anaheim-gazette 1901-05-23

FRUIT GROWERS AND THE RAILROADS. Excessive Charges and Slowness of Time Coupled With Other Abuses the Farmer Bears. By reason of geographical position, the freight charge under the most favorable tariffs possible is certain to be a very large percentage of the selling price of California fruits. Many sections have gone into fruit growing, so that the competition with California fruits is growing year by year, except as to citrus fruits. The rule of all commercial operations is to seek the lowest levels of exchange in the matters of cost and risk. It is common history that with the growth of new industries, which are subject to competitive conditions, new methods of economy must be introduced at all points, to avoid prohibitive prices to the consumer. It is unnecessary to say that the fruit-growers of California have studied these questions of saying, because of the increasing necessity of doing so; but while the fruit-growers have sought by every method they could devise to reduce the cost of handling in order to meet the growing competition from other sections, they have had absolutely no assistance from the transportation companies. In fact, every change that has been made in the transportation phase of the problem within a dozen years has been to the advantage of the carriers only, with one single exception. That exception is the character of the cars used for the shipment of perishable fruits, which improvement has been made, not by the railroads, but by the car lines, and at their cost, and that of the fruit-growers. While the traffic has been increasing and while, as above noted, the growers have reduced the cost of production and preparation for market, and marketing charges, the freight rate remains the same as when the traffic was in its infancy. In fact, while the profits of the industry have been steadily decreasing the earning power of the freight rate has increased by the increase of the minimum weight: First, from 20,000 to 21,000 pounds; then from 21,000 to 24,000 pounds, and more recently to 26,000 pounds. It is not denied that these increases were solely in the interest of the carriers, and it can tages to the California fruit-growers are without any corresponding benefits. The railroads have the use of a large number of expensive refrigerator cars, practically without cost to themselves. They have increased revenue by the increase of the minimum carload and by the slower time in transit. In their recent memorial to the transportation companies, discussing the freight service, the California fruit-growers say, with reference to growers of deciduous fruits: "Relief must come to them in some way, or bankruptcy be their fate." Recent experiences have forecasted a similar consequence to citrus fruit-growers. What is the remedy? Preparatory to the application of any remedy, I should say, let the fruit-growers of California take a valuable lesson from the facts before them. The conditions that threaten them with disaster are the immediate consequences of combination: The railroads are acting together. Let no one be deceived by any representations that the statements herein made are not true. It is perhaps not to be wondered at that corporations controlling the only means of transportation should exercise the function of monopolists, forgetful that railroads are not purely private enterprises. It is true they are built by private capital, but there is a larger sense in which they exercise for the time being governmental functions. That is, the public confers upon them privileges exclusively its own, and it is but right that the public should insist that the powers of these corporations be exercised justly and equitably. It is probably useless to argue the question with them, but there comes a time when public sentiment becomes too strong to be ignored. Unless respected, it is certain to crystallize into law. It is not sufficient that the various fruit interests organize for handling their own lines—they must take a larger view, and aid each other. Co-operation is the word. A. H. NAFTZER. Fought for His Life. "My father and sister both died of consumption," writes J. T. Weatherwax, of Wyandotte, Mich., "and I was saved from the same frightful fate only by Dr. King's New Discovery." An attack of pneumonia left an obstinate cough and very severe lung trouble, which an excellent doctor could not help, but a few months' use of this won. ABOUT THE SWEET POTATO. New Possibilities Pointed Out by an Official Expert—Experimental Exports to Europe. The sweet potato is the subject of a farmers' bulletin written by D. M. Nesbit, a grower of Maryland, for the Department of Agriculture at the request of Major Henry E. Alvord, chief of the dairy division of the Bureau of Animal Industry. Mr. Nesbit was put in charge of some experimental shipments to Europe made early in 1900 by the Department of Agriculture and these opened up so many possibilities for exportation to European countries that he was asked to prepare a paper on the sweet potato. The paper will be of special interest to growers in view of the recently reported organization in New Jersey of a concern which intends to broaden out one of the branches of the sweet potato raising industry by making flour out of the sweet potato. The flour, it is said, can be used as a blend for wheat, rye and corn flour, and it is asserted that these flours are made richer and more nutritious and are protected from mold or staleness by such blending. The Northern markets prefer a dry, yellow sweet potato of medium size and comely shape. Sweet potatoes of this class are planted under several names in New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, the