage coaches through to the city of gold. Fare from Anaheim to Randsburg, $7.55. 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. 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