Eastern Shore of Virginia and the middle West. Farther South, from regions shut off from the Northern markets by freight rates, the most varieties that exude a sugary syrup in baking are in demand in the local markets. Larger and coarser varieties are used for stock feeding. The sweet potato needs a warm climate. Where there is no frost it is perennial. Frost is immediately fatal to it and a temperature below forty-five degrees is very dangerous. For profitable culture the sweet potato requires at least four months of warm weather, free from coolness at night. It does not suffer so quickly as the common Irish potato from drought. On the other hand, too much moisture is bad for it. In a suitable climate the sweet potato will thrive on almost any well-drained soil, the best soil being a light, sandy loam where there is no excess of organic matter. In a chapter on planting he says: "Where the plants are set in rows one While the traffic has been increasing and while, as above noted, the growers have reduced the cost of production and preparation for market, and marketing charges, the freight rate remains the same as when the traffic was in its infancy. In fact, while the profits of the industry have been steadily decreasing the earning power of the freight rate has increased by the increase of the minimum weight: First, from 20,000 to 21,000 pounds; then from 21,000 to 24,000 pounds, and more recently to 26,000 pounds. It is not denied that these increases were solely in the interest of the carriers, and it cannot be denied that they have worked to the detriment of the fruit-growers in every instance. The effect has been to limit the markets, and, therefore, to limit the distribution of California fruits. It is not difficult to point out specific instances in which this increase of the minimum carload has had the effect of closing markets to carload sales. Small cities that could handle a carload of the smaller size cannot handle the larger—consequently whatever fruit is handled in such markets must bear the added cost of local freight from some larger city where the fruit is marketed in car lots. It goes without saying that this curtails consumption in such smaller cities—first, because the fruit must be sold at a higher price, and, second, because the dealer has no such incentive to push sales when he buys in small quantities as when he buys in car lots. By reason of the existing agreement between the initial carriers the refrigeration rates which formerly were to a considerable degree a matter of bargain between the shipper and the refrigerator line, have been made fixed and arbitrary. These refrigeration charges have been proved exorbitant, and they have been denominated by high railroad officials as "an outrage." The blame for these excessive refrigeration charges should not attach so much to the owners of the car lines as to the initial railroads, for by the terms of the agreement between them the railroads pay absolutely nothing for the use of these cars on a large proportion of the California fruit traffic, and very little on the remainder of it. In other words, the initial railroads pay nothing in the shape of rent or mileage on these refrigerator cars used in the green fruit traffic. To compensate the refrigerator car lines for this loss of revenue the railroads agree to and collect for them this arbitrary and excessive refrigeration charge. There is probably no other instance in the world where so large an equipment is made use of by railroads absolutely without cost. They have no money invested in the cars; no taxes, no insurance, no repairs, no rents and no mileage for the use of the cars. But it must not be forgotten that the fruit-growers pay what the railroads ought to pay. As a further measure to enforce this agreement between the initial railroads, and to prevent any competition between the car lines under which the fruit shippers might obtain, as they did formerly, a reduced refrigeration charge, and for other benefits to accrue to themselves, the initial industry have been steadily decreasing the earning power of the freight rate has increased by the increase of the minimum weight: First, from 20,000 to 21,000 pounds; then from 21,000 to 24,000 pounds, and more recently to 26,000 pounds. It is not denied that these increases were solely in the interest of the carriers, and it cannot be denied that they have worked to the detriment of the fruit-growers in every instance. The effect has been to limit the markets, and therefore, to limit the distribution of California fruits. It is not difficult to point out specific instances in which this increase of the minimum carload has had the effect of closing markets to carload sales. Small cities that could handle a carload of the smaller size cannot handle the larger—consequently whatever fruit is handled in such markets must bear the added cost of local freight from some larger city where the fruit is marketed in car lots. It goes without saying that this curtails consumption in such smaller cities—first, because the fruit must be sold at a higher price, and second, because the dealer has no such incentive to push sales when he buys in small quantities as when he buys in car lots. By reason of the existing agreement between the initial carriers the refrigeration rates which formerly were to a considerable degree a matter of bargain between the shipper and the refrigerator line, have been made fixed and arbitrary. These refrigeration charges have been proved exorbitant, and they have been denominated by high railroad officials as "an outrage." The blame for these excessive refrigeration charges should not attach so much to the owners of the car lines as to the initial railroads, for by the terms of the agreement between them the railroads pay absolutely nothing for the use of these cars on a large proportion of the California fruit traffic, and very little on the remainder of it. In other words, the initial railroads pay nothing in the shape of rent or mileage on these refrigerator cars used in the green fruit traffic. To compensate the refrigerator car lines for this loss of revenue the railroads agree to and collect for them this arbitrary and excessive refrigeration charge. There is probably no other instance in the world where so large an equipment is made use of by railroads absolutely without cost. They have no money invested in the cars; no taxes, no insurance, no repairs, no rents and no mileage for the use of the cars. But it must not be forgotten that the fruit-growers pay what the railroads ought to pay. As a further measure to enforce this agreement between the initial railroads, and to prevent any competition between the car lines under which the fruit shippers might obtain, as they did formerly, a reduced refrigeration charge, and for other benefits to accrue to themselves, the initial industry have been steadily decreasing the earning power of the freight rate has increased by the increase of the minimum weight: First, from 20,000 to 21,000 pounds; then from 21,000 to 24,000 pounds, and more recently to 26,000 pounds. It is not denied that these increases were solely in the interest of the carriers, and it cannot be denied that they have worked to the detriment of the fruit-growers in every instance. The effect has been to limit the markets, and therefore, to limit the distribution of California fruits. It is not difficult to point out specific instances in which this increase of the minimum carload has had the effect of closing markets to carload sales. Small cities that could handle a carload of the smaller size cannot handle the larger—consequently whatever fruit is handled in such markets must bear the added cost of local freight from some larger city where the fruit is marketed in car lots. It goes without saying that this curtails consumption in such smaller cities—first, because the fruit must be sold at a higher price, and second, because the dealer has no such incentive to push sales when he buys in small quantities as when he buys in car lots. By reason of the existing agreement between the initial carriers the refrigeration rates which formerly were to a considerable degree a matter of bargain between the shipper and the refrigerator line, have been made fixed and arbitrary. These refrigeration charges have been proved exorbitant, and they have been denominated by high railroad officials as "an outrage." The blame for these excessive refrigeration charges should not attach so much to the owners of the car lines as to the initial railroads, for by the terms of the agreement between themthe railroads pay absolutely nothing forthe useofthecarsonalproportionoftheCaliforniafruittraffic,andverylittleontheremainderofit.Inotherwords,theinitialrailroaddayspathingthroughtheterritorialstage.Buttheconditionswereexceptional.AgreatsideofsplendidAmericanmanhoodhadpouredintCaliforniainsearchofgoldandtookthedominantpartintheformationofthenewState。它contiguousterritoryinonesensebutmonthswererequiredtoreachitbyasea voyagearoundtheHornorbytheoverlandroute.Manyoftheargonautusandmanywho votedfortheconstitutionunderwhichtheStatewasadmittedarestillliving.Californiaisawonderfulexampleofexpansion.MininghaslongceasedtobeitschiefindustryIthasdevelopedotherresourcesuntil,bylecensusoflastyearithasapopulationof1,485,053,andincreaseof23percentintenyears.WithintwentyyearsafterthefirstgrainsofgoldwereidentifiedAtSutter'smillCaliforniaproduced16,000-000bushelsof wheatand8,000,000barleyinoneyear.Itsfruitsandwinesareknowntoday throughouttheperennial.Frostisimmediately fataltoitanda temperaturebelowforty-fivedegreesisverydangerous.Forprofitableculturethe sweet potatorequiresatleastfourmonthsofwarmweatherfreefromcoolnessatnight.itDoesnotsuffersoquicklyasthecommonIrishpotatofromdrought.Ontheotherhand,toumouch moistureisbadforit.Ina suitable climatethe sweet potatowill thriveonalmostanywell-drained soil,thebest soilbeingalight,sandyloamwherethereisnoexcessoforganicmatter. Ina chapter on planting he says:"Wherethe plantsaresetinrowsonewaya distanceofonlyeighteeninchesbetweenthemisrecommended。Whentheyareplantedincheckstheymustbearat leastthreefeet apart.Menhavebeenknowntoplantbyhandwiththeassistanceofaboytodroptheplants10,000plantsintenhours,but500maybeconsideredaday'swork.VariousimplementshavebeendevisedobliviatenecessityforstoopingindhandplantingChiefamongthetractswhicharecommonlyusedinthebusinessThereareseveraltransplantingmachinesprovidedwithwatertanksfromwhicheachplantiswateredautomaticallywhenitisetoccupiedbefore. Afterthepotatoisdugoutitshouldbeleftforseveralhourstodryinthesun.Underfavorableconditionsincheckplantinga barrelofprimesfrom100hillsisagood yield.InagoodFire!Fire!! Whenthatcrysoundshowpeople rushtohelpandsympathize!Andwhensomefiremanrescuesawomanfromtheflames,thestreetsechowithapplaudingshouts. Andyetifthatwomanhadperishedintheflamesitispossiblethatshewouldhavesefferlessthanshesuffersalmostdailyfromtheinflammationwhichdiscussheslightedindelicatewomanlyorganization. Thatfireinflaimationcanbeputout.Thegrowingulcercanbecuried.Dr.Pierce'sFavoritePrescriptionnotonlyestablisheswomen In the world where so large an equipment is made use of by railroads absolutely without cost. They have no money invested in the cars; no taxes, no insurance, no repairs, no rents and no mileage for the use of the cars. But it must not be forgotten that the fruit-growers pay what the railroads ought to pay. As a further measure to enforce this agreement between the initial railroads, and to prevent any competition between the car lines under which the fruit shippers might obtain, as they did formerly, a reduced refrigeration charge, and for other benefits to accrue to themselves, the initial railroads have taken into their own hands the absolute routing of all these fruit shipments to destination. This has been specially applied to the citrus fruit traffic, and to an increasing extent to the others. The results of this arbitrary act have been incalculable losses to the fruit-growers. Under the agreement the initial carriers have divided the business between themselves and have distributed it to other connecting lines to suit themselves. The immediate effect is to make the worst service in the history of the business, much slower time in transit; less care and attention to the shipments by way of ventilation and great delays in the matter of necessary diversions. These results are perhaps not to be wondered at, as every element of competition has been abolished. The initial carriers, as stated, divide the business by agreement. Their connections get it presumably by reciprocity—probably in exchange for west-bound freight. This enormous traffic in perishable products requiring prompt service and care in transit, and paying high transportation rates, is handled by the carriers in such a way as to eliminate competition, and absolutely prevent the shipper from enforcing demands for good service by diverting the traffic to other lines. So I come back to the statement that every change—with this single exception—has been to the damage of the fruit-grower, and for the benefit of the carriers—increased minimum limitation of markets, arbitrary and excessive refrigeration rates, slower time than ever before and consequent rotting of fruit in transit, poorer facilities for the necessary diversion and therefore distribution of the fruit into the various markets. All these disadvantages overland route. Many of the argonauts and many who voted for the constitution under which the State was admitted are still living. California is a wonderful example of expansion. Mining has long ceased to be its chief industry. It has developed other resources until, by the census of last year, it has a population of 1,485,053, an increase of 23 per cent in ten years. Within twenty years after the first grains of gold were identified at Sutter's mill California produced 16,000,000 bushels of wheat and 8,000,000 of harley in one year. Its fruits and wines are known today throughout the world. But California has a greater national import. It is the commercial gateway to the Pacific and the Orient. One expansion at the beginning of the last century gave the United States the great portal at the mouth of the Mississippi. Another expansion in the middle of the century added to the country the Golden Gate, and still another, at the close of the century, placed in American hands the Philippine gateway to eastern Asia and its vast population. President McKinley has the breadth of mind to view this sequence in its true light, and his words of patriotism point the nation to its high destiny. He finds California decked with flowers, a loyal, prosperous daughter of the republic, bound to it with ties of blood and affection as close as those of the original colonies. The mountains that lay between have been obliterated by the genius of American enterprise. There will be no need for the President to explain the policy of expansion in one of its most marvelous creations.—St. Louis Globe Democrat. "It is with a good deal of pleasure and satisfaction that I recommend Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy," says Druggist A. W. Sawtelle of Hartford, Conn. "A lady customer, seeing the remedy exposed for sale on my show case, said to me: 'I really believe that medicine saved my life the past summer while at the shore,' and she became so enthusiastic over its merits that I at once made up my mind to recommend it in the future. Recently a gentleman came into my store so overcome with colic pains that he sank at once to the floor. I gave him a dose of this remedy which helped him. I repeated the dose and in fifteen minutes he left my store smilingly informing me that he felt as well as ever." Sold by P. A. Derge, druggist, "I suffered for four years with what four physicians pronounced ulceration and prolapse of the uterus," writes Mrs. Ada Brooks, of Kirbyville, Taney Co., Missouri. "Also inflammation of bladder and urethra. My case was chronic and complicated. Had several good physicians but kept getting worse. Had been confined to my bed five months when I wrote to you. received your reply very soon and then dismissed my physician and began taking Dr Pierce's medicines. I took eight bottles of his 'Favorite Prescription' and Golden Medica Discovery,' and began to get better at once. In two months I could sit up in a chair, and keep getting better. In four months could do all my house work, including washing and sewing." Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser, paper covers, is sent free on receipt of 21 one-cent stamps to pay expense of mailing only. Address Dr R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. The Whole Story in one letter about Pain-Killer (PERRY DAVIS') From Capt. F. Loye, Police Station No. 5, Montreal: "We frequently use PERRY DAVIS' PAIN-KILLER for pain in the stomach, rheumatism, stiffness, frost bites, chilblains, cramps, and all afflictions which befall men in our position. I have no hesitation in saying that PAIN-KILLER is the best remedy to have near at hand." Used Internally and Externally. Two Sizes, 25c. and 50c. bottles. THE SWEET POTATO. Tables Pointed Out by an Offiport.—Experimental Exports to Europe. The potato is the subject of a delin written by D. M. power of Maryland, for the of Agriculture at the relor Henry E. Alvord, chief Division of the Bureau of Drystry. Mr. Nesbit was put some experimental shipope made early in 1900 by ment of Agriculture and up so many possibilities on to European countries asked to prepare a paper on potato. It will be of special interest to view of the recently reization in New Jersey of a which intends to broaden out branches of the sweet potato drystry by making flour out of potato. The flour, it is said, has a blend for wheat, rye pur, and it is asserted that are made richer and more and are protected from mold by such blending. Corn markets prefer a dry, potato of medium size and size. Sweet potatoes of this printed under several names issey, Delaware, Maryland, Shore of Virginia and the t. Farther South, from reff from the Northern marght rates, the most varieties of sugary syrup in baking and in the local markets. Coarser varieties are used leading. Potato needs a warm cliure there is no frost it is. Frost is immediately fatal temperature below forty-five very dangerous. For profit, the sweet potato requires months of warm weather, coolness at night. It does not quickly as the common so from drought. On the too much moisture is bad suitable climate the sweet thrive on almost any wellthe best soil being a light, where there is no excess of better. Planters are set in rows: the plants are set in rows: RIGHT UP TO DATE. (Benson's Plaster is Pain's Master.) These are days of records and of the beating of records. Benson's Porous Plaster, for quickness of action and thoroughness of cure, has no records to beat except its own. Benson's Plaster, always the best, always the leader, is to-day better than ever. It sticks to the skin but never sticks in its tracks. It marches on. The people not only want to be cured but cured quickly—and Benson's Plaster it. Coughs, colds, lumbago, asthma, bronchitis, liver and kidney complaints, and other ill approaches by an external remedy, yield to Benson's as ice does to heat. Neither Belladonna, Strengthening or Capsicum plasters are to be compared with Benson's. People who have once tested the merits of Benson's Plaster have no use for any other external remedy. More than 5,000 physicians and druggists (and a thousand times as many non-professional persons) have called Benson's Plasters one of the few (!) home remedies that can be trusted. Fifty-five highest awards have been made to it in competition with the best known plasters of Europe and America. Better proof of its merits is inconceivable. Be sure to get the genuine. 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. crop there will be a barrel of seconds to about every five barrels of the primes. One thing which the planters soon find out is that the sweet potato will not bear any rough handling, and for this reason the potatoes are more commonly shipped in barrels or crates than in bulk. When they are packed in barrels the barrels should be filled loosely and covered with burlap, or double headed. In speaking of the causes for difference in value Mr. Nesbit says: "It will not be contended seriously that any small section or State has a monopoly of the conditions requisite for producing sweet potatoes of the best quality. Jersey sweets do not command the best price because they are produced in New Jersey. Many of them do not even pass through the State and no better sweet potatoes are produced anywhere than in the Southern States. The truth seems to be that some enterprising growers in New Jersey took the lead in adopting standards in appearance and quality in grading uniformly and packing carefully, in giving their best product a distinctive name and putting it on the market in the with a large sale in England by being energetically pushed, and I see no reason why sweet potatoes should not have a good sale if handled in the same way." The facts were laid before the Secretary of Agriculture in March of last year and under his direction trial shipments were made to London and Paris. The sweet potato sent did not keep very well, as it was late in the season for the product. Many persons who had never eaten them did not like them very well at first but said they might be good after a second or third trial. Since that time several other shipments have been made with more or less success. In a chapter on cooking the sweet potato Mr. Nesbit says that steaming develops and preserves the flavor better than boiling, and that baking is better than steaming. "A potato cooked quickly," says Mr. Nesbit, "is not well cooked. Time is an essential element. Twenty minutes may serve to bake a sweet potato so that a hungry man can eat it, but if flavor is an object, it should be kept in the oven an hour. The negroes of the South have a way of cooking sweet potatoes in ashes covered with coals. They are often put in the ashes after one meal and left their while the negroes are working in the fields, to be ready for the next meal—hence their fine flavor." Mr. Nesbit says that in boiling or steaming the potatoes the skin should not be broken and that after the potatoes are done they should be put on the back part of the range and left for a few minutes before they are served. Out of sweet potatoes you can also make croquettes, glaces and pie. At Bed Time I take a pleasant drink, the next morning I feel bright and my complexion is better. My doctor says-it acts gently on the stomach, liver and kidneys, and is a pleasant laxative. It is made from herbs, and is prepared as easily as tea. It is called Lane's Medicine. All drug-ists sell it at 25 and 50 cents. Lane's Family Medicine moves the bowels each day. If you cannot get it send for a free sample. Address, Orator F. Woodward, Le Roy, N.Y. For sale by P. A. Derge. That New Railroad, Active steps are under way for the building of a railroad from Santa Ana to Long Beach. The pormoters are A. Smeltzer stations, two miles and a half south of Westminster. The surveyor route strikes the Santa Ana river at the proximity of the sewer outfall, and from that point into town the company is as yet undecided as to what precise route to ask for, although Second street is preferred. The Long Beach Chamber of Commerce has appointed a committee to raise $5000 with which to purchase two blocks of land needed by the company to make proper connections with the Terminal. Old Soldier's Experience. M. M. Austin, a Civil war veteran, Winchester, Ind., writes: "My wife was sick a long time in spite of good doctor's treatment, but she was whored by Dr. King's New Life Pilot which worked wonders for her health They always do. Try them. Only 25 at P. A. Derge's drug store. "Well, madam," said the doctor, but tling in, "how is our patient this mo Frost is immediately fatal temperature below forty-five degrees dangerous. For profit the sweet potato requires four months of warm weather, coolness at night. It does not quickly as the common soil from drought. On the too much moisture is bad suitable climate the sweet thrive on almost any well-where there is no excess of bitter. Plant on planting he says: the plants are set in rows one inch is recommended. When planted in checks they must threefet apart. Men have to plant by hand with the boy to drop the plants in ten hours, but 5000 may need a day's work. Various have been devised to necessity for stooping in hand Chief among these are the commonly used in the There are several transplantines provided with water which each plant is watered when it is set. These do excellent work and make independent of rain. Potato requires frequent and it is absolutely necessary ground be kept free from grass. The most critical life of the plant begins transplanted and ends when send out vigorous vines. Its period only are insect and dreaded. Crop of sweet potatoes may be by throwing them out on turning plow. In large one of the most efficient imfor harvesting is known as digger, which passes under and severs all the roots, but plant, with vines and roots same position which it occore. The potato is dug out it should several hours to dry in the better favorable conditions in setting a barrel of primes from is a good yield. In a good THE WAY IT WAS. The Bedfast Man Who Got Up and Went to Business. This is the way it was. The man had been sick with "rheumatism and a complication of troubles," and had been bedfast all winter. He had three of the best physicians in attendance, but his condition baffled their skill. Then it chance that a pamphlet was put into his hands. He read of cures of men and women whose condition suggested his own, and he said: "That medicine is just what I need. Send for a bottle at once." If every sick person would reason as logically and act as promptly as did this man, there would be many more bedfast people able to be up and go to business. Every human body is organically alike. The blood is the life of the richest man as well as the poorest. If a king's blood gets out of order the same conditions follow him and candidly admitted to the 'Golden Medical Discovery' was ing more for him than he had been to do. In less than two weeks my fate was up with his clothes on. He can tinned taking the medicine and in short time was well, and ever after loud in his praise of Dr. Pierce's Gold Medical Discovery as he told of a wonderful cure it performed in his car. You may publish this if you desire do so. I have no doubt but that my will read it who will remember the circumstances well. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery has an unsurpassed record as a blight purifying medicine. Not only does cure rheumatism but diseases in general which have their cause in an impound condition of the blood, such as eczerola, scrofula, crysipelas, boils, pimples,cers, sores, etc. The cures effected "Golden Medical Discovery" are perennial and permanent. Some medicines do the surface symptoms of disease in stead of out; they cover disease but not cure it." Golden Medical Discovery drives out of the blood the corrupt poisons and impair which cause disease, it establishes the body sound health. A SPRING MEDICINE Because of its blood-rifying power and qualities," Golden Medical Discovery" is an ideal spring medicine. It is no alcohol in the covery" and it is entire free from opiates and nicotine. It does not stink late, but imparts strength and permanence. "It gives me pleasure to testify to merits of Dr. Pierce Golden Medical Discovery," writes Miss A Wells, of Ferguson Wharf, Isle of Wight Va. "I can say honest and candidly that it And yet if that woman had perished in the flames it is possible that she would have suffered less than she suffers almost daily from the inflammation which disease has lighted in the delicate womanly organism. That fire of inflammation can be put out. The gnawing ulcer can be cured. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription not only establishes womanly regularity and dries enfeebling drains, but it heals inflammation and ulcerations and cures female weakness. It makes weak women strong and sick women well. For four years with what four physiques announced ulceration and prolapse of Mrs. Mrs. Ada Brooks, of Kirby Co., Missouri. "Also inflammation and urethra. My case was chronic located. Had several good physicians,itting worse. Had been confined to the months when I wrote to you. I reply very soon and then climate. In speaking of this venture, Mr. Nesbit says that it would benefit directly the agricultural interests of a large section of the country, put a new and valuable staple food on the market at prices within the reach of all and open the way for a large export trade. In the winter of 1890 Mr. Nesbit undertook an investigation with a view to introducing sweet potatoes into foreign markets. He learned that sweet potatoes were not produced to any considerable extent in Europe and were not imported there except as a luxury. The small quantities imported came from the south of Spain, the Canary Islands and Africa. One American staying in London wrote: "The English people are not educated up to the delicacy of the sweet potato as grown in the Southern States of America, because those known in this country come mainly from the Canary Islands, and are poor, wet and soggy product. "There are about fifty thousand permanent American residents in London, and if they could buy a good article at a moderate price there is no doubt they would do so, and from the Americans the English might learn to like them. "Many American products have met low in his body as in any other man's. If a millionaire's blood be impure, his wealth can't preserve him from the skin eruptions which usually indicate the blood's impurity. And if either king or millionaire wants to be cured, he has to use the means open to the poorest person in the land. There is no royal road to health more than to learning. ALL PEOPLE ARE ALIKE. Since we are all alike, flesh and blood, then what cures disease of flesh and blood in one case should cure it in any case under similar conditions. That was the argument of the man who was bed-fast and the sequel proved it to be sound and logical. "Quite a number of years ago, when I was a girl at home, my father was prostrated upon a bed of sickness," writes Mrs. P. M. Wheeler, of No. 2 Ann Place, Bradford, Pa. "He had rheumatism and a complication of troubles which baffled the skill of three of our best physicians. All through the winter months he lay upon his bed, suffering severely at times with rheumatism in his limbs. While in this condition a pamphlet containing a description of Dr. Pierce's remedies fell into his hands. I do not remember whether it was left at the door or came through the mails, but I do remember of his sitting up in bed and reading it through and then exclaiming, 'That medicine is just what I need!' Send for a bottle at once! Just aside the doctor's medicines and commenced giving my father the 'Golden Medical Discovery' according to directions. The first three days he felt worse, as is often the case. After that he commenced to gain. His physician was surprised at the change in swelling in my knees and feet that I could not walk. I spent a twenty dollars paying doctors' bills received no benefit. A year or two I was reading one of your Memorandum Books and I decided to try Dr. Pierce Golden Medical Discovery and 'Fav Prescription,' and an entirely cured Sometimes a dealer tempted by little more profit paid on the sale of meritorious medicines will offer the tomer a substitute as being "just as good for you, if you want the medica that has cured others. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets clean bowels and stimulate the sluggish life Men or women suffering from cholemias form of disease are invited to coerce Dr. Pierce by letter free. All cases are made by those who have no medical knowledge or experience are professionally and legally innocent to practise medicine. Dr. Pierce offer not only places freely at theposal of the sick his own valuable as a specialist, but also the advice of medical staff associated with him, bering nearly a score of skilled cians. FOR MAN OR WOMAN, there is no better medical work Doctor Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser. It contains more than thousand large pages and over 70 tractions, is sent free on receipt of sizing to pay expense of mailing only. 31 one-cent stamps for the cloth-volume, or only 21 stamps for the paper covers. Address Dr. Pierce, Buffalo, N.Y. This is the Smallest WICKLESS Blue Flame OILSTOVE Made also in four larger sizes. Sold everywhere. If your dealer does not have them—write to the nearest agency of STANDARD OIL CO. 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. THIS Company owns at Manvel Camp, San Bernardino County, in the New York mountain field (two miles from La Rue), all of 22 full claims to-wit. MINES AND MINING CLAIMS—The Old Shoes the Red Bug, the Patsy Boler, the Humany The Shanked, the Central [5], the Polka Dot the Bulls Eye, the Fall Moon, the Half Moon, the Meteor, the Colined Money, the Fellowship, the Little Giant, 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—12 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 surf e rock, as from $2.50 to $9.00 per ton of ore in place as exposed by surface outerophores. DEVELOPMENTS—The Old Shoes claim 78 foot shaft and vein 6½ feet across the vein sample shows values $20.06 per ton in Gold, Silver, Copper and Lead. All ready for three shift working. Plenty of ore in sight below. The Blackhawk claim, 45-foot shaft 15 tons ore on, values in Gold, Silver, Copper and Lead about $40.00 per ton. Good Hope claim, 29-foot salt face and shaft, about 60 tons ore on, 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 $2.80 per pound, or $750 per ton ore. There are in Treasury funds of this company yet, 304,000 shares of the Capital Stock, and for sale, 55 percent of which is held at par value, $250,000, and a special rate is made on 100.00 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 $256,000). 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, 114 Fourth st., Santa Ana, Cal. What do you want of any cheap Jim Crow cutlery, when the Jordan 'AA A1' brand of fine English cutlery can be had for a very little cost. Do not be deceived. Insist upon having the Jordan 'AA A1' brand and bowl till you get it. For sale by leading dealers everywhere. Bicycles and Sporting Goods. A full stock of bicycle supplies. Bicycle repairing of all kinds promptly done. All work guaranteed. Also agent for the Santa Ana Steam Laundry. I run a laundry wagon that will call for and deliver your laundry twice a week. Laundry coming in as late as 9 o'clock Thursday morning will be delivered to you Saturday at 5 Southern Pacific Company. San Francisco and Los Angeles Limited—"THE OWL." Between Los Angeles and San Francisco daily. Leave Los Angeles 5:00 pm., arrive San Francisco 8:55 am., Leave San Francisco 5 pm., arrive Los Angeles "It gives me much pleasure to testify to the merits of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery," writes Miss Annie Wells, of Fergussons Wharf, Isle of Wight Co., Va. "I can say honestly and candidly that it is the grandest medicine ever compounded for purifying the blood. I suffered terribly with rheumatism, and pimples on the skin in my knees and feet so I could not walk. I spent about fifty dollars paying doctors' bills but never benefited. A year or two ago I read one of your Memorandum and I decided to try Dr. Pierce's Ten Medical Discovery and 'Favorite Scripture,' and am entirely cured." Sometimes a dealer tempted by the more profit paid on the sale of lessorious medicines will offer the cusser a substitute as being "just as good" like "Discovery." It is better for him ease it pays better, but it is not as for you, if you want the medicine has cured others. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cleanse the lungs and stimulate the sluggish liver. Men or women suffering from chronic diseases are invited to consult Pierce by letter free. All corresidence held as strictly private and widely confidential. Address Dr. R.V. Pierce, Buffalo, N.Y. This offer of free consultation by letter not to be confounded with offers of medical advice," which in some cases are made by those who have neither medical knowledge or experience, and professionally and legally incompetent to practise medicine. Dr. Pierce's not only places freely at the disposal of the sick his own valuable advice specialist, but also the advice of the medical staff associated with him, numbing nearly a score of skilled physicians. FOR MAN OR WOMAN, is no better medical work than Doctor Pierce's Common Sense Med-Adviser. It contains more than a thousand large pages and over 700 illustrations, is sent free on receipt of stamps pay expense of mailing only. Send one-cent stamps for the cloth-bound time, or only 21 stamps for the book paper covers. Address Dr. R.V. Pierce, Buffalo, N.Y. Bicycles and Sporting Goods. A full stock of bicycle supplies. Bicycle repairing of all kinds promptly done. All work guaranteed. Also agent for the Santa Ana Steam Laundry. I run a laundry wagon that will call for and deliver your laundry twice a week. Laundry coming in as late as 9 o'clock Thursday morning will be delivered to you Saturday at 5 o'clock. E.W.MCCOLLUM. We are all thoroughly convinced, after using the jordan "AAAI" Cutlery, that it is the best and least expensive to use. PARAFFINE WAX Don't tie the top of your jelly and preserve jars in the old fashioned way. Seal them by the new, quick, absolutely sure way—by a thin coating of pure, refined Paraffine Wax. Has no taste or odor. Is air tight and acid proof. Easily applied. Useful in a dozen other ways about the house. Full directions with each pound cake. Sold everywhere. Made by STANDARD OIL CO. THE CLEANSING AND HEALING CURE FOR CATARRH is Ely's Cream Balm Easy and pleasant to use. Contains no injurious drug. It is quickly absorbed. Gives Relief at once. It Opens and Cleanses the Nasal Passages. Allay Inflammation. Heals and Protects the Membrane. Restores the Senses of Taste and Smell. Large Size, 60 cents at Drugstores or by mail; Trial Size, 10 cents by mail. ELY BROTHERS, 56 Warren Street, New York. Southern Pacific Company. San Francisco and Los Angeles Limited—"THE OWL." Between Los Angeles and San Francisco daily. Leave Los Angeles 3:00 pm., arrive San Francisco 8:55 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, Nov-ember to April. This is the most magnificent train in Amer-ics, 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, cafe, library and smoker; one compartment car with library in each compartment, and parlor for the special use of ladies, and a ladies maid in attendance; as many double drawing-room, ten-section 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 Angles: 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. OGEN ROUTE EXCURSIONS. To St.Paul, via Sloux City, 11:40 am Thursdays. To Chicago, Mondays; Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Leave Los Angles 11:40 am. SHASTA ROUTE EXCURSIONS. To Portland, St.Paul and Minneapolis, Mondays, 10:20 pm. First and second-class tickets for sale at Anahelm 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. Jay coaches are equipped with the celebrated Searritt 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,$7.56. 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, 201 South Spring St. 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